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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Jesus.
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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And good morning to you. Welcome to Tuesday, the twenty
eighth of October. It is sixteen minutes after six and
it's good to have you with us this morning. If
we haven't met yet, I'm Gary David, just listening for
the very first time. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll be introducer to Christopher Thompson, little bleary eyed. Tell
me you didn't see the end of that World Series
game last night?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is it over yet?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
My phone chirped about three point fifteen, and I thought, okay,
starting to get news reports from Jamaica. And I had
no idea when I finally got up and looked at
it that it would be a sports story. The end
of a World Series game in LA eighteen innings? Yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Wow? Wow, that the Dodgers have a pension for playing
eighteen inning playoff games. He did a couple of years
ago against the bow Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
As I recall, it feels like they're always playing late
into the night.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah all right, Well, mister Thompson woke up in the
middle of the night to that story and he'll pass
along all the details for it coming up here.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I can't wait to share it in sports it was
a dooz.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And uh wow, we're watching a slow motion disaster unfold
in the Caribbean. We'll get to the the news on
Melissa coming up here in a moment or two. Run
down big stories, hot topics for this Tuesday morning, and
thanks again for joining us at home. A couple of
things we'll be talking about today. Number one, it's October
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twenty eighth. We're just a couple of days away from
November one. And not only again more paychecks being missed
by federal employees because of the government shut down, but
the SNAP benefits dry up here at the end of
the month, and we're talking to two hundred and sixty
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thousand plus households, not just people, but households in our
state that are at risk for not receiving SNAP benefits.
One member of the State House, Anne McDaniel. McDaniel, I
should say, is calling on the governor to declare a
state of emergency as a result of this. Now, the
governor will hold a press conference later today in which
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he is expected to well, he'll be making an announcement
regarding SNAP benefits. The Central Carolina Community Foundation as activating
the one sc fund.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We had that during COVID, right, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We did it. It vaguely rings a belly out, It's okay.
What this fund does, according to officials, is allow for
a coordinated charitable giving campaign to provide direct monetary assistance
to regional food banks and feeding partners across the state.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I like it. So here we are on the on
the cusp of those benefits going away. Coordinated but not
state funded, right?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Not state funded?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
H exactly, that's people giving from the goodness of their
hearts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Any states that do fund on their own SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Who's got that kind of supplemental money lying around?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I'm sure California will find it somewhere. They always do, maybe, right,
But the USDA now saying that you won't get reimbursed
for this, so unlike a federal employee, you may be
missing paychecks right now. Who will get reimbursed if this
shutdown ever ends? States that write checks on their own
for SNAP benefits will not get reimburse from that. The
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ongoing saga of government in the City of Casey continues.
Latest this morning from the State newspaper here is that
council City Council met behind closed doors for nearly three
hours in a closed session to look over findings from
an investigation from a third party attorney, this into communications
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between a city staff member and a city elected official.
Apparently the investigation, according to this outside attorney, was that
members of council and his words, stepped out and crossed
into a strong mayor form of government. I'm not sure
understand what.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All that sounds like. We're talking about the mayor, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It sounds like we are, yes, which is not the
way the government of the City of Casey is set up.
Much just like the City of Columbi. It's a weak
mayor form of government. But are members of council at
least some trying to circumvent that? Another delay from the DOT.
This time it's a big bridge replacement on two Notch
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Road that was supposed to end up finish up this year.
Now a DOT says summer of twenty twenty seven. Wait
twenty twenty seven, what year is this? This is twenty
twenty five, oh, another year and a half. This is
a bridge on a number one over right near Fonteine Road.
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It's been there for ninety years and now entering its
third year and another year and a half at least ago.
And needless to say, folks getting frustrated. I'm not sure
I understand why this happens in so many instances around here,
but anyway, there it is. We talk a lot about
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the influx of people into South Carolina. Well, there's a
new study out by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public
Service at the University of Virginia and it takes a
look at the states are going to see major population influxes,
and yeah, we're right up there at the top of
the list. What does that mean and what do they
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say about it? We'll get to that now. Melissa one
hundred and seventy five mile an hour maximum sustained winds.
So right on that eyewall there of Melissa, winds are
consistently clocking one hundred and seventy five miles an hour,
which means that there are gusts that have been recorded
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to two hundred miles an hour plus. Now, again, this
is a small area near the eye of this hurricane
that is still kind of meandering five miles an hour
to the north northeast. So it started its turn here
back toward the east, but it's been jogging west overnight,
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which is good news for parts of eastern Jamaica, although
they're still going to get a hammered by this thing.
But it's better news than it could have been. But
this is going to change Jamaica forever. I've heard this
on multiple occations this morning. Evacuations, of course, have been
ordered for a while now. But where do you go?
You know, if you're on the coastal areas, the low
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lying areas where the population centers are, you got to
get out of there. But do you go to the
mountains the MUDs? You remember what Helene did to western
North Carolina. This is a much more powerful storm. The
mud slides are going to be just just just just
it's gonna be a major tragedy. So we wait for
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it to make landfall sometime probably later on this morning.
They're thinking by noon, and again it's still a category five. Well,
it may drop to a four before landfall, but it's
not going to make that much difference. So, man, how
bad is this thing. The hurricane hunters that fly into
these storms, they had to turn around and head back out,
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which almost never happens. They couldn't get through the eyewall. Wow. Yeah,
and by the way, inside that eyewall are trapped. They say,
tens of thousands of birds, migratory birds who got caught
up in it. They can't get out. All right. This
government shut down entering day whatever it is now twenty eight,
(08:29):
I guess it is movement from outside the government with
the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents
more than eight hundred thousand government workers, released an open
letter calling on Chuck Schumer and his caucus to vote
for a House pass bipartisan spending bill to reopen the government. Okay,
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this may be what it takes right now to get
it done. Pressure is getting intense on Chuck Schumer. Now yeah, Now,
the unit's saying, all right, enough of this, let's reopen
the government. Let's get our people paid.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's overseas, and Trump has made it clear he's,
you know, he's perfectly fine with the government staying shut
down as long as it takes, because he can sit
there and fire people and kill kill the funding that
he doesn't like, and Congress can't do anything about it.
So there's no pressure whatsoever on the White House or
on the Republican side. I think Mike Johnson's feeling some,
(09:25):
but as far as the President goes, he's not cooperating.
So it's up to the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, and they got to make something happening.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
People are gonna start missing paychecks and people are gonna
start losing money and then you know, trying to find
ways to eat. They have the little simple things, right, Yeah, Yeah,
it's not gonna look good.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, we'll talk about Trump's trip to Asia. We've got
that to talk about this morning. We've got a big
change that the mayor race in New York City as
the polls are tightening there. And Amazon planning against largest
layoffs in company history today.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, expected to cut the ties with some thirty thousand employees.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Before the holidays. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I would say the same thing, But apparently they got
a plan. Does it include AI and robots? That it does? Friends,
that and more coming up on this. It is the
Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. It is terrific
to have you with us. Thank you so much keeping
you informed. Dad's up to date. Now now more than ever,
I like knowing what's happening in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
and five sixty am double VOC.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I'm now six forty one. Good morning. Good to have
you a long for Tuesday, October the twenty eighth. We
talked yesterday about the Planet expansion over in Jingersville at
the VC Summer Plant. How this private company, Brookfield Asset Management,
I think that they might it is this Canadian conglomerate
is gonna kinda step in and, apparently to no exposure
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to US tax and ratepayers, take over this project and try, yeah,
Alice hope not, try to finish off that thing to
provide us with some more needed energy. And we've talked
a lot about we need more energy because of these
data farms, these AI data farms that are pomping up
left and right everywhere in this state included, and how
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much power they drain off the grid. You have to
do something well The other reason why is because we've
got a growing population base here in South Carolina. Now
this gets to more than just electricity needs. This gets
to infrastructure needs as well. New data released by what
is this the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Services, This
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is a part of the University of Virginia says that
over the next quarter century the Palmetto State, we'll see
close to seven hundred thousand new people show up. What's
our current population? Why can't I never remember that number? Said?
(12:13):
Three million? Is it five million? What is it looking?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Efforting?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Efforting?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You just love people who don't speak English. We're efforting
that five point four to seven nine million.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Four seven nine million.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, so that's a that's a that's a pretty large
jumping population right there. Matter in fact, that would actually
be about thirteen percent rise in population numbers. So on
a percentage basis, if this comes to pass, our population
growth based on what it is right now, would be
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the thirteenth highest in the nation. Yeah, no, we're not
the highest, but we're right up there. But it's a
case throughout the Southeast we would actually on a percentage
basis grow a little more than the North Carolina expected
to grow about eleven percent. But while we look to
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add just under seven hundred thousand new citizens, North Carolina
will add about one point two million Georgia, one point
seven million, Florida five point one million new residents over
the next twenty five years. So this is just a
problem for South Carolina. This is a problem for the
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entire southeast. How do you deal with that influx of population?
And it's more than just electricity, right, it's roads, it's
you know, the congestion. I mean, where you're going to
put all these people. So you know, hopefully somebody somewhere
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is you know, looking over the next quarter century and saying, okay,
well we need to look at this, that and this.
