09-27-24 Your Morning Show Hour 2

Winds of Helene and Polls

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well two three starting your morning off right, A new
way of talk, a new way of.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Understanding, because where liss to get.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
This is your morning show with Michael O'Dell Johnny.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Six minutes after the hour, Hurricane Helen made landfall. Hurricane
Helene made landfall. That's funny. Yeah, that's not airing. What happened?
I don't know anyway, she did make landfall. A Cat
four with sustained wins of one hundred and forty miles

(01:00):
an hour still presents danger flooding, primarily even though the
storm has now moved inland. Yesterday pretty pathetic the way
Kamala Harris used President Zelensky and wore in Ukraine as
a pretty shameless and divisive campaign appearance. But Zelensky was
making the calls to Biden, to Harris. He makes these

(01:22):
visits usually drums up about four hundred million dollars, so
these are big sales calls. And today he'll visit with
Donald Trump. And as we mentioned, you can't have your
morning show without your voice. A couple of talkbacks to
get in. I think the first one is it it
was the name of his carrot, Gabriel. I knew it
was biblical Gabriel. Let's hear it. I've been saying it

(01:42):
all along that the lift is campy, and the saying without.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Saying, how dare you be intolerant of my intolerance?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, well, look there was enough. I'm gonna stick with
my take on it, which is we abandon absolute truth
for moral relativism, which has been since taken over with
a through social media and through a cabal of media,

(02:14):
an obsession with politics, and all it's done is divide us.
But what the study shows is when you sit down
with the kids of Democrats, there's a lot of fear,
eight hundred times more fear, anxiety, and anger. So a
little bit more intolerance for the Democrat kids. A little
bit more misinformation though, of course at CNN through Anderson

(02:38):
Cooper three sixty conducting what is misinformation? But the bottom
line is we're passing things on to our kids. Of course,
our kids observe us at our best and our worst,
and we've abandoned God and truth. And this is what
we get in exchange, thirty eight dollars of debt. Intolerance,

(03:04):
the opposite of what they claim their selling joy. There's
no joy in anxiety and anger. There's no tolerance and
intolerance because overwhelmingly the difference was Democrat kids don't want
anything to do with Republican kids and won't even go
to their house. They've come a long way from love
thy neighbor. What was the other talk back? That's your bookie,

(03:24):
Oh the books.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, Presidential betting lines are unchanged today. She still holds
a slight favorite. We'll see what happens Monday. But keep
an eye on d JT today. What that stock could
move big?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh, now he's giving stock tips. We don't like to
follow just the polls, so we check in with the
betting lines with our your morning show sports book bookie.
And now he's giving stock tips to boot. I wonder
if you'd like Georgia or Alabama, maybe you'll call back.
Look at this though. I mentioned that Helleen is a

(04:02):
big story.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
And that's why we're checking in with my friend Scott
who lives in the Panhandle and is building his arc
as we speak.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Hopefully you were smarter than the NBC reporters. You didn't
feel a need to get close to this storm, did you.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
Well, Good morning from the Panhandle, the correspondent of your
morning show. We have got we've got a little bit
of water down here, but you know what, I think,
it's actually worse up in Tennessee today. I've never seen
the state of Tennessee covered with severe thunderstorms, almost the
entire state.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, people don't realize. We just can't say it enough.
And again Katrina hit the Louisiana coast. So but this
is the largest hurricane in size to ever hit the
Panhandle of Florida. And when you compare it to other hurricanes,

(04:55):
I mean, in size alone, two hundred and sixty miles,
there's no comparison because hurricanes are all about size strength.
What I would call the the tightness of the formation,
the definition of the storm and then the trajectory and
the storm surge, and this one had it all and
it's wreaking havoc today, two million people without partner. Do

(05:16):
you have power down where you're at? We have power
out and off.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
But this is a little interesting tidbit, Michael. Do you
know that we had a hurricane that hit almost the
exact game spot three months ago in the Panhandle?

