Show Rewind 11-7-2025

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This is Columbia's Morning News with Gary David and Christopher
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Thank you more and tell you at sixteen minutes after
six o'clock. Welcome to Friday, friends. It's November the seventh.
Good to have you along. I am Gary David. Christopher
Thompson not here today. Take it a three day weekend,
got the bye week in game, got football this week,
get some break, good for him. Good to have you here.
We appreciate that. Here on a comfortable Friday morning. To

(00:52):
help you again. We got this, uh, this big weather
change coming after a beautiful weekend. Again it's Tyler mention.
We'll do so. A slight chance of a shower on Sunday,
but those temps gonna get up to about eighty tomorrow
and Sunday as well, but then only fifty one for
the high on Monday. When this arctic air blast moves through,

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it's going to leave millions of people across the country
shivering and some getting snow. No not for us. I
did mention yesterday. Some of the models predict that there
could be a flake or two across maybe the northwest
corner of the state. It's possible, but probably not likely.

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But boy, it is some colo cold air. It's going
to be coming in all this part of the La
Nina winter weather patterns, so brace yourselves for that. But no,
it's not. Those cold temps aren't sticking around that long.
It'll get back to more seasonable stuff later on next week.
But that sub freezing temperature Tuesday, Morrow is going to
be a which is Federes Day, by the way, a

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shock to the system. All right, rundown, big stories, hot topics.
Speaking of shot, hope you don't get one if you're
trying to fly this weekend. The flight restrictions going into
effect today. How this works is as of right now,
as at six am this morning. It starts off as
a four percent reduction in flight schedules at some major

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airports some forty across the country. It will ramp up
to a ten percent flight reduction. And you know, they
haven't talked about it going any more than that, but
I guess it could. Columbia Metro issuing a statement yesterday
giving this warning again. Remember the Columbia Airport, This airspace
around here is not affected by these restrictions, but considering

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that probably the majority of fly well yeah, absolutely, the
majority of flights out of Columbia Metro are connecting through
either Charlotte or Atlanta. Well, those two markets, those two
airports in that airspace is affected by this. I did.
I just took a look here to see what today
looks like as far as departures. A concern earned over
to Columbia Metro and there are a couple of cancelations

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later on today, seeing a United Airlines flight to d
C that's been canceled, a Delta flight to Atlanta this
afternoon that's been canceled, and there was one other one
I'm the American to Charlotte tonight that's been canceled. So
of the departures listed today, three have been canceled. And
I again, I'm just assuming it's because of this, don't know,
but they're certainly advising you to do check ahead before

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you head to the airport. And this is going to
be a continuing problem until something gets done. Again. We
mentioned this the other day. Four billion dollars in tourism
is said to be lost during this shutdown, and aviation owners,
aviation companies tourism companies. They are all putting the heat

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on Congress. So far now much has happening there. We'll
get more of that coming up. The city of Columbia
had asked a judge to give it a second thought.
This verdict that came down a couple months back, a
six million Well, it was well with interest. It was
six million dollars that back in July, a judge ruled

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the city must pay the owner of a constant carsh
of the owner of five the Five Points constant carwash
after the city knocked down a section of wall that
the owner said it was there to prevent severe flooding. Well,
the city asked the judge to reconsider that. That judge
said no, you got to pay it. So now they're

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talking about are they going to be any cuts and
budgets over the city Colombia in order to make that payment.
Lawyers for a man on death row trying to stop
his execution, which is scheduled for later on this month.
Stephen Bryant is being put to death for killing a
man back in two thousand and four. Among other things,

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investigators say that Bryant burned the man's eyes with cigarettes
after shooting him painted catch me if you can, had
other messages on the wall of the victim's blood. Again,
this goes back to two thousand and four. Now his
attorneys are arguing that this man shouldn't be going to
the death chamber because of how badly his brain was

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damaged from his mother's alcohol and drug abuse. Oh, she
was pregnant. Okay, parents of a middle school student, a
thirteen year old who was killed in that wreck back
in April of a school bus that was heading from
Charlotte back to Columbia on seventy seven, alleging a defect
and entirely to the crash. They have filed suit against

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the school district. This was I think Lexington too right.
That was a tragic story. Certainly. Christine Holmes spending some
time in the Low Country. She visited Charleston and in
the Citadel, in which among other things, she called for
a character and leadership and accused some of Americans rightfully so,

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by the way of being addicted to being offended. Go
out and encourage a law enforcement officer, she said, every
chance you can. Don't have much information on this, but
ori E County word that does. Some properties in Carolina
Forest were seized by the FEDS as part of an
investigation this week. It's about all we know, but the

