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Speaker 1 (00:40):
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Bucky Arizona.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Prayers and dooks for all of Florida, particularly Tampa Bay
and Torque finer in Station, the Ober thirty markets, and
the confirmation of Nielsen.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Hi can tell you, Richard, we have two or more
and amen to that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Let's continue to keep the people of Florida in our prayers.
Hurricane Milton remains a Cat five was a Cat five
then became a Cat four, back to being a Cat five,
sustained wins of one hundred and sixty miles an hour
and a straight aim towards the Tampa metropolitan area.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
We'll have more with roy O'Neil coming up in minutes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yesterday we had Donald Trump in California and then we
had Mama La Kamala.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
In New York.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
They couldn't be further apart on the issues, and they
couldn't be further apart geographically. Today, Trump is headed to Pennsylvania,
and your morning show White House correspondent John Decker is
joining us on what that message should be. Pennsylvania's going
to decide at all. You better get your message right,
especially with one month ago.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, that's right, and that's the reason why Donald Trump
is in the Keystone State today. Nineteen Electoral College votes.
It's a state he won in twenty sixteen by forty
thousand votes, lost it to Joe Biden four years ago
by eighty thousand votes. And you've seen the poles, Michael.
It's very close once again, essentially a tall up. That's
the reason why he's doing two separate events in Pennsylvania today.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Shout out to the who's the NBC guy that puts
his shirt on, rolls up his sleeves, and goes over
the electoral college map. But he pointed out in twenty
sixteen there were nine hundred thousand more registered Democrats in Pennsylvania.
That's down to just three hundred thousand more registered Democrats.
Pennsylvania has changed. This is not twenty sixteen, nor is
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it twenty twenty. And with these differentials, just like in
twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, very few, in very few
swing districts, really swing precincts of swing districts, could decide
this thing for the entire country.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It's fascinating to see play out.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, it is, absolutely and it's a state that has
realized how important its electoral votes will be in this
electoral cycle. When I was in Philadelphia just a few
weeks ago for the presidential debate that took place in Philadelphia,
I got to tell you, you put on the television,
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which I did as soon as I arrived, and you're
just inundated with campaign commercials from both Donald Trump and
Kamala Harris, as well as you know those five oh
one CE organizations, the super packs. I think they want
to see this election over given all the television commercials
they're seeing, but they're certainly seeing a lot of money
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spent in this important state.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know, RFK Junior is worth bringing up. He was
pulling anywhere between nine and thirteen percent. That's ross pero
significant and he's just gone into oblivion. So I don't
even see him on the radar. If he's having some
effect with independent voters, I'm just not aware of it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
And time will tell.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It's kind of turned out to be Elon Musk, jd
Vance and Donald Trump versus what we're about to see
Biden hit the campaign trail, Obama hit the campaign trail
for Kamala, who had a rough day yesterday. How do
these matchups play out? Is it really about Kamala versus Trump?
Or could these serve gets to make a difference.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I don't think saragates generally make much of a difference,
you know. I mean, there are those that argue that
Barack Obama made a difference for Joe Biden in the
twenty twenty election cycle. Maybe, but you know, I think
that's giving him too much credit. And I don't think that,
you know, Elon Musk makes it a difference at all
for Donald Trump. You know, endorsements they make, do they matter?