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, I didn't, Debbie. Yeah, Debbie was nowhere near in
size and storm surge and storm surgeon exactly what I wouldn't.
Biloxi was hit by Camille. I'm trying to remember. I
think Camille was sixty eight and it probably took the
better part of fifty years to clean up that beach
in the water to ever return to normal. So you know,
the storm search hit the Tallahassee area. I'm sure any

(05:55):
shoreline there we'll get a better view of that today.
You're west of there by how.

Speaker 7 (06:01):
Far I'm about I'm west of about thirty to forty
miles from the eye. Yeah, we got a lot of rain,
we got a.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Lot of wind.

Speaker 7 (06:10):
But you know what, the storm has certainly passed us
quickly and it's up near you now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
So yeah, all right, So it can be you're not
that familiar. You're more a tornado guy right by.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
Yeah, well Tennessee for thirty years right now, Tennessee Tornado Alley,
So yeah, much more tornado guy.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hurricanes are I grew up with hurricanes? Well, I grew
up with both because I didn't leave Chicago till I
was about twelve, so I dealt with tornadoes. But hurricanes
you get really good at. And we had a local meteorologist,
Nash Roberts, who made everybody an expert. So I can
tell you were on the good side of that hurricane
and the dirty side went tampaway and then towards Jacksonville

(06:49):
and now straight up. But you're right. I think I probably,
I know I have worse weather than you right now, right, absolutely,
absolutely right.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I'll be praying for you guys up there to
stay dry and get out of the flood.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
And how is the construction of the arc going?

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Yeah, I don't have time to construct an ark.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
We got big old families down here, so I don't
want to be the one to break this to you.
But Scott, you like me, have had an arc for
a long time. Everybody seems to be living with us.
All right, I appreciate you, my friend. I'm glad you survived.
God bless you. Talk to you soon. One of my
dearest friends, Scott Cosimore, who was thirty miles west of
where Helene made landfall. And we're gonna have more with
Jack Crumley coming up and again with two million people

(07:30):
without power and the flooding that is taking place as
far north as Asheville, that Helene's story isn't over yet.
And we said this from the beginning, Helene's kind of
a bookend, and that the storm surge was going to
be the most dangerous at twenty feet. That's happened. And
the next thing we said was that Helene had the
potential to create far more damage by dollar with flooding later.

(07:56):
And that's exactly what we're seeing and portions of Georgia
all the way north to North Carolinas, and Lena makes
its way inland polls. Getting back to our our show, Bookie,
the polls don't look any different than the betting line.

(08:17):
So the betting line is basically a push. There have
been trends showing that the betting line is trying to
move towards Donald Trump we're seeing the same thing in
the polls. So I don't think you have to be
a rocket signed to say that the betting lines are
probably taking their cues mostly from the polls. The latest
is a Fox News poll of Arizona. Now, remember when

(08:38):
we did the two to seventy map. If you're rooting
for Donald Trump, your eyes are on Nevada, Arizona, Georgia,
and North Carolina. They in essence become must wins. And
once you achieve that, well, quite frankly, I'm trying to think,

(08:59):
figure you're out of bup, up, up, up up up.
I gave Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania all to Kamala Harris.
And if Trump takes Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina,
Trump wins one to two fifty seven. Now let's turn
North Carolina blue. If that happens, Kamala Harris two seventy

(09:22):
three to Trump two sixty five. Now he's got to
take either Michigan or Wisconsin. It goes back and forth.
Michigan is so close, and some of the trends of
voting blocks that haven't been reached. I mean the notion
that Kamala Harris is only carrying fifty two percent of
the Black Islamic vote. Would make you wonder if if

(09:45):
Michigan isn't in play, but I think Wisconsin would be
the more likely. But at that point you do that
Trump wins with two seventy five. If Kamala hangs on
to Wisconsin and Michigan and Trump should take Pennsylvania, which
is to take many, many days to know, Trump would
win two eighty four. So for me, and it's nuanced.

(10:08):
But if if you come away with Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada,
that to me is the most likely path for Donald Trump.
But if you don't take North Carolina, then you gotta
take Michigan, Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania one of those three. It's
just that simple. So keep that in mind when we

(10:28):
look at these latest polling numbers. So Arizona, which Trump
has to have. He leads by three in the latest poll,
and that's up from a Mari's poll where he led
by one. If we go to North Carolina, in the
most recent polls, it has been slightly leaning towards Donald Trump.

