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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've got a wet start to a Wednesday morning here
at News Radio eight forty whas, and I believe it's
going to stay wet for the majority of the morning,
at least that is the expectation. You really never know
what's going to happen, especially when it comes to weather.
But our team over at WLKY they've got current conditions obviously,
as if you're up and you're out, you know it's raining.
(00:21):
But for the next five hours we've got nothing lower
than a seventy percent chance of rain. So going to
be a wet morning, So be careful. I was delayed
in getting here, but it wasn't because of any specific accident,
any specific issue. It's just people drive slower when it's
raining because you want to be a little bit more careful.
(00:44):
And it's enough rain to where if you're on the
inside outside lane of sixty five, you got to really
be careful because it's dark, it's wet, hydro plane that
kind of stuff. So be advised. We'll keep you updated
throughout the morning on traffic. And this is where this
is our time to shine. I mean, I say collectively,
trying to share the spotlight with Bobby Ellis because this
is his time to shine and we utilize him. Right,
(01:05):
That's the way it works. Any issues on your way
in any any.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I was good, dude. I mean, other than just being
right to your point, I'm looking at this. I'm looking
at it all the rain, I mean, all the way through.
The good thing is it looks like it's gonna break
for the trigger truders on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I was gonna say, let's hope the skits out of
the way before we get to Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
When I see just the devastation currently going on with
the hurricane in Jamaica and also now Cuba dealing with
it as well. I mean, eventually, aren't we going to
get some remnants of that, right? I mean, that'll well, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Gonna push off. And they said that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm glad you brought that up, because that's I was
listening to meteorologists talk about how that's the reason why
we're so dry here, why we've had such nice weather,
to be honest with you, because typically we get the
remnants from the hurricane and it.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Kind of pushed itself off. We've been in this pattern.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Temperatures aren't gonna warm up in the next week not
crazy warm. We're talking maybe sixty five, but after fifty
two it's gonna feel pretty warm. But feel good and
feel comfortable because it is full. There's meteorol just scopits geral. Sorry,
I just no, that sounds good. That like weather nerd
in me that just that likes to find. I don't
want to be one of those people that walks in
and just starts talking about the weather, because that reminds
(02:09):
me too much of my dad and my grandfather.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
But I do like to follow it's I think weather's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You've just made me realize that. I'm not sure I've
ever really questioned anybody who tells me what the weather
is supposed to be, because one it's there's oftentimes rejections
that are wrong. In fact, I've learned in this position
what what we are informed each day as far as
what to expect. More often than not it's not accurate.
(02:34):
Sometimes it's not way off. But sometimes it's just you know,
it's wrong. That's just the nature of what it is.
But I guess because that that's that's a part of it.
But also I know I don't know what's going to happen,
So if you tell me I'm just gonna say yeah,
for sure, sure, yeah, And this is this is going
to make me sound maybe more stupid than I already
do at times. But there are instances where you should
(02:55):
absolutely be mindful of what the temperature is going to be,
what the forecast is, severe weather, all that kind of stuff.
But as far as like letting it like we have
no it's one of those things that we have absolutely
zero control over that if you just you know, only
really look when you know you need to, I mean
you may in fact, I mean all that could do,
I think was all that could do is potentially make
(03:16):
you just maybe worry and stress a little bit less
about it, because again, there's.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No reason to look at it. It's gonna do what it's
gonna do regardless.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yep, yeap, it is it is. And that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And what I find is the common denominator too. You
can go to any city in America one they either
created the cheeseburger, any city says clitting here, including here,
and anyone will tell you, oh, stick around for five minutes,
the weather will change.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I've heard that in every city I've been to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Oh absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And so every city, especially especially in our region Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville.
Those are cities where I feel like on more than
one occasion when I've been in said city and you
are clearly they're visiting tourism that kind of stuff. Well,
I mean, you know, one day it could be sunny
and eighty five, the next day we could get snow,
(04:00):
and like, well, that's actually not true. And and yeah,
there are a lot of cities who just kind of
run with something collectively, but not everybody can be the same, right,
I mean there's yeah, So in fact, that's a great
that's a great it's a great reminder from me, from
you to me that there are a lot of cities
who claim first burger like a man, there's got to
be a gray area to where they know, they know
(04:20):
without a doubt that it can't be proven wrong, so
they just run with it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That's exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Look like I'm the first ever radio host in the world.