(04:24):
You know, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen. Unlikely. People just are
simply voting on Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That's it, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And look, it doesn't hurt, but I don't think it
helps a great deal.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
At the same time, I have to get closing moments
with your morning show White House correspondent John Decker.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We do have a minute, right, yes we do? Okay,
what do you make?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I mean it and I don't like to play partisan
narrative radio, but let's face it, Kamala has based everything
on being an incumbent and yet distancing herself from by
and gets asked the point blank question in the view
should have been a softball what you know?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Would you have done differently? She couldn't answer it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Then she had seven hours to get an answer and
ask the same thing again by Colbert, and you couldn't
even get to make good right, I mean, is.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
This as easy as well? This is why we've been
hiding her.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean even CNN said we're shocked she doesn't have
an answer for this question, and that was a really
big gaff.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And she's not very nimble on her feet.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That's that's the kindest way you could say it really
bad day for Kammale yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, here we are. You know, we're less than thirty
days away from the election, and it takes less than
thirty days for the election to have the vice president
be asked a question that should have been asked in
the first presidential debate that took place in Philadelphia, which
is is there any daylight on any issue farn or
(05:48):
domestic between you and Joe Biden? And to me, that
is the question.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How do you not answer? I have to interrupt? How
do you not have an answer for that? If your
kamal as I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Know, I don't know the answer. I'm not her, I'm
not her spokesman or noters Surrogan, I don't know how
you have it, And they don't have an answer to me,
you better have an answer to that question, or something
that appears to be an answer, rather than essentially what
she gave in her answer to Stephen Colbert and then
All in the View, and she gave a similar answer there.
(06:18):
You're not you can't be running as Joe Biden two
point zero, A younger version of Joe Biden. You have
to show voters what your vision is for America and
how your vision is different than Joe Biden's vision.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Otherwise, otherwise you own what seven and ten Americans believe
is the wrong direction, from a border crisis to the economy,
to wars to the Afghan withdrawal.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I mean, it was.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Just and then to have eight hours and have Colbert
give it to her again and still not get it right.
The only thing she came prepared with is I'm not,
obviously Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
And i am not Donald Trump. That's still not an answer.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I mean, And by the way, four more early voting
begins today right in you know, the aftermath of a
really bad tour. I mean, the only one that's not
getting much play was Howard Stern and what little clips
I got to see from that was just a really
cheesy love fest. It just didn't have any substance whatsoever.
But roughed up on sixty minutes a really big gaff
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on the view, and then seven hours to finally get
that answer and gaffed it again with Stephen Colbert.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I mean, that's breathtaking to me.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
We were having the conversation, were whoever the question earlier,
who's the is she the worst candidate ever?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And Tecaucus came up, Jerry Thor came up.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I disagree with that. No, I disagree with that. I've
covered a lot of campaigns. I disagree with that entirely.
I think that she has strength just like Donald Trump
has s frinks, and she has weaknesses just like Donald
Trump has weaknesses. But no, I would not put her
in the category as the worst candidate that Democrats have
ever put up.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Who is is it?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
You?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Caucus?
Speaker 4 (07:59):
I don't think he could have won cycle. So you
know he made mistakes for sure. But you know that's
a tough one. Let's save it for another day, Michael,
I'll have to give it some thought.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
You got it. I love it. Love our visits. John Decker,
White House Correspondent and Supreme Court law. We didn't get
a chance to even get to the gun thing. But
Joe Biden is over before the Supreme Court and that's
where his ghost gun band is headed today. John Decker,
always a pleasure fifteen minutes after the hour for you
just wake up. You know it's interesting to say that,
you know, oh no, she's not the worst candidate ever.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
All right, Well, then who was and you can't.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I look, I'm not being mean, and we have Vice
President knucklehead, and then we have Kamalah fumbling the easiest
mandatory questions she should get and have to. I'm you're
trying to tell everybody to turn the page to what
more the same in the wrong direction. I know, I
wreck my brain now. I you know, I study history,
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and you know when you study history, you don't spend
a lot of time with candidates that have lost. So
I studied those that won and their presidency. But in
my lifetime, and I've been around since Lyndon Johnson, I
really can't think of a worse not nominee in a
general election.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Candidate than Kamala Harris. I really can't.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
And Donald Trump's had some rough moments, but this is
I can't come up with one. I understand people bringing
up Jerry Ford and Michael Decaucus, but short of that,
there have been other bad candidates that were in primaries
that might have been worse than Kamala Harris. Although Kamala
Harris was the first one out in twenty twenty and
she's only in now because of what they orchestrated.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Oh, it's not hurt.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
You had given me the challenge of a Howard Stern clip,
and I wanted to just play this one because this
is the kind of fluff I kept coming across.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
It didn't even qualify to make the show.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And it's only making the show because you said, but
we're not hearing much from the Howard Stern interview.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
This might be one minute of why you're not hearing much.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
I think that you know, Howard, people ask me like,
what do you think is going on? And what is
the tension here? What's at stake? And there are many
things that I can be much more articulate than what
I'm going to say, But ultimately, I do believe that
this is an election that is about strength versus weakness. Yeah,
(10:24):
and leus as projected by someone who puts himself in
front of the American people and does not have the
strength to stand in defense of their needs, their dreams,
their desires, the work that must happen to make sure
that we are a secure nation, that we are nurturing
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and protecting our alliances around the world, that we are
supporting America's military, that we are fighting to bring the
cost of living down for working families, that we are
building businesses, building.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Growth, did you.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I mean, it's just a big nothing perker. By the way,
you could turn that question around. And Democrats have been
in power twelve in the last sixteen years. What have
you done for American prosperity? What have you done for
national security? What have you done for border security and sovereignty?
