The Infomaniacs: January 9, 2025 (6:00am)

Would you perform CPR? National holidays and celebrity birthdays. California fires. Plus local news and sports.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
WTAW news time is five minutes after six. It is
thirty nine degrees. Good morning, I'm Chelsea Reberg. Most of
the attention of tonight's College Station City Council meeting is
about the proposed sale of the city's surface parking lot
in the Northgate district for thirteen million dollars. But tomorrow's
agenda also calls for selling Tonight's Yes, but tonight's agenda

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also calls for selling land at the city's Midtown Business Park.
Mayor John Nichols disastering our show about selling thirteen acres
along the freeway next to Costco for about four and
a half million dollars.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
It'll be several pad sites on the front, which they
already have strong connections to marketing. There'll be a couple
of retail buildings and a plaza in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Nichol says. The plaza will include green space.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
We'll work out the details of who's going to own
that and how it's going to be maintained. Clearly, they
want to have it there because it adds esthetics and
attracts people. A gathering point in the middle of this
piece of property, in the middle of thirteen.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Acres Nichol says the developer the option of acquiring the
remaining fifteen acres behind what they're buying. It's been six
months since the Bryan City Council decided to let the
owner of the Brasses Valley Bombers baseball team continue controlling
the city's baseball park for at least one more year.
With the Bombers announcing its plans for the upcoming season,
WTAW News as city officials for an update on the

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future of what the Bombers call Edible Field.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Last July, the council approve letting the Bombers have exclusive
use of what the city calls Travis Major Field until
the current agreement expires at the end of twenty twenty five.
The council also decided to solicit proposals for operating the
ballpark starting in twenty twenty six. A city spokeswoman tells
WTAW News the city will start accepting those proposals in

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the coming weeks, and that the owner of the Bombers
is encouraged to participate. For other interested parties, they'll be
required to accommodate the Bombers schedule. Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty
ninety four to five WTAW.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
What has been the Brasses County Commission's practice of routine
approval of budget amendments did not take place at this
week's meeting. Commissioner Fred Brown was opposed to awarding a
thirty six thousand dollars contract to repair a buckling floor
at the Brawsa Center to a company from San Marcus.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
It just seems wrong to me that we should take
Brazzis County taxpayer money and send it to San Marcus
when we could get a local company to do it,
probably for a lot less because when you figure this
bid from this company in San Marcus, they're also charging
for travel time and probably for some hotel time.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Brasis County's Assistant Purchasing Director Caitlin Battles says they used
a statewide bidding cooperative that saves time.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
This company knows this floor.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
They've done work in the past at the BRASA Center,
so they're.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
Aware of all the issues going on.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Commissioners were also told if the contract was not approved,
then the repairs would not take place until next year
because of existing reservations to use the Brass Center. The
Brian neighborhood south of Blynn College was the site of
a natural gas leak yesterday afternoon. An Atmos Energy spokesman
tells us near the intersection of Esther and Sharon, a
construction crew unrelated to Atmos damaged to pipe line. That

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result it results in at MISS issuing a precautionary evacuation
while repairs were being made. The Brian Fire Department also
responded an issue to public safety alert. WTAW news time
is eight minutes after six. It's thirty nine degrees. More
news at six thirty or online at WTAW dot com.
I'm Chelsea Reebert for sixteen twenty ninety four to five wtawicks.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
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Speaker 7 (03:41):
We'll bring showers with a chance of thunderstorms during the afternoon.
It'll be breezy with a Heinier forty. Rain is likely tonight,
with more thunderstorms possible. The rain may be heavy at times.
It'll be breezy with loads in the mid thirties. Friday
will bring cloudy skies. It'll be windy with heis in
the low forties. It'll be a sunny start to the
weekend on Saturday, with temperatures climbing to the LODA mid fifties.

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I'm meteorologist Morgan Bolton sixteen twenty ninety four or five WTAW.

Speaker 8 (04:10):
Texas A and M men's basketball had a massive comeback
on the road at Oklahoma last night.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
We'll have that coming up in sports.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
All right, Sorry, and your T shirt this morning or
you acclimated everything though, I mean, look at this.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
The T shirt.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
It's now it's ten degrees warm, say thirty nine. I
will say so, I slept in like sleep shorts last night,
so I went to take Dottie out. I said, it's fine,
I'll I'll just wing it. And I mean I put
a jacket on and some like snow boots.

