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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is five oh six here on a Tuesday morning,
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's get a role called Nick Coffee. That's me.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
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the full crew here today. John Shannon back with us,
and as always, the company man, mister John Olden. I'm
looking up here, in fact, I'm looking at my monitor
here seeing something.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That has to be really rare. Eighteen innings in a.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In a Major League Baseball game last night, by the way,
I mean we're talking about a postseason game here that
ends with a walk off home run. I mean, could
Baseball have scripted it any better? As far as just
if those that don't follow baseball that closely. And I'm
holding my hand up like that's that cinema right there?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Is it not?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It is? It's epic cinema, Nick. And I first thing
I told you I walked in this morning is I
did not stay up to watch it and needed about
three thirty this morning, probably about an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That is insane.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, if you followed Darren Rodger at Churchill Downs on
social media, he is a big, big, big, big Dodgers fan.
And sure enough my man was up posting he was
up with this whole family celebrating at three thirty this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There's no way Paul Miles was up.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So yesterday he texted me on the way in just
to see, just to just to give me a.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heads up on the officer involved shooting that took place.
And I thought, why is he awake?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So if he if that's normal routine, and I think
he goes to the gym to pump his iron as
if you guys can't tell Paul Miles has been in
the gym relocating. Wait, you could tell. But if that's
his normal wake up time and he stayed up late
to watch his Dodgers play, He's gonna be running on
fumes today.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He will a lot of people. In fact, I was
going to text my good buddy, the former president of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians here, Mark Wakefield. He is
a huge Dodger fan. There's a lot of Dodger fans
in this town. I didn't know that. Yeah, called Bandwagon's okay,
I get it, but it couldn't happen to a better guy.
Freddie Freeman, one of the good guys in baseball, hit
back to back World Series walk off homers, and you
(02:01):
know it's it's just a great story. And again, I
can I found myself watching the game last night. I
cannot hate either team, And people ask me all the
time who you got. I don't have anybody. I'm just
gonna sit back and enjoy this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So this is where I would recommend, and you can.
You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But if that's the case, then make a bed and
then you got you have somebody to raise your on.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That gives you, that gives you something to cheer for.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, I lost all my money on the Reds because
I went only on the Reds.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, it didn't pay off, but hey, it's always fun.
Let me ask you this. Yeah, is the conversation, I
mean it's it's not like people are ignoring what Otani
is doing and just how amazing he is. But is
the conversation happening as far as like best baseball player
that's ever walked the earth? Because some of the he's
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got to get he's got to get World Series champions,
change of that, right, And I think every sport when
it when you're in that conversation, you have to have
at least some history of not only being really really
good individually, but winning winning, you know, winning champions. And
the Dodgers of course that they do that all.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But like, I just.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Don't know how each time I see him getting attention
to where it's almost like hard, like he's doing things
that that I think will get people who don't watch
baseball's attention more than ever. And it just is someone
like that, who's that's me? Like, it just seems as
if this guy every week there's something that he's doing
that's never been done before that nobody ever envisioned being possible.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Now at all.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And you're right to ask that question. And I love
getting in these comforts. I love getting in these conversations
with fans around baseball. I don't like it when we
start comparing other sports, like you know, hey, was could
Bob Coosey have played Lebron James in this year's you know,
in this addition of.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The be a good matchup, right, right? But I do
like individual actually, but I do.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Like these conversations around baseball because I love talking baseball,
so I could talk all day. To your point, though,
I think you're right, and I like your analysis there
that is show Hay's doing things we've never seen before.
So you can't compare him to Baber. If you can't
compare him to Ted Williams, you can't stand because look
at those guys when they used to swing the back
back in the fifties. I mean, these guys look like
Paul Bunyan out there, and it's a diffferent time. Yeah,
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it's a different game. So it's hard to say. But
to your point, show, hey, we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, And that's that's what I think to me, is
so obviously true about comparing generations eras is that it
is a different game, meaning a different sport, and that's
not anybody's fault. That doesn't that really doesn't belittle anybody
regardless of when they played, but it changes. I mean,
it's just a different you know, technically it's not a
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different sport, but it really is a different game as
far as how it is played, and there are certain
eras so different there's really no I can't I never
even I never even tried to process how one would
stock up with the other, because again.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's just so different.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, and the same applies to culture, hence the super
Bowl argument we were having. Okay, yes, I get the
older generation wants to see more rockers at a Super
Bowl halftime show, but that's kind of not where the
NFL is right now. It's a bad bunny thing. And
so to your point, you can't compare these generations and
we're just having to generate. No clash. Sometimes it hitts
in a way, but you're right to ask those questions
about showing.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, look, I don't know if MLB could have
gotten a better yes, a better night as far as
just first of all, Tom spent consuming the product a
game that lasted as long as it did with eighteen innings.