(10:55):
Donald Trump leads in the latest poll. Are you ready
for her? Close to forty seven point three. Now, those
of you that can do quick math, No, there's another
four percent out there that are undecided. How do they
fall how have they been falling? Pennsylvania raised their close.
Harris is forty eight point four percent to Donald Trump's

(11:16):
forty seven and a half on average, So she leads
by less than a percentage in all of these. With
a grain of salt, you got to remember that Donald
Trump under polls as people are suspicious of anybody involved
with elections, whether they're even calling for polling. So usually
if Donald Trump appears to be even or down a
little bit, he's actually leading. If that's the case, this

(11:37):
race isn't nearly as close as we think. But again,
I get back to the presidential From the standpoint of Georgia,
Trump leads by one and a half. North Carolina Trump
leads by point seven. Arizona, Trump leads by one point four.
Trying to find a Vada the latest if we've had

(12:01):
a new one. I don't think we've had one since
September twenty six, so that would be yesterday was forty
six point nine percent for Trump and forty eight point
three percent for Harris. So it's showing Harris leading by
one point four. So if there's going back to that
map right now, I never thought i'd say this. I

(12:22):
thought Nevada and Arizona were probably the most secure for
Donald Trump. And I worry about Georgia. I worry because
if there's any Shenanigans, let me put it that way,
they seem to like to happen in or around Atlanta,
in and around Philadelphia, and in and around Milwaukee. So
that tends to make me, even though I don't like

(12:43):
to say it out loud, the most insecure about Wisconsin Georgia.
And I think it's funny to me that North Carolina
and George is looking more secure than Nevada. So but
I want to do this real quick, Jeffrey. Let's go
ahead and say, what if she wins Nevada. So I

(13:06):
give her Nevada, I give her Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
She's at two sixty three to Donald Trump's two seventy
five if he takes North Carolina. So I mean, I
don't you know, everybody talks about Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, and I
get that if I turn Pennsylvania red, I mean, now
you're at two ninety four. Now, so it's looking like
a landslide throw in Michigan or Wisconsin, and it's an

(13:26):
over three hundred landslide.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
For me.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I don't know how the book he's gonna feel about that.
For me, my eyes are all in North Carolina. I
think North Carolina becomes the key for Donald Trump. If
Donald Trump can take hang on to North Carolina and
he hangs on to Georgia. I really think at that
point Nevada, Pennsylvania don't matter as much. In fact, I'll
give her those and he still wins with two seventy five.

(13:54):
But that's why you're gonna see two or three and
you're looked for for the day. You're gonna see two
or three stories here and there, And most of the
rumblings are coming from axios and others. The roads, the
lanes to victory, there are more of them for Donald Trump.
All this hiding Kamalin planes, sight, avoiding interviews, doing speech

(14:15):
lines or platitudes and nothing specific, or the double talk
that we featured earlier this morning with the second Gentleman. Oh,
if he's on with Michael Strahan in the morning on ABC,
she's just the vice president. They don't have much control
and then on the stump speeches, she's side by side
with Donald Trump on foreign policy, in the situation room,
on the border, on all the issues that are improving

(14:37):
are life. Well, you can't have it both ways, and
I think America's kind of figuring that out. Bottom line is,
I don't know what the election results are. Nationwide, it's
a toss up to a slight one point lead for
Kamala Harris. That would suggest Donald Trump is probably going
to win, and probably bigger than you think. The actual
electoral college map in swing states suggests there are far

(14:59):
more has significant paths for Donald Trump than there is
for Kamala Harris. And if you're for Donald Trump, that's
very good news for you. This morning, this is your
Morning Show with Michael del Chno. Thanks for waking up
with your morning show on this Friday, the twenty seventh
of September, the morning after Hurricane Helene makes landfall near Perry, Florida.

(15:22):
Really pick you up right now.

Speaker 8 (15:23):
We got them to refly and we're going back and
good guys.