Speaker 5 (04:36):
Ye oh, that's a good life.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, I'm sure if my neighbors, you know, we're awake
at three thirty in the morning, and peaked out their window.
They're going, what is that girl doing? But yeah, it
was manageable.

Speaker 8 (04:45):
It was It's funny. It was still cold, but I
I mean, yeah, it was so freezing.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
It was cold.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
But when I got out of my car to walk
into the building, I literally thought to myself, Oh.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
This isn't as bad as it has been.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, and it hasn't.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Right, It's amazing for as little as we get this
kind of weather, it doesn't take long for us. So
I started poking around just to see, by the way,
this storm, this winter storm that we're not getting, has
a name.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Did you know that? I didn't.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
I didn't either. So I went to say, well, let
me see what the Dallas weather is. I was thirty nine.
It's not too bad. Let me find someplace where, you know,
it's in Texas where it's not necessarily hospitable. So I
went to Abilene to see and they had this this
whole thing about winter storm Cora.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Sel I had a babysitter named Cora.

Speaker 6 (05:30):
Yeah, there's a radio station named Cora. So, I mean,
so I went to look at the map, and you
know what was it? Earlier this week we were talking
about it could be ten inches of snow in Dallas
and the football game and all that. So there's like
a wintery mix right around Abilene and Albany and Ballinger,
which is well west of the Metroplex and there maybe

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there's some frozen stuff up north of there, but who
cares what's happening in Wichita Falls right So but anyway,
so it's a winter mix is possible for I don't think.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Twelve inches of snow is what Dallas is going to get.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Yeah, it's not. Again, I understand the weather people have
a thankless job and we just pound on them every
time they're wrong. But oh so often they just scare
people to And that's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 8 (06:20):
It's like the second as just a hint of that
gets out, at least for my friends up there and
social media, it just goes bananas and we just started
posting and reposted like the end of the world.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Well, and it's funny, Kendall said. It's it's weird because
my my feed goes from fire in hell in California, yeah,
to freezing and cold in Dallas.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
And the problem is because everybody has a camera, they
can send off these strange videos or pictures going, this
is what eleven inches of snow looks like here, and
then we're doing it for a long time. I remember
some storm was supposed to hit Houston and some person
had taken a picture one of these plastic water bottles
just kind of floating down the you know, just just
a little trickle of rain and water running down the

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side of the curb, going, this is what.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
A hurricane looks like a hurricane.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
So you know, again, we understand you're doing your job,
but it's nice and if they're right now in this case,
like next week, it's going to be sixty degrees on
Saturday or sixty seven degrees or something, just crazy. So anyway,
I've got that. So would you perform CPR in an
emergency if a nine to one one operator told you how?

Speaker 5 (07:28):
Yes, yes, they studied twenty and.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
I kind of know how, Like I've been certified before.

Speaker 5 (07:33):
I have the same same here, Yeah, I have.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
I worked, Yeah, I worked at a when I worked
at a gym, we were we all went through it, right, yeah.

Speaker 8 (07:40):
Yeah, and so how about you, Sean, I coached little
kids soccer for a.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
While and oh yeah, and its requirement yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Okay, well I can remember they said use the beach
song staying Alive. That's exactly right, which was you know,
kind of cool, kind of interesting, kind of memorable.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
Hilarious scene from the office. If you haven't seen that episode,
go watch it.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Okay, I'll have to do that. I don't remember that.
But that's the thing is, is we see it depicted
on television so often.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh yeah, and are you watching like crime and medical shows?

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Sure? Yeap. So.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
The study analyzed twenty four hundred emergency calls and found
that bystanders were more likely to administer that life saving
procedure if the operator talked them through the steps. Yeah,
without assistance, CPR was performed just eleven percent of the time.

Speaker 9 (08:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
You know.

Speaker 8 (08:29):
One thing that I learned in the class that I
took was and this is what they said, like for
the first you know, you make sure you're someone there
is calling the police and until you can get them
on the phone walking you through CPR.

Speaker 5 (08:42):
Once you know that you need.