Not everybody's expected to gain in population though, needless to say,
by the way, the biggest population surge a thirty five
percent surgeon population expected to be Utah. That's interesting. Illinois,
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on the flip side, expected to lose more than a
million residents over the next twenty five years. The rust
belt Ohio Pennsylvania expected to lose about four hundred thousand
or so, so people are the population is shifting again
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from the rust belt states and from the high tax
states to the sun Belt, to the southeast and to
Utah for whatever reason, Utah. But this is again over
the next one. And you think about that, We've been
doing this show for twenty five years and it seems
like just yesterday. So twenty five years. You know, I'm
(15:13):
not sure checking the calendar now, I'm not sure I'll
be around to see it. But you know, our kids will,
our grandkids will, and somebody got to figure out how
to deal with all that. So between that and data
AI centers, yeah, we get some We need to get
some stuff done here. Friends. We got to start generating
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more electricity. So yeah, I'm all in for this. Uh,
you know, getting that other reactor done. And you know what,
I think, at some point in time, and maybe people
that are in the know have already come to this conclusion,
We're going to really regret the idea that this nation
pretty much turned its back on nuclear power generation. Went
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exactly did that have because when they were trying to
expand the planet Jenkinsville, if I'm not mistaken, the only
other nuclear plant construction going on was that vote plan
over in Georgia. I mean, we just stopped building these
these nuclear power plants. And I don't know if that
was a case of you know, the the environmentalists and
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their their their pressure. Oh yeah we got to go
with wind fund. Yeah yeah, how's that whole wind farm
thing working out for us? Right? Solar? Okay, Well, if
you want to put on the roof of your home,
it might do you a pretty good job. But can
it can it generate the kind of the massive kind
of energy we need, especially right now? It doesn't seem
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to have delivered on that promise. So yeah, we were
very short sighted and again listening to the environmentalist and
backing off of you know, ideas nuclear power some of
the cleanest power you can generate. Yeah, if it blows up,
we got problems. Yeah, but you know, aside from that,
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I don't know, was it three Mile Island? Was it?
Was it the three Mile Island melt down that all
of a sudden, all we we're gonna I think we're
already written that that decision, But that's way in the
rear view mirror. I suspect we're going to see more
and more people talking about increasing our nuclear power capacity
because that just seems to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Me like the way to go between that and Chernobyl,
Well Chernobyl was a problem. Yeah, yeah, but you know
that's the Russian thing. And you know, well anyway, yeah,
and I'd like to hope that we're a little i mean,
we figure out a way to be even better with
our energy in the next twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Years, better as in generating or better is.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
In using it, better isn't using Yeah, I mean, you know,
we're always coming up with ways to make houses, for example,
more energy efficient. You know, you'd like to think that
we'll have some kind of invention in the next twenty
five years that allows us to use a little less,
maybe pay a little bit less. That'd be nice. Well,
so I'm just talking about me and you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I know these data centers are going to continue to
suck it up.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah. Well, and maybe those data centers and all their
AI wisdom will come up with a way they see
thyk say, they come up away for everything else barely.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty am WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It is fifteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning.
It is a Tuesday, October twenty eighth for some folks,
and the Caribbean will be a day they never forget
Jamaica in particular, as Melissa is, you can't even say
the word barely because this thing's still moving like it,
you know, three five miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tops, which just means every portion of that storm is
going to dump rain after rain after rain shower on.
These were defenseless people and it's just going to hover. Yeah,
it'll actually may maybe move a little quicker once it
makes landfall. When you say a little quicker house, oh quick,
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we'll consider the fact that Jamaica as far as I
think it's one hundred and forty six miles wide something
like that, yeah, twenty to maybe fifty.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Miles high whatever word is for that. But you know
what was an approach from the south, like Gilbert back whatever,
that was kind of crisscross, kind of traversed the island,
you know, from one side to the other, right the left.
This one's going to go south to north and so
it's gonna get over the island quicker, Okay Gilbert did,
which is the you know, the hurricane. All Jamaicans remember, Uh,
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they'll forget that one after this one though, But it
looks like landfall right around maybe to the east of
Montego Bay in that area there, And and you know,
we're going to probably in this landfall next four to
five hours tops one hundred and seventy mile an hour
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maximum sustained to wind, so around the core around that
eyewall gusting over two hundred all their rain mud slides,
places underwater for weeks and maybe well at least isolated
for maybe months some spots in Jamaica. Wow, So we'll
probably lose any images we have out of Jamaica over
the course the next couple of hours. I've been watching
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some of them this morning. And then it's going to
hit eastern Cuba as a pretty powerful hurricane too. I mean,
it's not that far from Jamaica to Cuba, so it
hits that and we don't get any images out of
Cuba ever, so we won't really know what the lay
is like there. So that disaster unfolding today. And remember,
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if it weren't for these weather systems that are impacting
us right now here, these fronts, we'd be looking at
a potential US landfall this thing. But that's what's going
to push it back out to the east. Another disaster
slowly unfolding is the whole government shutdown thing, which you know,
for a while, I get it. You know, we hear
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about these government shutdowns all the time. It seems like
anymore impending government shutdown of Congress doesn't act. And quite honestly,
we all yawn unless you've get skin in the game,
right and until it actually happens, and you get skin
in the game, and it's more than just federal employees
with skin in the game. Right now, again, it's October
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twenty eighth. We've got a couple of days left in
this month and then the snap benefits dry out. Yesterday,
Hamilton Grant, a state representative, called on the governor to
declare a state of emergency. They're nearly fifty thousand people
just in Richland County who are at risk of blue
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using these staff benefits. In the letter, Grant asked a
declaration of a state of emergency, which would include expanded
access to the state's Department of Agricultural Programs to faster
deliver food to food banks and community organizations, to authorize
the State Guard the State National Guard to help distribute
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food and to allow DSS to activate partnerships with nonprofits
for local distribution. Well, the governor is holding a press
conference today in which we're told he'll be announcing that
the Central Carolina Community Foundation has activated the one SE Fund. Now,
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this is not government money in the game here, but
this is a fund that will allow for coordinated charitable
giving campaigns to provide direct monetary assistance to regional food
banks and local feeding partners across the state. This is
not money we're talking about again, but it's coordinated. But
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it's coordinated through the government to try to.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
A lot of people get nervous when they give money
because they're like, Okay, I don't know if this is
a scam. I don't know if this is Oh yeah,
I don't know if this is ever going to find
its way to the people I want to help.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
This helps with them, Yeah, And again the whole idea
side of you know, people who are on snap benefits,
you know, or some abusing the system. Yeah, sure they are,
and some are just in need of it, and I know,
go get a job and all that. We'll forget that
for right now, because we're talking about across the state.
Two hundred and sixty thousand some odd households, not individuals,
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but households who are going to be losing these benefits
here over the course the next couple of days, and
they will other than going to a food bank, they'll
have no way of putting food on the table. Okay,
So this is a real problem now, between that and
all these federal workers who are either sitting at home
not getting paid or being told to go to work
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and not getting paid. A development yesterday that might end this,
and it didn't come from inside Capitol Hill. But yesterday morning,
the country's biggest federal workers' union called for an end
of the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And we know who listens to unions, Yeah, Joe Biden.
Well I met the party as a whole.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah. Yeah. The American Federation of Government Employees represents more
than eight hundred thousand government workers. They released an open
letter calling on Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Caucus to
vote for that House spending bill to reopen the government.
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So far, Chuck Schumer and has Caucus have voted against
that same bill a dozen times. Now. There will be
a vote today, so this will be the thirteenth attempt
to shut down. The shutdown certainly now with this thirteenth vote,
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will it be lucky thirteen, because there's more pressure now
on Schumer and the Dems as a result of this Union,
calling on them to stop the nonsense and let's get
the government reopened again, get our people paid. We're in
day twenty eight now, and yes, the polling continues, and yes,
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the American public is showing a great deal of contempt
for both Democrats and Republicans over this. You know, the
idea that if we could just you know, wait this
thing out and our party is going to win and
their party is going to lose, that that may not
pan out.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, it may not. Although I still think there's more
pressure on Humor and the Democrats at this point, certainly
after yesterday there is.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, and certainly, and it is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Not going to help when you start seeing these images
on TV and online of you know, people desperately trying
to find food for their families.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Right, You've got Republicans senators who are backing a bill.
Josh Holly put up a bill to Keep Snap Funded Act.
This is a this is a Republican keep Snap Funded.
It's backed by senators like Katie Britt of Alabama. Marsha
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Blackburn of Tennessee. They're they're backing this piece of legislation
put up by a Republican to keep SNAP funded. So
you get the sense that they may be a little
closer to solving this thing. And when it's all said
and done, it may well be the pressure they're going
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to feel the Democrat part is going to feel from
SNAP recipients, and the pressure Thatmocrat parties feeling right now
from the federal government's biggest union they make. These are
the entities that may get the credit for resolving this,
not the Republicans and Democrats inside Congress. But at this point,
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nobody cares who gets the credit. Nobody wants. People just
want to want it solved.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And we're only I mean, we get closer to Thanksgiving travel,
but also, you know, we think of Thanksgiving, we think
of food, we think of a big feast with family,
and people aren't going to be able to afford to
get together and do that. And then of course you've
got Christmas following right behind in the shopping season, and
you know, folks who can't afford to miss paychecks.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh if this went on for another month, yeah, I mean,
you have the Domino start to fall. Yeah, right now
now it really starts to impact the economy and spending
and everything else. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Absolutely, keeping you connected.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I check in throughout the day twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just like being informed, know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
One on three point five FM and five sixty Am
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and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
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Speaker 3 (28:17):
It's wonderful to have you with us here for Tuesday,
October the twenty eighth. I hope you're days off to
a good start New York City, which has been a
lot of attention paid, of course, to a mayoral race
that usually is for New York City at least at
some degree, but this time is different because you got
a well he says he's a socialist. I'd say it's
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a communist. But anyway, Mom, Donnie, who has been just
way ahead the polls until yesterday. Now they've had debates,
he's been called out on his viewpoints.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's been caught in a couple of lies.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But you know what, he just smiles. He flashes that Mom, Donnie, grin,
it's all gonna be okay. Well, maybe some folks are
getting a little squirrely in the Big Apple now. Gosh, yeah,
I was looking back at some of the suffolk released
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a pole back in September that had this socialist or
communist getting support from forty four percent of New York voters. Actually,
I take that back. It was more than that. The
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poll yesterday that came out from Suffolk showed Mondammie at
forty four percent. But the change here is now, who
was at twenty four percent a month ago is now
at thirty four So that twenty point lead from last
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month has shrunk to ten points.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
You think it's just New Yorkers saying, you know, oh god,
we just got rid of Cuomo. However, they started to
realize he may be the lesser of two evils.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, the W Yeah, exactly, W know versus the W.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well in this case, no, I mean, I know that's
a pretty simplistic way to put it, but I can't
think of any other reason why Cuomo's just surged in
the polls that maybe it is the last debate where well.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then you've also got you know, Eric Adams dropping
out of the race.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, okay, and it was pretty unlikely that anybody who
was supporting Eric Adams would support Zo Ranmondami, right right,
But yeah, it was after this last Suffolk poll that
had a twenty point lead for the Communists. It was
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after that poll that Eric Adams dropped out. Where's where's
Curtis Leewin?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
All that? Well, interesting, you asked, because that's the rest,
that's the other part of this story. Sliva had his
support go up from nine percent to eleven percent. Okay,
all right, do the math.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, okay, See he's under such pressure to drop out. Yes,
but I didn't think to this point he had enough
votes for it to matter. Now I guess he does.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Well, he does, yes, Yeah, Now there's still about an
eight percent undecided in this poll. Uh so eight percent undecided?
