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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, good morning, and welcome in Kentucky in his
morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas Nick
coffee with you day two, they let me come back
for a second day. I'm going to keep doing this
until they no longer allow me in the building. But
welcome in again. Happy Tuesday to you. Going to be
a really really hot day today, temperatures getting up to
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close to ninety, might get to ninety. But we got
a lot on the docket, and we'll of course get
you your first update on traffic and weather coming up
here in about four minutes. As always, I'm joined by
the crew here. We've got Scotty Fitzgerald, We've got John
Olden and John Shannon will give you your first news
update coming up around five thirty, and we will continue
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to discuss a big story from yesterday, certainly, and not
a surprise that with the attention that it got that
we heard from Mayor Craig Greenberg in regards to the
situation on Bargetown Road over the weekend, I guess back
to back weekends. As the Mayor has said, no solution
is off the table when it comes to getting this
getting this figured out. We'll let you hear some of
(01:03):
the some of the clips from Mayor Greenberg yesterday, and
I'm sure it'll be covered within the news as well.
But I I've got a thought on just the reaction
of this this situation that I don't I don't really
hear others discussing. Doesn't mean they don't they don't see
it from my point of view, But we'll certainly get
into that. Also, a new area code potentially coming to
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the area, five oh two could be no more. I mean,
if you still have an area code that is five
oh two, I think you're you're you know, you're in
good shape. But they're running out of different phone numbers
they can they can provide because of how many they've
already gone with five oh two, And that just sounds
sounds crazy to get a new phone number here in Louisville,
Kentucky and it not be five oh two, But it
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sounds like that that could be happening. But also, I mean,
the area code is is often when you put somebody's
number in your phone, do you even remember what area
code it is?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Like, Scott, you're with me right? Area codes?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Like again, I think you need to know what when
you take the number but outside of that, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Dude, I'm like, if I remember somebody's number, it's like
I couldn't tell you my son's phone number right now.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've had the same cell phone for probably same cell
phone number for probably about sixteen seventeen years, and around
that time, I mean, I remember, like my best friend's number.
I remember my mom's work number when I was a
kid and i'd have to call her when I was home.
But other than that, if I put your number in
my phone in the last decade, there's a good chance
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I don't remember it at all. I couldn't. You could
give me a lineup, I would probably I would just
have to guess.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right right, I mean, I remember our first efferent phone
number to your point, but when I call my son now,
I'm just voicing it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Like your home number. Yeah, of course number.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I never forget that you remember those because at the
time you didn't have your you didn't have a smartphone.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You just go to the contact and hit call. You
had to dial. This is yeah, I dialed it. I
actually set up and dial.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But at the same token, you know, if I call
my son or my daughter or my wife, that's even
if I call anymore. I'm most of the time in texting.
Oh yeah, and that was the hardest thing for my
wife to get used to. My wife's not a text her.
She'd rather call. She likes to hear the voice, she
likes to talk. I text because I'm so busy.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think most people probably prefer to me.
It's really what you're talking about. I mean, if it's
just a quick thing, it could be a text. And
there's certain things where like I know that if I
text this, there's a chance it may be taking out
of context, it may lead to a lot of questions,
which ends up in a lot of back and forth texting. Therefore,
I'm just going to call you and just give you
the specific so we don't spend a bunch of time
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going back and forth via text. Be a text, I mean,
I can't imagine the life of up the text message.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh, it's a game changer, right, we do.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, It's definitely something that we probably take for granted
because once it became a thing, it became like it's
how most people communicate. So in fact, I remember when
I was in high school it became a big deal
and used to have to pay per text message on
your data plan and my mom got a phone bill
one time and it was not good for me at home.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So where is this new area code supposedly happening? Where
are we talking about the men?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, no, so it's it's we'll get into the specifics
of it a little bit later on, because you know,
there's I think the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Two seven zero is safe.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, but yeah, if there's a plan as far as
what they're going to do if in fact we end
up getting you know, if you know, if they make
this change, which we'll get to that a little bit
later on. Also, coming up about five to forty five,
we'll talk to Rory O'Neill. The terror attack that took
place in Boulder over the weekend. Obviously that's been a
big story in the last couple of days. And then
I know, when it comes to sports, Scott's going to
get us updated on the college baseball postseason.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How about Louisville baseball? That awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They were cold as could be heading into the postseason
and now here they are two wins away from Omaha
and they're going to be hosting a Super regional here
at Jim Patterson Stadium for the first time since twenty nineteen,
which that is crazy to say out loud, but it
speaks to one the draft they've been on as far
as big postseason success, and also how spoiled we were
because I felt like they hosted a super regional like
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every year for about a decade, but they've certainly been
due for one of these big runs.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So it was I was getting a little too used
to that, to be honest with you, Nick. It was
like every time you turned around and the crowds started
to show, there were some super regionals moving out to
and there were fans there, but it wasn't packed.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Until the end rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think they were playing Illinois State when my son
that win. So yeah, I'm glad you're bringing that up
because that's a valid point. Now it's been taken away
from the fans, we'll see how they respond.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And you have no I mean, you don't want your
success to ever stop at all, but whenever it does
for whatever reason, and then you get back to it,
it feels a little bit better. I mean, Pat Kelsey
brought Louisville basketball back to life to where you were
beating teams called popcorn State, and it used to just
be the expectation, and this year it was it felt
a little better because you'd been you'd gone a while
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without those kind of wins. So yeah, good stuff. We'll
get to sports coming up around five to twenty five.
