(KMN) 11.7: Waiting - Hour 1

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A heavy and memorable week is coming to an end
here in Louisville. Good morning, everybody, Happy Friday, and welcome in.
It is Coffee and Company, and we are fueled by
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set for a Friday morning and getting you set for
the weekend that is ahead.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We appreciate you being with us.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Has mentioned a big week, and I can only speak
for myself, but it really feels like this week is
going to be one that we all remember here and
I mean here meaning exactly where I'm sitting myself. Nick
Coffee Scott fits Jode alongside John Alden, John Shannon in
the mix, and we'll be together as a team throughout
the morning. But what a heavy week it has been, fellas,

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and we've made it to the end of the week,
and this is this is going to be something we
continue to monitor and continues to be part of our
conversations here, but probably all throughout Kentucky and for a
while now.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Absolutely Nick Well said, and you know you've done a
yeoman's job at keeping folks informed. I think the first
thing people wake up in the morning, at least this week,
before their feet hit the floor. They that does enter
their head. And I was in Shelby Park yesterday and
I posted some pictures on social media, and you know,
I took for granted. I mentioned this briefly yesterday during
the show. That I always took for granted was I

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took my walks the aircraft, namely the UPS aircraft that
would fly over, and it were just it was a
quiet noise. It it was kind of it was a neighbor,
is what it was.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
And I happened to look.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Up yesterday and there, of course was the UPS MD
eleven on approach and I grabbed a picture of it,
and I said, this just hits a whole new set
of feels. Now it's you know, it used to just
be I heard it in the background. Now I pick up.
In fact, there was another gentleman walking in the park
and he even made reference to it. So this is
definitely on the minds of Kentucky's on Louisvillions for sure.
And I think every time we look at that brown aircraft,

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we're going to have a different feel.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I will admit I've found myself more interested than
ever with plane crashes, and not because I'm looking for
any specific data that just doesn't make sense to me.
It's more so just because of our coverage, because of
it being such a real I mean again, it being here,
I think has made probably a lot of people just

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look at these situations a little bit differently because it's
more real. But I think I'm more afraid to fly
now than I ever have been. And does that make
me crazy? I mean, does that make you crazy?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Yeah? I mean I've been afraid to fly for over
fifteen years. I've been on planes before, but I haven't
been on one in that long. This situation obviously doesn't
help that case.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
And I don't want to act as if I'm saying, well,
we can't trust airlines now and all that, because I'm
always afraid to fly to an extent, meaning I need
a little liquid courage to get on the plane. And
I know I'm not alone there, but just thinking about
everything this week and knowing that for just the randomness
of life, things can happen and you could lose your

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life in a second. But if you sit around thinking
about that every day of your life, you won't enjoy
what is actual life. So yeah, it's been a bit
of heavy week, and I think it's fitting to get
this thing started with the latest as far as what
we know a new information what we have from the crash.
We now know the victims. The total number of victims
as of right now is thirteen. We also know the

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identities of the UPS crew that lost their lives, and
there's still some that are fighting. One of the latest
casualties is somebody who put up a good fight but
passed away yesterday and one of these. This is such
a Louisville thing, but I'm sure you could say it
about other cities as well, but I know it's been
echoed this week. Morgan McGarvey highlighted it when he was

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talking that Louisville is a really I think he said,
I'm paraphrasing here, but Louisville is the biggest small town
out there, and I totally agree with that.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
And it's not a surprise.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
And I'm sure there's others that can say this as well,
because if you're a lifelong Louisville native, the scenario where
you end up knowing somebody directly that was a victim,
that is a family member, is a relative, you know
somebody who knows somebody who's directly impacted by this in
a devastating way, and that was yesterday. One of the

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victims who who put up a fight but did lose
life yesterday is somebody that I can think of three
people I've talked to in the last month that know
this person well and know the family. So again, those
one of those things that just that just makes it real.
So there are still some fighting and just also many
unaccounted for, and slowly but surely, we're starting to see

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family members come out in their own way, letting people
know that they have a loved one or someone they
know who's missing and unaccounted for, and they're not certain,
but they fear that person, the one they haven't heard
from since the plane crash, might have been in that
exact area. And that, of course is a terrible scenario.
And context is always tough when it comes to social media.

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You can't really get crystal clarity when it comes to
context just reading somebody's post on social media, but I
pick up the vibe that there's still there's still holding
out hope, and God bless them, because I think if
that were me, i'd probably do the same thing. The
reality is, I have no clue what I would do
and I hope to never know what I would do
if I was in their shoes. But there is something

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pure and strong about those who won't let their minds
go there until it's official and somebody tells them that
awful news, and that's a sign of strength, I think.
And what was in what may be the hardest thing
these people will ever experience in their life.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So it's it's just awful.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
And among all the awful layers to this overall situation,
the torture it would be to sit and wait to
see the situation for what it is, meaning you kind
of know what you're eventually going to find out, but
you have no clue how long it's going to take.
And that has to be torture. So those still able
to sort of trust in hope and faith, God bless them.