How can that be at this late stage with as
much attention has been paid to this race, and with
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well the consequences that are on the line with this
race for New York City itself. Now, there's some other
polls out there. For example, I'm looking at one right here.
The Hill mentioned this one that Decision Desk HQ has
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sly was polling average at about seventeen percent remember he's
a perennial mayoral candidate in New York City. Four years
ago he ran lost to Eric Adams. He had twenty
eight percent support. Four years ago, a Decision Desk HQ
(32:39):
list his average at seventeen percent, which is significantly higher
than what the Suffolk Pole says. Now, part of the
problem here is that well, early voting, and there's been
a lot of it in New York City, about five
times more ballots cast as compared to twenty twenty one.
(33:01):
And again some of these ballots cast before Eric Adams
dropped out of the race. This is the problem you
had with early voting. Number one, I can't believe that
eight percent of people don't know who they would vote for.
Number two, I think that if they do vote, those
(33:26):
eight percent are not going to vote for Zill ran Mondami.
I'm just going on the assumption that you know, if
you're going to vote for Zill ran Mondami, you've already
you already know it. I mean, this guy is so
far to the left right, yeah, that it's not like, oh,
let's see this one now, you you already know you're
already casting your vote. You probably already have for this guy.
(33:51):
So Yeah, the pressure is growing on the Curtis Sliwa
to drop out of this race. Here at the last minute,
he says he's not going to. And quite honestly, with
what little I do know about Curtis Sliwa, is it Sliwa?
I thought he was, well, I don't know Slvan Sala.
I thought it was whichever, however you want to say it, okay,
(34:14):
and you're probably right. How am I supposed to say that, Sliva?
I think so. I don't see him dropping out. I
don't see it happening. The vote, young people in New
York City overwhelmingly are voting for a communist, which Bobby
doesn't surprise you. I mentioned this about a month or
(34:38):
two back. I thought, you know, as much as I
don't want to see this guy win, there's a part
of me that almost says, yeah, let's see this guy win.
Let's see what happens to New York City in this
grand socialist communist experiment here to the the epicenter of
capitalism on the planet. Let's see how that turns out.
(35:04):
You know. And in some ways it's almost like, you know,
a Republican's dream come true. Yeah, let's put let's put A.
It's just like voting for Fidel Castro to be the
mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Right, I mean, it's a it's a bad it's a
bad way to set an example and show, you know,
this is what happens when you go the wrong way.
But I mean to do that on the world's biggest stage,
New York City.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, I know, and prefer to be somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah. And the other question is, Okay, if things go
that wrong, you know who's going to bail them out?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Gerald Ford's not around to say drop dead to New
York City this time. I think I think it will
probably all have a hand in.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It, probably so. And as you might have expected, the
polling shows that, as far as Cuomo is concerned, it's
not like New Yorkers are in love with the guy, Yeah,
because they're not. Among Cuomo voters that said they would
cast their battle for Cuomo, forty point four eight percent
said that's because they were voting for Cuomo. Thirty nine
(36:14):
point eight eight percent said it was because they were
voting against Mondani. I'm not surprised, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I mean, I'm sure most of New York probably thought
they were washing their hands of Cuomo once and for all.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Right, what did we deserve to do? What do we
do to deserve all this? Right, you'd talk about a
whole Janeo's election, huh. But at least he was, you know,
in the upstate.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Now he's now he's going to be in our city
running the show in our city.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
All right, Well, Tuesday, will know, that's when all that
wraps up there in the Holly, the capital center of
the world. Can you possibly believe that a socialists could
be in charge? I'm sorry, communist.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It is sixteen after a good morning, tell you it's Tuesday,
October twenty eighth. Not tim, I didn't have so much
to do today, I would be glued to the internet.
I'm beginning to understand now why, you know, typical broadcast
TV is in such such a big trouble, because there
are people live streaming on YouTube this morning that are
(37:31):
doing an incredible job of covering.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This hurricane, this storm. Yeah, yeah, I've been watching this.
Max velocity for the last about hour. Dude is just
like NonStop live streaming. He's got all the assets right there.
It's simple these days.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Man, you got a computer, you just pop into all
these websites and you just conglomerate it all and you
show up on the screen and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
And so he's not there, he's just covering right.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
No, he's matthev Shore. He's got a storm chaser who
is in about where the eye of this storm is
going to hit here about less than five hours now.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
It looks like, well, I'm looking at Jim Cantore's Twitter
page right now, and he's got posted where the eye
is coming right across the northwest side of that island.
Excuse me, the southwest west side. Yeah, it's gonna be
just just east. It looks like a Montego Bay.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah. And the eight a m. Update National Hurricane Center
still Cat five, Still one hundred and seventy five mile
an hour winds sustained, moving a little quicker about seven
miles an hour, but moving a little more north northeast now,
uh so a little more. The eastern half of Jamaica
(38:45):
is in play. It's on the whole islands and I'm
in play right now. It's a question of how bad
do you get it? But it's it's it's it's addictive
to sit here and watch this in a in a
very tragic kind of way. Right. We mentioned this earlier
and this this a am updated. I'm not sure how
accurate it is because a lot of what the National
(39:07):
Hurricane Center relies on what it tells you, like, for example,
wind speeds and such, relies of these hurricane hunters getting
in there and taking these measurements. Well, I mean, we
mentioned we came on the air this morning that the
last pass they had to turn around and get out
of there. This storm is that strong that almost never happens.
(39:31):
Number One, these people have their heads examined, but they
are dar Devil's Oh my goodness. But yeah, even the
hurricane hunters had to turn around and turn tail and
get out of there. Now there's another flight that is
ongoing right now, and we'll see if they can penetrate
the eyewall or not. Because to get the accurate readings
(39:54):
on the pressure, which, by the way, the barometric pressure
of the storm now down to nine hundred and one
mi oars, which is a tick lower than Katrina was
this is the eighth lowest barometric pressure in one of
these storms in Atlantic hurricane history. Eighth lowis which means
(40:14):
again that's the inverse relationship with the strength of the storm,
is how far the we remember this from Hugo, right, sure?
So yeah, and you know, for it looks all indications
are when it makes landfall, it will be a Category five.
And this is a story that's going to play out
for a long time. Now. I'm not talking about this
(40:35):
hurricane today and what it does, but the aftermath of
it is going to play out for well quite possibly years.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And unfortunately they've been through this before.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, but yeah, they go back to Gilbert, which I
think was an eighty eight something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But you're talking about an island dependent on tourism. Yeah,
and they will.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Oh my goodness, and they brought the I think we've
been down to Jamaica maybe three times over the years.
We were down there back in February as a matter
of fact.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
And just I know, it's it's it's got a it's
got a bad reputation for crime and all that.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You know, well, I know, and it's abject poverty. You
leave a resort gage.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Sure, yeah, and we actually did last time on a
bit of a tour and but the people were just wonderful.
I hate this man, we all hate this. This is yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
They will be fighting tooth and nail to get to
reopen as soon as possible, because that's the only way
they can make money.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Well on something ganja. Then there's that, Then there's that.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
We actually were on a little tour bus and the
driver who I thought about often in the last forty
eight hours because she was just an amazing person. But
she was telling my whole stories about apparently the Jamaican
government gives each person either enough land or enough money
or whatever so that they can grow a certain amount
of marijuana. Okay, it's okay, this is horrible. Okay, So
(42:09):
countdown clock to the actual eyewall crossing the shore a
little less than five hours, they think, and we'll see
where it goes. Back at home. We mentioned this in
the rundown, and we'll get too deep into it, because
quite honestly, I think it's basically in and of itself,
it's without getting too deep in the weeds, it's a
(42:30):
story about well dysfunction in the city of Casey and
the government over there, right, the city hired an outside
attorney to review what they were calling improper conduct among members,
and Casey's City council just met behind closed doors an
(42:52):
executive session for almost three hours. The state paper reports
to review the findings of said investigation. And this was
investigating into communications between a city staff member and a
city elected official. And the word the paper got was
(43:16):
this attorney's review found that members quote unquote, members stepped
out and crossed into a strong mayor form of government.
Now there's been no release to the general public, but
Casey City Council has asked the attorney to put together
a report by the end of this month, actually in
(43:37):
two days a couple of days, by October thirtieth, and
for the city manager to publish it on its website.