Your first update on traffic and weather is right now.
It's Kentuckyta's Morning News right here on news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It is five sixteen here a Kentucky Ata's.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Morning News news radioaight forty whas Nick coffee with you.
Appreciate you guys waking up with us. So after a
second straight weekend of big crowds flooding Bargetown Road near
Grinstead Grinstead Avenue, is it Grinstead Drive? I don't know
whats that Avenue Grinstead Drive? Excuse me, apologies there, I
should know I should know that. But anyways, right, Mayor
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Craig Breenberg did say that an administration, as you could expect,
is not afraid to take to take action, and it's
not at all surprised to see that. You know, this
was a big, big talking point yesterday here locally, and
obviously you hear from the mayor, you hear from the
police chief, and this is a little bit of what
was said and again I don't think many will be
surprised by this response from the mayor.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We are not afraid to take action on businesses or
individuals that are violating the law, that are not acting
properly in what should be an area for people to
have safe enjoyment. I share the frustration of the neighbors,
and I'm very proud of the work that we have
done over the past year or two in the area.
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We have shut down three bars that were not complying
with the room with the rules in the same general vicinity.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So I know there will be more from more sound
from from Mayor Greenberg that you'll hear throughout the morning
in our newscast, as well as Chief Humphrey who talked
yesterday and did talk about it. In fact, let's this
is this is this is probably a big thing for
the for the police department as far as just keeping
it from getting quite to the level that it got
to on on Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We'll make sure that we are responding to that ahead
of time so that that crowd never gets to the
point where it's it's blocking the street and creating a
dangerous situation where emergency vehicles can't get through.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So look, this is clearly something that they they're they're
gonna through whatever they can to get this fixed to
where this kind of stuff doesn't doesn't happen anymore. That's why,
you know, he's not afraid to take action. And as mentioned,
he says no solution is off the table, and that's
that's good. That's what you want to hear. And I'm
sure if you are somebody that lives in the area,
or you are a business owner in the area, you
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obviously just want results, you want action. You just you know,
because this what happened this past weekend and the weekend priory,
and I wouldn't I wouldn't know if it had gotten
to that level prior. But I know that this is
not insanely uncommon for that that's something like that to
take place on a weekend evening at night when people
are out and some of the bars over there, I
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mean there are three bars, as Craig Greenberg mentioned yesterday,
that had been shut down because of just not complying
with what you need to do in order to be
open for business. However, one thing that has really stood
out to me in the last day or so is,
despite this being an area that a lot of folks
in Louisville have probably frequented it at some point in
their life to have, you know, to have a good
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night out right go to the bars. I mean a
lot of the noise, at least from people that I've
talked to, people that I'm friends with, is Wow, what's
happened to Bargetown Road? The Highlands used to be used
to be a place where you would go bar hop
and there were so many different places that you could
hit along the way and you would just call it
a night. Everybody would get a cab and go home
and you wouldn't see anything like this. And although that
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is certainly true, I don't think there's anything that I
just laid out there. As far as the noise you're
hearing from others, that is, that is incorrect. But what
really stands out to me the more I hear that
from folks, and I'm really just talking about people that
I know, friends of mine, and I have some friends
that still that still are in that area a lot,
some live not too far from it, and they've mentioned
just sort of what it can turn into, you know,
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in the middle of the night on a Saturday night,
Sunday morning even, But what we saw on the new
in the news coverage from from wk Y as far
as the I guess the social media videos that they
obtained they ended up making a part of their newscast
and just you know, hearing of people jumping on cars
and trying to disarm security, that kind of stuff. I mean, yes,
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it's it's bad for it to happen at a place
like Bargetown Road, the Highlands that area because it's a
place where people, you know, want to go and have fun.
But that shouldn't happen anywhere, Like there should be nowhere
where that takes place. And you were like, well, okay,
and I don't think anybody's advocating that it should that.
You know, hey, take take this, take this nonsense, Take
these shenanigans elsewhere. But I mean, yes, it happening in
the Islands, especially if you're you know, business owner and
(10:03):
you know you want customers, you want people, don't want
people to be afraid to come and give you business
because of what's going on. But I mean that happening
anywhere is something that needs to be addressed. And I'm
sure they know that. But yeah, uh, clearly yesterday you
could tell there's there's there's a plan to let it
be known that that will not be tolerated in any way.
All right, your next update of trafficing weather coming up
(10:24):
right now. Scotty Fitzgerald's got sports as well. Keep it
locked right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.
It is five thirty four here at Kentucky at his
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(10:45):
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As mentioned five, Well, it's close to five thirty five.