Speaker 8 (08:43):
It, pull your phone up, go to YouTube and google CPR. Oh, okay,
they're getting anybody there. Just get as much help as
you can. If you don't know it off, you know.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Right off, Yeah, if you're not doing it all the time.
You're not you know, you're not practicing every day. You know,
it's it's going to be something and obviously it's going
to be a very stressful situation, and it is something that, yes,
it could be life saving, but you could also harm
a person, and so you want to make sure that
you're not doing more harm than good, I think.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
And sadly, in our ligigious society, if something really bad
happens to that person, you could be culpable.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
I mean, you know.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Yeah, So one thing I guess, which is the numbers
are smaller as far as difference that I thought as
far as gender is concerned. Now, CPR performed on just
eleven percent of the time for male victims nine percent
for female victims.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, because they're afraid to kiss something, I know. See
that's yeah, that they're afraid to put their mouth on.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
But that's a smaller number than I thought. Yeah, I
thought there would be uh, it would be a lot
to hear that friends. However, when the operator helped nine
to one one callers, the rate climbed from to forty
and forty four percent, respectively, So it went up actually
higher for females than males. If again, you have a
nine to one one operator there to help. What encourages
me for research standpoint is that there's so many opportunities

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to increase the numbers, said the author of the study.
That's really a matter of everybody working together and working
toward the chain of survival from cardiac arrest.

Speaker 5 (10:09):
And you're right.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
I mean, I suppose that that every nine to one
to one operator is instructed as to be able to
give that information. How many of you have actually had
to do that? And that's why the YouTube is a
really good go to right now.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
And you just have to make sure for someone because
most of these people probably have never you know, done
a class or anything on it, right, so they need
to know the reality of it. And that's the hard
part of CPR is the reality is not what it
looks like on TV.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Sure, you need to be really.

Speaker 8 (10:38):
Really pushing much like uncomfortably, like it will feel like
you are breaking things. Yeah, like that's what it should
feel like. And they'll tell you that, the pros that
know how to do it, they'll tell you that.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
But you know, if you're if you're you've never done it,
but I've never done it, hurting that, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Well, and the other thing that you mentioned too in
your particular case where you were coaching little.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
Kids, different different stuff.

Speaker 6 (11:00):
Right, Yeah, there's the last thing that you want to
do is you know, I feel like you've injured them
as you're doing that. Prott. But anyway, that's why we Yeah,
that's why we have the internet, That's why we have
YouTube because.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
They are they're a good thing.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's info.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I think when you're that stressed out, having somebody like
in your ear or like you said on your screen,
walking you through step by step like that would definitely
calm down.

Speaker 6 (11:24):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Yeah, I can follow a direction.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:28):
And likewise, if you're standing by, watch what they're doing.
Please don't criticize.

Speaker 5 (11:32):
Okay, do you want to do this?

Speaker 6 (11:35):
Yeah, you're.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
It is six twenty, it's the Infamaniac. It's a Thursday.
We're almost through this arduously long five day week.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it is a Thursday.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
Man.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
That is so good.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (11:47):
Always glad to hear from me. If you want to
text this then today.

Speaker 11 (11:50):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
The numbers nine seven nine six nine sixteen twenty.

Speaker 6 (11:52):
Here's a question for you. What is the superior hot
chocolate topping. Oo are you bringing that out because it's
kind of cold.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yeah, definitely, it's really special. What do you got, yeah,
marshmellows whipped cream. So many different options.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
Let us know.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Nine sevent nine six sixteen twenty.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
It is balloon Ascension Day. I guess this must be
the anniversary of somebody who decided to do that. You know,
they started with animals. They put like a sheep up
there in that way. Something was terribly wrong. It was
just a sheep sheep. That's you sheep huggers out there.
It's international choreographer's day.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh okay, all right, they've got to come up with.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
The impressive stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
It can be absolutely well.

Speaker 6 (12:31):
I told you a story one of our travel buddies.
His job was to actually write down the choreographed steps, okay,
for he was the He did this for the Australian
National Ballet.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Oh wow.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
And he said, and he said, here's the reason. He said,
you have to have a trademark or copyright for things
that are creative. Oh sure, and how could what happens
if somebody steals this this right?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
You have to yeah exactly, And that's what he did.
He written record, Yeah, this was your original.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
Yeah. I walked away from the table going, well, I mean,
you know, jobs National Apricot Day. However you say it,
however you eat them.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
You know, I like dried apricots. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
I've never been in ear Yeah, so I think apricots
are probably a little bit tasty.

