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Speaker 1 (00:00):
However you want to say it, absolutely do that.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We are looking at live footage of well, Orlando, they're
reporting from Orlando. We just saw Sarasota and so on,
and Hurricane Milton is ready to come ashore here in
the Tampa Saint Pete area, I think. And joining us
now live is Jim Ryan from ABC News, and I believe, Jim,
you are in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Correct, yes, and you're right in Tampa Saint Pete is
where we're looking at a potential landfall later this afternoon,
this evening, maybe early tomorrow morning between Tampa and Sara
Sota is really what we're anticipating. But the National Hurricane
Center has been cautious about making predictions about this storm
because it has wobbled a little bit in the last
twenty four hours. It turned a little to the south
(00:46):
of where it originally looked to so it would make landfall.
And so yeah, it's still one hundred and thirty mile
per hour winds. That makes it a strong category four hurricane. Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jim, you have an incredibly clear signal right now, by
the way, which.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Is surprising me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, it's a great thing, because there's nothing worse
than live radio when someone's dot and it's doing all
that right. I mean, it sounds like a cheap drive
through speaker. But I am in shock. I thought I
was even saying earlier to somebody who was like, man,
you know, Jim is going live from there and again,
impressive the way that it sounds so good for you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Kudos to you man.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
On that something. Sometimes you get lucky, but.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So anyway, the it's cat is a category four right now? Okay,
so what are they expecting as far as landfall tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Will it still be a cat? For like, like, what
are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There's just no way of knowing. Hey, you know, it
may gather a little more strength, it may weaken somewhat,
but I suspect the category four is about where it'll
stay because you know, and these numbers are it's kind
of irrelevant. If you're standing there in front of the storm,
what you really need to be looking at is the
storm searge and between here at Tampa and down to
Boca Grande, we're looking at the potential storm searg nine
(02:00):
to thirteen feet. So if you have a one story house,
that's that's going to inundate that place, and you know
people are taking this very seriously of the mark and
have packed up and gone away. The evacuation orders have
been in place for a couple of days, and people
buying large a pier to have heated those warnings.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Take me what you're Take me through what you're seeing
and what you're experiencing right now. You are in the
Tampa Saint Pete area coming in. I'm sure you saw
a huge line or heavy traffic getting out of the area,
I believe. But take me through what you've experienced so
far and when did you get there?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Jim, I flew in on Monday night, OK, and you're right.
There weren't a lot of people on that flight because
we knew that this hurricane was on the way, and
so not a lot of people on the flight. But
once the door's open you step off that flight. The
airline Triminal was absolutely packed, packed with thousands of people
trying to get flights out of Tampa. As far as
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traffic on the roads, it seems to have cleared quite
a bit because people take they heeded the warnings early
and evacuated well in advance of the storm. So you know,
traffic isn't really a problem, right Now, if you're trying
to get out, the one thing you're going to find
is that gas is getting very scarce. Most gas stations
have run out. People are filling up, some of them
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are panic buying, and so but again it's kind of
a it's kind of a positive thing that the gas
stations are running out. That means people are taking the
advice and evacuating. So what's going on right now? I'll
step out here, and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That sounds like heavy rain. Yeah, sounds like heavy.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It is.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's pretty dramatic. And the streets, you know, rain is
bush is pushing down the street here in downtown Tampa.
No cars out there. Everybody's gone.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Sounds calm, So it seems like, yeah, it's kind of
a good solid rainstorm right now, like you'd see in
west on the west coast of Florida on a summer day.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But this is just a yeah, the storm is one
hundred and fifty miles away. This is only going to
get worse for the next few hours.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Jim, I got a question.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Things number one, So there are hotels open, obviously because you're.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Out there on you very huge like, now.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Did they make this arrange?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Did did ABC Disney make this arrangement with whatever hotel
that they are going to stay open to house their crews.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, well, I mean it's not a matter to you know,
you find a hotel that's going to house you, that's
going to stay open. Not only is it are there
media people here, but you've got lots of people from
the city here with their dogs. They've escaped from their
own lone lying homes and come to a hotel like
this one. So yeah, there are a few open, but
you know, even they are passing around letters saying you
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better get out of here, like right now, we're gonna
be here. We're gonna have a skeleton staff. Don't expect
to get room service because we're sending most people home.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
And well, yeah, and I assume they've got you guys
on the upper floors.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Nobody's going to be on the ground floor. I take
it now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, no, no, no, twelve, So I'm on twelve, Which that's good.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
That's good.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Well, still one hundred and thirty five forty mini hour
winds on the twelve floor.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's going to be fun, to say least.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The other thing, did they evacuate Tampa General or are
they just going to put up that awesome, fancy, wonderful
flood wall thing they have that I think is a
remarkable piece of technology and engineering. I'm sure some people
have seen it, but it's literally this locking barrier that
prevents the water from coming into the hospital.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Right, Tiger wall or tiger or something. Its tiger something
is what it's called. It's essentially long tubes, flexible plastic
tubes that weigh fifty pounds of peace until you fill
them with water and then you've got like sixteen hundred
pounds in this tube. You stack them up. They're meant
to be stacked, and they're using them around the hospitals here.
