Hour 3: This Week's Heatwave

This Week's Heatwave.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning to you. Pretty good weekend. It is going
to be really hot today. You just heard Race Stagic
a moment ago. Let's let let's have that lead off
our Big three, the heat advisory. The next three days
are going to be oppressive. The heat index is going
to be near or over one hundred degrees today, tomorrow,

(00:21):
and on Wednesday. We're not going to get a break
until Thursday. Remember the rule three days in a row.
That's going to be a heat wave if this happens.
So just be careful out there. I mean, you know,
the people to look look for on your in your neighborhood.
To look out for the elderly, those with some medical conditions.

(00:42):
You know itf be a good neighbor and just check
up on them. Also in the big three days before
the August first deadline, President Trump strikes a major deal
with our biggest trade partner, the European Union. This is
probably the biggest deal ever reached in any capacity trade

(01:02):
or beyond true it is that's it's a giant deal
with lots of countries. New Jersey, as White House correspond
to John Decker, by the way, is going to be
with us at eight thirty five to give us details
of the deal and tell us what the next deals
may be. Remember he talks about three or four before
the August first deadline, and also what happens after that deadline.

(01:25):
We'll talk about all of that with John Decker. New
Jersey US Attorney Alena Habba was fired by a panel
of judges, right, So why is she still in office?
And she says she's not going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I think anybody that's known me in this public sphere
for the last four years knows I'm not a coward
to a fight. So I have obviously been doing my job.
I do my job irrespective of who you are, what
you are, what your politics are.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
So let's go back and tell you what happened here.
The Trump administration fired the woman who the judge appointed
to replace her, and then they swore in Habba again.
Not the judges, but the Trump administration, the Justice Department
swore in Habba again. She used to be the interim
US attorney, which means she had to get confirmed by
the Senate. But now she's going to be the acting

(02:17):
US Attorney. Means they're going to search for somebody else.
But that means she has the job for two hundred
and ten days and now Congress wants to talk to
Julane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking code conspirator.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I'm not worried about some crazy list. Criminals usually don't
keep a list of their criminal activity. You've got to
dig through it. And I think that's why we need.
We need someone that understands this in a legal sense,
and maybe a special type prosecutor investigator to dig get
very deep into this.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
By the way, Donald Trump, right after he struck this deal,
this trade deal with the EU, was asked about Julian Maxwell,
and he said, you're kidding me, right, But when asked
about a pardon, he did say, I have not even
thought about that. In Gaza, the UN is warning of
a humanitarian crisis. They say food is not getting to

(03:09):
a starving population. And the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanya,
who says they are not to blame.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Stop lying, stop finding excuses, do what you have to do,
and stop accusing Israel deliberately of this egregious falsehood.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Is it an egregious falsehood? Well, Jordana Miller is right.
Is live from Israel right now. Jordana, you just heard
the Prime Minister. I'm sure you've already heard that. Is
he right, Israel should not be blamed for what's going
on in Gaza.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't think he's right. I mean, Israel does deserve
some of the blame for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
I mean, that's that's the I think that's the truth
of it. Yes, the UN has had problems distributing aid. Yes,
they've had man power issues and logistic issues. But remember,

(04:09):
delivering aid happens in the context of combat zones and
red tape. That has to go through the Israelis right
through the bureaucracy, and that has complicated There's no doubt
that is complicated distributing the AID. I mean, the Israeli
Prime Minister says there's no policy of starvation, right. The

(04:31):
accusation that Israel is intentionally starving gossins as a weapon
of war, that the Prime Minister says is a lie,
and I believe that is a lie. I mean, Israel
has done, I would say, a negligent, insufficient, insufficient job
of getting enough aid into Gaza. But they have not

(04:54):
they have not embarked on a policy to intentionally starve
the people of Gaza. And it is a lie that
Israel has not, you know, has somehow blocked aid into
the strip during the war. There were two months here,
a month or six weeks there that Israel blocked aid.
But overall there has been aid always getting into the

(05:15):
Gaza Strip, but really not at sufficient levels. And Hamas
also deserves some of the blame. They have stolen aid repeatedly.
Though there have been reports, it's not it has not
been systematic. Uh you know, the Israelis say, well, sometimes
you know, they're they're paying off and working with some