What have you done for the rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness? I love that I had
(11:26):
a million clips I was going to do and it's
just not enough. Time of Kamala Harris talking about Donald
Trump just representing division as she's giving a very divisive comment,
and you'll wonder why I'm not a fan of either
party and why I think the parties are the problem.
(11:48):
Put the D and the R, the Blue and the
red aside. What substance do these individuals bring to this
hiring process? And it can be a struggle from time
to time with Donald Trump, but it's impossible to follow
Kamala Harris. Yesterday was a great example her trying to
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make politics out of hurricane preparation and while she's on
the tarmac accusing Governor DeSantis of making it political when
people's lives are in danger, as she's making it political
with people's lives in danger. A candidate for president is
not what a governor needs right now. A vice president
isn't what a governor needs right now. In fact, Joe
(12:30):
Biden proved he can't stomach her while she's trying to
make a controversy over DeSantis. Joe Biden in the White
House is telling everybody DeSantis is doing a great job.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
You know, moments of crisis, it's nothing else. Should really
be the moment that anyone who calls himselves a leader
says they're going to put politic desire as the people first.
People are in desperately to support right now and playing
political gains at this moment in these prices to make.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Here is the president.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
The governor of Fluid has been cooperative.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He said he's gotten all that he needs.
Speaker 8 (13:09):
I talked to him again yesterday and I said, well,
I said, no, you're doing a great job.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Is being all being done, Well, we thank you for it.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
And I literally gave my personal phone number to call Ouch.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I mean, look, there are bad days, and then whatever
the heck that was, and then you got Vice President
knucklehead wanting the Electoral College removed.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Boy, they saved the worst for last, didn't they.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
This is your morning show with Michael del Chona.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Baseball on all day long. We've got all four divisional
playoff games happening today, the Tigers and Guardians at two
o eight, Central, Yankees and Royals will be at six
o eight. Then the Mets and the Phillies game four
four o'clock this afternoon, and the Padres and the Dodgers
will be leader tonight at eight o'clock. It or not,
everybody thought it was a foregone conclusion. The NLCS would
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be the Phillies and the Dodgers both face elimination today.
Mets up two games to one, Padres up two games
to one. All right, this is interesting. Obviously, Disney is
distantly in the path of Milton. Could Hurricane Milton have
an impact on Disney stock?
Speaker 10 (14:21):
Butt down the hatches, goofy, I said, hatches not matches.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What's going on with Disney and how could their stocks
be effective? Well, I guess nobody's going to be at
Disney World riding rides for at least a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
But what else?
Speaker 11 (14:36):
Michael? That was an exceptional impression.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Of Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
That was wow. I'm impressed.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I can't stand Disney, but I mean, obviously I don't
want anybody to be harmed or their employment.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Don't want anyone to be hurt.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And listen, I think that much tinier violins will play
for Disney losing.