Speaker 8 (13:27):
Okay, we could call it the you know, I don't
know it's Mike Tyson ear fruit.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
I've never eat it. I don't think I've ever eaten
the fresh one.

Speaker 9 (13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Yeah, yeah, I think I've only had them dried and
like mixed.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, I'm older, so I probably have. But they're different, Yeah,
I have. They're different. I mean they're kind of because
they're close to a peach at point. Yeah right, yeah,
but I guess I probably. I mean, they have dried apricots,
but they do, uh you know apricot colachies.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yes, they do. They do.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Yeah, they're pretty sweet and nice.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yeah. It's a National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Okay, we'll
do that today and tomorrow and the day before and
all that static electricity. That could be fun.

Speaker 8 (14:06):
Yeah, man, I'm telling you what Maddie is learning about
that whenever we go to the parks on the slides.
She thinks stuff because she because she makes me go
up there and go down the slides with her, like
got to come up here. She thinks it's a funny.
It's one of the hardest I've ever seen her laugh
when she shocks me.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
She thinks it's the funniest thing. She's she can't like
belly laughing.

Speaker 8 (14:27):
She's like, I'm just gonna shock you every time you
come up here.

Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yeah, it's really but that's interesting ship.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
But clearly she gets a shock too, Yeah she does,
but she's all right with it.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
We were at the we were at the park down
the street. This is like a week or so ago,
and it was it was the sun had set, so
it's nighttime and we're going to walk back home and
she we go down the side one more time and
she shocks me.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
And it was such It was still, to this date.

Speaker 8 (14:48):
The biggest shock I've ever had in one of these situations.
You could see it because it was night time. You
can see the spark and she is just dying laughing.
I mean we all were because she thought it was
so funny. But yeah, now she'll goes shock shocky dead day. Okay,
I'm like, not really that one hurts.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
Oh wow, all right, wait until she learns about rubbing
nylon together, scrape it her fet across these. It's National
wonk Day walk Day okay. Takes place January ninth of
every year. As you can probably imagine, it celebrates Washington,
d C. Political enthusiasts, people who are wonked about that
kind of okay, so much minutia there, and it's national

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word nerd day.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Word nerd wor nerd. Right, go play wordlere Birthdays.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
We have tons of birthdays today. Kate Middleton forty fur
years old, Princess of Wales.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Oh yes, yes, she's got well. Yeah, I hope she
is doing well here.

Speaker 8 (15:42):
Yeah, forty three to day, Happy birthday, AJ from the
Backstreet Boys.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh yeah, AJ.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
He's the bad one, they said, the bad one.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
They go on to say, I didn't know he went
to rehab for drugs and stuff, the bad one. Okay,
he's forty seven. Chad Ocho Cinco was also forty seven today.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
Why do we talk about him?

Speaker 5 (16:00):
He's in at least in a commercial.

Speaker 8 (16:02):
He's in a commercial for Monday Night Football now randomly
pops up in the.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
Money.

Speaker 8 (16:08):
Yeah, he's making it somehow, Sean Paul fifty two. He's
a singer. Yeah, he's got a couple of good songs.
Dave Matthews, He's got a lot of good sounds.

Speaker 6 (16:15):
Oh, he's pretty good at pretty good.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
He's got a wine too, Does he really dreaming Tree
Dreaming Tree.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Fifty eight today? Yeah, yeah, he's probably selling that.

Speaker 8 (16:24):
Muggsy bos this is the five foot three NBA player
sixty years old today.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
He could dunk amazing.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
He was the star of Space Jam in my book,
Emelda Staunton. That is Professor Professor Umbradge from Harry Potter,
one of the Yeah, go ahead say it, say it because.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
The biggest, biggest villains in all of movie history.

Speaker 8 (16:46):
Really, I'm telling you this woman, this, this this character
one of the worst characters in any movie, book, show ever.

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Is Voltimore?

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Right?