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The governor they'd said the other day that they've got
eleven thousand feet of this tiger barricade and that's what
they're using to protect places like hospitals and electric stations
and this crucial infrastructure to keep it from getting damaged
by the storm. Search.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, Jim, you were just talking also about you don't
need room service, and I think that's where you you
may have been ready to ask.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It's kind of saying, okay, so you've got your bottled water,
you got.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Your waffle house over your trail mix. Yep.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You and your peanut butter crackers, because that's what it's
like every hurricane.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You should look you It's as though you're looking into
the my plastic bag. Here peanut butter crackers, beef jerky,
trail mix and bottled water.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
We knew, we knew, we remembered from all the times
over the years.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Jim, we've talked to you.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's sad. It's just sad.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, it's not sad. It's called prepared.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You're a hurricane hunter, dude.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, like, you're the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's like there's a deadly storm coming. Jim's going see yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
He's like, everyone's running away, and he's like, Okay, it
must be this way.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's where they're running from. I'll go this way.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
That's when you really start to question your career choice.
You just step on the plane and ten million people
are there trying to get out.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I love it. Great stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Jim Ryan, ABC News, who is live in Tampa. He's
going to be there as Milton's coming ashore. I'm guessing
if you're able to get any kind of sound out
of there tomorrow that you're going to be doing the same.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
For ABC News. Right, I'm sure gonna try.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, very good. Hopefully we'll check in with you tomorrow
if you're able to get sound out of there. Jim Ryan,
ABC News, godspeed to you and be so so safe,
my friend.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
All right, we'll see you. Yeah. It's always uh. Man,
he's the best. He's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Ye're how calm he is and that he adds the background.
I thought that was great. I'm like, man, he's like
stepping outside and that's sounded so calm.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
That's that's the guy who's been in this business a
long time.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I love it. I love it, man, good stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
He I mean, dude, it's just that's probably it is
probably literally what the seventh hurricane he's covered for us
since you and I have been partnered.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's probably. That's probably about right. Actually, I mean, he
he's right there in the middle of him.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That has to be especially when you're seeing this one
looks you know, they're predicting this, it's a doozy, unsurvivable,
all the words they're using with it. When you got
somebody like him seeing those words, I wonder if he's like,
this is how I go, you know, I mean, you
never want to go.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But I'm not trying to be morbid, I know.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
But like I'm just thinking about those hotels. Man, they've
got to be built like a brick, you know what
house you'd.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Think in Tampa when they're erecting those, they would have
to be like hurricane like puffects.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just because.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You don't want high rise buildings coming down all over
the city.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh gosh, no, no, no, no, So yeah, we'll we're
going to monitor all afternoon, of course, and Sarah Converse
is with us today, so we will. She'll have the
very latest on this as it's moving toward land. And
you heard it, Jim Ryan, just say one hundred and
fifty miles out right now? If it's going fifteen miles
an hour, I mean you do the math. I mean,
(08:52):
that's going to take a while as far as the
eye goes. So he's predicting that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But you from space, this thing is he looking at that?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It almost looks fake? You know, the space the footage
from space? Did you see any of that or at
least the stills? No?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Man, it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Hey, so last night, and I don't know if you
were privy to this happening, because I'm going, why all
of a sudden are they talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Elvis and Lisa Marie and all of that. D you know,
that's like a.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Thing dead son's body in the house.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So I'm watching this last night and Oprah is there
with Riley, who is the daughter of Lisa Marie, and
she is at Elvis's estate there in Nashville and man
Graceland and so really cool.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What a cool backdrop.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But they start talking about that, and that's the thing
that I think most people are talking about today, Josh,
what you just said there.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's from Here to the Great Unknown.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's a memoir from Lisa Marie that ended up being
finished by Riley, her daughter, and she starts talking about
all the different struggles. I was in shock that she
spoke so candidly about everything. I mean, Oprah was asking
her about her mom's drug use like stuff to where
I was just like wow. So the thing I think
(10:24):
most people are talking about is that there was no
law in California requiring immediate burial. So when her son,
who ended up shooting himself, did so, she kept the
room he was in a casket in the house where
she was at. She said, she kept the room at
(10:45):
fifty five degrees to preserve his body, and so she
became used to caring for him over that time. Is
the way that it's worded here. The thing that really
got me about this whole thing, because you hear that
and you go, well, that in and out of the
time is weird enough. But she wanted to get a
tattoo on her hand to match her son's tattoo. And
(11:08):
so the artist was there and he said, do you
have a picture of this? And she said no, but
I can show you. And the guy's looking at her
like what. She took him into the room, opened the
cat and then had her son's hand right there to
kind of show the tattoo that she was looking to get.