Speaker 11 (14:52):
Money than it will for like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
A local pizzeria or just some sort of mom and
pop shop that doesn't have the backing of investors and
everyone else. But this Cap five storm is closing down
Disney World, all of the locations.
Speaker 11 (15:05):
I actually was unaware of how.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Many things Disney owned in the area. There's Disney Animal Kingdom,
there's Epcot, there's Disney Springs, there's a camping area in
Saratogas Springs, the Disney Wilderness Lodge, the villas, there is
so much all closed down.
Speaker 11 (15:22):
Goldman Goldman's Act.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
They're projecting that they're going to lose out about one
hundred and fifty to two hundred million this quarter alone,
and then they think that because of attendance is down
in potential rebuilding, they're going to lose roughly six percent
into next year too.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So we're looking at the disruption of its parks and stays,
and of course that's you know, you have to as
a parent, I would tell you it's hard not to
bring your kids to. Some might suggest Disneyland is better
than disney World. I went to disney World every summer
all my teenage years, and it was it was paradise.
And what it is today is unrecognizable, just overcrowded, ridiculously expensive.
(16:00):
Who's gotten to be terrible? I mean, it's just awful.
But you have to take your kids to disney World
and then you go, all right, and that's it. Now
I'll have to take my grandkids, but not until them
so because it got so expensive and you'd wait two
three hours for a ride, so at the end of
the day you're paying about one hundred dollars a ride.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
It's just Dollywood is such much more fun.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
So was the one in Sandusky, Ohio, Cedar Point, way
better than disney World. But all right, so never mind
all the restaurants, all the hotels, all the parks, all
that revenue. Long term, they shouldn't have much losses unless
there's physical damage. And I don't really anticipate that. As
far away as kissing me to.
Speaker 11 (16:37):
You, no, and we'll listen, we'll see.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Usually, you know, you see these hurricanes hit the coasts
and then everyone DeCamps to Orlando for safety. But that's
not the case this time. This is going to go
directly through the path and then listen, it's going to
be a big problem. And I think that you're right.
It's funny that you said about Disney because my family
were planning.
Speaker 11 (16:59):
My kids are four and six.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh, you gotta do it, but you're gonna hate it.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yeah, but we're gonna go to disney Land, the California
on Disneyland.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, that you might enjoy.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yes, And it's because of what you just said. So
many people that we've like like good friends of ours.
You're like normal, reasonable people are like the cost is preposterous,
the food is I think prison food scores way higher.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Like it's just it's a terrible We made at.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The Italian Place on Main Street and I think it
was like three hundred dollars for us to eat and
it was awful. I mean, Chef Boyard would have been better.
So that is nothing like what I grew up in.
I mean it was you know, we used to stay
in Fort Wilderness, get on the boat. We were running
wild as teenager, meeting girls from Georgia. I mean, those
are a good time, but it's just so expensive and
so overcrowded, and the weights are so long. That's their
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long term problem. But yeah, they're gonna have a disruption
of business. Your other story I love, because you know,
we've been kicking around all week. Does Kamala Harris, especially
after gaffing on the View in Colbert about her not
being any different than Joe Biden, does she really wants
Joe Biden campaigning for I love your angle. If you
own a diner, do you really want these candidates stopping
by and bringing all their division and nonsense with it,
(18:08):
my answer would be no, stay away.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Yeah, apparently not so, and that's what we're seeing, particularly
in Pennsylvania, which is the purpliest of purple swing states
at the moment. There's actually this one famous diner in Pittsburgh.
It's called Pamela's. They make like ultra thin Chrispy pancakes.
Speaker 11 (18:24):
George W. Bush was there, Barack Obama was there.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And let me guess, Mamala wants to come and make
some antique bacon.
Speaker 11 (18:33):
It was just like an incredible line. I need to well, actually, no,
Kim Wallas VP, Oh great, ta Kamala. He was there.
He stopped by last month.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
But get this, the restaurant's Facebook page had so much vitriol.