Speaker 5 (16:56):
This one is worse. This is the worst. This is
worse than the bad guy in the show or in
the movie.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
But she she was in the Crown.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
She was Elizabeth.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, she does other stuff, but we know her. Dolores.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
She Dolores. She plays such a good bad guy. She
is hard to watch.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah she So I was watching that Harry Potter baking
competition show and one of their themes is based on
h it doesn't matter. They they kind of had her
at their theme and so they did like the tea
cups and the different you know, it was all pink
because she she comes off as this like she's sweet, sweet, sugary.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
Yeah, but she is. She's bad, mean whatever, happy bird.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah. She's like one of those you'd see on the
street and you'd be like, oh my god, you're a
real person.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
I'm so sorry.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
I would not like her.

Speaker 6 (17:50):
Exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
JK. Simmons is seventy years old. I love him. He's
in so many things. He does a great job and.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Every day Yellow Peanut right yellow and the voice actor
for that.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
He does Farmer's commercials. Yes, he started on Law and Order.
He played like an analyst.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
And he won an oscar for a movie. He was
a drummer.

Speaker 5 (18:14):
Okay, okay, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
He's Whip Black with ba He won an oscar for that.
Really enjoyed him. Yeaheah, ok really good.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
He was in Red one this year.

Speaker 5 (18:23):
Yeah, that's right, the Chris Chris action movie. Lot of stuff.

Speaker 8 (18:26):
Jimmy Page has led Zeppelin eighty one. He's done so
much Richard Nixon no longer with US, thirty seventh president.
Today's his birthday. Bob Denver is Gilligan's Island. Yeah, he's
his birthday. Dick Edinburgh sportscaster, he was great, loved him.
And Steve Harwell that's the smash Mouth singer died last year.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
I guess w t AW news time is six thirty two.
It's thirty nine degrees. Good morning. I'm Chelsea reberb new
Brazos County Commissioners. At this week's meeting, We're not happy
about awarding a contray to a San Marcus company to
repair floors at the Brasas Center.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
Well, lift just.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Doesn't seem very Christian to me. Our community has plenty
of people that would be able to do the same job.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Budget Officer Anina Payne told Commissioner Fred Brown that the
manager at the Brazos Center scheduled time for repairs to
be done now instead of waiting until the next fiscal year.

Speaker 10 (19:17):
She was able to move events closer to the energy
in or early February to get this done. The issue
is that the floors are in bad shape and there's
some hazardous areas in this facility that needs to be completed.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Round asked pain to consider local companies in the future.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
We need to keep Brass County taxpayer dollars in Brass County,
and if we have to go out for bids for everything,
and that's what we need to do.

Speaker 10 (19:38):
It's up to the departments depending on the price. And
some things are already contracted out, and so we'll try
of us to make it known.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Commissioners were told a statewide bidding cooperative was used to
obtain the San Marcus contract. New Commissioner Bentley Nettles asked
that the Purchasing Office consider creating a cooperative of Brass
County companies. The possible sale of the City of College
Station surface parking lot in the Northgate district is one
of two land sales that will be considered by the
City Council tonight. The council will also take up selling
thirteen acres the city owns along the freeway next to

(20:06):
the Costco store.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I think the council's very excited about the opportunity to
move another piece of that property into the private sector
and have a lot of interesting retail and experiential businesses
move in there.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Mayor John Nichols sharing details on our show, says the
developer plan several store pad sites, a couple of retail buildings,
and a public plaza.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
And that plaza will be discussed and developed during that
due diligence period, and then when we get to the
final development agreement two or four months from now, they've
done their due diligence, then we'll see exactly how that
maybe two acre plaza, which is really green space and
public space in the middle of it with the retail
surrounded it.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
The sales price is about four and a half million dollars,
and the mayor says the developer will have an option
to acquire the remaining fifteen acres behind what they're buying.
Negotiations have taken place between the City of Bryan and
the owner of the Brass Valley Bombers baseball team regarding
the operation of the city's baseball park.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Ay City Smoitzelman.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Until WTAW News, there's been many meetings with the Bomber's
owner since the city council agreed last July to let
the owner finish their current exclusive agreement to use edible field,
which expires at the end of this year. The council
also decided last July to seek proposals for operating what
the city calls Travis Major Field beginning in twenty twenty six.