It is crazy, but of course a thrilling finish and
good stuff. I hate that you didn't stay up, but
I'm glad. I think you made the right decision.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, I wouldn't be functioning.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think you made the right call.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, thanks gott All right, look, we've got to
get this thing rolling with our traffic and weather updates.
That's what we do. You come to expect it, and
we'll continue to do that this morning. Also, what do
I want to get to coming up here on the
other side, We've got an update as far as the
officer involved shooting yesterday. The family of one of the
victims did share a little bit of info as far
as what played out prior to officers arriving. But we'll
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talk about that and a lot more again, trafficking, weather
updates right here right now. It's five twelve at news
Radio eight forty whas one of the big stories we
were following yesterday morning was the officer involved shooting that
took place in the Newburgh neighborhood. And we now know
that the man that was shot by LMPD after he
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decided not to put his firearm down after they advised
him to do so, he has he's dead and we'll
get bodycam footage of that ten days. The protocol is
ten business days after the incident takes place, so at
some point we will see bodycam footage. But that individual
is dead and the woman she was rushed to the
hospital and is I believe still in critical condition. But
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it was around two am on Ridgecrest Road near Rosssette
Boulevard in the Newburgh area, where LMPD responded to reports
of a woman being shot in the family members of
that woman say that she's a mother of three in
the shooting happening during a birthday party for one of
her children. So when officers arrived, they encountered a man
armed with a gun. That man was later identified as
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twenty year old Frank Aguilar, and the family members say
he was a guest at the party, and police say
that they ordered him to drop the weapon, but he
walked towards officers with the gun raised, leading one officer
to fire, so again both were rushed to the hospital
and he later died, which family members it sounds like
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the situation was out of character for everyone involved. I mean,
I would imagine that anything like that playing out the
way that it did would be something that you wouldn't expect.
But just a sad situation all the way around. But
the party just hours earlier, it sounded like things were
going well. The family talked to wk why and yeah,
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just an awful situation all the way around. But the
LMPD body cam footage got all of it. And again
ten business days that is whenever that is whenever that
will be released, and.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You could tell yesterday. I think just from the.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I shouldn't put too much into it because it's no
way to I mean, there's no way to know for sure,
but it just seemed like yesterday whenever you heard from
MELENPD on site responding to the situation, which of course
that's what you that's what you expect whenever there is
an officer involved shooting like that. But Emily McKinley, the
Deputy Chief of police, I don't know if she knew
right away that the individual that was shot was was
(08:14):
was dead, and I'm not even really sure when he
was pronounced dead. But even if, even if you know,
you are one thousand percent justified in doing what you
have to do to protect your self protect others on
scene because you're responding to a situation where somebody was
shot and and potentially I mean again, looks like the
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person who was shot was shot by the man who's
all holding a gun and not not dropping the weapon
like you asked. I mean again, you're well with if that's,
of course what ends up playing out like we will
probably and I would say most likely see on the
body cam nobody was in the wrong as far as
just handling that situation the way you're trained to. But
it still would be such a heavy thing to experience
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knowing that you know, it had to come to that.
But again, that's that's part. That's part of the job,
and I'm sure that's not ever going to be normal
for anybody that's in the line of duty to do
the job. And yet the job is taking someone's life
because they're a danger to you and society. But again,
that's that's part of it, the one of the many
elements of I think law enforcement that many don't quite
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quite think about, just because what they do is a
whole lot different than what a lot of us do. However,
they're also human beings, just like we all are. All Right,
let's get an update of trafficking weather. Also, we'll get
Rory O'Neil coming up at five forty five. He'll join
us as he as he always does. And I don't
know if you guys are keeping up with this hurricane,
but it is. It is scary Hurricane Melissa. Just the
(09:42):
devastation that is currently happening right now is wild. But
we'll get the latest done that with Rory. Also, there
is a new study on how Americans feel about a
lot of things with the NFL, the National Football League,
this Shield as they call it, including the extending of
the season and where they've added a in regular season game,
and of course Bad Bunny's appearance at the Super Bowl
(10:05):
for halftime. So again, Royal join us coming up here
in about twenty five minutes. We've got trafficking the weather
right now. We've also got a sports up date coming
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All right, So the government shutdown again, we're getting not
(10:48):
We're not We're close to a month, but I'd say
to say we're just under a month would be a
little bit, a little bit of an exaggeration. But still
right now, with the current climate in regards to just
this standoff, if you will, it doesn't feel like we're
going to get this thing resolved before we get to
the government being shut down for an entire month. And
(11:09):
I always just assume that there's things going on behind
the scenes that we would never know about, that this
is just a around the clock situation to try to
get resolved. But I get that that's foolish of me
to think of it being that way at all. But
there's at least more noise out there as far as
just Hey, for example, you've got the American Federation of
(11:33):
Government Employees. Their leader has let's see, yeah, eight hundred
thousand workers, that is what the American Federation of Government
Employees represents, so nearly a million workers, and they're urging
Congress to pass this bill to open the government. So
(11:54):
more than one million federal employees are currently without pay,
and that has led to some of them using up
sick time to go work other jobs where they can
get paid. There are some employees that have said they've
had to turn to food pantries just to get by.