I was gonna say five thirty four again, but what
I really wanted to do was mention the date because
it's June third, which means it was nine years ago
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that we had the Well, was it the celebration of
life that was nine years ago? Or was it nine
years ago that Muhammad Ali passed away. Let me double
check this because I should get this correct. Yes, his
passing was nine years ago today. It was June third,
twenty sixteen, and there's the I Am Ali Festival at
the Muhammad Ali Center that takes place. It's going to
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be let's see six weeks from June third, starting today
up until July thirteenth. And I was actually reflecting on
my nine plus years doing sports just down the hall
on seven ninety WKRD as I was finishing up last week.
And I think at that time, I mean, I was
a lot younger, and I feel like in the moment,
if I go back, I would say, oh, you realized
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just how big of a you know, how big of
a deal that was. But I'm not really sure I
was old enough, or maybe maybe it wasn't about age.
Maybe it was more so just not being able to
quite realize in the moment how many eyeballs across the
planet were on Louisville as that took place. Obviously is
passing and then the celebration of life. And I don't
know if I'll ever have a time in my lifetime
(12:10):
here in Louisville where there was more attention, and it's
mentioned more eyeballs on Louisville just because of the impact
that Muhammad Ali had on not only us here in Louisville,
his home, but the world.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, I listened to him. There's an IRIS radio host
that I like to listen to him mid days because
he's really good. I remember that day and he is
revered in Ireland.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He is Muhammad Ali is just a hero.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
He's almost he's their national hero really when you put
it that way, you know, but he they couldn't stop gloating.
They kept talking about what was going on at Louisville.
And to your point, Nick, I think for me the
whole day, I was just encapsulated by the TV coverage.
When he stopped, they stopped the hearst in front of
the Ali Center on sixty four. That was telling the
(12:53):
idea to take the hearst throughout the city, through the
West End, through where he was from, and to see
the massive outpouring by this city, especially in a time
when you're talking we had our fair share of you know, decisiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Sure, you know, but I couldn't get enough of the
coverage anywhere local, nationally. Just it it made me feel
good about being somebody from Louisville and has been here
my whole life. And I think every city probably has
some stories that get some national attention that they are
happy and they think, hey, it makes us look good.
And there's obviously the other side of that, stories that
(13:26):
are focused on your city that you know aren't necessarily
a positive look. And we've certainly had that here in Louisville.
And again, we're not alone, but let's be real, we've
had especially in the last you know, five six years,
it's been pretty rough, But that doesn't mean there's not
great things going on here. But I feel like in
that moment nine years ago, whenever Muhammad Ali passed away,
and obviously there was the celebration of life. He had
celebrities from across the world coming here to be a
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part of the of the big of the celebration of life,
and it was just it was awesome. And again I
think back then I was well aware of how rare
that was and just how they'll probably never be anything
quite like this, especially being on the radio, having a
platform to kind of talk about it and be here
where it was all going on. So yeah, I can't
believe it's been nine years. Sometimes I feel like it's
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been twenty years. Sometimes it feels like it was just
the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I was gonna say, it feels like it's been the
other day. Just to see the people who come in
and the visitors who come in. You hear from folks
when you take them to the Ali Center. I took
my family down to the Ali Center and they were
just impressed tenfold. I mean they because it got into
just when I said, let's go to the Ali Center.
They're like, my mom, she's not I'm not a big
boxing fan. She where do I want to go? I mean,
(14:31):
I said, Mom, it's more than that. And she came
down and she started looking into the lives of the
lives of Muhammad Ali, what happened publicly, socially, and then
my mom really got into it, and she said that
was impressive and she really enjoyed coming down and being
a part of that.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'll tell you what, I think there's probably many that
really no are just I mean, they don't probably just
consider themselves fans of Muhammad Ali, but they maybe super
fans or maybe they and they may they may have
never even watched them in a boxing match, just because
they learned about him through you know, his fame came
from boxing, but obviously he was a larger than life
figure and hearing somebody who also from Louisville reached that
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level of fame and have such an impact on the world,
but never at any point not make it clear he's
from Louisville and he's proud to be from Louisville. If
you're from Louisville, that's really cool. And you really got
reminded of just how much he embraced being from here
during that time. And you remember Will Smith showing up
and speaking, also Billy Crystal, and then John Ramsey, who
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of course former colleague of ours here at iHeart Louisville,
very close to Muhammad Ali and his family, and of
all of all the people that spoke, and everybody did
a great job. It was such a great, great, great
celebration of life. But I think John Ramsey, and I
don't just say this because I know him, but I
don't know if anybody did better than him, and you
could really tell. So, yeah, nine years since since the
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chant passed away and the.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Red bike story, Oh yeah, something I'd never heard of
growing up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I got to Louisville.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I remember I'm glad you mentioned that, Scott, because I
remember thinking, Okay, you're a Louisville native, you know you
claim And I felt like at the time I didn't
know a lot about Mhammad Ali. But there when people passed,
you're gonna learn things you would have never known, because
that's what happens. Those are the conversations that take place
when you look back on somebody's life once they passed away.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So I remember thinking I should know this.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But when when people pass away again, there's just no
way to know everything about everybody. And sometimes there's things
that you know maybe don't come out until you know
long after. So anyways, nine years ago today, Muhammad Ali
passed away. All right, your next update on trafficking weather's
coming up right now, and we're going to be joined
coming up at about five forty five by Roy O'Neil
BBC News to talk about this terror attack that took
(16:40):
place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend. Stick around right
here our news Radio eight forty whas five forty five
Here a Kentucky Anda's morning news on news Radio eight
forty whas. Nick Coffee with you. We now welcome in
Rory O'Neil from NBC News to discuss the terror attack
that took place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It sounds as if this suspect acted alone, but also
it sounds as if this was something that he had
planned for quite some time.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Now we've learned yeah, and it it appears that this suspect,
Mohammed Salabon, had actually been working on this for about
a year, searching the internet, using YouTube videos to figure
out how to make molotov cocktails and this improvised flame
thrower that he allegedly used in the attack that happened
on Sunday. We know that there were the hate field messages.