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But this is going to take time. The process of identity,
like one thousand percent, you don't just make assumptions when
you identify these people. There's going to be some that
are more easy to identify, some that it may take
a lot of time. Some it could take I mean,
who knows how long, just because that's what this was
an explosion, a fiery crash that left behind visual devastation

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to the extent that everybody who I know that has
seen it, it's unspeakable as far as what they what
they they can't put into words what they experienced. So
just just an awful, an awful week. But it's also
in times like this you see a lot of the
good that maybe we don't get to see in life,
that people coming together.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I feel like the.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
City collectively as a whole is together and supporting those
that are directly affected by this. The amount of amount
of vigils that you see, and just people that are
going out of their way to to just be there
for anybody you can in any way. So again, I
think this will be a week that we remember for
a long time for obvious reasons. But one thing, as of,
as of a few days removed from the from the

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crash itself, where you can close the page on this
and know everything as far as just how it happened,
everybody that was in fact a victim and lost their lives.
There's no timeline. I mean, it's gonna it's gonna play
out the way it's gonna play out, and it could
it could take a long time.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Absolutely could.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
And to your point, you know you said you mentioned
that you'd like to follow along investigations. Well, we've talked
before about the show on Sithsonian called their disasters bad acting.
Mind you, however, you get a good look at just
how much the good folks at the NTSB care about
the work they do, not just to find out what happened,
but also one to prevent it from happening again. And two,

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as you were talking, I was listening, I was thinking
to bring closure to the families, Like in this instance.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
There were twelve people that died.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Take an airliner that crashes, where hundreds of people die,
Families want closure. And one they want to find their
loved ones so they can have that closure. And that's
what the good folks here at the NTSP are doing.
And they take this personal and it gets into their blood,
it gets ingrained. They're not going to stop until they
find the right answers. And also when you were talking
about how there's the six degrees of separation here in Louisville,

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I know some folks in retail and the story came up.
I was talking to one yesterday, texting back and forth.
They had a person who's always shown up, always worked,
always came to work, been there about three and ironically,
and they could have very well just ghosted them and
moved on to a new job. But ironically, right after
the crash, they stop showing up for work. They've called,

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they've not heard from them, and again you know they're
saying they could have just ghosted this.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
But that tells you how this story.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Is affecting so many people.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
When we're starting to hear more stories about how people
are connected to your point and by people who are
involved in this.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
No doubt, you can learn a lot about yourself even
from just what this can do for you, and it
can certainly make you appreciate a lot in life. I
hate that it takes things like that for us to
find appreciation for what we have, but that's that's just
part of life.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
All right.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
We got a busy morning. Let's get to you a quick
time out what we'll do on the other side.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
I want to give you a quick update as far
as just what we know about the victims themselves that
were part of that of that ups crew, and then
of course be a quick update and then we'll get
to sports and keep this thing rolling along again. A
busy morning, and I hope you stick with us right
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Nick Coffee. That is me.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Happy Friday, everybody.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
So, yesterday we learned the identities of the victims that
lost their lives that were a part of the crew
in the plane crash on Tuesday, Captain Richard Wartenberg of Independence, Kentucky,
First Officer Lee Truett of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and International
Relief Officer Captain Dana Diamond of Caldwell, Texas. So again,

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these are the first of the twelve now that have
lost their lives that we know, we know the identity of.
And yesterday the Nando Cicerone from UPS, the UPS executive
vice president, he shared some words and here's a little
bit about here's a little of what he had to say.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
I'm Nando Cesso, executive vice president at UPS. I want
to first express my deep sorrow for this heartbreaking event
and stress that our current focus is on the needs
of all of those affected. This is a tragic event
on behalf of all UPS employees worldwide. Please know that

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our thoughts are with all of those affected as well
as their family members in the entire Louisville community.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
So he did say, of course, as you would expect
that they're going to they're fully cooperating with NTSB, and
we did get some updates from NTSB, which we'll get
to coming up here throughout the morning. Not any big updates,
but updates as far as what they've been able to
at least obtain that can help them put the picture
together a little bit better, which I had. I don't

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want to say low expectations, because who am I to
judge INTSB is someone who didn't even really know what
it was a few weeks ago, a few days ago,
I should say, heard of it, knew what it was,
but never really followed it because never really had a
need to until something like this happened. So the fact
that they are giving daily updates at this point and
at least letting us know, hey, we were able to