But the union president, Everett Kelly, and again he's the
union president of the American Federation of Government Employees, he's
(12:16):
urging for the finger pointing to stop and just start
finding solutions. And I just can't imagine being in that situation,
the helplessness, knowing that you have no control over it
at all, and you just have to hope that it
gets resolved sooner rather than later. But that becomes harder
to continue to say, meaning sooner rather than later whenever
(12:37):
you start to actually miss checks after working the typical
work week that you work. And I just know right
now when it comes to the financial situation for a
lot of people, if you went through this for the
twenty something days that occurred years back whenever we had
our last government shut down, I mean, I wouldn't be
(12:59):
shocked if you're in the same position, meaning you have
the same job, and yet now it's much more difficult
for you to go without a week of getting paid,
and obviously that you do have some I mean it's
not it's not like you can be evicted. I mean,
I would hope that those who are landlords and whatnot
would understand that that this is clearly a rare situation.
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But they've got you know, not only do you need
to be understanding as a human being, you you know
you're not You're not gonna be able to just move
to evict somebody if they're if they're currently impacted by
this shutdown and they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But still I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
That that that's that's better than it being the other
way around, where you get no help and there's no
consideration for your situation. But still the added level of
just stress and anxiety over this would be would be tough.
So again, there's millions of people going through that or
right now, and here's the hope and they can get
it resolved again sooner rather than later. But it doesn't
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seem as if that that that is the expectation as
of right now. All Right, roy O'Neil said to Joy
is coming up here soon again if you guys haven't
seen the and we'll get more from Rory on this.
But the hurricane that is hitting Jamaica, it's Hurricane Melissa,
and it's been identified as a category five winds reaching
one hundred and seventy five miles per hour, making it
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the strongest storm that's ever recorded near that island, and
it's moving very slow. Rory tipped us off on this
yesterday as far as just what makes this, I guess
rare and certainly dangerous is that it's moving at a
very slow pace, which of course just increases the risk
of insane flooding. But they're expected to get fifteen and
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thirty inches of rain, and isolated areas possibly getting near
fifty inches. So it's the strongest on the southern coast,
and it could push water levels up to thirteen feet
higher than normal, and that is I mean, that's a
level of devastation, certainly. So over fifty thousand people there
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already without power and the worst conditions are expected to
come here soon as the storm's going to make its
landfall this morning. So just a very scary situation. But yes,
the rare the rare element here is that this thing
is moving slow, which means it's going to take a
while for it to run its course. But I'm looking
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here at some live camera footage that WKY has on
their screen, and it's a scary site, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
All Right, let's get to a quick update of trafficking.
Whether we'll see how the.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Roadways are looking as we get this Tuesday morning started.
And then Roy O'Neal NBC News is going to join
us on the other side right here on News Radio
eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It is Kentucky and.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's morning news here News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee,
that's me, He's Roory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory will
start with Hurricane Melissa. This slow moving, devastating hurricane is
looking to really take its toll on Jamaica. What's the
latest here. I just saw some live coverage on television
just a moment ago, and certainly a scary sight, and
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it sounds like we're in the midst of it getting really,
really bad.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, and the numbers got worse. We got the advisory
from the National Hurricane Center within the past hour. Winds
are now up to one hundred and seventy five miles
per hour. That's a sustained wind. Gusts are over two
hundred and ten miles per hour, So it's incredible conditions
we really don't see or measure very often in the Atlantic,
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and this storm is about to make landfall in Jamaica.
Late this afternoon and into tonight as a Category five hurricane.