Prove me wrong, And I mean you could do that,
but I'm just saying I think that with the burger,
that's what people do.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But I've also I've not heard another city say they've
invented the happy Birthday song.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty
safe for us. They can't take that from us. They
cannot take that from us.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I didn't know we invented the happy birthday song.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, look at us, Look at you educating No
John Alden this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And also, you guys probably weren't here in ninety four
when we got the blizzard.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
No, but I I was born in ninety seven. I
remember the blizzard, see.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Everybody reminds me that every time it snows.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And there's four more inches of snow each time it
gets brought up.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It's like this. They give you a sports example.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
This would always makes me laugh because when people talk
about how long they've been committed to being a Louisville
football fan, and they talk about old Cardinals Stadium where
when they played in a baseball stadium. If as many
people claim to be there at that time, back when
we were playing in a baseball stadium, we would have
filled the We would have filled capacity times ten, right,
like I was. Actually I'm gonna I'm gonna guess you
(05:23):
weren't because I was at some games as a kid.
I've seen pictures there were maybe you know, five thousand
people there.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Did you get your get your tickets from the gas
station too?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh yeah, they were giving them out. They were giving
them out of the gas station. You buy, you buy
a gallon of milk, you get you get season tickets.
All right, we'll get we'll get to a quick traffic
when weather updates, we get this morning started. Is coffee
and company. Coffee and Company. I'm flustered. It is coffee
and Company. Field about Thorntons right here on news radio. Wait,
forty w HS. It is coffee and Company with you
(05:53):
here on news radio eight forty w h as and
we are fueled by Thornton's. Appreciate you starting your wet
Wednesday with us. It is rain, so be careful out there.
Does not look as if there's any real accidents, any
big accidents that are causing any issues. Just some disabled vehicles.
But again right now, no real issues. But that always
could change regardless of the conditions outside. Right But whenever
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we've got a wet, rainy morning like we're going to
have really throughout the entire morning, it looks like that's
I think, and I don't know if there's any data
to back this up. But people just understandably drive slower
when it rains. Sometimes they may be a little too cautious,
which I'm sure, I'm sure many of you listening have
had complaints about that. But if they're just trying to
be safe, I mean, it makes it makes sense. So again,
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just be careful, maybe maybe try if you can be
a little be a little patient when it comes to uh,
you know, your morning commute and that that that can
only help. I mean, regardless, you've got no control over it, right,
So Bobby Ellis will get us updated throughout the morning
as far as uh, these accidents that could cause some
some major issues. But the hurricane that is just I
(06:59):
mean Hurricane Melissa right now, it's made landfall in Jamaica
and it is one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever.
And just some of the visuals, well, some of the
visuals I've seen, I've learned are fake. And it's another
reminder how insanely wild AI content creation is image and
video to where I'm starting to really lose identifiers of
(07:23):
what's real and what's not. But some of the coverage
I would assume, so at least some of it that
I've seen is real.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And it is.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's a scary, scary, scary situation. I've never been in
any I mean I've been I've never been near a hurricane.
I've never been near a beach whenever there's been even
like a crazy storm that would give you hurricane like vibes.