Speaker 9 (15:26):
We're gonna have back and stay with us, Sepanify want
we're gonna head backing right now.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Tough assignment. Last night, moving forward, two million without power
and majority of them in Florida, and unfortunately three deaths
associated with Hurricane Helene. We'll have more on that. Prime
Minister bb Netanya, who's set to talk to the UN today.
That means a lot of protests out in the street.
And New York City Mayor Eric Adams, this guy really
up to no good taking money from Turkey or does

(15:52):
this have to do with the border and complaining about
illegal immigrants destroying his city, you know, not playing well
with his fellow demonocrats narrative. Now we have the Governor
of New York saying I may step in. I have
the power to remove him from office. Now, Governor hocals
like the HR girl on a team's call with a

(16:14):
hatchet in her hand. This is getting crazy. Every time
Zlynsky comes usually is with about four hundred billion dollars,
so it's a sales call and he made it to
Biden shamelessly. Kamala Harris made it into a campaign event. Today,
President Lensky will meet with former President Donald Trump. And
the headline, well, it doesn't tell the whole story, but
a majority of a majority of Americans have faith in

(16:36):
the accuracy of casting and counting votes in presidential elections,
go inside the numbers and basically only the Democrats eighty
four percent of Democrats. Well, we have complete faith in
our harvest day in counting twenty eight percent of Republicans. Now,
is this the power of narrative or is this the
power of reality? Is this one side doesn't think it's

(16:58):
a problem because they're winning, and the other side does
because they're cheating. Or do all of us not take
a serious look at the importance of the security and
accuracy and fairness of elections and if there are areas
because there's been voter fraud as long as there's been votes,
But we don't take honest looks at it. We make

(17:20):
it into a position and a narrative, and that's what's
reflected back in the poll. And then, finally, despite inflation concerns,
despite our debt, we're planning to be big spenders this
holiday season. With more on that and the fate of
New York Mayor Eric Adams, Aaron Reel joins us with

(17:41):
our reality story. We didn't get to finish our conversation.
So the key findings on this is, yeah, everything's more money.
Interest rates are high, inflation is high costs. If things
are high, we're going to spend on less things. Meaning
instead of getting six presents, maybe we'll get at one,
but we're gonna pick a big dollar one because there's

(18:02):
more savings attached to those. Did I did I get
the gist of it?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
You now that? Yeah? We're done here.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
No, I'm just yeah, right, I'm gonna go start my weekend.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
Yeah, I have a good one.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
No, but yes, that's it essentially, like we're gonna get
the fancy TV, the brand name golf clubs. Maybe that
like the thing that is the nicer version of the
thing you actually want because the discount is so high.
So that's kind of that's the move we're seeing across.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
But that's smart, right, that's getting value, creating value with
your purchase.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes, and I am a big proponent of this. I
think less stuff the better stuff.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
You say that now, But here here comes another parenting
tip eron you're gonna miss the days of your kid's
age right now, because those are the best Christmases where
the tree is just packed and coming out into the
living room. And as they get older, they want fewer
things that are way more money and it just doesn't
feel the same, but for us as it dun't like,
what's the one thing I have? Like four? I will four,

(19:01):
maybe five. I'll spare no expense, but they're things that
I don't go cheap on. Mine are what's a mattress?
Because you spend eight hours of your day or night
usually on that. So I don't television because that's what
you're staring at. So I always have the best mattress,
best television. Unfortunately, I tend to like the best car.

(19:24):
And then when I'm expressing jewelry through love. Used to
be for my wife, now it's mostly for my daughters.
I spare no expense, but what are your weaknesses or
the ones you prioritize and you'll go big bucks on.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Oh that's really interesting there. Okay, So Vanity Fair used
to do this thing in the back. I haven't read
it in a very long time since Grating Carter left,
but they used to do this thing called the Prows
Questionnaire in the back and it had this fun question
that my husband I first met, I would always ask
and it was necessary luxury item and I was like,
Oh that's fun and you only get to pick one.
This is going to sound really obnoxious. And I can't

(19:55):
always afford it. But it is something like I don't
need any of this stuff. I really don't like. I
like it's nice, but I fundamentally don't care. You want
to know what I really like?