And the only promising sign is that actually the speed
of the storm has picked up a little bit. It
had been three miles an hour, now it's up to
five miles per hour. So look, the faster it goes,
the better the situation, because that means then the less
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time to have rainfall on Jamaica, which some estimates say
could top three feet in locations.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, it sounds like this coastline here in Jamaica, this
storm is believed to be already one that is going
to reach levels of just and I guess it's tough
to know the exact impact till it's over, but it
sounds like this is going to be one they've never
experienced before there.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think the most serious storm of
late was a Cat four hurricane, and that happened back
in the nineteen eighties. So clearly Jamaica no stranger to
these kinds of storms, but not much as built to
withstand one hundred and seventy five miles an hour or
gusts of two hundred and fifteen miles per hour, which
is why everyone is urging people to get the higher
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ground well too late now, but to hunker down and
to try to ride this one out in safety, because remember,
as we said yesterday, the flooding and the water are
the real threat here. The wind numbers we talked about, yes,
they will knock down power lines and trees and take
the roof off a house, but for the most part,
historically speaking, it's the water that kills people.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Scary stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Notice Roy O'Neil of NBC News is our guests joining
us on news Radio eight forty whas we've got a
new study out that tells us how Americans feel about
certain things with the NFL when it comes to extending
the season, which they did here recently. Also the never
ending conversation about bad Bunny being the one who's going
to perform at the halftime of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What do Americans think about this?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, so Quinnipiac University typically does political polls, this one though,
looking at the NFL in particular, and most Americans would
like this idea of moving the Super Bowl to President's
Day weekend, so the big game Sunday night and you
have Monday off, or at least a lot of people
do so, to make a three day weekend out of it. Essentially,
fifty six percent of Americans support that idea, sixty four
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percent among football fans themselves, and the NFL considering adding
a game to bring it up to eighteen games, and
all sixty percent of NFL fans support that idea. And
when it comes to Bad Bunny, about half approve of
the decision to have Bad perform at the halftime show.
If you're younger, you're more in favor of it. If
you're more Democrat, you're more in favor of it as well.
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So well, those are pretty much how that breaks down
along the party lines.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I doubt we have any data here, but I would
love to know how many people are complaining but don't
really care. They just feel as if they need to
join in and join in on the collective noise about
being being bothered by who's going to perform because I'm
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Do you know why they're bothered by it?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Because they just feel like they need to be I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
No, they're bothered by it because it makes them me
feel old?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, yeah, that's true. There's a lot of push from
the from and I mean, I look, I'm younger than you.
Rory at least I think I am, and I kind
of I kind of feel a little bit. I kind
of I feel like I'm now not somebody that the
NFL is targeting when it comes to who they want
to perform at the halftime of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But you know clearly what they're doing is working.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If there's one entity that has been able to just
continue to dominate like nobody else, it is the National
Football League exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah. They know their audience, that's for sure, and they
know the audience they want to cultivate. And it's not
fifty five year old guys like me, right, not anymore.
So we have already chosen our beverage of choice, our
chip of choice, our insurance company of choice. Yep. What
they're trying to do is lure in that nineteen year
old yep.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And they're pretty good at it. And yeah, the NFL
is dominant like like no other. But Rory has always
we appreciate your time, Enjoy the rest of your day.
My friend will talk tomorrow. Thanks Nick Rory ONEILV NBC News. Yeah,
bad bunny, I know who I know who he is.
I was aware of his Uh, I mean, I was
gonna say I would know him if he walked in here,
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I think I would now because he's been getting a
lot more publicity within something that I do follow a lot,
which is the NFL. But clearly he's successful in the NFL.
They're successful, they know what they're doing, and I'm sure
it wasn't just a random choice to have bad Bunny
somebody who does not perform music in English. But they
know what they're doing. That's one entity that is dominant
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really like nothing else I can think of. Maybe this
is me just getting super in my own bubble with sports,
but yeah, the NFL is king. In fact, like last
night you had a eighteen inning Major League Baseball game
in the in the World Series, and yet you had
the Chiefs and the and the who was it they
played last night?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Commander?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, the Chiefs, the Commanders playing last night and Monday
night football, And I mean the NFL probably dominated when
it comes to viewership, just because that's what the NFL does.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They dominate.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
All Right, We've got traffick in weather coming your way
right here right now, also speaking to dominate, Scott Fitzgerald's
going to dominate. Another sports update for us coming up
in just a couple of minutes right here, here's Radio
eight forty whas
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's get a role called Nick Coffee. That's me.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I hope you knew that. If not, now you do.