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take the black box. It blew overnight back to DC
to our headquarters, and we now know that the data
that was obtained is good data that we'll be able
to tell us a lot. So again, we'll keep you
updated throughout the morning. I do want to get to
a quick time out. We've got trafficking weather updates on
the way, and also we've got our first sports update
coming up in just a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Kentucky's in action tonight.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Louisville no trouble last night with Jackson State in a
game that kind of felt like everybody just wanted to
get it over with so they can completely get ready
for Kentucky. Because yes, it sounds weird, it is weird.
These two teams in basketball are going to play in
just a few days, biggest day of the year at
least one of them when it comes to sports around here,
So ready or not, it'll be here soon. All our quick, quick,

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(12:22):
coverage on one specific story. And I'd say that's understandable
given the story and what we've experienced this week, and
we'll keep you updated as best we can. I would
imagine that the days ahead will still be days where
we get some level of updates from Mayor Greenberg. And
as of right now, each day that's passed, we learn

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of more people that did lose their lives in this
and learn more about people that are unaccounted for. And
I will say the process of public information, the coroner
being involved, the official confirmation of truly being able to
tell a loved one, hey, we are we are now

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one thousand percent sure that this this victim here, that
that that that we've recovered is is this person. And uh,
if you really consider it, you may not want to
because it's just it's it's graphic, it's heavy, it's just
it's it's unbelievable. But the difficulty in actually getting that
one thousand percent confirmation that this person is, that is

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is who you who you believe they are, I wouldn't
I wouldn't begin to know. I wouldn't begin to even
speculate the layers in which you have to to to
fully confirm that. So again we'll keep you updated, is
as there's new information throughout the throughout the morning here,
all right, So the FAA orders a nationwide flight cut

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that is of course impacting a lot of folks, and
it's because of this ongoing government shutdown. So travels across
the country are really about to feel it if you
haven't just yet. And I've said, throughout this shutdown, the
data does not tell you that this is. This has
been an alarming issue with the government shutdown and how
it's impacting people traveling. Yes, you are seeing a rise

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in flights being canceled, and I guess, really, depending upon
what you expected, that's all your own personal opinion. But
I just assumed when I hear that you've got an
industry that's already very unpredictable when it comes to airlines.
Flights are canceled and delayed for no rhyme or reason

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all the time. Well, now you've got a clear reason
to add into that that is going to have a
direct impact. So it looks as if they're the staffing
shortages with clearly fatigue from those that are air traffic
controllers deciding to use up sick time and no longer
show up to work take that sick time because they
they're not getting paid. So the schedule reduction start at

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four percent today and they're going to ramp up to
ten percent by November the fourteenth. So there are forty
airports where they're going to back on flight schedules, just
making less flights available for folks because of the manpower
that they are without for this shutdown. So I don't
know if we've hit that breaking point just yet. It
kind of feels like we would have already had it.

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You've got people who can no longer get assistance that
they've relied upon for a long time to feed themselves,
to feed their families, and we're a week in too.
Sort of that being the phase here as to where
we've gone this far, we broke the record. This shutdown
is now the longest we've ever had, and there still
doesn't seem to be really any end in sight. I mean,

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there are some things that are being done to I
guess you'd call it a work around, right, Like there's
going to be some some snap benefits, money coming back
to some folks because of the federal judge deciding that
some funds that were set aside have to be allocated
for because of this current situation. So that's a good thing,
given the situation, given the circumstances. But as far as

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us being able to say it's over, the government shut
down has come to an end and we're back up
and running, I don't know when that happens. Your guess
is as good as mine. All right, let's get to
a quick time out. We're gonna be joined coming up
here on the other side by Roy O'Neil, like we
are each and every morning at five forty five. We'll
talk to him about these flight delays and cutbacks, as

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well as cheaper weight loss drugs, the ozempic, the wagovi.
There's a lot of different options you have out there
as far as a weight loss medication that can help
you really transform your life. But since those became really
really popular and effective. Clearly they've gone up in price.
Well now it sounds like they're going to become more

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affordable once again. We'll talk about that and more with Rory.
Right here a news Radio eight forty whas. It's News
Radio eight forty whas. Coffee and Company with you, Nick Coffee.
That's me and I am now joined by Rory O'Neil.
Happy Friday, Rory, how we doing doing well?

Speaker 4 (16:53):
I'm having flashbacks with that song from college days, but
that's another story.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
We like to do.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
We'd like to take you back into Rory and we always.