Don't know exactly what that report will say, how much
more it says than this, but a bottom line is,
like the City of Columbia, the city of Casey has
a weak mayor form of government. It's a city run
(43:59):
by town council. Now the mayor mayor parton was not
in attendance of this. Okay, So now you're starting to thinking, okay, well, Okay,
maybe we know why they had called a special meeting
a couple of weeks earlier. She refused to attend that
one as well. That was a meeting where they voted
to launch this investigation.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah, and I think she knew she was going to
be ambushed, and so she said she wasn't going to
be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Just just a lot of dysfunction. And you know, they're
having elections. You would hope, you would hope that they are,
you know, somebody gets elected that brings a little sanity
to that group because right now nobody's getting along.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
There are so many amazing things happening in Casey right now.
It's a shame that the leadership, in spite of a leadership,
actually you know, I mean, come on now. Council apparently
well again didn't name public who the elected official was
or who the city employee was, but one council member
(45:06):
did allude to the mayor directly in his questions to
this attorney, you know, how is the mayor involved in
all that? So they got to the dysfunction continues to
play out in the city. Was so much good going
on right now? We'll see where it takes us yeah,
(45:28):
we have all the details, but apparently by what Thursday,
at some point in time Thursday, they're going to have
it to post it on the city's website. That's what
they've asked for, So we'll see what it says.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
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Speaker 3 (45:48):
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Speaker 2 (45:52):
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Speaker 3 (46:02):
Party. Time for the final thoughts here for Tuesday, October
twenty eighth. Not much talk about here at the home
front we haven't already discussed today. I did come across
the story about well the fifth still good Conatrol Canada
on the Republican side, who's again every story when it
(46:27):
comes to who are you talking about? Said Canada?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Oh, Josh kemberl got Kimberrell. Oh okay, I was gonna
say it's about his legal issues. Okay, Well, yeah, I
don't think anybody's taking that campaign seriously any longer. And nope,
you know what, I'm sure he's tried, but he isn't.
He hasn't raised any money, has he? I mean it, well,
he doesn't have any significant support. I'm just waiting for
him to I'm not sure what the hold up is
(46:52):
on him. Well at this time, I mean, with all
the other stuff he's got going on, you would think
this would be would people be donating right right? Well,
and you would think it would be a big intrusion
on his life right now to even be with all
the lawsuits and everything else. The last thing I have
time to do is run for governor.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Right, Jonathan Kelly mentioning a new Democrat front runner will
emerge today because remember, the only other Democrat in the
race is a Mulas McLeod, Right, you know, the guy
caught with his pants down the streets to Charleston and
this says some pretty bad things afterwards about a lot
of people, but so far he's been the only Democrat
(47:31):
in the race. Then he still hasn't explained what that
episode was all about. But it wasn't his fault, so
he says, Yeah, lot's been talked about. Last twenty four
hours or so, as a Trump's trip to Asia continues
(47:52):
and the signing of a critical minerals deal with Japan
and their brand new prime minister, the first woman prime
minister of that country. So trade deals worked out with
Tokyo and apparently won our f one fifties. I didn't
(48:15):
know there was so popular in Japan. I guess they are. Huh,
that's somewhere in the mix of all that too. But
most importantly, well, yeah, trade deal is very important, of course,
but this critical minerals deal of the utmost importance. Now
Lindsay Lindsey Graham saying yesterday, I think he said actually
(48:36):
said this, Sonny, we talked about this yesterday. I think, yeah,
that when Trump gets back, he's going to be briefing
lawmakers on military ops in the Caribbean, which, by the way,
who already had that story. Not only do you have
the hurricane, but there was somewhere I don't know exactly
where it was in the Caribbean. B other, it's like
a six point eight magnitude earthquake yesterday, not on land,
(49:00):
somewhere out in the Caribbeans.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Man, you got hurricanes, you got earthquakes and a lot
going on, and you had potential military action in South America.
So yeah, it's less are planes falling off the aircraft carriers.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Yeah, but that was the Pacific, okay, South agacy all right,
yeah yeah. Amazon getting ready cut nearly ten percent of
its corporate workforce starting today. We're talking about thirty thousand employees.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Is this automation? Is this drones at work?
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Well again, this is on the corporate side.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Okay, So these are the you know, the pizel pushers, ah,
the white collar jobs all right? Oh, which okay, still
feels like an odd time to be doing it, just
before the holidays. It does when your company as a whole,
is that its busiest.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
They Amazon's claim is that during the pandemic they over hired. No,
because nobody's going to a store, right Everything you bought
was on Amazon, and as a result of that surgeon business,
they over hired. They say, that's their excuse. Now they overhired.
(50:09):
So these are not the you know, the frontline of
Amazon people you see knocking on your front door dropping
off those packages. These are the people behind the scenes.
But that's that's a lot of folk right there. It
is thirty thousand. Speaking of changes, we haven't talked about this.
(50:33):
I had paid a whole lot of attention to it.
Quite honestly, but things are starting to happen at CBS now.
The left and the rest of the mainstream media has
been just aghast, and they were outraged when Barry Weiss
was named editor in chief over at CBS now. Weiss
(50:56):
has a job, she's got to get done. And apparently,
and this comes from you know, CBS corporate and shareholder
everybody else, make the dagum station less partisan or the
network right, bring it back to the middle.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Why because they think they could make more money that way.
I guess it's a business decision, okay, right, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah. So the latest here is that John Dickerson, who
you may or may not know that name. Truth as
you probably don't because you probably haven't watched CBS Evening
News in a while. I remember they just lost their anchor.
But earlier this year she stepped down. I can't think
(51:38):
of her name right now, and they put in the
Duoy kind of the Huntley and Brinkley kind of thing, right.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Right, they had two anchors, Dickerson being one of them.
Dickerson being one of them until now he's out. Well
he's not quite yet, but at the end of the
year he'll be gone. There are news reports that Weiss
is eyeing a major shakeup. At sixty minutes, Wait a minute,
with Dickerson pressured out because of its political point of view.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I think probably so okay. Yeah, And at sixty minutes, yeah,
and he had to think that the name of the
top of that ladder to go would be Scott Pelley
for no other reason, he criticized his own network.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Right, Well, I'd add Leslie Stole to the list, but
her name is apparently on the list. Yes, just in general.
People again, it's not necessarily about what they bring to
the table, it's what they're costing you.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
Well, sure, yeah, David Elson is a CEO of Paramount.
This is always when I have when Paramount took over CBS,
and he has said that, Yeah, Weiss was hired to
restore balance to the news unit. Imagine that. And there's
also word that she's well looking to try to lure
(53:01):
away Scott Jennings, who is the only conservative on CNN,
trying to get him to head over to CBS.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
That would be a huge win, if for nothing else,
then you could guarantee at least a portion of your
newscast would be watched online over and over again the
next day. Right, if Scott Jennings were on, Yes, because
he's usually got at least one quote a day that
everybody watches the next day.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
He's got a hot take a day.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, I don't see. I don't know if people are
watching CNN even for him, but somebody clips it and
puts it online the next day, and okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah right. Not only that, there's word that she's trying
to hire away Brett Baer from Fox to be their
evening news host. So a lot happening. Keep an eye
on CBS. Uh. Okay, we were just talking about Amazon.
Well how about this faux pas? A woman then, where
(54:01):
where does she live? In Newburg, Maine? Got a package
from Amazon, opened it up. Inside she found five bundles
of In each bundle fifty main referendum ballots YEP. Two
(54:22):
hundred and fifty state ballots delivered by accident to a
woman in Newburg, Maine.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
I mean completed ballots or ones that she could fill
out and then turn in.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
No, there, these were not completed ballots. Okay, right now,
she could have filled all two fifty tournament I guess,
but she didn't. She called the authorities. Good on her,
and this is probably the last thing you need in
your life. We got too much smart stuff already. In
my opinion, I don't like the smart stuff because I'm
not smart enough to figure half of it out. I've
(54:55):
got to call my twenty seven year old and say,
how do I do this? So I'm certainly not buying
a smart refrigerator. M Plus the fact that you know, hey,
the Internet goes down, there goes your hamburger, right and
your milk. Samsung now rolling out an update to their
(55:16):
Family Hub smart refrigerators. This includes a new widget right
there on the screen in the front of the fridge
for day to day information for news, counter events, weather forecasts,
and curated advertisements.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh yeah right.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Apparently they built it those such that if you want
to turn the ads off, you can probably a good call.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
I mean, they have mirrors now where you can watch
the news and weather and as you're getting ready for work.
It's crazy, but who wants an add on the refrigerator?
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Would do?
Speaker 1 (55:57):
I have to watch it in order to get something
out right, Sorry, you can't open.
Speaker 3 (56:02):
It until you skip this ad in fifteen seconds. Then
you can open up the frigerator door.
I'm Jesus.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hell Ya SA America and Jery Hollen for Regious one Nation.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
This is wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
Thompson on one O three point five FM and five
sixty AM w VOC.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
And good morning to you. Welcome to Tuesday, the twenty
eighth of October. It is sixteen minutes after six and
it's good to have you with us this morning. If
we haven't met yet, I'm Gary David, just listening for
the very first time. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We'll be introducer to Christopher Thompson, little bleary eyed. Tell
me you didn't see the end of that World Series
game last night?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Is it over yet?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You know?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
My phone chirped about three point fifteen, and I thought, okay,
starting to get news reports from Jamaica. And I had
no idea when I finally got up and looked at
it that it would be a sports story. The end
of a World Series game in LA eighteen innings? Yeah,
how about that?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Wow? Wow, that the Dodgers have a pension for playing
eighteen inning playoff games. He did a couple of years
ago against the bow Sox.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
As I recall, it feels like they're always playing late
into the night.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah all right, Well, mister Thompson woke up in the
middle of the night to that story and he'll pass
along all the details for it coming up here.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I can't wait to share it in sports it was
a dooz.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And uh wow, we're watching a slow motion disaster unfold
in the Caribbean. We'll get to the the news on
Melissa coming up here in a moment or two. Run
down big stories, hot topics for this Tuesday morning, and
thanks again for joining us at home. A couple of
things we'll be talking about today. Number one, it's October
(01:59):
twenty eighth. We're just a couple of days away from
November one. And not only again more paychecks being missed
by federal employees because of the government shut down, but
the SNAP benefits dry up here at the end of
the month, and we're talking to two hundred and sixty
(02:19):
thousand plus households, not just people, but households in our
state that are at risk for not receiving SNAP benefits.