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seizure is said to be related to money money laundering
by foreign terrorist organizations coming from the Sheriff's department. Well,
that'll get your attention right there. Scan details on exactly
what all might be going on there. It'll be a
clear bag policy for Finlay Park when they reopen, and

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that's reopening is just a little over a week away now,
a week from Saturday. The city announcing that yesterday they
want to keep everybody safe have a great time. So
the park policy is is likely. So many places you
go these days, stadiums and such clear backs. Now everybody
seems to be happy about that though for some reason,
I mean, we ought to be kind of used to
it by now. All right, So does anything happen today

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on Capitol Hill? Well, John Thune says he's a set
to hold of o today to try to end this
government shut down, still wanting to get that House budget
build that continuing resolution passed, which by the way, would
only fund the government until November twenty first, two weeks
from today. If they actually stop the shutdown here they

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have to, and they are talking negotiating extending that day,
whether into January or for a full year through next September.
So the Democrats have a chance today to reopen the
government or will they shut it down once again. Hope mixed,
but probably on the not going to happen side, and
considering that Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat, yesterday said that

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his party's brand could undergo substantial damage if they cave. Yeah,
don't expect the vote to happen. A judge in the
meantime ordering the administration to fully fund snap by today.
This is what we're coming down yesterday from a federal
judge in Rhde Island. Now, these benefits have been partially restored.

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Trump has done that, but this judge says you got
to restore all of it. As we mentioned, those flight
cuts restrictions started at six o'clock this morning. It does
start again at about four percent, will gradually move up
to ten percent. Now it'll be four percent for now

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as of November eleventh, it goes to six, by the
thirteenth to eight, and then by a week from to
day it goes to a full ten percent cut unless
they get something up between now and then. So there
were again be pain. It's for travelers. Nancy Pelosi calling
it a day, won't seek reelection, Thank goodness for that

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eighty five years old. She's been in Congress now for
what nearly forty years, and her resignation or her not
resignation but not seeking real life action is again ramping
up a talk of do we need term limits? I
mean somebody that spent forty years in Congress just about Yeah. Trump,

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by the way, referring to her as an evil woman,
and he's happy she's gone. The Supreme Court will let
the White House stop issuing, well, continue with their order
to stop issuing passports based on gender identity. Thank you.
In that case against the guy a federal worker who,
if I'm not mistaken, if I was, I recall, correctly
lost his job where he tossed that subway sub at

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federal agents in DC a couple of months ago. Well,
he was cleared of all charges yesterday. That was a stretch,
I know, a ticket or something maybe, but yeah, I
don't agree with it, but it was a stretch certainly,
and how we faired with this economy. Matter of fact,

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I just saw a note here that we have reached
now let's see here h layoffs in this country reaching
a twenty two year high, and new report from the
New York Fed the Core reporting household debt Americans now
carrying eighteen point five tillion dollars in debt. That's a

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record high. We're also got record highs and mortgages, auto loans,
student loans along with those credit cards. All right, friends,
more on that and more coming up here on the
Friday morning edition of Columbia's Morning News. It is good
to have you in the house.

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Speaker 3 (10:55):
It is six forty two Friday morning, November seventh morning.
Good to have you here. I'm Gary David, Christopher Thompson
lot here. Got the day off to day. He's back Monday. Okay,
So again mentioned going into the break. A lot of
pain going around here, Federal workers not getting paychecks, some
of them being cold. They have to go to work,
and some of those being told to go to work
like a traffic controllers, THESA agents, or not extending the

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pain to people who you are trying to get around.
We'll we'll discuss that a little bit more later on
as this government shutdown rolls on day what thirty seven,
But who's counting. Lots of folks are the Snap benefits?
Got news on that to talk about Judge ruling that
the Trump administration must restore full Snap benefits. We'll see

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where that goes. But this is all piggybacking on well
pain that was already out there in the economy. We
talked about this a couple of monings ago earlier this
week that if you know, if you recall back after
Trump was elected for the second time, we warned against

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the concept that well, okay, Trump's back in office. Republicans
were in charge of the of the whole ball of
wax here, so it's gonna be hunky dory. We're gonna
turn this economy around. You know, happy days are here again.
And it wasn't gonna happen. It was gonna take time.
This is not something you can snap your fingers and
suddenly things are good and we're seeing that the things

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still aren't good again, layoffs in this country reaching a
twenty two year high now at least the tech sector
and well not just the tech sector, but artificial intelligence
is this is the night Meri scenaria coming true here.
You know, we have the big Amazon layoffs a week

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or two back. For the month of October just ending
layoffs totaled one hundred and fifty three thou seventy four
jobs cut. That was from September to October this year.
That was an increase of one hundred and eighty three percent.
And those are the biggest job cuts we've seen for

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any October since two thousand and three. So that's a
twenty two year high. And yeah, AI is at the
heart of this. So we got the double whammy here.
You know, the economy is, yeah, a whole lot better
than it was, but it's it's still not there now.