Scott fitzgered alongside, and of course the Johns. We've got
the full crew here today. John Shannon back with us,
and as always, the company man, mister John Olden. I'm
looking up here, in fact, I'm looking at my monitor
here seeing something.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That has to be really rare. Eighteen innings in a.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
In a Major League Baseball game last night, by the way,
I mean we're talking about a postseason game here that
ends with a walk off home run. I mean, could
Baseball have scripted it any better? As far as just
if those that don't follow baseball that closely. And I'm
holding my hand up like that's that cinema right there?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Is it not?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
It is? It's epic cinema, Nick. And I first thing
I told you I walked in this morning is I
did not stay up to watch it and needed about
three thirty this morning, probably about an hour and a half.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That is insane.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well, if you followed Darren Rodger at Churchill Downs on
social media, he is a big, big, big, big Dodgers fan.
And sure enough my man was up posting he was
up with this whole family celebrating at three thirty this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There's no way Paul Miles was up.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I wouldn't put it past him.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
So yesterday he texted me on the way in just
to see, just to just to give me a.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Heads up on the officer involved shooting that took place.
And I thought, why is he awake?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So if he if that's normal routine, and I think
he goes to the gym to pump his iron as
if you guys can't tell Paul Miles has been in
the gym relocating. Wait, you could tell. But if that's
his normal wake up time and he stayed up late
to watch his Dodgers play, He's gonna be running on
fumes today.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
He will a lot of people. In fact, I was
going to text my good buddy, the former president of
the Ancient Order of Hibernians here, Mark Wakefield. He is
a huge Dodger fan. There's a lot of Dodger fans
in this town. I didn't know that. Yeah, called Bandwagon's okay,
I get it, but it couldn't happen to a better guy.
Freddie Freeman, one of the good guys in baseball, hit
back to back World Series walk off homers, and you
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know it's it's just a great story. And again, I
can I found myself watching the game last night. I
cannot hate either team, And people ask me all the
time who you got. I don't have anybody. I'm just
gonna sit back and enjoy this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So this is where I would recommend, and you can.
You can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
But if that's the case, then make a bed and
then you got you have somebody to raise your on.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That gives you, that gives you something to cheer for.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, I lost all my money on the Reds because
I went only on the Reds.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, it didn't pay off, but hey, it's always fun.
Let me ask you this. Yeah, is the conversation, I
mean it's it's not like people are ignoring what Otani
is doing and just how amazing he is. But is
the conversation happening as far as like best baseball player
that's ever walked the earth? Because some of the he's
(02:44):
got to get he's got to get World Series champions,
change of that, right, And I think every sport when
it when you're in that conversation, you have to have
at least some history of not only being really really
good individually, but winning winning, you know, winning champions. And
the Dodgers of course that they do that all.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
But like, I just.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Don't know how each time I see him getting attention
to where it's almost like hard, like he's doing things
that that I think will get people who don't watch
baseball's attention more than ever. And it just is someone
like that, who's that's me? Like, it just seems as
if this guy every week there's something that he's doing
that's never been done before that nobody ever envisioned being possible.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Now at all.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And you're right to ask that question. And I love
getting in these comforts. I love getting in these conversations
with fans around baseball. I don't like it when we
start comparing other sports, like you know, hey, was could
Bob Coosey have played Lebron James in this year's you know,
in this addition of.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
The be a good matchup, right, right? But I do
like individual actually, but I do.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Like these conversations around baseball because I love talking baseball,
so I could talk all day. To your point, though,
I think you're right, and I like your analysis there
that is show Hay's doing things we've never seen before.
So you can't compare him to Baber. If you can't
compare him to Ted Williams, you can't stand because look
at those guys when they used to swing the back
back in the fifties. I mean, these guys look like
Paul Bunyan out there, and it's a diffferent time. Yeah,
(04:05):
it's a different game. So it's hard to say. But
to your point, show, hey, we'll get there.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yes, And that's that's what I think to me, is
so obviously true about comparing generations eras is that it
is a different game, meaning a different sport, and that's
not anybody's fault. That doesn't that really doesn't belittle anybody
regardless of when they played, but it changes. I mean,
it's just a different you know, technically it's not a
(04:28):
different sport, but it really is a different game as
far as how it is played, and there are certain
eras so different there's really no I can't I never
even I never even tried to process how one would
stock up with the other, because again.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
It's just so different.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, and the same applies to culture, hence the super
Bowl argument we were having. Okay, yes, I get the
older generation wants to see more rockers at a Super
Bowl halftime show, but that's kind of not where the
NFL is right now. It's a bad bunny thing. And
so to your point, you can't compare these generations and
we're just having to generate. No clash. Sometimes it hitts
in a way, but you're right to ask those questions
about showing.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean, look, I don't know if MLB could have
gotten a better yes, a better night as far as
just first of all, Tom spent consuming the product a
game that lasted as long as it did with eighteen innings.