Speaker 8 (20:04):
Really like first class or business class? Oh like, I
don't know why.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
There's something about that where I'm like every itch has
been scratched.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
I feel great. Well, that's like I don't like I
love that.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, that's a that's a dream of mine, but I
have I have no desire to make the dream come true.
But that would be to either go to Italy or
Paris and fly first class.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
But I don't think you know, business class is great.
I don't need better than that business clop, but like,
can we do business class?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Business class would be like five grand right now? See
that's a mattress. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (20:35):
So when I worked for ESPN, I was traveling all
over the world. This is why this happened.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
It broke me, they broke I was I was in
my twenties and I didn't know anything.

Speaker 8 (20:43):
But this was like when.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Before everything got democratized, essentially, and I flew business class
ever because the company paid for it, not me, And
it was just like their policy if it was X
amount of hours, then since I was flying so far.

Speaker 8 (20:55):
They put you in business class. And I was like, hey,
this is great, this is really nice. I'll go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Now did they close the curtain on business class.

Speaker 8 (21:03):
Or just first class?

Speaker 4 (21:04):
So I was on air so that I got it,
and it had to be over four hour flight.

Speaker 8 (21:09):
That was the that was the stipulation.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Oh well no, but that's a good deal. But I'm busy,
I'm not familiar like first class. They close the curtain
because we don't want everybody that's, you know, begging for peanuts.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Oh no, business Yeah, and I was in age at
the time where the planes were so nice. Yeah, they
closed the curtain. It's pretty great. I don't I don't
know how this can get that much better.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
So business class is like a first class then, right,
Oh it's lovely. What's the difference between first class and
business class? Now that I'm more interested in that than
the Mayor of New York.

Speaker 8 (21:32):
Depends on the airline.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
And really it's just like the like you might have
better cutlery or like, but like the service in business
versus like let's say a sing Air, which I was flying.

Speaker 8 (21:43):
A lot, not that much like Singer is great.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
You sometimes, like on a really nice airline like the
New Asian and Middle Eastern ones, they have like those
little pods where you like literally have a room inside
the airplane.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
I've never flown that, but that looks cool too.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I'm a Southwest guy, where we all have no a.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
Southwest is great. I'm not gonna lie like but the
necessary luxury, like.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
I do love flying a nice class It's it's pretty great.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
What is Eric Adams facing today in terms of charges?
I know now he's also facing a governor that may
come in and fire him like the HR hatchet woman.
But what's the latest on Eric Adams. He's going to fight.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
That's good today at New and he has to appear
in court. It's his first arraignment again. He's facing forty
five years in prison if he's convicted on all accounts.

Speaker 8 (22:29):
Long story short, The indictment.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Says that bribery, fraud I think the most egregious of this,
and let's be clear, in today's world of scandalous political things,
this is probably like kindergarten. It's not good, but it's
not scandalous in the way that most things are.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
What he did do which is not okay.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Is he took overseas overseas donors dollars and made illegal
contributions to his own campaign with straw donors.

Speaker 8 (22:54):
And then and then NYC.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Has this matching funds program so that like anyone can
run for all. And let's say I wanted to, I
have no money behind me, but they if I had
a donation of ten dollars, they would match it to
make it an even playing field. What he did with
those straw donor funds from foreigners was then he then
took the money and matched it with ten million in
public funds.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's called laundering and large city.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's exactly and he did it. Brooklyn Burn President apparently
carried the practice on and a lot of this was
from Turkish foreign nationals. And then beyond that, there was
like this quid pro quote. The Turkish consulate wanted to
open without the fire, without the Fire department approving it.
It did he wanted the Turkish government wanted no mention
of the Armenian genocide.

Speaker 8 (23:39):
They didn't mention it.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
So there was definitely a quid pro quote. He also
stayed in fancy hotels and flu business class because it's lovely.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Were you involved in this scandal at all?

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Eric, I know, right, I have to be honest that
where I'm like, I.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Would like to say it with the record, he bought
no expensive mattresses.