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Add on the AI boom and this has had this
has had a major impact. We knew it was going
to happen. The tech sector biggest secretor to lose jobs,
more than thirty three thousand jobs cut. And again we're
talking about AI integration overall for the year so far,

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we've seen more than a million jobs lost, one point
one million jobs. That's that's up sixty five percent from
twenty twenty four. And this is the highest level of
job cuts we've seen since the COVID pandemic here of
twenty twenty. Okay, so no things are not hunky dor yet.

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Then we get this New York Fan's quarterly report out
on household debt, and you can see what's going on here.
We now are carrying whopping eighteen point six trillion dollars
in debt, and we've hit a record high. We've hit

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highs and mortgage debt, auto loans, student loans, credit cards,
the only of the five subcategories they look at. The
only one we haven't hit a record high yet is
home equity borrowing. In Q three of this year, total

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household debt increased by one hundred almost two hundred billion dollars,
credit card balances up by twenty four billion dollars. So
we're unfortunately not because many a lot of folks are
too also choose to, but you know most don't. They
just don't have any choice. We're running our households like

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d C runs the government. Who cares. We'll just keep
racking up the debt. Now, the of corpse problem is
is you get to a point where you can't take
on anymore. The government though, was like, well, we'll just
keep bar and more. We don't care. We don't want
to get in that trap. But unfortunately too many people are,

(15:48):
and again not because they wanted to, but because they
were forced to. So I have these conversations with my
boys on a regular basis. Don't whatever you do, don't
fall into that trap. I think we've all been there

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at one point in time in our lives. I have.
I can tell you that right now. I don't mind
telling you that been a long time ago. So you know,
talk to your kids, taught to your grandkids, and you
try to keep them out of that trap too if
they can avoid it. Unfortunately, again, many times you can't
avoid it, even people my age, which by the way
is old, unrelated, but you know, talking about cost of things, pharmaceuticals,

(16:37):
prescription drugs. The President yesterday laying out his deal with
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. This is all about the
most popular drug on the market these days, these weight
loss drugs zep bound with GOV reducing prices for these

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and there's a new pill version coming out for those
of you that don't like the shot right to stick
yourself with something. We're talking about one hundred and forty
nine dollars a month for those pills if they get
the FDA approval. And I'm going to bet because of
this deal that Trump is struck because these pharmaceutical makers
have agreed to lower prices. I'm just guessing there's some

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kind of a wink and a nod that the FDA
will will quickly approve these drugs. People are paying you know,
five hundred, six hundred dollars a month right now, and
they're talking about, you know, getting those prices down to
one forty nine a month. Now. I don't you know,
I said this before this this thing, I'm a little
wary of this. I mean, these drugs came seemingly out

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of nowhere, right, These were drugs that were intended for
people who were diabetic, and then Hollywood caught on to it,
and hey, this is working. And the next thing, you know,
everybody and their brother wants to you know, wants to
get that get that jab man. And I guess Doc,
there's are more than willing to sign off on it.

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Maybe not all, but at least enough that this is
the this is the big thing. I don't know. I'm
afraid that we're going to turn around one day and go,
maybe we should, on second thought, have maybe considered the
potential effects of this a little bit more. Because I
don't know that we know, and so many people are
on them. I just hope we don't know turn around

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one of these days and go, oh, that was a mistake.
We've heard stories people with eyesight issues. I don't know
what else could be going on. Well anyway, but big
deal for those that are on or want to be on.
There's a cost savings right there. Trump our ex baby.

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Speaker 3 (18:56):
It is seven seventeen and this Friday, November seven, that
is day thirty. I don't know the government shut down.
Have you felt it yet? I don't know. If you
have any uh any ideas about flying anywhere, You're gonna
probably feel it.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Well.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I don't know. I talked to h Who's I talking to? Oh? Yeah,
Matt Lyons or Carefree Bolk Club the other day. He
hed he travels a lot. He said he hadn't been
impacted yet, but he's dreading the idea of it. We'll
get to the aviation issues in a second, but in
the meantime, Day thirty seven and well, Chad Pergramo at

(19:29):
Fox News, I did a piece that to posted this
morning that h well, they got a plan, maybe they
don't have an agreement. But is the uh, you know,
is is the ice starting to melt a little bit?
Is the is the thaw starting to happen? He says, well,
just barely. Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut Democrat, saying there seems

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to be some indication of a thaw. We had Mike Rounds,
the UH Republican from South Dakota early in the week, say,
I think there's a path there. He was optimistic something
to get done this week. Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma
thought they would be voting soon. That was earlier this week.