Speaker 11 (18:48):
That they're now thinking like, perhaps no more. The same
as going with Boycott's criticism.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
There's this other place in Versailles, Pennsylvania. It's called Bramante Brothers.
You had vance he was going to make this impromptu stop.
It didn't work out that they had to do secret service.
It was so much and they said no, please, like
not at the moment, not no to him, but just
like this is too much. And then people freaked out
and said, you don't write like Republicans and they're like, no,
(19:14):
not the case at all, Like do you know how
hard it is to accommodate like a presidential or VP
candidate without any notice, Like it's just difficult.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
We want them. Long story short, I think that this is.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Absolutely indicative of how device of the presidential campaign has
just go around and listen.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
One of the reasons I loved the VP.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Debate and I'm the only one, but it was civil,
it was dignified, and it was boring like a presidential
debate should be, and they were listen. I believe both
those men fundamentally want what's best for the country. They
had come at it from totally different angles. You had Vance,
who definitely want it, saying many times I agree with you, Tim,
I agree with you, Tim. And then Wall's saying I
(19:54):
would work with you Vance, and I'm like, yes, guys,
this is good for America.
Speaker 11 (19:59):
This is what moves the needle forward. We have to
come to some resolution.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
We have to be able to talk to each other
and respect that, yes, you're coming at this from a
different angle, but we both want it to work.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So well, you're saying, is we need a brilliant Yale
lawyer and a knucklehead night No, but we do. Yeah, no,
I know, but we live in the divided states of America.
That's the truth. And you know, you live in Connecticut,
which is going to be blue. I live in Tennessee
that's going to be red. But when you live in
Pennsylvania and you have the whole world, let alone the
country and the media every day reminding everybody swings precincts,
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let alone swing districts in your swing states are going
to decide the direction in a very divided country. I mean,
you can't win having these people stop by you just can't.
I don't know why we've invited political differences partisan in
some cases, even petty political differences divide our families, our friendships,
our offices, our communities, our nation.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Let alone.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, let's have it come into the diner and see
how that plays out for long term our business.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
No way.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
Yeah, and it's not worth it for your business.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
But listen, Michael, I bet you'd agree with Like, I'm
just talking to most of my friends, most of the
people I know. I have to be honest, Yes, it's
an election season, but it isn't discussed that much. They
always like because you're you know, I'm a journalist, and
they want to talk about like not doing it it's
my free time. But for the most part, one thousand percent,
they just want stuff to work. People just want stuff
(21:23):
to work, and they don't want to think about it
too much.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
They just want it to be good.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
And if that comes in the form of a Republican
or a Democrat, if it's good and it's working, they're happy.
And I know that, Like we were in these echo
chambers and you hear it from one.
Speaker 11 (21:37):
Side or the other. But the reality is most people
just want it to work.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
They just want to run their business and sell pancakes
or burgers with French fries.
Speaker 11 (21:45):
I don't know whatever it.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, the problem is the system's been designed by our
founding fathers for us to be in charge, and we
don't want to be in charge.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
We just want to not pay attention and have everything work.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
But not paying attention and just expecting everything to work
is exactly.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
How we got into this message.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Indeed, with career politicians taking advantage of that ignorance, that's
far from bliss.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
In fact, it's thirty five trillion dollars expensive. But yeah, no,
I get everything you're saying.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
And listen. I actually was speaking to a station in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, earlier today, and the anchor there gave
an incredible I think he was insightful, and he's right,
and he's like, listen, we just we.
Speaker 11 (22:20):
Used to share the facts like we.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Used to get news from a boring news outlet, and
you didn't get to curate your facts. Everyone curates their
own facts now, so if you hear different facts that
don't align with the facts that you've curated, you're immediately
like that person's lyne.
Speaker 11 (22:36):
And I think that therein lies the rub.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
That we used to be able to like eat pancakes
together because at least we shared some of the same data.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
We don't even do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Well, the thing I would disagree with it. Look, facts
are facts, or should be facts. Some are hiding them.