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He was shouting things like free Palestine and trying to
kill Jewish people, so we know that was all there
at the scene as well. He's facing what sixteen counts
now of attempted first degree murder. Those are the state charges.
He's also facing a federal hate crime charge as well.
Both of those cases could send him to prison for
the rest of his life. He's forty five years old
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and right now sitting in a jail cell in Boulder.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
When it comes to what he has said to those
after being arrested. It doesn't sound as if he basically
said he would do it again.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
If he could.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Is that a rare response from someone who ends up
being apprehended after committing such a heinous crime? To me,
that doesn't necessarily surprise me given what this individual was
willing to do, but very brazen as far as just
letting it be known that he has no regrets and
certainly would do it again if he could. That just
seems to be seems to be odd to hear from him.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, a bit of an outlier.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Oftentimes the suspects in cases like this don't survive, they're
killed in the attack, so we don't get a chance
to talk to them. And then he appears to be
speaking to investigator something else we typically don't see though
quote lawyer up unquote and won't speak at all. We
also know that this man left behind a cell phone
at his family home in Colorado Springs, Colorado that contained
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farewell messages and gave some more information about his intent
here Colorado Springs and Boulder about ninety minutes apart. So
apparently this group was targeted because they held these events
every single Sunday, so he knew that they would be
there when they would be there, making them a prime
target for his hate.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So how was the Jewish community in Boulder react to this?
Obviously you don't anticipate something quite like this happening, but
this was heinous.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It certainly is, and in such a high profile way.
And you know the fact that this man also tried
to get a gun, would have bought a gun if
not for gun laws that prevented this a foreign national
from buying a gun here in the States. That's why
he says he had to go and use this method,
which of course inflicted terrible burns on these victims. One
(19:43):
of the victims eighty eight years old, a Holocaust survivor,
now looking for a head to a very painful, long
recovery from some of these burns. Obviously, the community, the
Jewish community, but really the whole community has been affected
by this, and we're expecting to see more signs of
support to rally behind that community in the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You mentioned did he at A lot of criminals who
commit this kind of act, they end up they end
up not living, not surviving. This is a little bit
different here, which I'm glad you've mentioned that because I
didn't really know what to compare it to, but it did
seem odd that you have you have, you know, the
aftermath from somebody who did this. Youe hearing that they
you know, they didn't regret it. But now you know
the fact that they do have his cell phone and
(20:26):
he is quo, he's speaking to authorities. I mean, do
they expect to get more from him? It sounds as
if he acted alone. Maybe they could, maybe they could
uncover that that there's more to this and maybe it's
a little deeper.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Right, That's exactly the point of the investigation now, to
figure out who else was involved here. Again, it looks
like he got some of this knowledge about the flame
thrower and the molotov cocktails just by scrolling the internet
and getting YouTube videos. But they want to see if
someone else was taking part. You know, he's only been
here in the US for a few years, arrived in
(20:57):
twenty twenty two, got a work perim it in twenty
twenty three that expired in March of this year. So
he was in the country illegally after overstaying his visa
that did allow him here, But so he doesn't necessarily
have deep ties here in the States. So you want
to figure out if he was working with someone else.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Rory is always appreciate the time and to look forward
to talking to you again soon. Thanks Nick, That's Rory
O'Neil from NBC News. Yeah, I was thinking when it
comes to just the and again, I hate to say this,
but this is this is this is not an insanely
rare situation for these kind of things to happen, unfortunately,
and typically you don't those who commit these crimes don't survive.
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Therefore you don't get you know, you don't get that,
you don't get a cell phone maybe or you don't
certainly get comments from them after the fact. So maybe
it's not a surprise necessarily to hear someone who would
commit this type of act be just this awful. However,
typically they're not around to to really react at all
after the fact. But thanks again, Roy O'Neil. NBC News
quick Break. We've got news and traffic coming your way.