Can you imagine being the tattoo artist. You're there, You
(11:31):
did not realize that he was in that house, and
you're there to give her a tattoo, and he goes,
you have a picture?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
She goes, no, but I can show you.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He's going immediately going you can show me, like what
did you chop his hand off? You gotta hears you know,
he's got to be thinking all of those things. She
walks him back and shows him her son. Dude, it's
so bizarre. I mean, I bring it up simply because
if you haven't explored this, I don't know if you're
one of those people. I love Elvis, and to see
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all of this stuff, I feel like it's just fascinating.
I do want to get to Graceland at some point.
I don't know if that's a thing on a list
of yours. I want to go there so badly. I
have family members who have gone and friends.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
And Finkle's childhood home is my Gracelands.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, close, I guess. I mean, you know, laces out,
you know, they didn't do all of that. But he's
just like, I mean, he's Ray Finkle's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I guess this is.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
No, but I tell you that the Presley's come with.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
For all of how he changed the world, it came
with a curse, and that that family curse has never
left him.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, just to just again, you say what you want
about Obron, her political persuasion and all these things that
she's you know, she's a cuckoo, I feel like with
half the stuff. But she has an ability clearly to
have people sitting across from her and her speaking to them,
and she's saying some of the stuff to her, asking her,
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and they would cut to Riley, you know, she's smiling
and stuff, and she's like, you know, talk to me
about your mom's drug use and did you know when
when did it start?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Exactly? Did you did you realize?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's fascinating listening to the whole thing kind of just
play out, even though she's, you know, the granddaughter of Elvis,
but just to hear her talk about way back when
do you remember these things?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
What do you remember about this or about this? And uh, yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Man, if you're one of those people, if you like
Elvis or cause you kind of gotta like Elvis, I think,
But on just a human level, man, there's just some
buzzaar stuff going on with them, some very bizarre stuff. Fascinating.
It really is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I guess if Elvis Presley was your I'd be a
little screwed up in the head too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
He dies when you're young.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
He's this god to people, I mean, God, you have
more money than you'll ever be able to spend in
your life. It's it's I mean that that environment has
got to breed mental illness in children.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, then you go back to Lisa Marie when she
remembers him lying in state. They had him at Graceland,
and she said, the amount of people that were coming there,
and of course they have footage from Nashville and in
that area, I think it's Nashville.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
And look, forgive me if I'm getting some of the
sty I.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Thought, wasn't he born in Tupolo?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Well, yeah, but in Graceland or where was was Graceland
near Memphis or Nashville? I have no idea, Like I
think it's I think it's Memphis, Okay, in memphisis anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So the amount of people in some of this footage
where people took to the streets when they realized he
had passed and all of that was pretty crazy. Then
she talked about living still in that house and he
was lying in state there, and she said, you know,
everything had closed up, everybody was gone.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that was for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Now the timeframe, I'm not sure how long he was
literally in their house, but she would go down there
and sit in there with him, and so she could, uh,
you know, be with him or around him. That was
when she was young. Now you fast forward to her
son and exactly, and that's the reason that I bring it. Yeah,
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so she's sitting down there with Elvis's body, Yeah, and
everybody's gone, but he's down there, and I don't know
if she popped it open.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
And so this is not her first go around with that.