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The spokeswoman says the city will start accepting proposals in
the coming weeks. The bomber's owners been encouraged to submit
a proposal, and proposals from other interested parties will have
to accommodate the bomber schedule Bill Oliver sixteen to twenty
ninety four to five WTAW.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
There was an arrest this week in a gunfire incident
in College Station that took place almost two and a
half years ago. The College Station police arrests report says
thirty five year old Cantrell Kenney of Calvert is accused
of firing an automatic rifle while in his apartment. The
arrest report also says officers left the scene and family
members went into the apartment to take custody of the
rifle and to take Kenny to the hospital. A detective

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who returned found one shot went through a wall that
shared a neighboring apartment. The second shot that was fired
into the was in the apartment floor. Kenny was arrested
for committing deadly conduct by firing the rifle and arrest
was made this week in the burglary of a College
Station apartment last September, where the occupant was struck multiple
times with a piece of lumber. The College Station Police

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arrests reports says thirty two year old Sarah Starks denies
using the two by four, but admits she and the
victim engaged in a physical fight outside the apartments. The
arrest report says the victim received hospital treatment for a
broken arm in several large bruises. Next week starts the
Texas Legislative session. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was aske
during a visit on WTAW about his expectations. He first

(22:39):
talked about the split among House Republicans who are still
trying to select a speaker. Miller wants a speaker who
doesn't name Democrats to chair House committees.

Speaker 11 (22:47):
We're the only Republican led state that appoints Democrats to chairmanships.
Of course, when you do that, good conservative legislation dies.
It never gets a hearing.

Speaker 6 (22:57):
And that's where we've been.

Speaker 11 (22:58):
That's why we don't have school choice, that's why we
haven't stopped China from buying our farm land, and the
list goes on and on and on.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
Miller says, in addition to passing legislation stopping China from
buying land, state lawmakers have to address increasing water demand,
something which has caused a decrease in agriculture production. Wtat'lb
news time is six thirty seven. It's thirty nine degrees.
More news at the top of the hour. I'm Chelsea
Reeber for sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
God morning, it's six thirty nine.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
It's see if how many acts all this Thursday morning.
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Speaker 7 (23:37):
Showers are likely today with a chance of thunderstorms during
the afternoon. It'll be breezy with a height near forty.
Rain is likely tonight and maybe heavy at times, with
more thunderstorms possible. It'll be breezy with loads in the
mid thirties. There will be plenty of Klaus to end
the week. On Friday, it'll be windy with his in
the low forties. Saturday will bring plenty of sunshine as

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temperatures climb to the LODA mid fifty. I'm meteorologist Morgan
Bolton sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW.

Speaker 8 (24:06):
And and M women's basketball has a tough matchup today. They
take on number two South Carolina on the road. We
will preview that in sports.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
There you go, six forty A. We got twenty twenty
five calendars, mousepad calendars. They're right here. You can come
by and pick them up at our little radio station here.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah. We we are on the top floor, fifth floor
of the Guarantee Bank building and college station. Yeah, come
grab some calendars. Our front desk is open from nine
am to five pm.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
That's in our question today. Let us know what's the
superior hot chocolate topic?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, let us know how you like it. Nine seventy
nine six nine five sixteen twenty.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
I mean, we know it's warming up where we're up
to a ball me what thirty nine forty three or
something like that, but still a little bit chilly for
most of us. So clearly the wildfires in California, I
mean it's otherworldly it is to watch that.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
And that's what you're hearing from people who are there
and are being interviewed. Is that it just it's unlike
anything they've ever seen.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yep, that's for sure.

Speaker 12 (25:03):
Santa Anna winds that have been fueling deadly wildfires that
have burned nearly thirty thousand acres near Los Angeles are
expected to pose a threat to San Diego County, on
the southern tip of California. The National Weather Services the
second wave of winds is expected Thursday night into Friday
for San Diego, where the land has been described as
critically dry. San Diego Gas and Electric officials have preemptively

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shut off power to at least nine thousand in the
county's backcountry to reduce the chances of strong winds knocking
down power lines and causing more fires. They say more
shut offs could be coming. Forecasters say a third, weaker
round of Santa Anna wins are expected on Sunday, with.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
A fourth midweek.

Speaker 12 (25:41):
Tanya Jay Powers Fox News.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Now, the President has just happened to be out there.
He went out to because his great first great grandchild
was going to be born, and so he was in
California and he met yesterday and they had some video
and the audio is terrible. You couldn't hear anything, and
again it was just kind of for show. Is that
kind of thing happens. You're not going to put the
President of the United States near any of that stuff.