One member of the State House, Anne McDaniel. McDaniel, I
should say, is calling on the governor to declare a
state of emergency as a result of this. Now, the
governor will hold a press conference later today in which
(02:45):
he is expected to well, he'll be making an announcement
regarding SNAP benefits. The Central Carolina Community Foundation as activating
the one sc fund.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
We had that during COVID, right, I think.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
We did it. It vaguely rings a belly out, It's okay.
What this fund does, according to officials, is allow for
a coordinated charitable giving campaign to provide direct monetary assistance
to regional food banks and feeding partners across the state.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I like it. So here we are on the on
the cusp of those benefits going away. Coordinated but not
state funded, right?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Not state funded?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
H exactly, that's people giving from the goodness of their
hearts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Any states that do fund on their own SNAP benefits.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Who's got that kind of supplemental money lying around?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I'm sure California will find it somewhere. They always do, maybe, right,
But the USDA now saying that you won't get reimbursed
for this, so unlike a federal employee, you may be
missing paychecks right now. Who will get reimbursed if this
shutdown ever ends? States that write checks on their own
for SNAP benefits will not get reimburse from that. The
(04:07):
ongoing saga of government in the City of Casey continues.
Latest this morning from the State newspaper here is that
council City Council met behind closed doors for nearly three
hours in a closed session to look over findings from
an investigation from a third party attorney, this into communications
(04:30):
between a city staff member and a city elected official.
Apparently the investigation, according to this outside attorney, was that
members of council and his words, stepped out and crossed
into a strong mayor form of government. I'm not sure
understand what.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
All that sounds like. We're talking about the mayor, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
It sounds like we are, yes, which is not the
way the government of the City of Casey is set up.
Much just like the City of Columbi. It's a weak
mayor form of government. But are members of council at
least some trying to circumvent that? Another delay from the DOT.
This time it's a big bridge replacement on two Notch
(05:11):
Road that was supposed to end up finish up this year.
Now a DOT says summer of twenty twenty seven. Wait
twenty twenty seven, what year is this? This is twenty
twenty five, oh, another year and a half. This is
a bridge on a number one over right near Fonteine Road.
(05:36):
It's been there for ninety years and now entering its
third year and another year and a half at least ago.
And needless to say, folks getting frustrated. I'm not sure
I understand why this happens in so many instances around here,
but anyway, there it is. We talk a lot about
(05:56):
the influx of people into South Carolina. Well, there's a
new study out by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public
Service at the University of Virginia and it takes a
look at the states are going to see major population influxes,
and yeah, we're right up there at the top of
the list. What does that mean and what do they
(06:17):
say about it? We'll get to that now. Melissa one
hundred and seventy five mile an hour maximum sustained winds.
So right on that eyewall there of Melissa, winds are
consistently clocking one hundred and seventy five miles an hour,
which means that there are gusts that have been recorded
(06:38):
to two hundred miles an hour plus. Now, again, this
is a small area near the eye of this hurricane
that is still kind of meandering five miles an hour
to the north northeast. So it started its turn here
back toward the east, but it's been jogging west overnight,
(07:00):
which is good news for parts of eastern Jamaica, although
they're still going to get a hammered by this thing.
But it's better news than it could have been. But
this is going to change Jamaica forever. I've heard this
on multiple occations this morning. Evacuations, of course, have been
ordered for a while now. But where do you go?
You know, if you're on the coastal areas, the low
(07:21):
lying areas where the population centers are, you got to
get out of there. But do you go to the
mountains the MUDs? You remember what Helene did to western
North Carolina. This is a much more powerful storm. The
mud slides are going to be just just just just
it's gonna be a major tragedy. So we wait for
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it to make landfall sometime probably later on this morning.
They're thinking by noon, and again it's still a category five. Well,
it may drop to a four before landfall, but it's
not going to make that much difference. So, man, how
bad is this thing. The hurricane hunters that fly into
these storms, they had to turn around and head back out,
(08:08):
which almost never happens. They couldn't get through the eyewall. Wow. Yeah,
and by the way, inside that eyewall are trapped. They say,
tens of thousands of birds, migratory birds who got caught
up in it. They can't get out. All right. This
government shut down entering day whatever it is now twenty eight,
(08:29):
I guess it is movement from outside the government with
the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents
more than eight hundred thousand government workers, released an open
letter calling on Chuck Schumer and his caucus to vote
for a House pass bipartisan spending bill to reopen the government. Okay,
(08:52):
this may be what it takes right now to get
it done. Pressure is getting intense on Chuck Schumer. Now yeah, Now,
the unit's saying, all right, enough of this, let's reopen
the government. Let's get our people paid.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's overseas, and Trump has made it clear he's,
you know, he's perfectly fine with the government staying shut
down as long as it takes, because he can sit
there and fire people and kill kill the funding that
he doesn't like, and Congress can't do anything about it.
So there's no pressure whatsoever on the White House or
on the Republican side. I think Mike Johnson's feeling some,
(09:25):
but as far as the President goes, he's not cooperating.
So it's up to the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah, and they got to make something happening.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
People are gonna start missing paychecks and people are gonna
start losing money and then you know, trying to find
ways to eat. They have the little simple things, right, Yeah, Yeah,
it's not gonna look good.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Well, we'll talk about Trump's trip to Asia. We've got
that to talk about this morning. We've got a big
change that the mayor race in New York City as
the polls are tightening there. And Amazon planning against largest
layoffs in company history today.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's not good.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
No, expected to cut the ties with some thirty thousand employees.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Before the holidays. That doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I would say the same thing, But apparently they got
a plan. Does it include AI and robots? That it does? Friends,
that and more coming up on this. It is the
Tuesday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. It is terrific
to have you with us. Thank you so much keeping
you informed. Dad's up to date. Now now more than ever,
I like knowing what's happening in the world.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
One on three point five FM and five sixty am
w VOC. This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David
and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
and five sixty am double VOC.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I'm now six forty one. Good morning. Good to have
you a long for Tuesday, October the twenty eighth. We
talked yesterday about the Planet expansion over in Jingersville at
the VC Summer Plant. How this private company, Brookfield Asset Management,
I think that they might it is this Canadian conglomerate
is gonna kinda step in and, apparently to no exposure
(11:08):
to US tax and ratepayers, take over this project and try, yeah,
Alice hope not, try to finish off that thing to
provide us with some more needed energy. And we've talked
a lot about we need more energy because of these
data farms, these AI data farms that are pomping up
left and right everywhere in this state included, and how
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much power they drain off the grid. You have to
do something well The other reason why is because we've
got a growing population base here in South Carolina. Now
this gets to more than just electricity needs. This gets
to infrastructure needs as well. New data released by what
is this the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Services, This
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is a part of the University of Virginia says that
over the next quarter century the Palmetto State, we'll see
close to seven hundred thousand new people show up. What's
our current population? Why can't I never remember that number? Said?
(12:13):
Three million? Is it five million? What is it looking?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Efforting?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Efforting?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You just love people who don't speak English. We're efforting
that five point four to seven nine million.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Four seven nine million.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
That's of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Okay, so that's a that's a that's a pretty large
jumping population right there. Matter in fact, that would actually
be about thirteen percent rise in population numbers. So on
a percentage basis, if this comes to pass, our population
growth based on what it is right now, would be
(12:49):
the thirteenth highest in the nation. Yeah, no, we're not
the highest, but we're right up there. But it's a
case throughout the Southeast we would actually on a percentage
basis grow a little more than the North Carolina expected
to grow about eleven percent. But while we look to
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add just under seven hundred thousand new citizens, North Carolina
will add about one point two million Georgia, one point
seven million, Florida five point one million new residents over
the next twenty five years. So this is just a
problem for South Carolina. This is a problem for the
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entire southeast. How do you deal with that influx of population?
And it's more than just electricity, right, it's roads, it's
you know, the congestion. I mean, where you're going to
put all these people. So you know, hopefully somebody somewhere
(13:59):
is you know, looking over the next quarter century and saying, okay,
well we need to look at this, that and this.