Speaker 4 (17:02):
Honest to goodness, have the best bumper music of all
the stations I talk to every morning.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Well, I know the company man, John Alden, our producer.
I'm sure he takes great pride in that. I can
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sure he's very appreciative of the compliments. So always good
to hear people propping you up in John.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
He does a great job.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
So Rory, We've got weight loss drugs that have become
really really popular, but also they have become expensive for folks.
Now it sounds like there's some new regulations that will
dramatically cut the cost of these popular weight loss.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Drugs, right, And just a little asterisk on that because
right now this program is just for people on Medicare
and Medicaid and what will be trump our X. We're
going to hear more about that program when it rolls
out early in twenty twenty six. But it would bring
down the price of these drugs, which can be ay
eleven hundred, twelve hundred and thirteen hundred bucks a month

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or more for a lot of people. And these are
medications that it's difficult to get off them, and that's
one of the big challenges here. So the Trump administration
has worked out a deal with Eli Lilly and Norvo
Nordisk in order to provide these medications that are cost
of about maybe it's one hundred and fifty dollars a month,
could even get down to fifty bucks a month if

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you can take advantage of the new pill form of
these drugs, not the injectibles.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Do we know which of these drugs? Are we talking with?
Go vi ozembic just a version of something.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Like that, Yeah, exactly, those drugs and they're made by
the two different companies Eli Lilly and Norvo Nordisk, but
they're also coming out with so Nova. Nordisk has there
with the will Go Be people and they are expecting
a pill version of their drug by the end of
the year. Eli Lilly's pill could launch next year. I

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can't pronounce the name of that drug. It's a great
scrabble word, but I'm not going to try to say it.
But so, all these new medications, all these medications we've
seen as the more expensive injectibles, are now going to
become in pill form and obviously a lot more cheaper
to distribut So.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
When you say these drugs are hard to get off of,
I assume you mean because they're very effective.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Well, right, And well, what happens is for people when
they get off the drugs. Let's imagine you were on it.
You got the drugs, you were taking it because you're
pre diabetic, or obesity or high blood pressure, whatever it
may be, and maybe you lose fifty pounds in six months,
which is fantastic, But as soon as you stop the medication,
the weight tends to come back on and with a vengeance.
And the problem is, you know what, these drugs are

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very good at minimizing our cravings for things, so they're
really looking to expand how these drugs could be used,
because perhaps there's an application to help you stop smoking
on wigobe or ozembic, or or not just weight loss,
maybe help with a drug addiction. They could also be
these GLP one drugs could also be effected in that field,
and that's a source of a lot of research right now.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
It's clear that a lot of those who have been
able to get their hands on wagov ozembic, those drugs,
they've they've seen good results, which of course is a
good thing. But obviously when it comes to just knowing
the long term potential effects, that's always up in the air.
But I know a lot of folks who've had great results,
and I'm sure they're happy to hear that it could
become a little bit more easy to get access to

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these drugs. But Roy O'Neil is our guest. He joins
us here at news Radio eight forty Whas the government
shut down continues, airlines have been impacted already, and now
we know they're going to go ahead and just cancel
a certain amount of flights. I'm assuming this is just
due to the manpower that lock thereof given that there's
a lot of air traffic controllers and others that haven't
been paid and they're deciding they're not going to work anymore.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, there's that and just the fact that these air
traffic controllers like, look, I can't come into work if
you're not going to pay me today. I got to
go deliver pizzas and make some money because otherwise I
can't put gas in the car. I mean, it's those
kinds of problems for the air traffic controllers who've now
gone a month with no check. So we are seeing
this ramp down. So the emergency order from the FAA

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essentially is cutting back about four percent of flights today,
it's about eight hundred flights or so, and then it's
about it'll be ten percent by next Friday. So that's
the schedule they have. The advice is if you're flying
between now and the holidays and they're hoping that this
is all resolved in time for Thanksgiving. If you are traveling,
you know, make sure you have the app downloaded and

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notifications turned on because you might be getting alerted that
your flight may be changed or canceled. You've been rebooked
on other flights, so make sure you stay in the
loop with all of your travel reservations.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Rory is always we appreciate you time. Enjoy your weekend,
my friend.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Hey, thanks Nick, talk to you next week.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Take care.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
That's Rory O'Neil, NBC News. You always want to make
sure you're checking your flight status regardless of any situation,
but now probably a little bit more more than ever
should you be checking it often because at any moment
it can change. And just the direct acknowledgment of their
situations saying we're reducing just the overall amount of flights
we can handle. It's not surprising given the circumstances, but

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it's also very telling because they wouldn't do that unless
they have to. And that's where we are. All right,
let's get to a quick time out. We've got a
sports update coming your way. That's where we are, But
first we'll get a check on the roadways to see
how we're looking on this Friday on my way in
and hadn't started raining just yet, but it sounds like
that rain is on the way. Matt Melosavitch will tell
us more from WKY. Keep it locked right here. It's

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