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Politics is, of course, weigh in on it now, because
that's what politics does. Is there's a lot of finger
pointing going on. But I can remember back even in
the Clinton administration that they talked about clearing the underbrush
was really something that needed to be done on an
ongoing basis, not just in California but every place, because
it's the tender that you get that keeps these fires going.

(26:27):
But if you saw the winds yesterday, I'm sorry, no
politician is responsible for seventy five mile an hour, which
just that's not the case. So I understand all that stuff.
I was looking at the New York Times this morning.
This is from about five minutes ago. New wildfire that
raced across the Hollywood Hills this morning, threatening an area

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indelibly tied to the American film industry, put thousands put
to strain on millions of Los Angeles residents. The fires
have killed five people. These now are close to the
Hollywood Hills near Holland Boulevard and Sunset boulevard names that
we've known forever and again, and we've got a list
later on this morning all the famous people who you

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know whose homes have been destroyed over this.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, I was gonna say, because I do follow some
celebrity you know, news accounts on social media, and obviously
there's you know a ton of normal, regular people who
are losing their homes. But you're going to see that
and the people who have lost you know, I think
Paris Hilton was one of them. There were others that
I saw that their houses are completely gone.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Now the where politics does play in, not necessarily as
far as individuals are concerned, but a couple of years ago,
the California legislature and so likewise, okay, so the governor
approved that, so you can put it on I guess
a person if you want to. But what they did
is they passed legislation that would put a cap on
insurance premiums in California, thinking they would help people out. Well,

(27:53):
guess what insurance companies just pulled out. I mean they
started that two years ago. I went back and looked
at a story from April of this year has said
two more insurers have pulled out of California troubling homeowners.
They're talking about thousand and tens of thousands of people
who don't have insurance because the insurance companies pulled out

(28:13):
of California. Now they didn't have and again that's all
over the state, not just where these fires happen. But
I'm not exactly sure how you solve that problem. Does
the federal government step in and help people who can't
get insurance for their homes? Now, I don't know you
do it for I mean, that's what Obamacare is. That's

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for people who can't get insurance someplace else, that's health insurance.
Does the government step in here? I mean, now it
becomes an insurance crisis RSOL. And that's something again that
we don't necessarily see. But I think we discussed maybe
on the show about four or five months ago, that
there are some areas where insurance companies in Texas don't
want to, especially along the coast, don't want to provide

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homeowner's insurance. And so you look at a catastrophe that
happens like this, and you know that there are a
lot of people out there who do not have insurance.
And we'll hear about stars who've got millions of dollars
or tens of millions of dollars and they can rebuild.
But how many just regular folks there because of the
legislature deciding we're protecting you by putting a cap on

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what your insurance premiums could become. In fact, when the
insurers pull out as they can, it's a free market society.
There are people who have been out here without insurance
now and their homes can never be rebuilt. Yeah, and
that is an unfortunate situation. And again, I don't know
if that's politics or not, but it's certainly what the
environment is in California. And if you need one more
thing to add to the list of why you don't

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want to live in California.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, yeah, sure it is.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
It's scary, it is.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
That would probably be it. But again, and I presume
most everybody who has a level of interest has seen
these videos. But I mean it's like a movie. It's
like a blowtorch to a house. That is incredible.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Just a quick look at Billy Crystal and his wife,
their home of forty six years burned down. Yeah, Like
I said, Paris Hilton was another one.

Speaker 6 (30:00):
Goodman's name is the way right, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I mean there's there's quite a few that are are
in there and it's just yeah, it's really really so.
But again, even just for the normal people who live
in LA there's a lot of people who live and
work there and are just your average Joe, and yeah,
it's it's sad.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
And again, as they said, the red flag warnings are
now going down all the way to San Diego's, which
down almost the entire portion of the state of California.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Good morning, I'm Sean Burnett with your sports update.

Speaker 8 (30:26):
On sixteen, twenty ninety four to five wta W, the
number ten ranks Texas A and M men's basketball team
got a huge come from behind win last night over
number seventeen Oklahoma on the road. The team trailed by
eighteen points in the second half before rallying for the
eighty to seventy eight win. Zurich Phelps led the Aggies
with a career high thirty four points, including the late

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go ahead three pointer. The Aggi's played without an injured
Wade Taylor and moved to thirteen and two overall and
two to zero in conference play. Here's head coach Buzz
Williams following the game.