So really what we're sharing is narratives and welcome to
moral relativism. That's what's dangerous, and abandoning absolute truth and
right and wrong for anything goes. Guess what thing goes? Eric,
great day, I saw, I guess No pancakes of comela
and anti bacon coming any time.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, have a good day. Talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Top five stories.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Milton is a five again. Park Mayfield has the latest.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
The National Hurricane Center upgraded the storm once again on
Tuesday afternoon. It's currently barreling towards the Florida coastline with
wind speeds of one hundred and sixty five miles per hour.
Milton had previously weekened to a category four storm, but
its wind speeds increased past the category five threshold. The
National Hurricane Center has also extended the storm Surgeon Hurricane
mornings in Florida and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I'm Marknyfield.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Well, Milton could be one of the most destructive storms
on record, especially for West central Florida, once in a
century for the Tampa area, and NBC's j Gray says
the ground, he's on the ground in the Sunset Sunshine
State and from the National Hurricane Center says, this one
looks it could be one for the record books.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
This could be the most powerful storm many in this
area have ever seen, and they've seen plenty Helene just
a couple of weeks ago, leaving debris that is still
piled up in some areas and still a very major concern.
Once that storm moves in.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And sometime around noon today, you'll start really feeling some
of those high winds in the outer bands. Wins at
one hundred and sixty miles an hour set to make
landfall late tonight early tomorrow morning. Warnings are in effect
throughout the region, including Tampa, which hasn't seen a storm
like this in a century, and as Jay Gray says,
truly a monster.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Really.
Speaker 9 (24:33):
What concerns me in comparing it to other storms is
just how quickly this thing ramped up. I mean, it
gained one hundred miles an hour in strength in less
than twenty four hours, and it continues to barrel not
only gaining intensity, but also it's getting a bigger footprint.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Well, I think from The View, to Howard Stern to
Stephen Colbert, some quick reminders as to why they've been
hiding Kamala from interviews. Here's Brian Shook with Kamala's rocky
Road to the White House.
Speaker 12 (25:02):
Road to the White House twenty twenty four. Vice President
Kamala Harris is taking part in a media blitz. On Tuesday,
she talked with radio star Howard Stern and appeared on
ABC's The View, where she was asked if she would
have done anything different than President Biden did in the
last four years.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
There is not a thing that comes to mind in
terms of and I've been a part of most of
the decisions that have had impact.
Speaker 12 (25:30):
And later that day, she appeared on The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert. Harris sat down with sixty Minutes for
an interview that aired Monday night. She's faced criticism from
within her own party for not doing enough interviews in Washington.
I'm Brian Shook.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, Arizona's too close to call, Nevada is too close
to call. North Carolina's too close to call. Pennsylvania's too
close to call. Michigan's too close to call, but there's
a lot of talk about Pennsylvania. But that makes North
Carolina and Zona also very important because they can be
steals in and of themselves, which is why Arizona may
look like campaign headquarters over the next few days, Matt
(26:08):
Mattinson explains.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
On Wednesday, both Governor Tim Walls and Senator JD Vance
will both be speaking at rallies in Tucson and will
also participate in other events around the greater Phoenix area.
That'll be followed by a visit from Vice President Harris,
who's scheduled to speak at an event in Phoenix Thursday night.
Then over the weekend, Former President Trump will be holding
a rally in Prescott Valley on Sunday afternoon. Arizona is
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considered to be a key swing state in the November
fifth election. In Phoenix, I'm at Mattinson Well.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Some of music's biggest names are going to come together
for Hurricane Helene benefit relief a concert in Charlotte later
this month. Michael Kastner reports.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
The concert for Carolina will see Luke Combs, Eric Church,
James Taylor, and Billy Strings take the stage to raise
Funds for the Carolina Region take place on October twenty
six at the Bank of America Stadium. More performers are
expected to be added later. Tickets for the concert go
on sale Thursday at ten am Eastern on ticket Master.