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Thought it could happen Thursday. Well that was yesterday, But
apparently a vote will take place today. John Thune set
the whole of vote. This vote would also include again
setting a new end date of this continuing resolution. To

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some time in January. There's been disagreement amongst Republicans as to,
you know, how long it should be extended January or
just make it a full year extension until we can
you know, get together again at the end of next
September and do it all over again. Although that would be,
you know, right, just a month and a handful of
days away from the midterm elections. Lot of things I'm

(20:58):
guessing things might might turn a little different then, but
who knows. The expiring Obamacare subsidies. Of course, at the
heart of this, not expecting for a vote to pass today, honestly,
but hoping to make some headway and clear out some objections.

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But after what took place Tuesday, we continue to hear
that Democrats are somewhat emboldened, thinking that this was this
was the American public saying yeah this Nancy Mace would say,
hold the line here, h don't give in. Well again,

(21:41):
we were talking about voting from you know, blue places
here not necessarily representation, not a representation of the country
at large. But Tho's gonna try again today. Uh, he's
pledging to again to to swap out the House past
stop back guil for a bill that is for a
new funding patch again likely into January, as we talked about,

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along with full year funding for veterans programs, full year
funding for SNAP benefits, and a few other things. Saying
last night, this is what they asked for the Democrats, Well, yeah,
but they also ask for these subsidies too, So that's
going to continue to be the big sticking point. And
again Chris Murphy said this last night that the Democrat

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their party's brand could undergo what he called substantial damage
if they cave and reopened the government. Substantial damage, he says.
And this is the feeling really on both sides, more
so on the Democrat side, it seems like in the
Republican side. But again Murphy talking about these victories again,

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but the oh there's Virginia, California, New Jersey, New York.
Does this Murphy wants to tell you that it validates
their shutdown strategy. That seems rather shortsighted to me. You
look at that that that blue and red map every
year after after a you know, presidential election, and you
look at how many states are read versus how many

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are blue. Now, I know these blue states have bigger
population bases, but still I'm not buying the idea that this,
these results this past Tuesday are a validation of the
Democrats approach to all this. Now, I'm not buying it.
Ah well, really the takeaway here is Murphy Senter himself

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that the Democrats could undergo substantial, substantial damage that they
give in so as always, they're not thinking about you.
They're thinking about their own party and their own parties
chances of success continue success or failure. H know, they
would they would carry well, yes, because we have to
have it so we can benefit you eye yeah, okay, right, Well,

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it is all about politics. And the longer this thing
drags on, the more people are blaming everybody in DC, everybody. Now,
there has been some movement on the SNAP benefits issue,
a federal judge in Rhode Island yesterday issue in order
for the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP by today now.

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Earlier this week, the White House had said they would
would start partially funding that benefits program. But this this
federal judge Jack McConnell saying people have gone without for
too long, well too long was like started last Saturday.

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The Trump white House had said in a court filing
earlier the week that they would pay about sixty five
percent of the some nine billion dollars OWEDE to fund
SNAP for the month of November. This judge updated his
order and gave the White House just twenty four hours

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to change their tune and get that sixty five percent
to one hundred percent. So okay, now, I'm like you,
when did we turn the country over to the judges
to make decisions on anything and everything? A lot of
that going on these days, and of course this is

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causing issues for people trying to get again. As we
mentioned earlier from here to there, that those flight restrictions,
those airspace restrictions, and some forty airports across the country,
including Charlotte, including Atlanta, the connecting destinations for many of
the flights out of Columbia Metro that started to day.

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Now it's not ten percent yet, it's four percent, but
it's going to ratchet up. By the time we hit
the end of next week and this has not resolved,
it will be the full ten percent. Will have more
than that come out here about it. We wake up
to the country, talk about it. This is this is here.

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Yeah Barn seven thirty nine at the time. Now it's Friday,
November seventh. Good to have you with us, Gary David,
Christopher Thompson mentioned, but not here. He's got the day off.
He's back on Monday, a week from today. Next Friday,
Stephen Bryant is set to go to his death in
the death chamber. He is opted for the firing squad,

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which would make him what the uh the third except right?
Uh so I've lost right, We've We've sent a number
of men to the death chamber so far this year.
His attorneys are trying to stop his execution, saying that

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the judge who sentenced him never got to consider how
badly his brain was damaged from his mother's alcohol and
drug use while pregnant with him. Now forty four, Bryant
is going to the death chamber next Friday for killing
a man at his home back in two thousand and four.