Speaker 13 (30:58):
In many respects, they'd be from start to finish. And
I don't know that you can give up forty two
points from three with the three point fill goal percentage
being higher than the overall percentage and it not be
fifty one thirty three. Actually, I would say that should
be the line fifty one thirty three because it was

(31:18):
everything that we were trying they were taking advantage of
and having near perfect success. But I do think that
the character of our guys and the relationships that they
have with one another, I thought that they just kind
of hung around. I don't think that they ever dropped
their heads, so to say. I thought they were very
accountable to one another and to what we're trying to do,

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and we're very fortunate to win.

Speaker 8 (31:44):
The Aggie's schedule doesn't get any easier is they will
host number five ranked Alabama Saturday at seven o'clock. You
can listen on sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
Texas A and M women's basketball has another tough matchup
today on the road as the team faces it's third
straight ranked conference opponent. They will take on number two
ranked South Carolina in Columbia. The Aggies are eight and

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six overall and one and one in conference play. They're
coming off their first win over a ranked opponent since
twenty twenty one. The game Cocks are fourteen and one
on the season and two to zero in conference play.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Here's head coach Jony Taylor on the game plan.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
I think we need to all be on the same
page in terms of what it is we're doing. So
these we'll start film session here in a minute. So
these next two days of practice is really important. We've
got to make sure we have all eyes on the
bench and we're echo yelling and you know, relaying information
and communication because it's very loud in there. And then
we've got to take care of the basketball and try
to make them play in the half court and not
score in transition.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
Today's game has a tip off at four o'clock. You
can listen on Willie fifteen fifty and ninety eight point
seven FM. The Texas A and M women's tennis team
is predicted to finish third in the conference by their
league coaches. The SEC announced yesterday. The team is coming
off their most historic season in program history, going twenty
eight and seven and winning the first ever national championship.

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They returned six starters, including raining Ita National Player of
the Year Mary Stoyana. The team finished the first day
of the new season in Honolulu yesterday with a nine
to one record. The team dropped one doubles match on
the day and went a perfect seven to zero singles.
The Aggies are playing matches against both usc and Hawaii.
They'll continue action today, beginning with doubles at two o'clock.

Speaker 5 (33:24):
The Houston Astros will be without.

Speaker 8 (33:25):
Pitcher Justin Verlander as he's headed to San Francisco after
agreeing to a one year, fifteen million dollar contract. Verlander's
coming off the worst season of his career and returning
to Houston wasn't an option. He's entering his twentieth major
league season and in the NBA. The San Antonio Spurs
lost to the Milwaukee Bucks last night. They'll be back
in action on Saturday against the Lakers. The Rockets play

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the Grizzlies on the road tonight at seven, and the
Mavericks are at home against the Trailblazers at seven thirty.
That's our morning sports update on sixteen to twenty ninety
four to five WTAW.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
I'm Sean Burnett.

Speaker 6 (33:58):
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for our high temperature about fifty on Saturday, and Sunday
will be close to sixty. Will be in the middle
fifties on Monday. But right now it's forty degrees out there.
So that was kind of a neat win for the
basketball team.

Speaker 5 (34:33):
Yeast Night, Man, that was super nice.

Speaker 6 (34:35):
I was watching early and they were behind by double digits,
but you know, because that whatly came back.

Speaker 5 (34:40):
That good Dean kid.

Speaker 8 (34:42):
Yeah he I that was one of the best shooting
performances I've ever seen in at any level.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
He went nine for eleven from three.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
Yeah, whoa.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
He couldn't miss well.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
And the confidence to know that you can win without
Weide because his shoes win is injured right now, and
you know they're trying to get him healthy because you
need him later in the season, you don't need him
right now. And to know that you can win against
a good team without him is really good for the confidence.

Speaker 6 (35:12):
Yeah, because of the schedule, they do need him on
Saturday Alabama, well yeah, yeah on Tuesday where they go
to Kentucky.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
This is they were on the game before against South Carolina.
Yeah it was good.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Okay, yeah, that's a home game, right, right, let's go.

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