That wasn't her first go around with it with her son.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
My point, she loses her dad and her son. Yeah,
I mean that's yeah, that's just rough.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah. Hey, Ransom you there, Yes, I am, buddy.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
How you been, man?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Good?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So you got something on Graceland?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Have you been?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah? I went there in seventy seven. I just happened
to be in Tennessee about a month after he passed away.
So I thought, well, I'm never gonna, I mean, I
get here again, so I'm going to go. So I went,
and of course, you know, he'd only been gone about
a month, you know, so there's I mean every day
there was you know, when I was there, there's just
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tons of people there. The pool was really really dirt
dirty because you know, he was gone, and I don't
think really they knew how to handle the crowds and
stuff like that. But the weird thing to do I
think about it is that one was people were picking
grass blades off of his lawn, just you know, as
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a souvenir. Yeah, so his lawn, his lawn was I
guess that one time it was just perfect lawn and
all these people had picked off these blades of grass.
But the big thing that happened is that I was
in the coliseum. He's got like a miniature coliseum where
the uh where where his mama's bed and all that
kind of stuff, you know, And that's where he would be,
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and that's where and they had his they had his
plaque up there. So I was looking at this and
there's this large lady wanted to take a picture, and
she kept backing up into me. And on his coliseum
they had like these light fixtures, but they had all
been bent down because people were trying to break them
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off to take them as souvenirs, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
So so my elbow accidentally hit one of those those
light fixtures that this lady hit me, you know, she
backed into me and everything, and boy, I tell you
what all these ladies were. They turned to me as
if I had committed the ultimate sin. You know that
I had broken something in Elvis's place, you know, so
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so security came, what happened, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
And I said, this big fat lady knocked me into
this light and they were all that stuff. But yeah,
they were, I mean, it was it was really weird.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Fine, Yeah, man, that's crazy. Ransom, that's cool. About a
month after he passed, you were there on the property. Man,
that's really really cool. Yeah, I got to get there
at some point. Still, even now, I'm fascinated by it,
and I still want to everybody in WTV and your
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(18:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
We are looking at live footage of well, Orlando, they're
reporting from Orlando. We just saw Sarasota and so on,
and Hurricane Milton is ready to come ashore here in
the Tampa Saint Pete area, I think. And joining us
now live is Jim Ryan from ABC News, and I believe, Jim,
you are in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Correct, yes, and you're right in Tampa Saint Pete is
where we're looking at a potential landfall later this afternoon,
this evening, maybe early tomorrow morning between Tampa and Sara
Sota is really what we're anticipating. But the National Hurricane
Center has been cautious about making predictions about this storm
because it has wobbled a little bit in the last
twenty four hours. It turned a little to the south
(00:46):
of where it originally looked to so it would make landfall.
And so yeah, it's still one hundred and thirty mile
per hour winds. That makes it a strong category four hurricane. Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Jim, you have an incredibly clear signal right now, by
the way, which.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Is surprising me.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Oh yeah, it's a great thing, because there's nothing worse
than live radio when someone's dot and it's doing all
that right. I mean, it sounds like a cheap drive
through speaker. But I am in shock. I thought I
was even saying earlier to somebody who was like, man,
you know, Jim is going live from there and again,
impressive the way that it sounds so good for you.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Kudos to you man.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
On that something. Sometimes you get lucky, but.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So anyway, the it's cat is a category four right now? Okay,
so what are they expecting as far as landfall tonight?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Will it still be a cat? For like, like, what
are we talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
There's just no way of knowing. Hey, you know, it
may gather a little more strength, it may weaken somewhat,
but I suspect the category four is about where it'll
stay because you know, and these numbers are it's kind
of irrelevant. If you're standing there in front of the storm,
what you really need to be looking at is the
storm searge and between here at Tampa and down to
Boca Grande, we're looking at the potential storm searg nine
(02:00):
to thirteen feet. So if you have a one story house,
that's that's going to inundate that place, and you know
people are taking this very seriously of the mark and
have packed up and gone away. The evacuation orders have
been in place for a couple of days, and people
buying large a pier to have heated those warnings.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Take me what you're Take me through what you're seeing
and what you're experiencing right now. You are in the
Tampa Saint Pete area coming in. I'm sure you saw
a huge line or heavy traffic getting out of the area,
I believe. But take me through what you've experienced so
far and when did you get there?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Jim, I flew in on Monday night, OK, and you're right.