Not everybody's expected to gain in population though, needless to say,
by the way, the biggest population surge a thirty five
percent surgeon population expected to be Utah. That's interesting. Illinois,
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on the flip side, expected to lose more than a
million residents over the next twenty five years. The rust
belt Ohio Pennsylvania expected to lose about four hundred thousand
or so, so people are the population is shifting again
(14:49):
from the rust belt states and from the high tax
states to the sun Belt, to the southeast and to
Utah for whatever reason, Utah. But this is again over
the next one. And you think about that, We've been
doing this show for twenty five years and it seems
like just yesterday. So twenty five years. You know, I'm
(15:13):
not sure checking the calendar now, I'm not sure I'll
be around to see it. But you know, our kids will,
our grandkids will, and somebody got to figure out how
to deal with all that. So between that and data
AI centers, yeah, we get some We need to get
some stuff done here. Friends. We got to start generating
(15:34):
more electricity. So yeah, I'm all in for this. Uh,
you know, getting that other reactor done. And you know what,
I think, at some point in time, and maybe people
that are in the know have already come to this conclusion,
We're going to really regret the idea that this nation
pretty much turned its back on nuclear power generation. Went
(15:59):
exactly did that have because when they were trying to
expand the planet Jenkinsville, if I'm not mistaken, the only
other nuclear plant construction going on was that vote plan
over in Georgia. I mean, we just stopped building these
these nuclear power plants. And I don't know if that
was a case of you know, the the environmentalists and
(16:20):
their their their pressure. Oh yeah we got to go
with wind fund. Yeah yeah, how's that whole wind farm
thing working out for us? Right? Solar? Okay, Well, if
you want to put on the roof of your home,
it might do you a pretty good job. But can
it can it generate the kind of the massive kind
of energy we need, especially right now? It doesn't seem
(16:41):
to have delivered on that promise. So yeah, we were
very short sighted and again listening to the environmentalist and
backing off of you know, ideas nuclear power some of
the cleanest power you can generate. Yeah, if it blows up,
we got problems. Yeah, but you know, aside from that,
(17:01):
I don't know, was it three Mile Island? Was it?
Was it the three Mile Island melt down that all
of a sudden, all we we're gonna I think we're
already written that that decision, But that's way in the
rear view mirror. I suspect we're going to see more
and more people talking about increasing our nuclear power capacity
because that just seems to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Me like the way to go between that and Chernobyl,
Well Chernobyl was a problem. Yeah, yeah, but you know
that's the Russian thing. And you know, well anyway, yeah,
and I'd like to hope that we're a little i mean,
we figure out a way to be even better with
our energy in the next twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Years, better as in generating or better is.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
In using it, better isn't using Yeah, I mean, you know,
we're always coming up with ways to make houses, for example,
more energy efficient. You know, you'd like to think that
we'll have some kind of invention in the next twenty
five years that allows us to use a little less,
maybe pay a little bit less. That'd be nice. Well,
so I'm just talking about me and you. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(18:07):
I know these data centers are going to continue to
suck it up.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah. Well, and maybe those data centers and all their
AI wisdom will come up with a way they see
thyk say, they come up away for everything else barely.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
You're listening to Columbia's Morning News on one oh three
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here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
It is fifteen minutes after seven o'clock in the morning.
It is a Tuesday, October twenty eighth for some folks,
and the Caribbean will be a day they never forget
Jamaica in particular, as Melissa is, you can't even say
the word barely because this thing's still moving like it,
you know, three five miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Tops, which just means every portion of that storm is
going to dump rain after rain after rain shower on.
These were defenseless people and it's just going to hover. Yeah,
it'll actually may maybe move a little quicker once it
makes landfall. When you say a little quicker house, oh quick,
(19:11):
we'll consider the fact that Jamaica as far as I
think it's one hundred and forty six miles wide something
like that, yeah, twenty to maybe fifty.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Miles high whatever word is for that. But you know
what was an approach from the south, like Gilbert back whatever,
that was kind of crisscross, kind of traversed the island,
you know, from one side to the other, right the left.
This one's going to go south to north and so
it's gonna get over the island quicker, Okay Gilbert did,
which is the you know, the hurricane. All Jamaicans remember, Uh,
(19:47):
they'll forget that one after this one though, But it
looks like landfall right around maybe to the east of
Montego Bay in that area there, And and you know,
we're going to probably in this landfall next four to
five hours tops one hundred and seventy mile an hour
(20:11):
maximum sustained to wind, so around the core around that
eyewall gusting over two hundred all their rain mud slides,
places underwater for weeks and maybe well at least isolated
for maybe months some spots in Jamaica. Wow, So we'll
probably lose any images we have out of Jamaica over
the course the next couple of hours. I've been watching
(20:33):
some of them this morning. And then it's going to
hit eastern Cuba as a pretty powerful hurricane too. I mean,
it's not that far from Jamaica to Cuba, so it
hits that and we don't get any images out of
Cuba ever, so we won't really know what the lay
is like there. So that disaster unfolding today. And remember,
(20:56):
if it weren't for these weather systems that are impacting
us right now here, these fronts, we'd be looking at
a potential US landfall this thing. But that's what's going
to push it back out to the east. Another disaster
slowly unfolding is the whole government shutdown thing, which you know,
for a while, I get it. You know, we hear
(21:16):
about these government shutdowns all the time. It seems like
anymore impending government shutdown of Congress doesn't act. And quite honestly,
we all yawn unless you've get skin in the game,
right and until it actually happens, and you get skin
in the game, and it's more than just federal employees
with skin in the game. Right now, again, it's October
(21:38):
twenty eighth. We've got a couple of days left in
this month and then the snap benefits dry out. Yesterday,
Hamilton Grant, a state representative, called on the governor to
declare a state of emergency. They're nearly fifty thousand people
just in Richland County who are at risk of blue
(22:00):
using these staff benefits. In the letter, Grant asked a
declaration of a state of emergency, which would include expanded
access to the state's Department of Agricultural Programs to faster
deliver food to food banks and community organizations, to authorize
the State Guard the State National Guard to help distribute
(22:22):
food and to allow DSS to activate partnerships with nonprofits
for local distribution. Well, the governor is holding a press
conference today in which we're told he'll be announcing that
the Central Carolina Community Foundation has activated the one SE Fund. Now,
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this is not government money in the game here, but
this is a fund that will allow for coordinated charitable
giving campaigns to provide direct monetary assistance to regional food
banks and local feeding partners across the state. This is
not money we're talking about again, but it's coordinated. But
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it's coordinated through the government to try to.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
A lot of people get nervous when they give money
because they're like, Okay, I don't know if this is
a scam. I don't know if this is Oh yeah,
I don't know if this is ever going to find
its way to the people I want to help.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
This helps with them, Yeah, And again the whole idea
side of you know, people who are on snap benefits,
you know, or some abusing the system. Yeah, sure they are,
and some are just in need of it, and I know,
go get a job and all that. We'll forget that
for right now, because we're talking about across the state.
Two hundred and sixty thousand some odd households, not individuals,
(23:38):
but households who are going to be losing these benefits
here over the course the next couple of days, and
they will other than going to a food bank, they'll
have no way of putting food on the table. Okay,
So this is a real problem now, between that and
all these federal workers who are either sitting at home
not getting paid or being told to go to work
(23:58):
and not getting paid. A development yesterday that might end this,
and it didn't come from inside Capitol Hill. But yesterday morning,
the country's biggest federal workers' union called for an end
of the shutdown.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
And we know who listens to unions, Yeah, Joe Biden.
Well I met the party as a whole.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah. Yeah. The American Federation of Government Employees represents more
than eight hundred thousand government workers. They released an open
letter calling on Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Caucus to
vote for that House spending bill to reopen the government.
(24:51):
So far, Chuck Schumer and has Caucus have voted against
that same bill a dozen times. Now. There will be
a vote today, so this will be the thirteenth attempt
to shut down. The shutdown certainly now with this thirteenth vote,
(25:13):
will it be lucky thirteen, because there's more pressure now
on Schumer and the Dems as a result of this Union,
calling on them to stop the nonsense and let's get
the government reopened again, get our people paid. We're in
day twenty eight now, and yes, the polling continues, and yes,
(25:37):
the American public is showing a great deal of contempt
for both Democrats and Republicans over this. You know, the
idea that if we could just you know, wait this
thing out and our party is going to win and
their party is going to lose, that that may not
pan out.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, it may not. Although I still think there's more
pressure on Humor and the Democrats at this point, certainly
after yesterday there is.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, and certainly, and it is.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Not going to help when you start seeing these images
on TV and online of you know, people desperately trying
to find food for their families.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Right, You've got Republicans senators who are backing a bill.
Josh Holly put up a bill to Keep Snap Funded Act.
This is a this is a Republican keep Snap Funded.