Speaker 8 (23:57):
There no expensive mattresses. His mattresses were middle though.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
He's going he's going to the mattresses today, all right,
And then of course there's gonna be there's gonna be
a lot of people that speculate would this have come
down had he not been so critical of the Democrats
handling of the border and the havoc as freaking United State.
But make no mistake about it, it's not that simple
of an issue that this guy is clean as a
whistle and he's just being persecuted the way the Democrats

(24:21):
persecuted Donald Trump. He also did some pretty hairy things too.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
So yeah, it's a little bit of both, all things considered.
And he hasn't been a traditional mayor, like he loves
the nightlife, like he's got the swagger.

Speaker 8 (24:32):
But New York is a funny one because New York
operates like a city state in many ways.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
You know, it's the un This week, I haven't been
able to get around town at all. It's been bonkers
like and you just have every major dignitary from around
the world here at minimum once a year. It's it
operates differently, and it is important. It is important on
a global scale.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I love that as a defense. I love the nightlife.
I've got to boogie. Mayor Eric Adams vowing to fight
his federal indictment on Briber and he will be formally
charged today.

Speaker 8 (25:03):
Right yep, nearon. That's that's when it goes down. Lawer Manhattan.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
You have a great weekend, you too, Mike Talk come Monday.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
I grew up in this to your top Live stories
of the day. A hurricane Halleen have made landfall near.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Kerry, Florida. NBC news is Jesse Kersh reported from the scene.
Not an easy job stand out as the eye is
coming right at you in a cat for he really
shut you off right now.

Speaker 9 (25:28):
We got some to briefly, we're going back and tip guys,
we're gonna have back and stay with us. Stepany you
while we're gonna attacking right now.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, one hundred and forty mile an hour winds sustained.
This is about forty five miles southeast of Tallahassee, where
landfall was made. Again, the rough side is the east side.
So you know Tampa to Jacksonville got hammered with the
high winds and the rain. The twenty foot storm surge
that many predicted was unsurvivable, that was reserved for landfall.

(25:57):
The storm is still wreaking havoc in terms the flooding
as far north as Asheville, North Carolina. We're going to
visit with Jack Crumley in just moments from now. Meanwhile,
the US and Allies are calling for an immediate twenty
day ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group has belaw.
Mark Mayfield has that story.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Lenna says the two science have continued to trade fire
in recent days. Israel Senate launched a strike on Bay
Route Thursday and long with another wave of attacks on
southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials have said of the recent Israeli
strikes have killed more than six hundred people and displaced
hundreds of thousands. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
at Yong, who said that he hasn't responded to the
ceasefire proposal and that he has told Israel's military to

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continue fighting with full force.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
By Mark Mayfield. Former President Donald Trump has a simple
question to Kamala Harris, as she ran to the border yesterday,
why didn't you fix it four years ago? Ryan Shook reports,
why would she go to the border now, playing right
into the hand of her opponent. I mean, you take
a look at this, Why would you do that?

Speaker 10 (26:58):
Speaking from New York City on Thursday, Trump criticized Harris
for visiting the Arizona border on Friday, saying she could
have fixed it as vice president. He claims Harris will
fully open the border, helping to destroy our border. I'm
Brian Shook speaking.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Of former President Donald Trump. He's going to be feasting
on more than just football. Karen Curtis has the menu.

Speaker 11 (27:22):
Donald Trump is expected to attend the blockbuster matchup between
top five ranked SEC rivals Georgia and Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
The seventy eight.

Speaker 11 (27:30):
Year old Trump reportedly requested to McDonald's filet of fish,
sandwiches with cheese, Domino's Pizza, Stadium hot dogs, and Diet
Coke for game time naush, according to Alabama businessman Rick Meyers,
who invited him to the game.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Karen Curtis Miami. By the way, this just did from
your morning show, Bookie. Thank Georgia Mimas too.

Speaker 8 (27:51):
Bhi, this is Jenny Bourne. My morning show is your
Morning show with Michael jil Joano.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Thanks for bringing us along with you on the drive.
All the attention is on Hurricane Helen making landfall near Perry, Florida,
and NBC's Jesse Kersh reported outside in the middle of
the hurricane as.