(05:37):
un uh un employees who just give Hamas the aid
or get compensated for it. So Hamas has a system
whereby it is siphoning off significant amounts of aid and
then you know, reselling it to the public at exorbitant prices.
And you know, we can just look at the picture

(06:00):
of thousands of Hamas fighters that came out during the
seafire in January and February. None of them looked emaciated
right or even close. They were certainly eating during what
was then already you know, fourteen fifteen months of war.
So the idea that you know, Israel is carrying out

(06:21):
a policy of starvation I think that is erroneous. But
Israel is to blame for what's happening there and some
real critical mistakes. Looking back, Perhaps N'taiel made a major
mistake in blocking aid from March until May ten weeks,
thinking it would pressure Hamas after the ceasfire expired and

(06:43):
well was unable to move forward and Israel broke the seafire.
That appears to have been a major mistake. The JHF
never got up to scale, was never able to feed gosins,
not to mention how deadly the whole endeavor was, right,
dozens of people killed every day. So Natanielle made some

(07:04):
critical errors in the aid issue, There's no doubt.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
So let's look forward on this. You know, the word
famine is being thrown around. It needs some immediate attention.
Will the pause, the tactical pause by the Israeli defense forces.
Will that help to now get all of the supplies
in that the Palestinians need.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
I think it will go far in alleviating the hunger
crisis there. I don't think. I don't think technically it
meets the definition of famine, but there are certainly hunger,
widespread hunger, and people are you know, starving and not
eating for days, days on end. That's what we're hearing

(07:50):
from aid organizations really across the board, including employees of
eight organizations. The main that will help the Palestinians are
the safe routes that the Israelis have promised now to
keep open for seventeen hours a day between six am
and eleven pm to bring in aid and then combat

(08:14):
stopping for ten hours in major populated areas where people
can move around and get the aid. That will make
a difference. The air drops they look, you know, dramatic,
they provide pictures. Air drops, you know, are not anywhere
near as efficient as trucks.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I know we don't have a lot of time right now,
but I wanted to talk about another topic which would
help with all of this. I think, where are the
ceasefire talks now? Anywhere closer?

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Nope, Nope, there's no real ceafire talks going on between
Hamas and Israel. Of the United States is talking to
the mediators at times, but there's nothing going back and
forth right now. I think we're not close to a ceasefire.
I think there's a lot of you know, re thinking

(09:00):
going on right now in Israel. In the United States.
You know what should come next?

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Could it be.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
An all for all slop to end this war instead
of something phased, or will we see an intensification and
Israel try to take over the Gaza strip and a
military occupation what Senator Lindsay Graham seemed to lay out
this weekend in some of his interviews with the press.
We're gonna have to wait and see, all.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
Right, Jordana Miller, ABC News correspondent in Jerusalem, as always,
thank you so much. Man. That was depressing. You know,
you think all of the time you're going to get
something positive, because every time we start down a road
of ceasefire, talks of a big agreement of aid finally

(09:48):
getting into Gaza, it all goes south. And it seems
to go south quickly every single time. And it's gotten
to the point, which really bothers is Donald Trump doesn't
even talk about it so much anymore. It's almost like
the people of Palestine have just been forgotten in this
whole thing. And I understand that you can blame Hamas

(10:12):
and not blame all of the Palestinian people. You know,
certainly the babies there didn't deserve all of this. So
we need a world response to this, not just a
US response, not just in Israeli response, but a world
response to the entire thing. It's and you know, we're
not going to settle it on a radio show right now,

(10:33):
but I'm hoping that greater minds are already thinking about
all of this. Well, a heat wave is on the way.
How hot will it get and how long will it last?
We're going to check in with Weather Channel meteorologist Race
Stagic for an extended forecast, plus tickets to see the
Outlaw Music Festival featuring Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. Stay
with us. We're going through a few days of high heat.