But and I hope I never end up in that
situation because it just seems to be insanely scary. And
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there are people in Jamaica, of course citizens who live there,
but also tourists that are there. In fact, there are
a handful and maybe even more than we realize that
are from Louisville that are there for vacation, that are
that are trapped.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
We'll get to that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
There's a story from our partners over at wk Y
about a couple that is there, and obviously they're they're
praying and hoping for the best, but as far as
being able to quickly get out of Jamaica, that's not
exactly an easy thing to do right now. So again,
very scary situation. We'll talk a little more about the
impact on this on this storm when we do. When
(08:25):
we have Roy O'Neil with us coming up at about
about five forty five. All right, we've got a quick
update of trafficking weather coming your way. Also, we'll talk
some sports. Louisville basketball last night that was more like it. Obviously,
Bucknell not a not an opponent that you you would
expect to have a real tough time with, and thankfully
Louisville did not not a real game, but also not
(08:45):
a not a typical exhibition opponent. Both of Louisville's exhibition
games have been against Division one teams. Obviously, big gap
between Kansas and Bucknell. But this team, uh, they're they're
gonna be. They're gonna have knights where they can't they
can't buy one. But also the ross was built with
guys who have the green light for obvious reasons. I
mean mckel brown junior had eight eight three pointers with
(09:09):
sixteen minutes left in the game last night and he's
only he's one of three. I think that made four
or more triples. So a good bounce back for pack
kelsey in his squad. All right, again, draviing weather is
on the way right now. Sports coming up in just
a few minutes right here at News Radio eight forty
whas who wants to hear a terrifying story to get
your Wednesday morning started. I guess no answer means everybody right,
(09:32):
I'm ready. If you're not in the state of Louisiana,
then you're probably okay. So maybe you don't have to
feel directly scared. But this story really spread like wildfire
yesterday just because it's wild. But I now see that
there's some questioning just how legitimate the details are in
the story. But I'll just read you the headline. Authorities
(09:54):
in Mississippi are still trying to track down three monkeys
that escaped after a truck carrying research imates from Tulane
University overturned on I fifty nine earlier this week. Authorities
say the monkeys can carry hepatitis, C, herpies, and COVID
and are believed to be a danger to society. That's
(10:14):
not the actual headline. That's the description of the story itself.
I added a little bit there, but that's what you're
dealing with. So a crash happened on Monday in Heidelberg, Mississippi,
and that truck was hauling monkeys to used for biomedical
research at Tulane University. Officials initially believe only one monkey
remained loose. But after two Lane representatives inspected the truck,
they confirmed three monkeys are still unaccounted for. And again
(10:37):
they are aggressive towards humans and they require PPE for
safe handling. Don't know what the hell that is, but
I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm not a calculated crash. I mean, well, someone wanted
to let these monkeys loose.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So this is where this is where there's there's some contradiction.
The authorities in that county in Mississippi are the ones
who are let everybody know, hey, be advised if you
see a monkey. I mean, if I saw a monkey
out just hanging out and in my neighborhood, which I
don't see a scenario where that would ever happen, but
(11:11):
there have been the and it's just a wild visual
to see. Was it a zebra that got loose in
Tennessee and that you'd see people seeing it out like
just running down the interstate or walking down a residential
neighborhood down the street. So I guess you'd never say never,
but I would never think to approach it. Not that
I would just assume that it's going to be a
threat to me, but I mean I just to me
(11:33):
I would I would stay far away.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
I feel like the bigger issue is is will kids
go up to it? Because kids don't necessarily know any better. Yeah,
that's true, they should.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, so what's the age range as far
as when you would realize a monkey just in in
my peripheral as I'm playing in my neighborhood or at
the park. I mean, do they have the awareness of, hey,
this is supposed to be at the zoo, not you know,
not not here with us on the playground. But yeah,
the just the overall story itself, and of course a
(12:03):
lot of people are asking why, why in the world
was why would we be carrying these dangerous monkeys? Again,
it's for research, we do know that, but yeah, I
mean it's always this always takes me back to a
story that is not super similar, but the community knowing
(12:24):
there's an animal that you would never expect to see
out roaming your area, but it's dangerous, and that's the
snow lever. John, you're a little too young to remember this,
in fact, I'm sure you. In fact, yeah, you were alive.
You know, you're not that much younger than me. But
this was when I was finishing high school, when I
was around sixteen, maybe seventeen. There was somebody who lived
on Bell's Mill Road, which you're familiar with Bell's Mill
(12:46):
right day, So Bullet County Natives no Bells Mill Road.