(21:57):
Another update of sports coming as well right here on
News Radio eight forty w j S
All right, good morning, and welcome in Kentucky in his
morning news here on News Radio eight forty whas Nick
coffee with you day two, they let me come back
for a second day. I'm going to keep doing this
until they no longer allow me in the building. But
welcome in again. Happy Tuesday to you. Going to be
a really really hot day today, temperatures getting up to
(00:20):
close to ninety, might get to ninety. But we got
a lot on the docket, and we'll of course get
you your first update on traffic and weather coming up
here in about four minutes. As always, I'm joined by
the crew here. We've got Scotty Fitzgerald, We've got John
Olden and John Shannon will give you your first news
update coming up around five thirty, and we will continue
(00:41):
to discuss a big story from yesterday, certainly, and not
a surprise that with the attention that it got that
we heard from Mayor Craig Greenberg in regards to the
situation on Bargetown Road over the weekend, I guess back
to back weekends. As the Mayor has said, no solution
is off the table when it comes to getting this
getting this figured out. We'll let you hear some of
(01:03):
the some of the clips from Mayor Greenberg yesterday, and
I'm sure it'll be covered within the news as well.
But I I've got a thought on just the reaction
of this this situation that I don't I don't really
hear others discussing. Doesn't mean they don't they don't see
it from my point of view, But we'll certainly get
into that. Also, a new area code potentially coming to
(01:25):
the area, five oh two could be no more. I mean,
if you still have an area code that is five
oh two, I think you're you're you know, you're in
good shape. But they're running out of different phone numbers
they can they can provide because of how many they've
already gone with five oh two, And that just sounds
sounds crazy to get a new phone number here in Louisville,
Kentucky and it not be five oh two, But it
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sounds like that that could be happening. But also, I mean,
the area code is is often when you put somebody's
number in your phone, do you even remember what area
code it is?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Like, Scott, you're with me right? Area codes?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Like again, I think you need to know what when
you take the number but outside of that, I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Dude, I'm like, if I remember somebody's number, it's like
I couldn't tell you my son's phone number right now.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I've had the same cell phone for probably same cell
phone number for probably about sixteen seventeen years, and around
that time, I mean, I remember, like my best friend's number.
I remember my mom's work number when I was a
kid and i'd have to call her when I was home.
But other than that, if I put your number in
my phone in the last decade, there's a good chance
(02:28):
I don't remember it at all. I couldn't. You could
give me a lineup, I would probably I would just
have to guess.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Right right, I mean, I remember our first efferent phone
number to your point, but when I call my son now,
I'm just voicing it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Like your home number. Yeah, of course number.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I never forget that you remember those because at the
time you didn't have your you didn't have a smartphone.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
You just go to the contact and hit call. You
had to dial. This is yeah, I dialed it. I
actually set up and dial.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But at the same token, you know, if I call
my son or my daughter or my wife, that's even
if I call anymore. I'm most of the time in texting.
Oh yeah, and that was the hardest thing for my
wife to get used to. My wife's not a text her.
She'd rather call. She likes to hear the voice, she
likes to talk. I text because I'm so busy.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, I mean, I think most people probably prefer to me.
It's really what you're talking about. I mean, if it's
just a quick thing, it could be a text. And
there's certain things where like I know that if I
text this, there's a chance it may be taking out
of context, it may lead to a lot of questions,
which ends up in a lot of back and forth texting. Therefore,
I'm just going to call you and just give you
the specific so we don't spend a bunch of time
(03:29):
going back and forth via text. Be a text, I mean,
I can't imagine the life of up the text message.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Oh, it's a game changer, right, we do.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, It's definitely something that we probably take for granted
because once it became a thing, it became like it's
how most people communicate. So in fact, I remember when
I was in high school it became a big deal
and used to have to pay per text message on
your data plan and my mom got a phone bill
one time and it was not good for me at home.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
So where is this new area code supposedly happening? Where
are we talking about the men?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, no, so it's it's we'll get into the specifics
of it a little bit later on, because you know,
there's I think the.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Two seven zero is safe.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, but yeah, if there's a plan as far as
what they're going to do if in fact we end
up getting you know, if you know, if they make
this change, which we'll get to that a little bit
later on. Also, coming up about five to forty five,
we'll talk to Rory O'Neill. The terror attack that took
place in Boulder over the weekend. Obviously that's been a
big story in the last couple of days. And then
I know, when it comes to sports, Scott's going to
get us updated on the college baseball postseason.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
How about Louisville baseball? That awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
They were cold as could be heading into the postseason
and now here they are two wins away from Omaha
and they're going to be hosting a Super regional here
at Jim Patterson Stadium for the first time since twenty nineteen,
which that is crazy to say out loud, but it
speaks to one the draft they've been on as far
as big postseason success, and also how spoiled we were
because I felt like they hosted a super regional like
(04:52):
every year for about a decade, but they've certainly been
due for one of these big runs.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So it was I was getting a little too used
to that, to be honest with you, Nick. It was
like every time you turned around and the crowds started
to show, there were some super regionals moving out to
and there were fans there, but it wasn't packed.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Until the end rounds.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I think they were playing Illinois State when my son
that win. So yeah, I'm glad you're bringing that up
because that's a valid point. Now it's been taken away
from the fans, we'll see how they respond.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And you have no I mean, you don't want your
success to ever stop at all, but whenever it does
for whatever reason, and then you get back to it,
it feels a little bit better. I mean, Pat Kelsey
brought Louisville basketball back to life to where you were
beating teams called popcorn State, and it used to just
be the expectation, and this year it was it felt
a little better because you'd been you'd gone a while
(05:38):
without those kind of wins. So yeah, good stuff. We'll
get to sports coming up around five to twenty five.