It is crazy, but of course a thrilling finish and
good stuff. I hate that you didn't stay up, but
I'm glad. I think you made the right decision.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, I wouldn't be functioning.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I think you made the right call.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
All right, thanks gott All right, look, we've got to
get this thing rolling with our traffic and weather updates.
That's what we do. You come to expect it, and
we'll continue to do that this morning. Also, what do
I want to get to coming up here on the
other side, We've got an update as far as the
officer involved shooting yesterday. The family of one of the
victims did share a little bit of info as far
as what played out prior to officers arriving. But we'll
(05:47):
talk about that and a lot more again, trafficking, weather
updates right here right now. It's five twelve at news
Radio eight forty whas one of the big stories we
were following yesterday morning was the officer involved shooting that
took place in the Newburgh neighborhood. And we now know
that the man that was shot by LMPD after he
(06:09):
decided not to put his firearm down after they advised
him to do so, he has he's dead and we'll
get bodycam footage of that ten days. The protocol is
ten business days after the incident takes place, so at
some point we will see bodycam footage. But that individual
is dead and the woman she was rushed to the
hospital and is I believe still in critical condition. But
(06:33):
it was around two am on Ridgecrest Road near Rosssette
Boulevard in the Newburgh area, where LMPD responded to reports
of a woman being shot in the family members of
that woman say that she's a mother of three in
the shooting happening during a birthday party for one of
her children. So when officers arrived, they encountered a man
armed with a gun. That man was later identified as
(06:54):
twenty year old Frank Aguilar, and the family members say
he was a guest at the party, and police say
that they ordered him to drop the weapon, but he
walked towards officers with the gun raised, leading one officer
to fire, so again both were rushed to the hospital
and he later died, which family members it sounds like
(07:14):
the situation was out of character for everyone involved. I mean,
I would imagine that anything like that playing out the
way that it did would be something that you wouldn't expect.
But just a sad situation all the way around. But
the party just hours earlier, it sounded like things were
going well. The family talked to wk why and yeah,
(07:36):
just an awful situation all the way around. But the
LMPD body cam footage got all of it. And again
ten business days that is whenever that is whenever that
will be released, and.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
You could tell yesterday. I think just from the.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I shouldn't put too much into it because it's no
way to I mean, there's no way to know for sure,
but it just seemed like yesterday whenever you heard from
MELENPD on site responding to the situation, which of course
that's what you that's what you expect whenever there is
an officer involved shooting like that. But Emily McKinley, the
Deputy Chief of police, I don't know if she knew
right away that the individual that was shot was was
(08:14):
was dead, and I'm not even really sure when he
was pronounced dead. But even if, even if you know,
you are one thousand percent justified in doing what you
have to do to protect your self protect others on
scene because you're responding to a situation where somebody was
shot and and potentially I mean again, looks like the
(08:35):
person who was shot was shot by the man who's
all holding a gun and not not dropping the weapon
like you asked. I mean again, you're well with if that's,
of course what ends up playing out like we will
probably and I would say most likely see on the
body cam nobody was in the wrong as far as
just handling that situation the way you're trained to. But
it still would be such a heavy thing to experience
(08:57):
knowing that you know, it had to come to that.
But again, that's that's part. That's part of the job,
and I'm sure that's not ever going to be normal
for anybody that's in the line of duty to do
the job. And yet the job is taking someone's life
because they're a danger to you and society. But again,
that's that's part of it, the one of the many
elements of I think law enforcement that many don't quite
(09:19):
quite think about, just because what they do is a
whole lot different than what a lot of us do. However,
they're also human beings, just like we all are. All Right,
let's get an update of trafficking weather. Also, we'll get
Rory O'Neil coming up at five forty five. He'll join
us as he as he always does. And I don't
know if you guys are keeping up with this hurricane,
but it is. It is scary Hurricane Melissa. Just the
(09:42):
devastation that is currently happening right now is wild. But
we'll get the latest done that with Rory. Also, there
is a new study on how Americans feel about a
lot of things with the NFL, the National Football League,
this Shield as they call it, including the extending of
the season and where they've added a in regular season game,
and of course Bad Bunny's appearance at the Super Bowl
(10:05):
for halftime. So again, Royal join us coming up here
in about twenty five minutes. We've got trafficking the weather
right now. We've also got a sports up date coming
your way on news Radio eight forty whas. It is
five thirty five here at news Radio eight forty whas
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All right, So the government shutdown again, we're getting not
(10:48):
We're not We're close to a month, but I'd say
to say we're just under a month would be a
little bit, a little bit of an exaggeration. But still
right now, with the current climate in regards to just
this standoff, if you will, it doesn't feel like we're
going to get this thing resolved before we get to
the government being shut down for an entire month. And
(11:09):
I always just assume that there's things going on behind
the scenes that we would never know about, that this
is just a around the clock situation to try to
get resolved. But I get that that's foolish of me
to think of it being that way at all. But
there's at least more noise out there as far as
just Hey, for example, you've got the American Federation of
(11:33):
Government Employees. Their leader has let's see, yeah, eight hundred
thousand workers, that is what the American Federation of Government
Employees represents, so nearly a million workers, and they're urging
Congress to pass this bill to open the government. So
(11:54):
more than one million federal employees are currently without pay,
and that has led to some of them using up
sick time to go work other jobs where they can
get paid. There are some employees that have said they've
had to turn to food pantries just to get by.