(10:56):
There's a heat advisory out there, so let's get right
to Ray Stage, our Weather Channel meteorologist, for an extended forecast. Now, Ray,
I really see you as like a weather profit. I
believe in everything you say. And I remember last week
when you for us only you went even further than

(11:16):
you're comfortable and going, and you said you saw this
pocket of cool air that we were going to love,
that we were going to enjoy next week. I guess
this ain't it.

Speaker 7 (11:27):
Huh No, But thanks for the compliment anyway, And boy
have I deceived. Boy, what a good job. Hey, the
first role of broadcasting, right, sound believable, But if you
want to jump to that, this ain't it. But it's coming.
And if you haven't seen it by now all over
the news and everybody's talking about the eastern part of

(11:48):
the nation getting this huge cool down, we still got
to deal with. Let's call it a heat wave. That's
three days in a row ninety plus temperatures. We've done
that once so far this summer, in June, the twenty third,
twenty fourth, and twenty fifth, where it was ninety six,
ninety nine, and ninety six, respectively. And that's at Central Park.
So it may not be as hot as that three

(12:11):
day stretch, but still ninety four, ninety six, ninety five
the next three days with the heat index value add
or over one hundred in some spots. Marie I would say,
that's still pretty darn hot. So June ended up about
one point three degrees above normal. Looks like we're gonna
end up about that above normal for the month of July.
Only a one day will be below normal for the

(12:33):
rest of this month, and that'll be Thursday or Oi'll
be near eighty degrees. But we might not get out
of the seventies on Friday.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Explain the heat index to us.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
Yeah, So heat index a right measures temperature combined with humidity.
And humidity is basically moisture in the air. You know, microscopy,
you can't see it. It's when you talk about due points.
In higher humidity, there is more moisture in the air.
And what that does, it's the opposite of the wind
chill in the wintertime. So wind chill pulls heat away

(13:04):
from your body and your exposed skin in the wintertime.
So the sensation is that you are colder. It feels
colder when you've got this water vapor in the air.
What it does is that it kind of holds heat
in to your body. It kind of like sticks to you.
That's what you feel like. You're hotter than the air
temperatures actually are because your body is not allowed to

(13:24):
cool efficiently or effectively. So that's the opposite sensation where
you know, you get higher humid and you get more
of that moisture in the air feels heavier. It's that
you're getting more of that kind of like heat that's
not allowed to escape from your body and cool your
body through your exposed skin as opposite to wind chill,
which actually pulls heat away from your body.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Now, as you know, I worked in TV most of
my life, and I know that they're going to run
with this tonight. I'm sure they're building the heat wave
graphic as we speak, and they're going to talk about
how dangerous it is, right, So I want to get
from you how dangerous it actually is.

Speaker 7 (14:00):
Well, it always goes back to you know, you hope
everybody knows what they can handle. Right, So, when we've
got the heat index values as highs they're going to be,
you will succumb to the heat a lot quicker than
you would let's just say on the normal summer day
that's like around eighty five degrees. And you know, when
you're outdoors, you just take precautions stay hydrated, like colord,

(14:21):
loose fitting clothing, and frequent breaks. And if you stop sweating,
that's one of the signs that you are dehydrated and
you're possibly going to get not necessarily heat stroke, but
you're on the beginning stages of maybe feeling a little
bit of heat exhaustion. And then if you start getting
to that point where you start feeling dizzy and then
maybe like you're going to pass out, then you're getting
closer to heat strokes. So not only know how you

(14:44):
can prepare for it to keep yourself safe, know the
signs of maybe if you're going into one of these
phases of you know, heat, heat stroke or heat exhaustion,
which you know would start with not sweating, starting to
feel dizzy, and if you don't feel quote unquote just
as a lot of people like to say, you're probably
starting to feel the effects of the heat and humidity.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
That's why is the best raced age at WR National
Weather Channel meteorologist and exclusively with WOR how about that
at least in New York, exclusively in New York. Thanks
so much, Race he k now Larry Kowski in for
Jackline Karl with the eight thirty news. Hey Larry, Oh

(15:25):
hey Larry.