Speaker 9 (28:09):
It was a right you off right now, we got
some to reefly and we're going back and cock. Guys,
We're gonna have back and stay with us, step and
even while we're gonna h jacket right now.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Jack Crumley joining us. Now, see Jack, that's a team player.
That's the guy doing it for the team. You just
sound safe, swarm in a studio.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Listen, the guy clearly loves his work.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, why do we do that? I mean, why do we?
I always told Andrea, you know whatever you see what's
his name from the weather channel in your front yard, duck,
I mean, you know, sitting there with a helmet on.
I was looking over weighing in at four hundred and
twenty miles wide, this is a Category four but bottom line,
largest hurricane to ever hit this portion of Florida and

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with an unsurvivable storm surge of up to twenty feet.
So what has happened? And what is the havoc helene
is still reeking?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, so yeah, what has happened? We are just now
starting to get an idea of it is the sun
is coming up in Florida and seeing the extent of
the damage there sixteen to twenty foot storm surgeon Perry, Florida.
Like you mentioned, I was seeing some pictures a little
bit ago, widespread damage of just massive trees down on
power lines and roads blocked, and all sorts of buildings
with damage, whether you're talking about aluminum siding or brick

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stores that are just ripped away. I've seen video of
houses in Steinhatchi, Florida, which is in more of a
coastal remote area, that are essentially manufactured homes built on sand.
There's no basement swept away in water. South Pasadena, Florida,
which is west of Saint Petersburg, that city itself underwater,

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boats into homes and sitting on driveways in neighborhoods in
Treasure Island, Florida. And again this is all just sort
of a tip of the iceberg. We do have a
few confirmed deaths. More than three million people are blacked
out across multiple states. That's going to be an issue
for days to come. Now that's sort of either midst
or aftermath stuff issues that are still going on right now.

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We've got a flash flood emergency that's been issued for
the city of Atlanta. This is still a very active,
ongoing situation for the city of Atlanta. Four to six
inches of rain have fallen so far more is coming.
People in that city being told to seek higher ground.
There's already been dozens of water rescues there. And it's
similar situations of flooding in western South Carolina and western

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North Carolina. As this now tropical storm continues to move
north and it's going to just sort of swirl over
parts of the Tennessee Valley and into Kentucky and over
Ohio into the weekend.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
You know, when you start getting a glimpse of what
the dollar amount of this storm could be because of
the immedia damage in Florida with storm surge, but then
the flooding, and so, I mean, it's way too early
to look at that, but she's going to make her
mark on the dollars and cents front right now, what
is the main concern? Do we have any search or

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rescue issues at this point? I mean issues yet for sure.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
I mean there's a reporting about crews going into homes
seeing some stuff about a house that was on fire
as crews were coming to rescue people from it. That's
in Panellis County, Florida. They out of They're screaming, we've
got a boat out front, come on, let's get you
out of here. And that will also lead to a
likely increase in the death toll. There was reporting yesterday

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from a few different county sheriffs in Florida saying there's
way too many people that aren't planning on evacuating. One
sheriff talking about how if you're not going to leave
the area, I want you to write your name and
birthday on your arm in permanent marker so we can
identify you that much easier. That's a very blunt and
grim sort of thing before anything even happens.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Yeah, being from New Orleans, I can tell you that
it's a news story and it's a TV event for
most people. But on the ground, there's some real drama
going on right now. So thought a tragedy, Yeah, absolutely,
three million without power. Most of those, probably two thirds
of those at least, are in Florida itself.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Right last numbers, I saw a little over a million
of that in Florida. But then you're getting into Georgia
and South Carolina, North Carolina, even Virginia having power outages
because of the storm. And as this thing continues to
go north and spread out and again swirl sort of
over that Tennessee Valley Kentucky area, that's still going to
bring high winds that's going to knock out power throughout

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a lot of those areas. And you had utibilities that
were sending crews to the south and they're gonna have
to deal with their own backyards still too.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
We're all in this together. This is your Morning Show
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