Your first update on traffic and weather is right now.
It's Kentuckyta's Morning News right here on news radio eight
forty whas.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It is five sixteen here a Kentucky Ata's.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Morning News news radioaight forty whas Nick coffee with you.
Appreciate you guys waking up with us. So after a
second straight weekend of big crowds flooding Bargetown Road near
Grinstead Grinstead Avenue, is it Grinstead Drive? I don't know
whats that Avenue Grinstead Drive? Excuse me, apologies there, I
should know I should know that. But anyways, right, Mayor
(06:14):
Craig Breenberg did say that an administration, as you could expect,
is not afraid to take to take action, and it's
not at all surprised to see that. You know, this
was a big, big talking point yesterday here locally, and
obviously you hear from the mayor, you hear from the
police chief, and this is a little bit of what
was said and again I don't think many will be
surprised by this response from the mayor.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
We are not afraid to take action on businesses or
individuals that are violating the law, that are not acting
properly in what should be an area for people to
have safe enjoyment. I share the frustration of the neighbors,
and I'm very proud of the work that we have
done over the past year or two in the area.
(06:55):
We have shut down three bars that were not complying
with the room with the rules in the same general vicinity.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So I know there will be more from more sound
from from Mayor Greenberg that you'll hear throughout the morning
in our newscast, as well as Chief Humphrey who talked
yesterday and did talk about it. In fact, let's this
is this is this is probably a big thing for
the for the police department as far as just keeping
it from getting quite to the level that it got
to on on Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
We'll make sure that we are responding to that ahead
of time so that that crowd never gets to the
point where it's it's blocking the street and creating a
dangerous situation where emergency vehicles can't get through.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So look, this is clearly something that they they're they're
gonna through whatever they can to get this fixed to
where this kind of stuff doesn't doesn't happen anymore. That's why,
you know, he's not afraid to take action. And as mentioned,
he says no solution is off the table, and that's
that's good. That's what you want to hear. And I'm
sure if you are somebody that lives in the area,
or you are a business owner in the area, you
(07:53):
obviously just want results, you want action. You just you know,
because this what happened this past weekend and the weekend priory,
and I wouldn't I wouldn't know if it had gotten
to that level prior. But I know that this is
not insanely uncommon for that that's something like that to
take place on a weekend evening at night when people
are out and some of the bars over there, I
(08:14):
mean there are three bars, as Craig Greenberg mentioned yesterday,
that had been shut down because of just not complying
with what you need to do in order to be
open for business. However, one thing that has really stood
out to me in the last day or so is,
despite this being an area that a lot of folks
in Louisville have probably frequented it at some point in
their life to have, you know, to have a good
(08:36):
night out right go to the bars. I mean a
lot of the noise, at least from people that I've
talked to, people that I'm friends with, is Wow, what's
happened to Bargetown Road? The Highlands used to be used
to be a place where you would go bar hop
and there were so many different places that you could
hit along the way and you would just call it
a night. Everybody would get a cab and go home
and you wouldn't see anything like this. And although that
(08:56):
is certainly true, I don't think there's anything that I
just laid out there. As far as the noise you're
hearing from others, that is, that is incorrect. But what
really stands out to me the more I hear that
from folks, and I'm really just talking about people that
I know, friends of mine, and I have some friends
that still that still are in that area a lot,
some live not too far from it, and they've mentioned
just sort of what it can turn into, you know,
(09:20):
in the middle of the night on a Saturday night,
Sunday morning even, But what we saw on the new
in the news coverage from from wk Y as far
as the I guess the social media videos that they
obtained they ended up making a part of their newscast
and just you know, hearing of people jumping on cars
and trying to disarm security, that kind of stuff. I mean, yes,
(09:41):
it's it's bad for it to happen at a place
like Bargetown Road, the Highlands that area because it's a
place where people, you know, want to go and have fun.
But that shouldn't happen anywhere, Like there should be nowhere
where that takes place. And you were like, well, okay,
and I don't think anybody's advocating that it should that.
You know, hey, take take this, take this nonsense, Take
these shenanigans elsewhere. But I mean, yes, it happening in
the Islands, especially if you're you know, business owner and
(10:03):
you know you want customers, you want people, don't want
people to be afraid to come and give you business
because of what's going on. But I mean that happening
anywhere is something that needs to be addressed. And I'm
sure they know that. But yeah, uh, clearly yesterday you
could tell there's there's there's a plan to let it
be known that that will not be tolerated in any way.
All right, your next update of trafficing weather coming up
(10:24):
right now. Scotty Fitzgerald's got sports as well. Keep it
locked right here on news Radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.
It is five thirty four here at Kentucky at his
morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick coffee
with you, Scott Fitzgerald alongside as well as John Alden
as you just heard there, John Shinn, and we are
the crew taking you up until nine o'clock and then
(10:45):
we'll hand it off to Tony and Dwight, So stick around.
I also want to remind folks you can always take
us with you wherever you go. Listen live on the
iHeart Radio. I have also listened live at whas dot com.