There was a guy who lived there who legally had
wild animals. I mean, I don't know if he had
like a permit or if he had like a petting zoo,
but it was just a known thing. And I didn't
know of this until it became a story. But he
had a snow leopard that got loose, and nobody knew
where it was. I believe the search went on for
(13:08):
twenty something days. They eventually found the snow leopard, but
all of all the kids in my neighborhood had to
go in a little earlier on those evenings because parents
were just thinking that the snow leopard was gonna was
was gonna was gonna get them. And I remember, you know,
you'd stop at a gas station, you know, you'd be
out to dinner somewhere. You'll overhear conversations in the community,
hear about that snow leopard and your people claiming that
(13:30):
I thought I saw it the other night with my
out on my window, and uh, I don't think anybody
got hurt. They ended up capturing the snow leopard without
any issue. But if you are in that area of Mississippi, Heidelberg, Mississippi,
I'm sure you're you're on alert because encountering a monkey
that may be q Just keep in mind, authorities say
that they have hepatitis, c herpes, and COVID, which what.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
A great trio. Yeah of diseases.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm just thinking of you know giving I mean, how
does one again, this is a monkey, but how do
imagine somebody having all those things at the same time
that's a human Like that would be be a tough
visit to the doctor to get that diagnosis, right. So
here's the difference. Tulane maintains that these these animals are
not infectious to the public, Which that's not exactly calling
(14:21):
the authorities claim a lie?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Because authorities in that area are letting their their citizens
know that these these monkeys they're dangerous, so don't go
near them. Tulane says, they're not infectious. So I'm not
a I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist. I
wouldn't know if if if a monkey can can can
share their herpes, hepatitis C or COVID. But I wouldn't
(14:45):
risk it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So yeah, but if you're not in Mississippi, then you're
probably you're probably gonna you're probably probably okay. All right,
we've got traving in weather updates on the way. What
I want to get to next is we now know
the identity of the officer that was in the shooting
on Monday morning in Newburg. We also know now that
both shooting victims are dead, and we now know who
(15:06):
the victim is that was initially shot that caused the
entire and not caused it.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I mean, she's the victim, but.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Her being shot was what led to officers responding. So
we'll give you the details, tell you what we know
about that, and a lot more as we roll along
here on a Wednesday morning. It is coffee and Company
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is a wet Wednesday here in Kentuckyana, so be advised
be careful. Looks like the rain is not expected to
go anywhere anytime soon, So again, be careful out there.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, let's bring them in. He's ory O Neil,
NBC News Rory.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I know you have covered a lot of hurricane You've
had a lot of hurricane coverage throughout your career.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
How would you.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Compare what's going on with Hurricane Melissa right now? Obviously
a lot of coverage everywhere just because of the devastation
expected here.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, you know, we really are waiting for the sun
to come up to get a better idea is to
exactly what Hurricane Melissa did to Jamaica. Right now, the
center of that storm is over eastern Cuba, so our
military base there at Guantanamo Bay is in the crosshairs.
Later today, the storm is expected to move over the
Bahamas and later in this week out over the Atlantic.
Could impact Bermuda in the next forty eight hours, but
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it will be much weaker by then. But some of
the numbers from the storm are just amazing. One hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds at landfall, gusts
over two hundred and fifteen miles per hour, just some
staggering stuff. And you know, we're just getting a little
bit of information here and there about some of the damage,
but obviously most of Jamaica now without power. The damage
(16:34):
assessments that are getting underway, try to get the airports
open so reliefs supplies can get in or people can
evacuate as they need to, and of course getting hospitals
up and running damage assessments to roads bridges. There's an
awful lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So you mentioned Cuba now dealing with with issues as well,
but is the Bahamas next in line. I'm seeing reports
that they could feel the real force of this storm
here soon.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yes, should be getting it, probably within the next twelve
to twenty four hours. It will start impacting the Bahamas.
One thing that's changed with this storm is that it's
finally picking up forward speed. When we spoke at this
time yesterday was moving around three to five miles per hour.
Now it's up to about twelve miles per hour, which
is probably a bit more average for these kinds of storms.
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But the faster forward speed means that there's less time
for it to dump rain on these areas or inflict
damage with those strong, strong winds. And you know, look,
this is an area of the world that's certainly used
to hurricanes, but you know, of the category three variety,
which and I don't want to diminish it, they are
still incredibly dangerous storm systems, but you know, the building
and infrastructure is more capable of withstanding that, when this
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thing made landfall as a Cat five with one hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds, there's not much
that can stand up to that for eight ten hours.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Louisville is not alone, I'm sure, but there's been at
least three different stories I've seen of folks in from
this community that are in Jamaica for vacation. And I mean,
what a scary situation that is finding your way quickly
back to where you reside here.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
In the States.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I mean, that sounds like it's almost impossible right now, well,
right now it is.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You know, the airport's being closed, and I'm sure the
ports are closed as well as they do damage assessments there. Again,
we'll get a better idea as to you know, exactly
what the damage has been once the sun comes up.
But yeah, you know, people honeymooning couples were trying to
get out of there desperately, and vacationing families all trying
to flee. But you know, the storm sort of whipped
(18:34):
up rather quickly this weekend, that was the forecast. But
you know when you plan that vacation eight months ago.