But the union president, Everett Kelly, and again he's the
union president of the American Federation of Government Employees, he's
(12:16):
urging for the finger pointing to stop and just start
finding solutions. And I just can't imagine being in that situation,
the helplessness, knowing that you have no control over it
at all, and you just have to hope that it
gets resolved sooner rather than later. But that becomes harder
to continue to say, meaning sooner rather than later whenever
(12:37):
you start to actually miss checks after working the typical
work week that you work. And I just know right
now when it comes to the financial situation for a
lot of people, if you went through this for the
twenty something days that occurred years back whenever we had
our last government shut down, I mean, I wouldn't be
(12:59):
shocked if you're in the same position, meaning you have
the same job, and yet now it's much more difficult
for you to go without a week of getting paid,
and obviously that you do have some I mean it's
not it's not like you can be evicted. I mean,
I would hope that those who are landlords and whatnot
would understand that that this is clearly a rare situation.
(13:21):
But they've got you know, not only do you need
to be understanding as a human being, you you know
you're not You're not gonna be able to just move
to evict somebody if they're if they're currently impacted by
this shutdown and they're not getting paid.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But still I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
That that that's that's better than it being the other
way around, where you get no help and there's no
consideration for your situation. But still the added level of
just stress and anxiety over this would be would be tough.
So again, there's millions of people going through that or
right now, and here's the hope and they can get
it resolved again sooner rather than later. But it doesn't
(13:57):
seem as if that that that is the expectation as
of right now. All Right, roy O'Neil said to Joy
is coming up here soon again if you guys haven't
seen the and we'll get more from Rory on this.
But the hurricane that is hitting Jamaica, it's Hurricane Melissa,
and it's been identified as a category five winds reaching
one hundred and seventy five miles per hour, making it
(14:21):
the strongest storm that's ever recorded near that island, and
it's moving very slow. Rory tipped us off on this
yesterday as far as just what makes this, I guess
rare and certainly dangerous is that it's moving at a
very slow pace, which of course just increases the risk
of insane flooding. But they're expected to get fifteen and
(14:44):
thirty inches of rain, and isolated areas possibly getting near
fifty inches. So it's the strongest on the southern coast,
and it could push water levels up to thirteen feet
higher than normal, and that is I mean, that's a
level of devastation, certainly. So over fifty thousand people there
(15:05):
already without power and the worst conditions are expected to
come here soon as the storm's going to make its
landfall this morning. So just a very scary situation. But yes,
the rare the rare element here is that this thing
is moving slow, which means it's going to take a
while for it to run its course. But I'm looking
(15:27):
here at some live camera footage that WKY has on
their screen, and it's a scary site, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
All Right, let's get to a quick update of trafficking.
Whether we'll see how the.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Roadways are looking as we get this Tuesday morning started.
And then Roy O'Neal NBC News is going to join
us on the other side right here on News Radio
eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It is Kentucky and.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's morning news here News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee,
that's me, He's Roory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory will
start with Hurricane Melissa. This slow moving, devastating hurricane is
looking to really take its toll on Jamaica. What's the
latest here. I just saw some live coverage on television
just a moment ago, and certainly a scary sight, and
(16:07):
it sounds like we're in the midst of it getting really,
really bad.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, and the numbers got worse. We got the advisory
from the National Hurricane Center within the past hour. Winds
are now up to one hundred and seventy five miles
per hour. That's a sustained wind. Gusts are over two
hundred and ten miles per hour, So it's incredible conditions
we really don't see or measure very often in the Atlantic,
(16:32):
and this storm is about to make landfall in Jamaica.
Late this afternoon and into tonight as a Category five hurricane.