As mentioned five, Well, it's close to five thirty five.
I was gonna say five thirty four again, but what
I really wanted to do was mention the date because
it's June third, which means it was nine years ago
(11:07):
that we had the Well, was it the celebration of
life that was nine years ago? Or was it nine
years ago that Muhammad Ali passed away. Let me double
check this because I should get this correct. Yes, his
passing was nine years ago today. It was June third,
twenty sixteen, and there's the I Am Ali Festival at
the Muhammad Ali Center that takes place. It's going to
(11:27):
be let's see six weeks from June third, starting today
up until July thirteenth. And I was actually reflecting on
my nine plus years doing sports just down the hall
on seven ninety WKRD as I was finishing up last week.
And I think at that time, I mean, I was
a lot younger, and I feel like in the moment,
if I go back, I would say, oh, you realized
(11:49):
just how big of a you know, how big of
a deal that was. But I'm not really sure I
was old enough, or maybe maybe it wasn't about age.
Maybe it was more so just not being able to
quite realize in the moment how many eyeballs across the
planet were on Louisville as that took place. Obviously is
passing and then the celebration of life. And I don't
know if I'll ever have a time in my lifetime
(12:10):
here in Louisville where there was more attention, and it's
mentioned more eyeballs on Louisville just because of the impact
that Muhammad Ali had on not only us here in Louisville,
his home, but the world.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, I listened to him. There's an IRIS radio host
that I like to listen to him mid days because
he's really good. I remember that day and he is
revered in Ireland.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
He is Muhammad Ali is just a hero.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
He's almost he's their national hero really when you put
it that way, you know, but he they couldn't stop gloating.
They kept talking about what was going on at Louisville.
And to your point, Nick, I think for me the
whole day, I was just encapsulated by the TV coverage.
When he stopped, they stopped the hearst in front of
the Ali Center on sixty four. That was telling the
(12:53):
idea to take the hearst throughout the city, through the
West End, through where he was from, and to see
the massive outpouring by this city, especially in a time
when you're talking we had our fair share of you know, decisiveness.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Sure, you know, but I couldn't get enough of the
coverage anywhere local, nationally. Just it it made me feel
good about being somebody from Louisville and has been here
my whole life. And I think every city probably has
some stories that get some national attention that they are
happy and they think, hey, it makes us look good.
And there's obviously the other side of that, stories that
(13:26):
are focused on your city that you know aren't necessarily
a positive look. And we've certainly had that here in Louisville.
And again, we're not alone, but let's be real, we've
had especially in the last you know, five six years,
it's been pretty rough, But that doesn't mean there's not
great things going on here. But I feel like in
that moment nine years ago, whenever Muhammad Ali passed away,
and obviously there was the celebration of life. He had
celebrities from across the world coming here to be a
(13:48):
part of the of the big of the celebration of life,
and it was just it was awesome. And again I
think back then I was well aware of how rare
that was and just how they'll probably never be anything
quite like this, especially being on the radio, having a
platform to kind of talk about it and be here
where it was all going on. So yeah, I can't
believe it's been nine years. Sometimes I feel like it's
(14:09):
been twenty years. Sometimes it feels like it was just
the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I was gonna say, it feels like it's been the
other day. Just to see the people who come in
and the visitors who come in. You hear from folks
when you take them to the Ali Center. I took
my family down to the Ali Center and they were
just impressed tenfold. I mean they because it got into
just when I said, let's go to the Ali Center.
They're like, my mom, she's not I'm not a big
boxing fan. She where do I want to go? I mean,
(14:31):
I said, Mom, it's more than that. And she came
down and she started looking into the lives of the
lives of Muhammad Ali, what happened publicly, socially, and then
my mom really got into it, and she said that
was impressive and she really enjoyed coming down and being
a part of that.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I'll tell you what, I think there's probably many that
really no are just I mean, they don't probably just
consider themselves fans of Muhammad Ali, but they maybe super
fans or maybe they and they may they may have
never even watched them in a boxing match, just because
they learned about him through you know, his fame came
from boxing, but obviously he was a larger than life
figure and hearing somebody who also from Louisville reached that
(15:09):
level of fame and have such an impact on the world,
but never at any point not make it clear he's
from Louisville and he's proud to be from Louisville. If
you're from Louisville, that's really cool. And you really got
reminded of just how much he embraced being from here
during that time. And you remember Will Smith showing up
and speaking, also Billy Crystal, and then John Ramsey, who
(15:31):
of course former colleague of ours here at iHeart Louisville,
very close to Muhammad Ali and his family, and of
all of all the people that spoke, and everybody did
a great job. It was such a great, great, great
celebration of life. But I think John Ramsey, and I
don't just say this because I know him, but I
don't know if anybody did better than him, and you
could really tell. So, yeah, nine years since since the
(15:53):
chant passed away and the.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Red bike story, Oh yeah, something I'd never heard of
growing up.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I got to Louisville.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I remember I'm glad you mentioned that, Scott, because I
remember thinking, Okay, you're a Louisville native, you know you
claim And I felt like at the time I didn't
know a lot about Mhammad Ali. But there when people passed,
you're gonna learn things you would have never known, because
that's what happens. Those are the conversations that take place
when you look back on somebody's life once they passed away.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So I remember thinking I should know this.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But when when people pass away again, there's just no
way to know everything about everybody. And sometimes there's things
that you know maybe don't come out until you know
long after. So anyways, nine years ago today, Muhammad Ali
passed away. All right, your next update on trafficking weather's
coming up right now, and we're going to be joined
coming up at about five forty five by Roy O'Neil
BBC News to talk about this terror attack that took
(16:40):
place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend. Stick around right
here our news Radio eight forty whas five forty five
Here a Kentucky Anda's morning news on news Radio eight
forty whas. Nick Coffee with you. We now welcome in
Rory O'Neil from NBC News to discuss the terror attack
that took place in Boulder, Colorado over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
It sounds as if this suspect acted alone, but also
it sounds as if this was something that he had
planned for quite some time.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Now we've learned yeah, and it it appears that this suspect,
Mohammed Salabon, had actually been working on this for about
a year, searching the internet, using YouTube videos to figure
out how to make molotov cocktails and this improvised flame
thrower that he allegedly used in the attack that happened
on Sunday. We know that there were the hate field messages.