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Twenty one years ago, he shot Willard Teaching, burned his
eyes with cigarettes, painted catch me if you can, and
other messages on the wall with the victim's blood. In addition,

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he's alleged to have shot and killed two men he
was giving rides to over five days in Sumter County
back that same year, that same month, that same year.
So three killings. Now he's only he's been convicted. He's
going to death chamber for this one, but three killings,
State attorneys argue another shooting, a couple of burglaries, which

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the state says weren't impulsive crimes from a damaged brain,
but were methodical and cunning. Bryant's lawyers argue in this
last ditch gasp, this last appeal before the Supreme Court
in our state, that while his original defense team said

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he was unnerved in the months before the killings because
you couldn't stop thinking about being sexually abused by what
he said were relatives as a child and others, they
did not detail how fetal alcohol spectrum disorder it affected
his ability to conform the law. Okay, he didn't get
a full brain scan before his trial, which was back

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in two thousand and eight, that might have identified this
this damage that was never repaired. Wow, Okay, state says,
are you you you know the original Verdice was in
and now you want to try to change the case.
You can't do that. So chances again are very slim.
The Supreme Court woral side with the defenser on this,

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and that will, of course just leave it up to
the governor as to whether or not he wants to
bring a halt to this, and so far Government Master
has not done that and is not expected to now
a right That next execution set for a next Friday,
again by firing squad. Yesterday, a judge denied a request

(29:42):
from the City of Columbia to pay out to nearly
six million dollars to an area car wash owner. Okay,
the backstory here. You may recall this one constant car
wash over in five Points. The city of Columbia had
said that there was a retaining wall that the owners

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that had been put up to try to keep the
place from flooding. The city says, you got to take
it down. They demolished a section of that wall. Again,
his claim was so that was there to prevent flooding.
This is five points, we're crying out loud, we all
know how that works. Well, flooding did happened, and the

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car wash owner sued, saying he was forced to close
the business that had been there for seventy five years.
After that wall was taken down or at least parts
of it by the city back in twenty twenty one.
The car wash closed a year later, and he wound
up suing. Says that the city taking down a portion

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of that wall caused over four million dollars in damage
to both himself and the business that he had inherited
from his father. The city said that the business operated
for years without the wall, the wall wasn't there all
along for those seventy five years, and that after it

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was demolished, they stayed in business for another year. Well,
a judge sided with the owner and awarded the owner
damages of some four point two million dollars plus interest
daily interest. So, now, all told, the city owes some

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six million dollars to that former car wash owner. Okay,
Now the question is it was to say I've had
cut something in order to pay for this. A spokesperson
saying that when the city is self insured and is

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responsible for paying the verdict excel, but it didn't budget
for more than than five million dollars in the ruling,
even if we had insurance, this type of action would
not be covered, So this money is going to have
to come from the stormwater System fund, and the city
says that's going to mean there are potentially going to

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be delays and they'll be forced to reprioritize some infrastructure
products they've been working on projects in recent years. So
newly re elected Mayor Daniel Rickman in a statement of
the state paper saying that we need to plan to

(32:35):
appeal this judgment and call this yet another egregious example
of the critical need for judicial reform in our state. Now.
Dick Harpoutlian, who is representing the former car wash owner
of chip Smith, didn't take kindly to recommend statement about

(32:56):
judicial reform, pointing out that multiple judges have issued orders
in this same case pointing to legal errors by the city.
And again I'm not real sure the mayor calling this
why we need judicial reform. I don't know enough about
the story to know why he says that or if

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that's even true or not. Here bottom line is the
car wash seventy five years gone and the city is
out six million dollars. You have to find a way
to pay that, and is that going to cause some
problems with other things? They'd like to do. Okay, money money, money,

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Columbia in the meantime, getting ready to open up reopen
up Finlay Park, that is a week from tomorrow, November fifteen.
As we mentioned earlier this week, the fountain is flowing again. Now,
a lot of money went into this. We've been talking
about this for quite some time to have the park reopened.