And the only promising sign is that actually the speed
of the storm has picked up a little bit. It
had been three miles an hour, now it's up to
five miles per hour. So look, the faster it goes,
the better the situation, because that means then the less
(16:55):
time to have rainfall on Jamaica, which some estimates say
could top three feet in locations.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Well, it sounds like this coastline here in Jamaica, this
storm is believed to be already one that is going
to reach levels of just and I guess it's tough
to know the exact impact till it's over, but it
sounds like this is going to be one they've never
experienced before there.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, I mean, I think the most serious storm of
late was a Cat four hurricane, and that happened back
in the nineteen eighties. So clearly Jamaica no stranger to
these kinds of storms, but not much as built to
withstand one hundred and seventy five miles an hour or
gusts of two hundred and fifteen miles per hour, which
is why everyone is urging people to get the higher
(17:37):
ground well too late now, but to hunker down and
to try to ride this one out in safety, because remember,
as we said yesterday, the flooding and the water are
the real threat here. The wind numbers we talked about, yes,
they will knock down power lines and trees and take
the roof off a house, but for the most part,
historically speaking, it's the water that kills people.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Scary stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Notice Roy O'Neil of NBC News is our guests joining
us on news Radio eight forty whas we've got a
new study out that tells us how Americans feel about
certain things with the NFL when it comes to extending
the season, which they did here recently. Also the never
ending conversation about bad Bunny being the one who's going
to perform at the halftime of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What do Americans think about this?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, so Quinnipiac University typically does political polls, this one though,
looking at the NFL in particular, and most Americans would
like this idea of moving the Super Bowl to President's
Day weekend, so the big game Sunday night and you
have Monday off, or at least a lot of people
do so, to make a three day weekend out of it. Essentially,
fifty six percent of Americans support that idea, sixty four
(18:44):
percent among football fans themselves, and the NFL considering adding
a game to bring it up to eighteen games, and
all sixty percent of NFL fans support that idea. And
when it comes to Bad Bunny, about half approve of
the decision to have Bad perform at the halftime show.
If you're younger, you're more in favor of it. If
you're more Democrat, you're more in favor of it as well.
(19:07):
So well, those are pretty much how that breaks down
along the party lines.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I doubt we have any data here, but I would
love to know how many people are complaining but don't
really care. They just feel as if they need to
join in and join in on the collective noise about
being being bothered by who's going to perform because I'm
go ahead.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Do you know why they're bothered by it?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Because they just feel like they need to be I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
No, they're bothered by it because it makes them me
feel old?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, yeah, that's true. There's a lot of push from
the from and I mean, I look, I'm younger than you.
Rory at least I think I am, and I kind
of I kind of feel a little bit. I kind
of I feel like I'm now not somebody that the
NFL is targeting when it comes to who they want
to perform at the halftime of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
But you know clearly what they're doing is working.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
If there's one entity that has been able to just
continue to dominate like nobody else, it is the National
Football League exactly.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah. They know their audience, that's for sure, and they
know the audience they want to cultivate. And it's not
fifty five year old guys like me, right, not anymore.
So we have already chosen our beverage of choice, our
chip of choice, our insurance company of choice. Yep. What
they're trying to do is lure in that nineteen year
old yep.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
And they're pretty good at it. And yeah, the NFL
is dominant like like no other. But Rory has always
we appreciate your time, Enjoy the rest of your day.
My friend will talk tomorrow. Thanks Nick Rory ONEILV NBC News. Yeah,
bad bunny, I know who I know who he is.
I was aware of his Uh, I mean, I was
gonna say I would know him if he walked in here,
(20:42):
I think I would now because he's been getting a
lot more publicity within something that I do follow a lot,
which is the NFL. But clearly he's successful in the NFL.
They're successful, they know what they're doing, and I'm sure
it wasn't just a random choice to have bad Bunny
somebody who does not perform music in English. But they
know what they're doing. That's one entity that is dominant
(21:07):
really like nothing else I can think of. Maybe this
is me just getting super in my own bubble with sports,
but yeah, the NFL is king. In fact, like last
night you had a eighteen inning Major League Baseball game
in the in the World Series, and yet you had
the Chiefs and the and the who was it they
played last night?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Commander?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, the Chiefs, the Commanders playing last night and Monday
night football, And I mean the NFL probably dominated when
it comes to viewership, just because that's what the NFL does.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
They dominate.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
All Right, We've got traffick in weather coming your way
right here right now, also speaking to dominate, Scott Fitzgerald's
going to dominate. Another sports update for us coming up
in just a couple of minutes right here, here's Radio
eight forty whas
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