(17:30):
He was shouting things like free Palestine and trying to
kill Jewish people, so we know that was all there
at the scene as well. He's facing what sixteen counts
now of attempted first degree murder. Those are the state charges.
He's also facing a federal hate crime charge as well.
Both of those cases could send him to prison for
the rest of his life. He's forty five years old
(17:53):
and right now sitting in a jail cell in Boulder.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
When it comes to what he has said to those
after being arrested. It doesn't sound as if he basically
said he would do it again.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
If he could.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Is that a rare response from someone who ends up
being apprehended after committing such a heinous crime? To me,
that doesn't necessarily surprise me given what this individual was
willing to do, but very brazen as far as just
letting it be known that he has no regrets and
certainly would do it again if he could. That just
seems to be seems to be odd to hear from him.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, a bit of an outlier.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
Oftentimes the suspects in cases like this don't survive, they're
killed in the attack, so we don't get a chance
to talk to them. And then he appears to be
speaking to investigator something else we typically don't see though
quote lawyer up unquote and won't speak at all. We
also know that this man left behind a cell phone
at his family home in Colorado Springs, Colorado that contained
(18:51):
farewell messages and gave some more information about his intent
here Colorado Springs and Boulder about ninety minutes apart. So
apparently this group was targeted because they held these events
every single Sunday, so he knew that they would be
there when they would be there, making them a prime
target for his hate.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
So how was the Jewish community in Boulder react to this?
Obviously you don't anticipate something quite like this happening, but
this was heinous.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
It certainly is, and in such a high profile way.
And you know the fact that this man also tried
to get a gun, would have bought a gun if
not for gun laws that prevented this a foreign national
from buying a gun here in the States. That's why
he says he had to go and use this method,
which of course inflicted terrible burns on these victims. One
(19:43):
of the victims eighty eight years old, a Holocaust survivor,
now looking for a head to a very painful, long
recovery from some of these burns. Obviously, the community, the
Jewish community, but really the whole community has been affected
by this, and we're expecting to see more signs of
support to rally behind that community in the days ahead.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
You mentioned did he at A lot of criminals who
commit this kind of act, they end up they end
up not living, not surviving. This is a little bit
different here, which I'm glad you've mentioned that because I
didn't really know what to compare it to, but it did
seem odd that you have you have, you know, the
aftermath from somebody who did this. Youe hearing that they
you know, they didn't regret it. But now you know
the fact that they do have his cell phone and
(20:26):
he is quo, he's speaking to authorities. I mean, do
they expect to get more from him? It sounds as
if he acted alone. Maybe they could, maybe they could
uncover that that there's more to this and maybe it's
a little deeper.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Right, That's exactly the point of the investigation now, to
figure out who else was involved here. Again, it looks
like he got some of this knowledge about the flame
thrower and the molotov cocktails just by scrolling the internet
and getting YouTube videos. But they want to see if
someone else was taking part. You know, he's only been
here in the US for a few years, arrived in
(20:57):
twenty twenty two, got a work perim it in twenty
twenty three that expired in March of this year. So
he was in the country illegally after overstaying his visa
that did allow him here, But so he doesn't necessarily
have deep ties here in the States. So you want
to figure out if he was working with someone else.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Rory is always appreciate the time and to look forward
to talking to you again soon. Thanks Nick, That's Rory
O'Neil from NBC News. Yeah, I was thinking when it
comes to just the and again, I hate to say this,
but this is this is this is not an insanely
rare situation for these kind of things to happen, unfortunately,
and typically you don't those who commit these crimes don't survive.
(21:36):
Therefore you don't get you know, you don't get that,
you don't get a cell phone maybe or you don't
certainly get comments from them after the fact. So maybe
it's not a surprise necessarily to hear someone who would
commit this type of act be just this awful. However,
typically they're not around to to really react at all
after the fact. But thanks again, Roy O'Neil. NBC News
quick Break. We've got news and traffic coming your way.
(21:57):
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