Speaker 8 (15:26):
It is now eighty degrees under Sunday Skies heat advisory
in place in the city from today through Wednesday, with
temperatures expected to reach the mid nineties. Cooling centers are open.
Violence following Sunday's Bronx Dominican parade has landed three people
in the hospital with gunshot wounds. The shootings came hours
after Mayor Adams said more than three thousand illegal guns

(15:48):
have been removed from City Street so far this year.
Police and Queen searching for a man who barged into
a home over the weekend and raked a twenty three
year old woman. They say it happened at around four
to thirty Saturday morning. You're one hundred and forty eighth
Street and ninety fourth Avenue in Jamaica. The suspect fled
with the woman's cell phone, a knife, and bed sheets.

(16:08):
You can learn a lot at the supermarket, not just
about the price of milk and eggs. Like college, just
say that you can tell a lot about people based
on what they do with their shopping cart. Returning your
cart to the corral rather than just leaving it to
roll around in the parking lot apparently means that you
possess some pretty admirable traits. So what do you do, Larry.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Nothing, I think I'm okay. Thanks so much, Larry Koski.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
I bring it back just you know.

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first chance to win is next Monday at nine o'clock.
So John Decker had an interesting weekend. John Decker WAWR
White House and Washington Correspondent, host of the new podcast,
The White House Briefing Room with John Decker, which of
course can be found on the iHeartRadio app. Good Morning John, Hey,

(18:33):
Good morning to you, Larry.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
I did have an interesting weekend, and that was because
of a number of questions I asked the President on
Friday that made a ton of news, and so as
a result, you know, I'm getting a lot of calls
and speaking to a lot of stations. One of the
questions I asked the President making a lot of news, Larry,
had to do with a suggestion that I made the President,

(18:56):
and that is, with the tens and tens of billions
of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the US treasury,
had the President ever thought about providing a tariff rebate
check to American taxpayers? And you, Larry could see the
light bulb above his head when I posted that question
to the President. He loved the idea, and in fact,

(19:16):
Caroline levi Att, the White House Press Secretary, came up
to me after I asked that question, and she said,
that's a brilliant idea. We're doing it, and so we'll
see whether indeed that becomes administration policy.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Wow, you are quickly becoming the president's pet. He really
does like you. You might like the teacher's pet. He
really does like you a lot. As a matter of fact,
I was getting all these notifications about you over the weekend,
and it was because of a back and forth you
had with the President that I'm going to play right
now that it's hard to heal her, but try to

(19:50):
make it out and then we'll explain what happened.

Speaker 8 (19:53):
I went to Penn and working.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
So I know you understand.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Oh, you did go order to get here guy than
I even thought.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
And I know you're smart. You're a smarter guy than
I even thought. And I know you're smart. And that's
because you told him you went to Penn and you
went to Wharton, which is where he went. And so
that's of course why he thinks you're so smart. Did
things you said you got a few questions in? Was

(20:21):
that before or after you got a few questions in?

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, that was the first question. So I asked Larry,
the question to the president is he concerned about the
decline and the value of the US dollar, and he
was explaining to me, Larry, of why he believes a
weaker dollar. He said, is in America's best national interest.
And then he said to me, do you understand? And
I said, yes, mister President, I went to Wharton just

(20:46):
like you.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
What a suck up? Smart? It was smart, it was smart.
I'm sure the other reporters are like the other correspondents
are like rolling their eyes. Oh great, yeah, yeah, But
I'll tell you what, whatever works, he's gonna he's definitely
going to always remember you, now, just from that moment,

(21:09):
like you're gonna remember him. That's right, But great idea.
So what were your other questions?

Speaker 6 (21:14):
Well, I asked the President the two questions that we
just referenced. And then in addition to that, U you
know that Tulca Gabbert has sent to the Department of
Justice essentially a recommendation for charges being brought against former
President Barack Obama other aids to Barack Obama related to

(21:36):
the Russia investigation. And I asked the President about the
Supreme Court last year weighing in on presidential immunity and
how he believes that may impact potential charges against Barack Obama.
And he gave me a very honest answer. He said, uh,
this provides immunity for Barack Obama. He said that, and
he said, uh. He said to me as well, that

(21:59):
Barack Obama owed me. Those were his words as it
relates to that Supreme Court decision handed down July of
twenty twenty four. So that immunity decision is not absolute immunity,
but it does provide immunity for official acts. And the
President acknowledging that Barack Obama will not go to jail.