You didn't think you picked the one weekend to get
hit by the worst storm ever to hit Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Rory on Nilivi, NBC News is our guest joining us
Heerra News Radio eight forty whas, So did we we
get ahead of ourselves expecting there to be some real peace?
Hamas has violated the ceasefire by shooting it Israeli soldiers
in Gaza, and now we've got Prime Minister that Y'ah
who he's going to retaliate, which is probably not a
real surprise here, but not a great sign as we expected.
(19:05):
Well maybe not everybody expected it, but obviously there was
some good news, some promising news.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But maybe we got ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, you know, we're still optimistic, right, they're still saying
on paper the ceasefire is holding, you know, Israel, as
you said, there were skirmishes among Hamas members and the
Israeli forces. Israel responded overnight with a series of strikes.
I think more than ninety people in Gaza were killed.
But now Israel says, okay, we're back to seasfire now,
so essentially good. They had the little dust up and
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that both sides are now back to the ceasefire, President
Trump saying this thing is gonna hold. He's still insistent
upon it. So they're hoping this was just a flare up.
But there's a lot of frustration among Israelis because Hamas
is not doing more to turn over the bodies of
those hostages. There are still the remains of thirteen hostages
that have yet to be turned over. Hamas had claimed that, oh,
(19:55):
we can't reach them, we can't get to them because
of all the damage and destruction. But they were turning
over mains yesterday that were of a different person than
you know, not one of the hostages from years ago.
So it's a there's a lot of frustration growing among Israelis.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You've got a lot of wisdom, Rory, and that's why
you are an expert. And I think you just reminded
me the expectation that, despite their being good progress made
obviously with President Trump's administration, the scenario where it's just
completely you know, kumbai ya, everybody just you know, loves
each other, that was that was not reality, right, Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, Look, it's a path to piece, but no one
said that path is a straight line.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And I'll say this is going Rory. As always, we
appreciate your time. Enjoyed the rest of your day, my friend.
We'll talk tomorrow. Thanks Nick Tark you then, Rory O'Neil,
NBC News always appreciate his time. Let's get to a
quick traffic and weather update again. It's wet to start
the Wednesday here, be advised, be be safe, and so
far it looks like we don't have any real major
issues causing our major accidents causing any issues just yeah,
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but Bobby Ellis will get us straightened out there, and
of course we've got a forecast update too, So stick
around right here on News Radio eight forty whas
We've got a wet start to a Wednesday morning here
at News Radio eight forty whas, and I believe it's
going to stay wet for the majority of the morning,
at least that is the expectation. You really never know
what's going to happen, especially when it comes to weather.
But our team over at WLKY they've got current conditions obviously,
as if you're up and you're out, you know it's raining.
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But for the next five hours we've got nothing lower
than a seventy percent chance of rain. So going to
be a wet morning, So be careful. I was delayed
in getting here, but it wasn't because of any specific accident,
any specific issue. It's just people drive slower when it's
raining because you want to be a little bit more careful.
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And it's enough rain to where if you're on the
inside outside lane of sixty five, you got to really
be careful because it's dark, it's wet, hydro plane that
kind of stuff. So be advised. We'll keep you updated
throughout the morning on traffic. And this is where this
is our time to shine. I mean, I say collectively,
trying to share the spotlight with Bobby Ellis because this
is his time to shine and we utilize him. Right,
(01:05):
That's the way it works. Any issues on your way
in any any.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I was good, dude. I mean, other than just being
right to your point, I'm looking at this. I'm looking
at it all the rain, I mean, all the way through.