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But from a safety standpoint, I mean, it's been a
place for a number of years that nobody wanted to
go to. And you know why. So the city and
both publicly and privately, is having to pay a lot
of money to secure the area while it's reopened. And

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they've announced now that they there will be a clear
bag policy for the park. Again. The mayor, citing concerns
about public safety, wants to be sure the park is safe.
Everybody does, certainly, and as he said, he'd rather take
a chance and have some people upset and inconvenienced in

(34:45):
the beginning than take a chance that something happens to
an individual. It's gonna happen. I mean again, you you
expect these days if you can go into a you know,
colonial laugh arena, Williams Bryce, you know, a death valley,
anywhere else that you're gonna that's gonna be a clear
bag policy. You expect that, and we're all used to
that by now. I'm not sure how many people, unless
they hear about this, are going to, you know, pack

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up the family in Helbert of Finley Park and realize
there's a clear bag policy in effect. It's yeah, it's
gonna don't try to take the picnic basket in. You
gonna have to put the food in a freezer bag.
There'll be more to few people who get caught up
by this, and there'll be some people that are upset
about this. But yeah, there is another one of those

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signs of the time. Right, this is where we are
here in twenty twenty five. You can't go to a
city park now without having to make sure your stuff's
in a clear bag. And so I guess that means
no colors, right, That been in effect immediately and well
once the park reopens, which is a week from Come.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
On, 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 (36:02):
It's fifteen minutes after eight o'clock. Good to have you
long Friday morning, November the seventh, got the heck are you?
I'm Gary David Christopher Thompson is off today to be
back on Monday, enjoying a three day weekend, well deserved,
by the way, and enjoying well the rest of her
life without being in DC. How about can we have

(36:24):
a party now? Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection the
speaker of Merida, the first woman, and gosh, I guess
we're the only one so far too to rise the
level of House speaker. It's calling it quits. She had
two videos done, one thing that she was going to

(36:44):
seek reelection, one thing that she was and I don't
know what the final straw was that made her not
want to seek reelection, But anyway, she's she'll be out
after this term expires. Forty years, almost forty years representing
San Francisco, and considering it's San Francisco, I mean you

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have to say, you know, she did a good job
representing San Francisco. Right, So Pelosi is calling it a day.
Trump calls her an evil woman, and lots of folks do.
But she's eighty five years old and this is rekindling
talk about term lemits. Now, every time I hear this,

(37:29):
I'm like, okay, well, if we want to get whether
it's at the state level, the national level, the local level,
the dog catcher level, I don't care most constituents, Well
this is one of these. It's you know, not in
my backyard thing, now, isn't it. We we we love

(37:52):
the fact that we have. Hey, we had strong thermon
up on Capitol Hill for like ever, that comes with
certain perks, right, I mean, if your state is represented
by two senators who you know are in their first term,
well good luck having any influence for your folks back

(38:13):
home up on Capitol Hill. It's all the other ones
we want out, just not hours. But who's going to
who's going to have to? Okay, term limits, I mean
it's the same people that well, but they kind of
like what they do and they like the power of
it all, and they want to stay there. So I'm
not one who gets really excited when a few politicians

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start talking about term limits, because it's going to take
more than a few to make it happen. But again,
this is ree kinar the talk of that all right,
I checked earlier. I should probably check again, because flight
restrictions are in place starting today. As of six o'clock
this morning, the FAA restricting airspace access and forty major

(38:54):
airports across the country. Now it's going to get to
ten percent if this issue isn't solved, if this shutdown continues.
It starts at four percent reduction today, it goes up
I think the six percent on Monday, and then by
next Friday, a week from the day, it'll be a
ten percent reduction on airspace, not around all airports, but

(39:18):
around major airports, and that does include Atlanta, it does
include Charlotte, and those are again two of the destinations
most frequented by people flying out of Columbia Metro to
connect elsewhere I was. I checked earlier this morning. I
see a Delta flight the saffronon that has been canceled,

(39:39):
you know, Airlines flight at this afternoon and it's been canceled.
He's right at Columbia Metro. Now there's an American flight
to Charlotte early this evening that's been canceled, So that
hasn't changed. When I checked it at six o'clock this morning,
the same thing. Three cancelations out of Columbia Metro, but
the airport did issue a statement yesterday warning about this,

(40:00):
and again flights coming out of Columbia Columbia not this.
Airspace around our area is not affected by this, but
again it's where you're heading, right, so we will see
some impacts the airport itself here in Columbia fully operational,
things are normal, don't I can't speak for you know,

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the tower, but there's a lot of folks over there
working that are not getting paid. So Columbia Metro has
is issued that that warn't check ahead before you get
of the airport to make sure that things are going
to still be on time. So this will impact flights

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coming out of all airports here in South Carolina, even
though we're not restricted airspace here. Okay, now we have
joined our state has our state Tourism department joining a
long list what is now up to about four hundred
tourism companies in organizations across the country pleading with Congress

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to reopen the government. The estimation is that you know
now we're in day thirty seven, that the hospitality industry
has has been hit with about about four billion dollars
in losses. Four billion. Our state's Department of Parks, Recreation
and Tourism now one of eleven groups across the state