There weren't a lot of people on that flight because
we knew that this hurricane was on the way, and
so not a lot of people on the flight. But
once the door's open you step off that flight. The
airline Triminal was absolutely packed, packed with thousands of people
trying to get flights out of Tampa. As far as
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traffic on the roads, it seems to have cleared quite
a bit because people take they heeded the warnings early
and evacuated well in advance of the storm. So you know,
traffic isn't really a problem, right Now, if you're trying
to get out, the one thing you're going to find
is that gas is getting very scarce. Most gas stations
have run out. People are filling up, some of them
(03:15):
are panic buying, and so but again it's kind of
a it's kind of a positive thing that the gas
stations are running out. That means people are taking the
advice and evacuating. So what's going on right now? I'll
step out here, and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
That sounds like heavy rain. Yeah, sounds like heavy.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
It is.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
It's pretty dramatic. And the streets, you know, rain is
bush is pushing down the street here in downtown Tampa.
No cars out there. Everybody's gone.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Sounds calm, So it seems like, yeah, it's kind of
a good solid rainstorm right now, like you'd see in
west on the west coast of Florida on a summer day.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But this is just a yeah, the storm is one
hundred and fifty miles away. This is only going to
get worse for the next few hours.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Jim, I got a question.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Things number one, So there are hotels open, obviously because you're.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Out there on you very huge like, now.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Did they make this arrange?
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Did did ABC Disney make this arrangement with whatever hotel
that they are going to stay open to house their crews.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yes, well, I mean it's not a matter to you know,
you find a hotel that's going to house you, that's
going to stay open. Not only is it are there
media people here, but you've got lots of people from
the city here with their dogs. They've escaped from their
own lone lying homes and come to a hotel like
this one. So yeah, there are a few open, but
you know, even they are passing around letters saying you
(04:37):
better get out of here, like right now, we're gonna
be here. We're gonna have a skeleton staff. Don't expect
to get room service because we're sending most people home.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
And well, yeah, and I assume they've got you guys
on the upper floors.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Nobody's going to be on the ground floor. I take
it now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, no, no, no, twelve, So I'm on twelve, Which that's good.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
That's good.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Well, still one hundred and thirty five forty mini hour
winds on the twelve floor.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's going to be fun, to say least.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
The other thing, did they evacuate Tampa General or are
they just going to put up that awesome, fancy, wonderful
flood wall thing they have that I think is a
remarkable piece of technology and engineering. I'm sure some people
have seen it, but it's literally this locking barrier that
prevents the water from coming into the hospital.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Right, Tiger wall or tiger or something. Its tiger something
is what it's called. It's essentially long tubes, flexible plastic
tubes that weigh fifty pounds of peace until you fill
them with water and then you've got like sixteen hundred
pounds in this tube. You stack them up. They're meant
to be stacked, and they're using them around the hospitals here.
(05:41):
The governor they'd said the other day that they've got
eleven thousand feet of this tiger barricade and that's what
they're using to protect places like hospitals and electric stations
and this crucial infrastructure to keep it from getting damaged
by the storm. Search.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, Jim, you were just talking also about you don't
need room service, and I think that's where you you
may have been ready to ask.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
It's kind of saying, okay, so you've got your bottled water,
you got.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Your waffle house over your trail mix. Yep.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
You and your peanut butter crackers, because that's what it's
like every hurricane.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
That's what you do.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You should look you It's as though you're looking into
the my plastic bag. Here peanut butter crackers, beef jerky,
trail mix and bottled water.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
We knew, we knew, we remembered from all the times
over the years.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Jim, we've talked to you.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
It's sad. It's just sad.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
No, it's not sad. It's called prepared.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
You're a hurricane hunter, dude.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I mean, like, you're the guy.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
It's like there's a deadly storm coming. Jim's going see yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
He's like, everyone's running away, and he's like, Okay, it
must be this way.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
That's where they're running from. I'll go this way.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I know.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
That's when you really start to question your career choice.
You just step on the plane and ten million people
are there trying to get out.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
I love it. Great stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Jim Ryan, ABC News, who is live in Tampa. He's
going to be there as Milton's coming ashore. I'm guessing
if you're able to get any kind of sound out
of there tomorrow that you're going to be doing the same.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
For ABC News. Right, I'm sure gonna try.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Okay, very good. Hopefully we'll check in with you tomorrow
if you're able to get sound out of there. Jim Ryan,
ABC News, godspeed to you and be so so safe,
my friend.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Appreciate you guys.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
All right, we'll see you. Yeah. It's always uh. Man,
he's the best. He's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Ye're how calm he is and that he adds the background.