The good thing is it looks like it's gonna break
for the trigger truders on Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I was gonna say, let's hope the skits out of
the way before we get to Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
When I see just the devastation currently going on with
the hurricane in Jamaica and also now Cuba dealing with
it as well. I mean, eventually, aren't we going to
get some remnants of that, right? I mean, that'll well, it's.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Gonna push off. And they said that.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I'm glad you brought that up, because that's I was
listening to meteorologists talk about how that's the reason why
we're so dry here, why we've had such nice weather,
to be honest with you, because typically we get the
remnants from the hurricane and it.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Kind of pushed itself off. We've been in this pattern.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Temperatures aren't gonna warm up in the next week not
crazy warm. We're talking maybe sixty five, but after fifty
two it's gonna feel pretty warm. But feel good and
feel comfortable because it is full. There's meteorol just scopits geral. Sorry,
I just no, that sounds good. That like weather nerd
in me that just that likes to find. I don't
want to be one of those people that walks in
and just starts talking about the weather, because that reminds
(02:09):
me too much of my dad and my grandfather.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
But I do like to follow it's I think weather's cool.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You've just made me realize that. I'm not sure I've
ever really questioned anybody who tells me what the weather
is supposed to be, because one it's there's oftentimes rejections
that are wrong. In fact, I've learned in this position
what what we are informed each day as far as
what to expect. More often than not it's not accurate.
(02:34):
Sometimes it's not way off. But sometimes it's just you know,
it's wrong. That's just the nature of what it is.
But I guess because that that's that's a part of it.
But also I know I don't know what's going to happen,
So if you tell me I'm just gonna say yeah,
for sure, sure, yeah, And this is this is going
to make me sound maybe more stupid than I already
do at times. But there are instances where you should
(02:55):
absolutely be mindful of what the temperature is going to be,
what the forecast is, severe weather, all that kind of stuff.
But as far as like letting it like we have
no it's one of those things that we have absolutely
zero control over that if you just you know, only
really look when you know you need to, I mean
you may in fact, I mean all that could do,
I think was all that could do is potentially make
(03:16):
you just maybe worry and stress a little bit less
about it, because again, there's.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
No reason to look at it. It's gonna do what it's
gonna do regardless.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yep, yeap, it is it is. And that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And what I find is the common denominator too. You
can go to any city in America one they either
created the cheeseburger, any city says clitting here, including here,
and anyone will tell you, oh, stick around for five minutes,
the weather will change.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I've heard that in every city I've been to.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Oh absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And so every city, especially especially in our region Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville.
Those are cities where I feel like on more than
one occasion when I've been in said city and you
are clearly they're visiting tourism that kind of stuff. Well,
I mean, you know, one day it could be sunny
and eighty five, the next day we could get snow,
(04:00):
and like, well, that's actually not true. And and yeah,
there are a lot of cities who just kind of
run with something collectively, but not everybody can be the same, right,
I mean there's yeah, So in fact, that's a great
that's a great it's a great reminder from me, from
you to me that there are a lot of cities
who claim first burger like a man, there's got to
be a gray area to where they know, they know
(04:20):
without a doubt that it can't be proven wrong, so
they just run with it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That's exactly all right.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Look like I'm the first ever radio host in the world.
Prove me wrong, And I mean you could do that,
but I'm just saying I think that with the burger,
that's what people do.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
But I've also I've not heard another city say they've
invented the happy Birthday song.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
So I think that's pretty good. I think that's pretty
safe for us. They can't take that from us. They
cannot take that from us.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
I didn't know we invented the happy birthday song.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, look at us, Look at you educating No
John Alden this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
And also, you guys probably weren't here in ninety four
when we got the blizzard.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
No, but I I was born in ninety seven. I
remember the blizzard, see.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And I was.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Everybody reminds me that every time it snows.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
And there's four more inches of snow each time it
gets brought up.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
It's like this. They give you a sports example.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
This would always makes me laugh because when people talk
about how long they've been committed to being a Louisville
football fan, and they talk about old Cardinals Stadium where
when they played in a baseball stadium. If as many
people claim to be there at that time, back when
we were playing in a baseball stadium, we would have
filled the We would have filled capacity times ten, right,
like I was. Actually I'm gonna I'm gonna guess you
(05:23):
weren't because I was at some games as a kid.
I've seen pictures there were maybe you know, five thousand
people there.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Did you get your get your tickets from the gas
station too?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh yeah, they were giving them out. They were giving
them out of the gas station. You buy, you buy
a gallon of milk, you get you get season tickets.
All right, we'll get we'll get to a quick traffic
when weather updates, we get this morning started. Is coffee
and company. Coffee and Company. I'm flustered. It is coffee
and Company. Field about Thorntons right here on news radio. Wait,
forty w HS. It is coffee and Company with you
(05:53):
here on news radio eight forty w h as and
we are fueled by Thornton's. Appreciate you starting your wet
Wednesday with us. It is rain, so be careful out there.