It's backed by senators like Katie Britt of Alabama. Marsha
(26:33):
Blackburn of Tennessee. They're they're backing this piece of legislation
put up by a Republican to keep SNAP funded. So
you get the sense that they may be a little
closer to solving this thing. And when it's all said
and done, it may well be the pressure they're going
(26:55):
to feel the Democrat part is going to feel from
SNAP recipients, and the pressure Thatmocrat parties feeling right now
from the federal government's biggest union they make. These are
the entities that may get the credit for resolving this,
not the Republicans and Democrats inside Congress. But at this point,
(27:17):
nobody cares who gets the credit. Nobody wants. People just
want to want it solved.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
And we're only I mean, we get closer to Thanksgiving travel,
but also, you know, we think of Thanksgiving, we think
of food, we think of a big feast with family,
and people aren't going to be able to afford to
get together and do that. And then of course you've
got Christmas following right behind in the shopping season, and
you know, folks who can't afford to miss paychecks.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Oh if this went on for another month, yeah, I mean,
you have the Domino start to fall. Yeah, right now
now it really starts to impact the economy and spending
and everything else. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Absolutely, keeping you connected.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I check in throughout the day twenty four to seven.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I just like being informed, know what's happening.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
One on three point five FM and five sixty Am
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and Christopher Thompson on one on three point five FM
and five sixty Am doub Voc some forty.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
It's wonderful to have you with us here for Tuesday,
October the twenty eighth. I hope you're days off to
a good start New York City, which has been a
lot of attention paid, of course, to a mayoral race
that usually is for New York City at least at
some degree, but this time is different because you got
a well he says he's a socialist. I'd say it's
(28:41):
a communist. But anyway, Mom, Donnie, who has been just
way ahead the polls until yesterday. Now they've had debates,
he's been called out on his viewpoints.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
He's been caught in a couple of lies.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
But you know what, he just smiles. He flashes that Mom, Donnie, grin,
it's all gonna be okay. Well, maybe some folks are
getting a little squirrely in the Big Apple now. Gosh, yeah,
I was looking back at some of the suffolk released
(29:26):
a pole back in September that had this socialist or
communist getting support from forty four percent of New York voters. Actually,
I take that back. It was more than that. The
(29:49):
poll yesterday that came out from Suffolk showed Mondammie at
forty four percent. But the change here is now, who
was at twenty four percent a month ago is now
at thirty four So that twenty point lead from last
(30:10):
month has shrunk to ten points.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
You think it's just New Yorkers saying, you know, oh god,
we just got rid of Cuomo. However, they started to
realize he may be the lesser of two evils.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah, the W Yeah, exactly, W know versus the W.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well in this case, no, I mean, I know that's
a pretty simplistic way to put it, but I can't
think of any other reason why Cuomo's just surged in
the polls that maybe it is the last debate where well.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
And then you've also got you know, Eric Adams dropping
out of the race.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yeah, okay, and it was pretty unlikely that anybody who
was supporting Eric Adams would support Zo Ranmondami, right right,
But yeah, it was after this last Suffolk poll that
had a twenty point lead for the Communists. It was
(31:02):
after that poll that Eric Adams dropped out. Where's where's
Curtis Leewin?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
All that? Well, interesting, you asked, because that's the rest,
that's the other part of this story. Sliva had his
support go up from nine percent to eleven percent. Okay,
all right, do the math.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Yeah, okay, See he's under such pressure to drop out. Yes,
but I didn't think to this point he had enough
votes for it to matter. Now I guess he does.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Well, he does, yes, Yeah, Now there's still about an
eight percent undecided in this poll. Uh so eight percent undecided?
How can that be at this late stage with as
much attention has been paid to this race, and with
(31:56):
well the consequences that are on the line with this
race for New York City itself. Now, there's some other
polls out there. For example, I'm looking at one right here.
The Hill mentioned this one that Decision Desk HQ has
(32:19):
sly was polling average at about seventeen percent remember he's
a perennial mayoral candidate in New York City. Four years
ago he ran lost to Eric Adams. He had twenty
eight percent support. Four years ago, a Decision Desk HQ
(32:39):
list his average at seventeen percent, which is significantly higher
than what the Suffolk Pole says. Now, part of the
problem here is that well, early voting, and there's been
a lot of it in New York City, about five
times more ballots cast as compared to twenty twenty one.
(33:01):
And again some of these ballots cast before Eric Adams
dropped out of the race. This is the problem you
had with early voting. Number one, I can't believe that
eight percent of people don't know who they would vote for.
Number two, I think that if they do vote, those
(33:26):
eight percent are not going to vote for Zill ran Mondami.
I'm just going on the assumption that you know, if
you're going to vote for Zill ran Mondami, you've already
you already know it. I mean, this guy is so
far to the left right, yeah, that it's not like, oh,
let's see this one now, you you already know you're
already casting your vote. You probably already have for this guy.
(33:51):
So Yeah, the pressure is growing on the Curtis Sliwa
to drop out of this race. Here at the last minute,
he says he's not going to. And quite honestly, with
what little I do know about Curtis Sliwa, is it Sliwa?
I thought he was, well, I don't know Slvan Sala.
I thought it was whichever, however you want to say it, okay,
(34:14):
and you're probably right. How am I supposed to say that, Sliva?
I think so. I don't see him dropping out. I
don't see it happening. The vote, young people in New
York City overwhelmingly are voting for a communist, which Bobby
doesn't surprise you. I mentioned this about a month or
(34:38):
two back. I thought, you know, as much as I
don't want to see this guy win, there's a part
of me that almost says, yeah, let's see this guy win.
Let's see what happens to New York City in this
grand socialist communist experiment here to the the epicenter of
capitalism on the planet. Let's see how that turns out.
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You know. And in some ways it's almost like, you know,
a Republican's dream come true. Yeah, let's put let's put A.
It's just like voting for Fidel Castro to be the
mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Right, I mean, it's a it's a bad it's a
bad way to set an example and show, you know,
this is what happens when you go the wrong way.
But I mean to do that on the world's biggest stage,
New York City.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, I know, and prefer to be somewhere else.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Yeah. And the other question is, Okay, if things go
that wrong, you know who's going to bail them out?
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Gerald Ford's not around to say drop dead to New
York City this time. I think I think it will
probably all have a hand in.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It, probably so. And as you might have expected, the
polling shows that, as far as Cuomo is concerned, it's
not like New Yorkers are in love with the guy, Yeah,
because they're not. Among Cuomo voters that said they would
cast their battle for Cuomo, forty point four eight percent
said that's because they were voting for Cuomo. Thirty nine
(36:14):
point eight eight percent said it was because they were
voting against Mondani. I'm not surprised, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I mean, I'm sure most of New York probably thought
they were washing their hands of Cuomo once and for all.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Right, what did we deserve to do? What do we
do to deserve all this? Right, you'd talk about a
whole Janeo's election, huh. But at least he was, you know,
in the upstate.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Now he's now he's going to be in our city
running the show in our city.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
All right, Well, Tuesday, will know, that's when all that
wraps up there in the Holly, the capital center of
the world. Can you possibly believe that a socialists could
be in charge? I'm sorry, communist.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You're listening to Columbia's morning news on one oh three
point five FM on five sixty AM WVOC. Once again,
here's Gary David and Christopher Thompson.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
It is sixteen after a good morning, tell you it's Tuesday,
October twenty eighth. Not tim, I didn't have so much
to do today, I would be glued to the internet.
I'm beginning to understand now why, you know, typical broadcast
TV is in such such a big trouble, because there
are people live streaming on YouTube this morning that are
(37:31):
doing an incredible job of covering.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This hurricane, this storm. Yeah, yeah, I've been watching this.
Max velocity for the last about hour. Dude is just
like NonStop live streaming. He's got all the assets right there.
It's simple these days.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Man, you got a computer, you just pop into all
these websites and you just conglomerate it all and you
show up on the screen and talk about it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
And so he's not there, he's just covering right.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
No, he's matthev Shore. He's got a storm chaser who
is in about where the eye of this storm is
going to hit here about less than five hours now.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
It looks like, well, I'm looking at Jim Cantore's Twitter
page right now, and he's got posted where the eye
is coming right across the northwest side of that island.
Excuse me, the southwest west side. Yeah, it's gonna be
just just east. It looks like a Montego Bay.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Yeah. And the eight a m. Update National Hurricane Center
still Cat five, Still one hundred and seventy five mile
an hour winds sustained, moving a little quicker about seven
miles an hour, but moving a little more north northeast now,
uh so a little more. The eastern half of Jamaica
(38:45):
is in play. It's on the whole islands and I'm
in play right now. It's a question of how bad
do you get it? But it's it's it's it's addictive
to sit here and watch this in a in a
very tragic kind of way. Right. We mentioned this earlier
and this this a am updated. I'm not sure how
accurate it is because a lot of what the National
(39:07):
Hurricane Center relies on what it tells you, like, for example,
wind speeds and such, relies of these hurricane hunters getting
in there and taking these measurements. Well, I mean, we
mentioned we came on the air this morning that the
last pass they had to turn around and get out
of there. This storm is that strong that almost never happens.
(39:31):
Number One, these people have their heads examined, but they
are dar Devil's Oh my goodness. But yeah, even the
hurricane hunters had to turn around and turn tail and
get out of there. Now there's another flight that is
ongoing right now, and we'll see if they can penetrate
the eyewall or not. Because to get the accurate readings
(39:54):
on the pressure, which, by the way, the barometric pressure
of the storm now down to nine hundred and one
mi oars, which is a tick lower than Katrina was
this is the eighth lowest barometric pressure in one of
these storms in Atlantic hurricane history. Eighth lowis which means
(40:14):
again that's the inverse relationship with the strength of the storm,
is how far the we remember this from Hugo, right, sure?
So yeah, and you know, for it looks all indications
are when it makes landfall, it will be a Category five.
And this is a story that's going to play out
for a long time. Now. I'm not talking about this
(40:35):
hurricane today and what it does, but the aftermath of
it is going to play out for well quite possibly years.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
And unfortunately they've been through this before.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Yeah, but yeah, they go back to Gilbert, which I
think was an eighty eight something like that.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But you're talking about an island dependent on tourism. Yeah,
and they will.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Oh my goodness, and they brought the I think we've
been down to Jamaica maybe three times over the years.
We were down there back in February as a matter
of fact.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
And just I know, it's it's it's got a it's
got a bad reputation for crime and all that.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
You know, well, I know, and it's abject poverty. You
leave a resort gage.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Sure, yeah, and we actually did last time on a
bit of a tour and but the people were just wonderful.
I hate this man, we all hate this. This is yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
They will be fighting tooth and nail to get to
reopen as soon as possible, because that's the only way
they can make money.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Well on something ganja. Then there's that, Then there's that.
Speaker 3 (41:42):
We actually were on a little tour bus and the
driver who I thought about often in the last forty
eight hours because she was just an amazing person. But
she was telling my whole stories about apparently the Jamaican
government gives each person either enough land or enough money
or whatever so that they can grow a certain amount
of marijuana. Okay, it's okay, this is horrible. Okay, So
(42:09):
countdown clock to the actual eyewall crossing the shore a
little less than five hours, they think, and we'll see
where it goes. Back at home. We mentioned this in
the rundown, and we'll get too deep into it, because
quite honestly, I think it's basically in and of itself,
it's without getting too deep in the weeds, it's a
(42:30):
story about well dysfunction in the city of Casey and
the government over there, right, the city hired an outside
attorney to review what they were calling improper conduct among members,
and Casey's City council just met behind closed doors an
(42:52):
executive session for almost three hours. The state paper reports
to review the findings of said investigation. And this was
investigating into communications between a city staff member and a
city elected official. And the word the paper got was
(43:16):
this attorney's review found that members quote unquote, members stepped
out and crossed into a strong mayor form of government.