I thought that was great. I'm like, man, he's like
stepping outside and that's sounded so calm.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
That's that's the guy who's been in this business a
long time.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I love it. I love it, man, good stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
He I mean, dude, it's just that's probably it is
probably literally what the seventh hurricane he's covered for us
since you and I have been partnered.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's probably. That's probably about right. Actually, I mean, he
he's right there in the middle of him.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
That has to be especially when you're seeing this one
looks you know, they're predicting this, it's a doozy, unsurvivable,
all the words they're using with it. When you got
somebody like him seeing those words, I wonder if he's like,
this is how I go, you know, I mean, you
never want to go.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
But I'm not trying to be morbid, I know.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
But like I'm just thinking about those hotels. Man, they've
got to be built like a brick, you know what
house you'd.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Think in Tampa when they're erecting those, they would have
to be like hurricane like puffects.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just because.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
You don't want high rise buildings coming down all over
the city.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh gosh, no, no, no, no, So yeah, we'll we're
going to monitor all afternoon, of course, and Sarah Converse
is with us today, so we will. She'll have the
very latest on this as it's moving toward land. And
you heard it, Jim Ryan, just say one hundred and
fifty miles out right now? If it's going fifteen miles
an hour, I mean you do the math. I mean,
(08:52):
that's going to take a while as far as the
eye goes. So he's predicting that.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
But you from space, this thing is he looking at that?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
It almost looks fake? You know, the space the footage
from space? Did you see any of that or at
least the stills? No?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Man, it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Hey, so last night, and I don't know if you
were privy to this happening, because I'm going, why all
of a sudden are they talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Elvis and Lisa Marie and all of that. D you know,
that's like a.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Thing dead son's body in the house.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
So I'm watching this last night and Oprah is there
with Riley, who is the daughter of Lisa Marie, and
she is at Elvis's estate there in Nashville and man
Graceland and so really cool.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
What a cool backdrop.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But they start talking about that, and that's the thing
that I think most people are talking about today, Josh,
what you just said there.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It's from Here to the Great Unknown.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's a memoir from Lisa Marie that ended up being
finished by Riley, her daughter, and she starts talking about
all the different struggles. I was in shock that she
spoke so candidly about everything. I mean, Oprah was asking
her about her mom's drug use like stuff to where
I was just like wow. So the thing I think
(10:24):
most people are talking about is that there was no
law in California requiring immediate burial. So when her son,
who ended up shooting himself, did so, she kept the
room he was in a casket in the house where
she was at. She said, she kept the room at
(10:45):
fifty five degrees to preserve his body, and so she
became used to caring for him over that time. Is
the way that it's worded here. The thing that really
got me about this whole thing, because you hear that
and you go, well, that in and out of the
time is weird enough. But she wanted to get a
tattoo on her hand to match her son's tattoo. And
(11:08):
so the artist was there and he said, do you
have a picture of this? And she said no, but
I can show you. And the guy's looking at her
like what. She took him into the room, opened the
cat and then had her son's hand right there to
kind of show the tattoo that she was looking to get.
Can you imagine being the tattoo artist. You're there, You
(11:31):
did not realize that he was in that house, and
you're there to give her a tattoo, and he goes,
you have a picture?
Speaker 1 (11:38):
She goes, no, but I can show you.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
He's going immediately going you can show me, like what
did you chop his hand off? You gotta hears you know,
he's got to be thinking all of those things. She
walks him back and shows him her son. Dude, it's
so bizarre. I mean, I bring it up simply because
if you haven't explored this, I don't know if you're
one of those people. I love Elvis, and to see
(12:02):
all of this stuff, I feel like it's just fascinating.
I do want to get to Graceland at some point.