Does not look as if there's any real accidents, any
big accidents that are causing any issues. Just some disabled vehicles.
But again right now, no real issues. But that always
could change regardless of the conditions outside. Right But whenever
(06:15):
we've got a wet, rainy morning like we're going to
have really throughout the entire morning, it looks like that's
I think, and I don't know if there's any data
to back this up. But people just understandably drive slower
when it rains. Sometimes they may be a little too cautious,
which I'm sure, I'm sure many of you listening have
had complaints about that. But if they're just trying to
be safe, I mean, it makes it makes sense. So again,
(06:38):
just be careful, maybe maybe try if you can be
a little be a little patient when it comes to uh,
you know, your morning commute and that that that can
only help. I mean, regardless, you've got no control over it, right,
So Bobby Ellis will get us updated throughout the morning
as far as uh, these accidents that could cause some
some major issues. But the hurricane that is just I
(06:59):
mean Hurricane Melissa right now, it's made landfall in Jamaica
and it is one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes ever.
And just some of the visuals, well, some of the
visuals I've seen, I've learned are fake. And it's another
reminder how insanely wild AI content creation is image and
video to where I'm starting to really lose identifiers of
(07:23):
what's real and what's not. But some of the coverage
I would assume, so at least some of it that
I've seen is real.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
And it is.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's a scary, scary, scary situation. I've never been in
any I mean I've been I've never been near a hurricane.
I've never been near a beach whenever there's been even
like a crazy storm that would give you hurricane like vibes.
But and I hope I never end up in that
situation because it just seems to be insanely scary. And
(07:52):
there are people in Jamaica, of course citizens who live there,
but also tourists that are there. In fact, there are
a handful and maybe even more than we realize that
are from Louisville that are there for vacation, that are
that are trapped.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
We'll get to that a little bit later on.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
There's a story from our partners over at wk Y
about a couple that is there, and obviously they're they're
praying and hoping for the best, but as far as
being able to quickly get out of Jamaica, that's not
exactly an easy thing to do right now. So again,
very scary situation. We'll talk a little more about the
impact on this on this storm when we do. When
(08:25):
we have Roy O'Neil with us coming up at about
about five forty five. All right, we've got a quick
update of trafficking weather coming your way. Also, we'll talk
some sports. Louisville basketball last night that was more like it. Obviously,
Bucknell not a not an opponent that you you would
expect to have a real tough time with, and thankfully
Louisville did not not a real game, but also not
(08:45):
a not a typical exhibition opponent. Both of Louisville's exhibition
games have been against Division one teams. Obviously, big gap
between Kansas and Bucknell. But this team, uh, they're they're
gonna be. They're gonna have knights where they can't they
can't buy one. But also the ross was built with
guys who have the green light for obvious reasons. I
mean mckel brown junior had eight eight three pointers with
(09:09):
sixteen minutes left in the game last night and he's
only he's one of three. I think that made four
or more triples. So a good bounce back for pack
kelsey in his squad. All right, again, draviing weather is
on the way right now. Sports coming up in just
a few minutes right here at News Radio eight forty
whas who wants to hear a terrifying story to get
your Wednesday morning started. I guess no answer means everybody right,
(09:32):
I'm ready. If you're not in the state of Louisiana,
then you're probably okay. So maybe you don't have to
feel directly scared. But this story really spread like wildfire
yesterday just because it's wild. But I now see that
there's some questioning just how legitimate the details are in
the story. But I'll just read you the headline. Authorities
(09:54):
in Mississippi are still trying to track down three monkeys
that escaped after a truck carrying research imates from Tulane
University overturned on I fifty nine earlier this week. Authorities
say the monkeys can carry hepatitis, C, herpies, and COVID
and are believed to be a danger to society. That's
(10:14):
not the actual headline. That's the description of the story itself.
I added a little bit there, but that's what you're
dealing with. So a crash happened on Monday in Heidelberg, Mississippi,
and that truck was hauling monkeys to used for biomedical
research at Tulane University. Officials initially believe only one monkey
remained loose. But after two Lane representatives inspected the truck,
they confirmed three monkeys are still unaccounted for. And again
(10:37):
they are aggressive towards humans and they require PPE for
safe handling. Don't know what the hell that is, but
I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
I'm not a calculated crash. I mean, well, someone wanted
to let these monkeys loose.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
So this is where this is where there's there's some contradiction.