(22:20):
Barack Obama will not be charged with any aspect of
what it is that the DOJ will be investigating.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Let's talk about a couple of the big stories. By
the way, the Epstein thing's not going away, and I
know the President is frustrated by it, but it's not
going away. And it sounds like most of the Republicans
have now accepted the fact that Congress is going to
look into this as well. Well.

Speaker 6 (22:46):
That's right. That's what members of Congress who are in
leadership have said, is that when Congress comes back from
its August recess in September, this will be on the agenda.
And in fact, as you know, late last week, the
House oversyche Committee voting to subpoena those Department of Justice

(23:06):
documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. So that will
be something that the House Oversite Committee, we know for sure,
is going to look into.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, I'm getting now all of these bulletins. Is Donald
Trump speaking this morning? Because apparently he has said yeah, okay,
and then you heard the news that he said he's
getting fed up with Russia and he's not going to
give them their fifty days. He's going to shorten that.
It seems to me, it seems to me that he's

(23:36):
always been losing patients with Putin and he's come out
all said.

Speaker 6 (23:40):
And that goes back to a question that I asked
the President that got that angered him. Actually, just about
a week or so ago, I asked the President, why
are you giving fifty days to Vladimir Putin to prosecute
his war against Ukraine. He didn't like that question, But
now I think, you know, you see the results of
a lot a lot of criticism being leveled against that

(24:02):
decision to give an additional fifty days to President Plutin
in Russia. And you know, that fifty days would have
taken us up to September the second Larry, Now, obviously
the President's going to make a decision as it relates
to Russia a lot sooner than that.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Right, But we have no idea how soon, and we
have no idea what happens next. That's the more important question.
So it runs out, then what do you.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Do exactly exactly, Well, he's spoken about this idea of
at the end of fifty days, if there's no peace deal,
applying stiffer sanctions to Russia, one hundred percent trade tariffs
on Russia as well as secondary tariffs, meaning any country
that purchases Russia oil would also face those one hundred

(24:46):
percent tariffs. And we know some of those countries quite well, India, Brazil, China,
those countries would be impacted if the President goes ahead
and implements that threat that he had made just about
a week and.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
A half ago. All of his policies date back to
one of your questions, because it seems like that yes, yes, yes,
you're feeling yourself right now, and I kind of understand it.
I get it. Congratulations to you, by the way.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
Yeah, it's an interesting time that we live in.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right, here's another bolton that just came across. Trump says
his priority is to ensure Gazin's are getting fed. He
doesn't go into any details on that, but I'm sure
he's not. He's not happy with Benjamin net Yahoo or
what's happening in Gazo, or the lack of a ceasefire.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Well, he's not, and and with good reason. You know,
the President is pushed for a ceasefire between Israel and
Amash pretty much from the day he was sworn in
in January. And obviously he's not happy also with the
fact that you know, there are Palestinians living in Gaza

(25:59):
that are not getting humanitarian assistants, are not getting food, medicine,
water on a regular basis. And the President has expressed
that frustration, not only publicly, more importantly, he's expressed that
frustration to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu real.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Quick on these tariffs. That was a big signing over
the weekend in Scotland with the EU. Now we have
a few days before August. First, the President said something
about three or four other countries that he's talking to
and maybe close do we know what those countries are?

Speaker 6 (26:34):
Well, you know. If I had a guess, I'd guess
one of them is South Korea. He still hasn't struck
a trade deal with South Korea. That's one of the
few trade agreements that he reached in his first term
in office. And I know that those conversations have been
moving along quite well, so we'll have to wait and see.
One other thing I asked the President. Did we touch
upon the trade tariff rebate check idea? That was a

(26:56):
question that I post to the President on Friday. I
I asked the President, with the tens and tens of
billions of dollars of tariff revenue coming into the country,
had he ever given thought to providing a rebate check
to American taxpayers? And you could see Larry the light
bulb going off over his head when I proposed that idea.