(41:28):
to co sign a letter that was penned by the
US Travel Association a couple of days ago. Congresses, they're
paying attention, but they're not doing anything about it. I
don't know how much pain need be inflicted before they

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figure this thing out. But folks that normally wouldn't be
impacted by one of these shutdowns are starting to feel.
Sean Duffy yesterday warned, as we all know that this
thing does not get resolved if this if, if this
shutdown goes through the Thanksgiving holiday, uh, this is gonna

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be a major issue. Some of the big airlines are
already offering to give you a refunds if you want
to cancel again again. If I were flying for Thanksgiving,
I probably wouldn't cancel quite yet, but I'd at least
be making alternate backup plans because that is that is

(42:38):
not gonna be uh, not gonna be good. And you
get Republicans and Democrats up on Capitol Hill they're saying, yeah,
this is bad, we'll do something about it. There will
be a vote today. We're told John Thune's gonna put
up a vote today, another opportunity for the Democrats to
vote to reopen the government. But I don't think anybody

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really expects that's going to happen. There are a couple
of you know, carrots in there, the Tunes put in
and that including again the budget would allow to continue
to pay our military for example, that would fully fund

(43:23):
Snap benefits, But again it doesn't address Can we argue
that the democrats main concern above? I guess we can,
because the Democrats have allowed these Snap benefits to dry up,
Although a federal judge is just ordered yet the Trump
administration fully fund the Snap benefits program through November. They

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had agreed that the White House had to fund it
at sixty five percent. But obviously the Democrats are putting
these Obamacare subsidies ahead of these Snap benefits that are
directly affecting so many households. Yeah, we mentioned yesterday that

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that crazy, that that's crazy. Stat La County home to
some three point two million households families a third more
than a million our Snap beneficiaries. That's an inherent problem
right there. But this is having a big impact. No

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matter what you think about SNAP programs and benefits and
all of that the truth of the matter is though
there's a lot of households that are having a hard
time right now. Maybe we're inconvenience because we can't get
to where we want to, you know, on the in
the air, in the air, but that that pales in
comparison to what so many and all these federal workers
who now have gone without missed a couple of paychecks,

(44:56):
whether they're being told to go to work or not,
this was not the vacation they had planned, certainly on.

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Speaker 3 (45:26):
Final thoughts now eight thirty nine on a Friday morning,
and we got a stack of them. I don't know
if we can get through all these ut Well, we'll
give a We'll give it the good old college try here.
That one start at home where a lawsuit has now
been filed by the parents of the thirteen year old
who was killed in that that accident out on seventy seven.

(45:48):
It was the school bus heading from Charlott area back
here to the to the Midlands that the tire blowout.
The findings of the High Patrol investigation concluded the tire
had three small nails embedded in its tread and that

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those nails led to the corrosion of the threads and
the tire, which in time leads to tire failure. That
was the High Patrols report. The parents were alleging negligence
on the part of Lexington District too, in addition to
an auto mechanic shop, the manufacturer of the bus, the
dealer of the bus, and the manufacturer of the tire

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that led to the failed accident. Tragic story, certainly not surprise.
The lawsuit's been five We'll see where it goes. This
story out of the Myrtle Beach area eye opening. We
don't have really any information other than this that some properties,

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these look to be residential properties in Carolina Forest were
seized this week by the FEDS. This part of an investigation,
an ongoing investigation. Deputies with the Ory County Sheriff's Office
office that is serve these notices part of a multi
million dollar seizure by the FBI in the US Attorney's Office.

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The seizure, according to the Sheriff's office, is related to
money laundering by foreign terrorist organizations. No arrest made. According
to the FBI, the matter is ongoing, So money laundering
by foreign terrorist organizations and that's all we know. It

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does get your attention. Though Christy Nome was in the
Low Country gave a speech yesterday at the Citadel at
the Citidel Republican Society's annual Patriot Dinner. She called on
the attendees to a champion law enforcement, called for character

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and leadership, and a qus used some Americans of being
addicted to being offended. I like that, Ain't that the truth?
Addicted to being offended? Nicely stated up Bus seventy seven.
Across the state line, You've got now three congressmen in

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North Carolina urging Governor Josh Stein to deploy the National
Guard to Charlotte, citing what they call a growing violence
crisis and critical law enforcement staffing shortages. Of course, Stein
is a Democrat, don't expect him to send out the
National Guard. The congressmen from the tar Hill State expressing

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deep concern over again Stein's already refusal to grant a
request from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Fraternal Order Police to deploy
the Guard to assist local law enforcement. Like other big cities,
things are getting worse. Of course, that was highlighted by
that stabbing death of the Ukrainian immigrant what about two
months ago? I guess on that light rail. But that's

(49:13):
just one example. Homicides in the Queen City. The murder
rate wow, up two hundred percent year over year, two
hundred percent. Sesh. But again, Josh Stein's is a Democrat.