I'm Michael Cassner, I'm Jeff Eddie with Efficient Heating and Cooning,
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and my morning show is your Morning show with Michael
del Doorna.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
All eyes and all prayers for the people of Florida
as Hurricane Milton is back to being a Category five
with one hundred and sixty mile an hour winds and
a projected damage of one hundred and seventy five billion
dollars coming Florida's way in the Sunshine State is our
Rory O'Neil. We always give Rory the final story, and
Milton is certainly that I would suspect what one tuish
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in the afternoon, you'll start really feeling these outer bands.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
And high winds.
Speaker 10 (27:45):
Yeah, you know, we talk about landfall a lot, but
that's the center making landfall, meeting all the stuffed head
of it has already hit. So landfall is expected around
Sarasota Tampa Bay Ish about one o'clock in the morning,
Thursday morning, Eastern time, So that means this thing is
going to be rocking and rolling all night long, so
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making for a scary night for a lot of households,
a lot of families riding this one out in hotel rooms,
and then probably a pretty rough early morning in daytime
in Orlando, and then finally noonish should be moving on
off Daytona beach on the Atlantic coast, so really hitting
the entire peninsula as a hurricane the whole way.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
By the way, Peninsula can kind of sometimes be a
speed bump for a Cat four or Cat five. What's
such a trajectory once it gets in the Atlantic.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, it's going to fall apart after this.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
Luckily, that's what the Hurricane Center tracking shows is that
it keeps on going east and then just sort of
spins out.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
So it doesn't have it.
Speaker 10 (28:43):
They don't have any forecast track that they've announced that
shows it going toward the Carolinas or New England or something.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I grew up, Nolins. You grew up.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You've been living in Florida for a long time. Hurricanes
are strange, you know, you get pounded and pounded for
hours and then the I comes through.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I remember we were.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
It was a cat or four and pounded, pounded, Then
all of a sudden, the sun comes out. We go
out in the backyard, we're playing football. Then all of
a sudden it starts getting windy and Clyde and then
the boom, the eyes passing, and then the flooding comes
after that. But it is eery to live these these
initial bands. That's the nasty side. And I suspect that
pounding from Naples to Fort Meyer to Tampa is where
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that will take place.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
The eye.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
That's the key, because that's where the storm surge is
going to be. What's its trajectory, right, and that's what's trending.
Speaker 10 (29:31):
It tends to be a bit further south of Tampa
Bay now, which is good for Tampa, bad for Sarasota,
and then tracking inland after that again perhaps causing one
hundred mile per hour winds in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I mean, Orlando is dead smack in the middle of Florida.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
So the fact that the winds are still that strong
as a cat too in that part of Florida is
pretty remarkable. A lot of people were evacuating from Tampa.
They went to Orlando because it's got a lot of
hotel rooms and they'll probably be safer there. But if
they thought they were avoiding the storm or avoiding power outages,
probably not. Because you know, Hurricane Charlie was the last
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big hurricane to hit Orlando in terms of winds, but
that was two thousand and four, so it's been twenty
years and not a lot of trees have been trimmed
since then.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
So here it comes.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I don't know how they set up these mandatory evacuation zones.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
I got a friend who's just like four miles from it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, you're really that much safe for four miles away,
But I would imagine a lot of that's based on
flooding too, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
That's all.
Speaker 10 (30:31):
Yeah, that's all storm surge and flood related. And they'll
have a you're in an A zone, A B zone,
it's A through E. And typically they'll say it's always
an A zone evacuates, but they'll say, oh, it's A
through B or A through C this time. So that
means people from zero to I think it's like twenty
five feet above sea level.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Those three zones you got to get out.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
But if you're an E, which is thirty three feet
above sea level, you're okay, yeah, you're okay.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
So that's all right.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Well, today we brace for impact. Tomorrow we'll talk about
the impact Greg reporting, we'll talk then.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
We're all in this together. This is Your Morning Show
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