(27:16):
He likes it a lot. And in fact, the White
House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said to me afterwards, that's
a brilliant idea. We're doing it. I'm talking to Stephen Miller,
the White House Deputy chief of staff, about putting that
in motion. And also on Friday, after the President gave
that answer to my question, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri,

(27:38):
a Republican from Missouri, said he's going to introduce legislation
along those lines when the Senate comes back from its
August recess in September. So that's another example just my
policy ideas incremented Larry by this administration. Pretty remarkable.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Oh, we're going to lose you. You're going to be
part of the policy team pretty soon. No, No, you
wouldn't take that job. You wouldn't take the job. Oh,
come all right, let's see what happens when it's offered.
All right. John Decker W R. White House in Washington Correspondent.
He'll be back with us tomorrow at seven oh five.
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I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
What's happening with airlines these days, or maybe it's just
being covered more because there's been so many problems. But
if you've been paying attention, I'm just wondering how this
affect Story after story after story of near misses of problems,
and this isn't just the last couple of days. This

(30:08):
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have a theory that maybe after what happened at Reagan
International Airport between the helicopter and the jetliner that was
coming in, that maybe we're just we've heightened our awareness
that we're always hearing these things happening. But I have

(30:29):
a in my gut I think it's more than that.
I think it were overcrowded. I think there's too many
things in the air right now, too many things at
the airport. I actually think we made it safer at
Newark Airport Newark Liberty International when we cut down the
number of flights, everything went smoother. They went to having

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the worst statistics in the country for a late arrivals
and late takeoffs, late flights, and to the best in
the country right after that that. I mean, a couple
other things happened too, including a new runway. I get it,
but but it just seemed nicer at the airport. Anyway.
We had a couple we had a couple of problems
over the weekend, and they're worth talking about. So, first

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of all, this is Friday, a Southwest Airlines flight leaving
Hollywood leaving Burbank suddenly dropped, dropped hundreds of feet right
after takeoff.

Speaker 6 (31:27):
Everybody in the plane started screaming.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Definitely felt like that was that was it, Like this
is how I'm going to go out. This is after
the pilot realized he was about to hit a British
fighter jet that was in the air and was not
supposed to be in his airpath. How is that happening.
That's now three or four times in the last couple

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of months where there's been a military plane. If you
remember in North Dakota there was one that got in
the way of a flight because it was in an
air show. And then we have all the problems we
had several problems after after that horrible crash at Reagan
International with helicopters and military jets taking off. Why what

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is the problem nationally that these airliners are not getting
information about military planes because it's happened way too much
and people on board, people flying that just just trust
they're going to get from one place to another deserve more.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
So you just kind of get a sense of like, Okay,
this was really a near death experience that I just
went through and it's terrifying.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
It shakes you to the core.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Now, that's one right. So that just happened on Friday.
The very next day at Denver, a plane was taking off.
An American Airlines was taking a plane was taking off,
and they reported that there were flames coming from the plane.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
There was some flames that looked like the smokes kind
of dying down there.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
And then on board everybody noticed a loud boom. We
were going pretty fast.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
I would ask himate about five to ten seconds before
we were supposed to actually start flying.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
We heard the loud boom, and I said, that's not good, right,
And so what happened was every first of all, they quickly,
they were going very fast. They were just about to
take off, and so they almost ran out of runway
because they then had to try to reland, you know,
as the wheels were just starting to go off and

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they have to try to reland, and they have to
make sure that they're not going to You've been on
runways that just all of a sudden stop and so
the plane just made the stop. This could have been awful,
and this is a Denver International on Saturday. It could
have stopped and then everybody had to just jump off
the plane. All of the slides went out and people

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were sliding down, and then the announcement came over because
there were fire trucks that were responding, and you had
passengers and it was a horrible situation. So this is

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just happening over and over again. Every single day when
I'm looking at stories, I happened to see another story
with an airliner or some near air collision that's happening.
And so my feeling is and I think this is
going to be a story over the next couple of weeks,
if it's not already. There are too many There are

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way too many things in the air right now, and
we have to lower the traffic, just like they did
at Newark. I know there's a demand, and I know
there's a demand for air shows, and I know there's
a demand at airports and the international airports. We have
to back off a little bit. Well, coming up, Erry

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