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That's the last thing he wants to do is called
out the National Guard. Supreme Court with a win for
the Trump administration yesterday allowing the White House to only
issue passports including biological sex, not gender identity. This is
an issue of identification. This is a safety issue for everybody.

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I don't care what you want to be called. What
are you? This is what the White House wanted, and
the Supreme Court says, yeah, you can do that. By
the way, there was a court case in Ohio, a
ruling yesterday by another court, a federal appeals court that

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an Ohio school district violated students free speech rights when
they enforced policies that restricted gendered language and classrooms. The
Court near Columbus, Ohio or the court said that the
school district near Columbus, Ohio cannot punish students for using
gender specific language, even if some finds it offensive. A

(50:46):
Paris Defending Education had sued the district a couple of
years ago, arguing its pronoun mandate violated students First and
fourteenth Amendment rights. The district maintained the policies were designed
to curb bullying and promote inclusion. Okay, In the opinion,
the courts of the district fell far short of showing

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that allowing such free speech would cause disruption or infringe
on others' rights. Again, we're not talking about bullying here.
We're talking about you know, a student sees a fellow
student in the hallway, and student appears to be a she,

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refers to student as a she, but the student gets
offended because a student wants to be called a he. Okay,
Number one. Depending on the size of the school, you
might run into people you've never seen. But how do
you know, I mean, just a little common sense here,
come on, folks, just a little The subway sandwich tosser

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has this in charges. Well, he's found not guilty. Charles Dunn,
who tossed a subway sandwich at federal officers when they
showed up in d C, has been clear to those charges.
All twelve jurors agreed with the defense. None of them

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wanted to talk to the Associated Press afterwards. By the way,
though now I thought this was an overreach to begin with,
the DOJ initially overreached. They wanted a felony assault indictment. Okay,
I realized this is, you know, total lack of respect
for law enforcement. But it's a sub sandwich, you know,

(52:36):
of ticket of fine. I think what a sufficed but
felony assault, well, you might disagree with me. A grand
jury didn't go with that one, so they wound up
charging him with a lesser charge of misdemeanor assault. Did
Janine Piro, But the jury didn't go with that one either.
So I think of fine certainly. And if I recall

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correctly was a federal employee and he's not working right now,
not because the government shut down, he's not working because
he lost his job, then that should be punishment enough
fall out from Tuesday. This is interesting. Now you've got invitations.
This is like the transfer portal for citizens I guess

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invitations from West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, all saying hey, if
you're fed up with politics and places like New York
and New Jersey, come come live here. West Virginia's Governor
Patrick Morrissey, it's about to get awful blue in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, he says. Don't wait for the high

(53:42):
taxes and heavy regulations to come. Now's your chance to
escape to a wild and wonderful West Virginia. The Attorney
General in Kentucky saying that Kentucky is open for business.
Y'all come on, and you've got some lawmakers in West
Virginia now, both at the state and the federal level,

(54:05):
not only looking to welcome Virginians into a mountaineer country,
but there's a bill that's been put up now that
would redraw the state borders with Virginia and Maryland. Of course,
you know West Virginia. Virginia used to be all, you know,
one big state, and that that split happened back during
the Civil War. But now you've got to build in

(54:25):
West Virginia. That would you know, redraw the lines and
allow some of the westernmost counties of Virginia, which are
conservative to become part of West Virginia. So okay, all right,
got it? News that Farmer's Almanac is shutting down post yesterday.

(54:46):
The twenty twenty sixth edition will be its last. It's
the forecast. They say they hope they would never have
to make gosh. Really, now, I'm a little confused here
because this, uh, this piece I got the information from.
It goes on to say that while the Farmer's Almanac
is shutting down, there remains other similar publications, including the
Old Farmer's Almanac. I always wait, I'm confused. I thought

(55:09):
it was the Old Farmer's Almanac. Are there two different publications?
Did I miss out on that one? Anyway, there you go,
and they've sold out quickly. The New Oreo cookies you
can only buy them online. Lots of people think that's
ridiculously disgusting, but apparently a lot of folks if nothing else,
the novel concept the New Oreo Thanksgiving Dinner inspired cookie collections.

(55:34):
Your flavors turkey and gravy, sweet potato, cream, corn, apple, caramel, pine,
Now I might do that one pumpkin pine cranberry sauce.
They went on Seal Online nineteen ninety nine for a
box of them, and the Haill sold out