Now there's been no release to the general public, but
Casey City Council has asked the attorney to put together
a report by the end of this month, actually in
(43:37):
two days a couple of days, by October thirtieth, and
for the city manager to publish it on its website.
Don't know exactly what that report will say, how much
more it says than this, but a bottom line is,
like the City of Columbia, the city of Casey has
a weak mayor form of government. It's a city run
(43:59):
by town council. Now the mayor mayor parton was not
in attendance of this. Okay, So now you're starting to thinking, okay, well, Okay,
maybe we know why they had called a special meeting
a couple of weeks earlier. She refused to attend that
one as well. That was a meeting where they voted
to launch this investigation.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Yeah, and I think she knew she was going to
be ambushed, and so she said she wasn't going to
be a part of that.
Speaker 3 (44:25):
Right.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Just just a lot of dysfunction. And you know, they're
having elections. You would hope, you would hope that they are,
you know, somebody gets elected that brings a little sanity
to that group because right now nobody's getting along.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
There are so many amazing things happening in Casey right now.
It's a shame that the leadership, in spite of a leadership,
actually you know, I mean, come on now. Council apparently
well again didn't name public who the elected official was
or who the city employee was, but one council member
(45:06):
did allude to the mayor directly in his questions to
this attorney, you know, how is the mayor involved in
all that? So they got to the dysfunction continues to
play out in the city. Was so much good going
on right now? We'll see where it takes us yeah,
(45:28):
we have all the details, but apparently by what Thursday,
at some point in time Thursday, they're going to have
it to post it on the city's website. That's what
they've asked for, So we'll see what it says.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
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Speaker 3 (46:02):
Party. Time for the final thoughts here for Tuesday, October
twenty eighth. Not much talk about here at the home
front we haven't already discussed today. I did come across
the story about well the fifth still good Conatrol Canada
on the Republican side, who's again every story when it
(46:27):
comes to who are you talking about? Said Canada?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Oh, Josh kemberl got Kimberrell. Oh okay, I was gonna
say it's about his legal issues. Okay, Well, yeah, I
don't think anybody's taking that campaign seriously any longer. And nope,
you know what, I'm sure he's tried, but he isn't.
He hasn't raised any money, has he? I mean it, well,
he doesn't have any significant support. I'm just waiting for
him to I'm not sure what the hold up is
(46:52):
on him. Well at this time, I mean, with all
the other stuff he's got going on, you would think
this would be would people be donating right right? Well,
and you would think it would be a big intrusion
on his life right now to even be with all
the lawsuits and everything else. The last thing I have
time to do is run for governor.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
Right, Jonathan Kelly mentioning a new Democrat front runner will
emerge today because remember, the only other Democrat in the
race is a Mulas McLeod, Right, you know, the guy
caught with his pants down the streets to Charleston and
this says some pretty bad things afterwards about a lot
of people, but so far he's been the only Democrat
(47:31):
in the race. Then he still hasn't explained what that
episode was all about. But it wasn't his fault, so
he says, Yeah, lot's been talked about. Last twenty four
hours or so, as a Trump's trip to Asia continues
(47:52):
and the signing of a critical minerals deal with Japan
and their brand new prime minister, the first woman prime
minister of that country. So trade deals worked out with
Tokyo and apparently won our f one fifties. I didn't
(48:15):
know there was so popular in Japan. I guess they are. Huh,
that's somewhere in the mix of all that too. But
most importantly, well, yeah, trade deal is very important, of course,
but this critical minerals deal of the utmost importance. Now
Lindsay Lindsey Graham saying yesterday, I think he said actually
(48:36):
said this, Sonny, we talked about this yesterday. I think, yeah,
that when Trump gets back, he's going to be briefing
lawmakers on military ops in the Caribbean, which, by the way,
who already had that story. Not only do you have
the hurricane, but there was somewhere I don't know exactly
where it was in the Caribbean. B other, it's like
a six point eight magnitude earthquake yesterday, not on land,
(49:00):
somewhere out in the Caribbeans.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
Man, you got hurricanes, you got earthquakes and a lot
going on, and you had potential military action in South America.
So yeah, it's less are planes falling off the aircraft carriers.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Yeah, but that was the Pacific, okay, South agacy all right,
yeah yeah. Amazon getting ready cut nearly ten percent of
its corporate workforce starting today. We're talking about thirty thousand employees.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Is this automation? Is this drones at work?
Speaker 3 (49:31):
Well again, this is on the corporate side.
Speaker 1 (49:33):
Okay, So these are the you know, the pizel pushers, ah,
the white collar jobs all right? Oh, which okay, still
feels like an odd time to be doing it, just
before the holidays. It does when your company as a whole,
is that its busiest.
Speaker 3 (49:48):
They Amazon's claim is that during the pandemic they over hired. No,
because nobody's going to a store, right Everything you bought
was on Amazon, and as a result of that surgeon business,
they over hired. They say, that's their excuse. Now they overhired.
(50:09):
So these are not the you know, the frontline of
Amazon people you see knocking on your front door dropping
off those packages. These are the people behind the scenes.
But that's that's a lot of folk right there. It
is thirty thousand. Speaking of changes, we haven't talked about this.
(50:33):
I had paid a whole lot of attention to it.
Quite honestly, but things are starting to happen at CBS now.
The left and the rest of the mainstream media has
been just aghast, and they were outraged when Barry Weiss
was named editor in chief over at CBS now. Weiss
(50:56):
has a job, she's got to get done. And apparently,
and this comes from you know, CBS corporate and shareholder
everybody else, make the dagum station less partisan or the
network right, bring it back to the middle.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
Why because they think they could make more money that way.
I guess it's a business decision, okay, right, that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Yeah. So the latest here is that John Dickerson, who
you may or may not know that name. Truth as
you probably don't because you probably haven't watched CBS Evening
News in a while. I remember they just lost their anchor.
But earlier this year she stepped down. I can't think
(51:38):
of her name right now, and they put in the
Duoy kind of the Huntley and Brinkley kind of thing, right.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
Right, they had two anchors, Dickerson being one of them.
Dickerson being one of them until now he's out. Well
he's not quite yet, but at the end of the
year he'll be gone. There are news reports that Weiss
is eyeing a major shakeup. At sixty minutes, Wait a minute,
with Dickerson pressured out because of its political point of view.
Speaker 3 (52:09):
I think probably so okay. Yeah, And at sixty minutes, yeah,
and he had to think that the name of the
top of that ladder to go would be Scott Pelley
for no other reason, he criticized his own network.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
Right, Well, I'd add Leslie Stole to the list, but
her name is apparently on the list. Yes, just in general.
People again, it's not necessarily about what they bring to
the table, it's what they're costing you.
Speaker 3 (52:38):
Well, sure, yeah, David Elson is a CEO of Paramount.
This is always when I have when Paramount took over CBS,
and he has said that, Yeah, Weiss was hired to
restore balance to the news unit. Imagine that. And there's
also word that she's well looking to try to lure
(53:01):
away Scott Jennings, who is the only conservative on CNN,
trying to get him to head over to CBS.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
That would be a huge win, if for nothing else,
then you could guarantee at least a portion of your
newscast would be watched online over and over again the
next day. Right, if Scott Jennings were on, Yes, because
he's usually got at least one quote a day that
everybody watches the next day.
Speaker 3 (53:26):
He's got a hot take a day.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, I don't see. I don't know if people are
watching CNN even for him, but somebody clips it and
puts it online the next day, and okay, that's great.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
Yeah right. Not only that, there's word that she's trying
to hire away Brett Baer from Fox to be their
evening news host. So a lot happening. Keep an eye
on CBS. Uh. Okay, we were just talking about Amazon.
Well how about this faux pas? A woman then, where
(54:01):
where does she live? In Newburg, Maine? Got a package
from Amazon, opened it up. Inside she found five bundles
of In each bundle fifty main referendum ballots YEP. Two
(54:22):
hundred and fifty state ballots delivered by accident to a
woman in Newburg, Maine.
Speaker 1 (54:29):
I mean completed ballots or ones that she could fill
out and then turn in.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
No, there, these were not completed ballots. Okay, right now,
she could have filled all two fifty tournament I guess,
but she didn't. She called the authorities. Good on her,
and this is probably the last thing you need in
your life. We got too much smart stuff already. In
my opinion, I don't like the smart stuff because I'm
not smart enough to figure half of it out. I've
(54:55):
got to call my twenty seven year old and say,
how do I do this? So I'm certainly not buying
a smart refrigerator. M Plus the fact that you know, hey,
the Internet goes down, there goes your hamburger, right and
your milk. Samsung now rolling out an update to their
(55:16):
Family Hub smart refrigerators. This includes a new widget right
there on the screen in the front of the fridge
for day to day information for news, counter events, weather forecasts,
and curated advertisements.
Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh yeah right.
Speaker 3 (55:38):
Apparently they built it those such that if you want
to turn the ads off, you can probably a good call.
Speaker 1 (55:46):
I mean, they have mirrors now where you can watch
the news and weather and as you're getting ready for work.
It's crazy, but who wants an add on the refrigerator?
Speaker 3 (55:57):
Would do?
Speaker 1 (55:57):
I have to watch it in order to get something
out right, Sorry, you can't open.
Speaker 3 (56:02):
It until you skip this ad in fifteen seconds. Then
you can open up the frigerator door.
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