I don't know if that's a thing on a list
of yours. I want to go there so badly. I
have family members who have gone and friends.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
And Finkle's childhood home is my Gracelands.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Okay, close, I guess. I mean, you know, laces out,
you know, they didn't do all of that. But he's
just like, I mean, he's Ray Finkle's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
I guess this is.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
No, but I tell you that the Presley's come with.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
For all of how he changed the world, it came
with a curse, and that that family curse has never
left him.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, just to just again, you say what you want
about Obron, her political persuasion and all these things that
she's you know, she's a cuckoo, I feel like with
half the stuff. But she has an ability clearly to
have people sitting across from her and her speaking to them,
and she's saying some of the stuff to her, asking her,
(13:11):
and they would cut to Riley, you know, she's smiling
and stuff, and she's like, you know, talk to me
about your mom's drug use and did you know when
when did it start?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Exactly? Did you did you realize?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
It's fascinating listening to the whole thing kind of just
play out, even though she's, you know, the granddaughter of Elvis,
but just to hear her talk about way back when
do you remember these things?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
What do you remember about this or about this? And uh, yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Man, if you're one of those people, if you like
Elvis or cause you kind of gotta like Elvis, I think,
But on just a human level, man, there's just some
buzzaar stuff going on with them, some very bizarre stuff. Fascinating.
It really is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
I guess if Elvis Presley was your I'd be a
little screwed up in the head too. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
He dies when you're young.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
He's this god to people, I mean, God, you have
more money than you'll ever be able to spend in
your life. It's it's I mean that that environment has
got to breed mental illness in children.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Well, then you go back to Lisa Marie when she
remembers him lying in state. They had him at Graceland,
and she said, the amount of people that were coming there,
and of course they have footage from Nashville and in
that area, I think it's Nashville.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
And look, forgive me if I'm getting some of the
sty I.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Thought, wasn't he born in Tupolo?
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Well, yeah, but in Graceland or where was was Graceland
near Memphis or Nashville? I have no idea, Like I
think it's I think it's Memphis, Okay, in memphisis anyway?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Whatever.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So the amount of people in some of this footage
where people took to the streets when they realized he
had passed and all of that was pretty crazy. Then
she talked about living still in that house and he
was lying in state there, and she said, you know,
everything had closed up, everybody was gone.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And that was for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Now the timeframe, I'm not sure how long he was
literally in their house, but she would go down there
and sit in there with him, and so she could, uh,
you know, be with him or around him. That was
when she was young. Now you fast forward to her
son and exactly, and that's the reason that I bring it. Yeah,
(15:33):
so she's sitting down there with Elvis's body, Yeah, and
everybody's gone, but he's down there, and I don't know
if she popped it open.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
And so this is not her first go around with that.
That wasn't her first go around with it with her son.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Exactly.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
My point, she loses her dad and her son. Yeah,
I mean that's yeah, that's just rough.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah. Hey, Ransom you there, Yes, I am, buddy.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
How you been, man?
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Good?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
So you got something on Graceland?
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Have you been?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:01):
Yeah? I went there in seventy seven. I just happened
to be in Tennessee about a month after he passed away.
So I thought, well, I'm never gonna, I mean, I
get here again, so I'm going to go. So I went,
and of course, you know, he'd only been gone about
a month, you know, so there's I mean every day
there was you know, when I was there, there's just
(16:23):
tons of people there. The pool was really really dirt
dirty because you know, he was gone, and I don't
think really they knew how to handle the crowds and
stuff like that. But the weird thing to do I
think about it is that one was people were picking
grass blades off of his lawn, just you know, as
(16:47):
a souvenir. Yeah, so his lawn, his lawn was I
guess that one time it was just perfect lawn and
all these people had picked off these blades of grass.
But the big thing that happened is that I was
in the coliseum. He's got like a miniature coliseum where
the uh where where his mama's bed and all that
kind of stuff, you know, And that's where he would be,
(17:09):
and that's where and they had his they had his
plaque up there. So I was looking at this and
there's this large lady wanted to take a picture, and
she kept backing up into me. And on his coliseum
they had like these light fixtures, but they had all
been bent down because people were trying to break them
(17:30):
off to take them as souvenirs, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
So so my elbow accidentally hit one of those those
light fixtures that this lady hit me, you know, she
backed into me and everything, and boy, I tell you
what all these ladies were. They turned to me as
if I had committed the ultimate sin. You know that
I had broken something in Elvis's place, you know, so
(17:55):
so security came, what happened, what happened?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
And I said, this big fat lady knocked me into
this light and they were all that stuff. But yeah,
they were, I mean, it was it was really weird.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Fine, Yeah, man, that's crazy. Ransom, that's cool. About a
month after he passed, you were there on the property. Man,
that's really really cool. Yeah, I got to get there
at some point. Still, even now, I'm fascinated by it,
and I still want to everybody in WTV and your
ABC six first Warning, whether Chief Meteorologist or Meteorologist Sarah
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