The authorities in that county in Mississippi are the ones
who are let everybody know, hey, be advised if you
see a monkey. I mean, if I saw a monkey
out just hanging out and in my neighborhood, which I
don't see a scenario where that would ever happen, but
(11:11):
there have been the and it's just a wild visual
to see. Was it a zebra that got loose in
Tennessee and that you'd see people seeing it out like
just running down the interstate or walking down a residential
neighborhood down the street. So I guess you'd never say never,
but I would never think to approach it. Not that
I would just assume that it's going to be a
threat to me, but I mean I just to me
(11:33):
I would I would stay far away.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
I feel like the bigger issue is is will kids
go up to it? Because kids don't necessarily know any better. Yeah,
that's true, they should.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, so what's the age range as far
as when you would realize a monkey just in in
my peripheral as I'm playing in my neighborhood or at
the park. I mean, do they have the awareness of, hey,
this is supposed to be at the zoo, not you know,
not not here with us on the playground. But yeah,
the just the overall story itself, and of course a
(12:03):
lot of people are asking why, why in the world
was why would we be carrying these dangerous monkeys? Again,
it's for research, we do know that, but yeah, I
mean it's always this always takes me back to a
story that is not super similar, but the community knowing
(12:24):
there's an animal that you would never expect to see
out roaming your area, but it's dangerous, and that's the
snow lever. John, you're a little too young to remember this,
in fact, I'm sure you. In fact, yeah, you were alive.
You know, you're not that much younger than me. But
this was when I was finishing high school, when I
was around sixteen, maybe seventeen. There was somebody who lived
on Bell's Mill Road, which you're familiar with Bell's Mill
(12:46):
right day, So Bullet County Natives no Bells Mill Road.
There was a guy who lived there who legally had
wild animals. I mean, I don't know if he had
like a permit or if he had like a petting zoo,
but it was just a known thing. And I didn't
know of this until it became a story. But he
had a snow leopard that got loose, and nobody knew
where it was. I believe the search went on for
(13:08):
twenty something days. They eventually found the snow leopard, but
all of all the kids in my neighborhood had to
go in a little earlier on those evenings because parents
were just thinking that the snow leopard was gonna was
was gonna was gonna get them. And I remember, you know,
you'd stop at a gas station, you know, you'd be
out to dinner somewhere. You'll overhear conversations in the community,
hear about that snow leopard and your people claiming that
(13:30):
I thought I saw it the other night with my
out on my window, and uh, I don't think anybody
got hurt. They ended up capturing the snow leopard without
any issue. But if you are in that area of Mississippi, Heidelberg, Mississippi,
I'm sure you're you're on alert because encountering a monkey
that may be q Just keep in mind, authorities say
that they have hepatitis, c herpes, and COVID, which what.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
A great trio. Yeah of diseases.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Yeah, Like.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'm just thinking of you know giving I mean, how
does one again, this is a monkey, but how do
imagine somebody having all those things at the same time
that's a human Like that would be be a tough
visit to the doctor to get that diagnosis, right. So
here's the difference. Tulane maintains that these these animals are
not infectious to the public, Which that's not exactly calling
(14:21):
the authorities claim a lie?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Because authorities in that area are letting their their citizens
know that these these monkeys they're dangerous, so don't go
near them. Tulane says, they're not infectious. So I'm not
a I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist. I
wouldn't know if if if a monkey can can can
share their herpes, hepatitis C or COVID. But I wouldn't
(14:45):
risk it.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
So yeah, but if you're not in Mississippi, then you're
probably you're probably gonna you're probably probably okay. All right,
we've got traving in weather updates on the way. What
I want to get to next is we now know
the identity of the officer that was in the shooting
on Monday morning in Newburg. We also know now that
both shooting victims are dead, and we now know who
(15:06):
the victim is that was initially shot that caused the
entire and not caused it.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I mean, she's the victim, but.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Her being shot was what led to officers responding. So
we'll give you the details, tell you what we know
about that, and a lot more as we roll along
here on a Wednesday morning. It is coffee and Company
Fuel abou Thornton's on news Radio eight forty whas it
is a wet Wednesday here in Kentuckyana, so be advised
be careful. Looks like the rain is not expected to
go anywhere anytime soon, So again, be careful out there.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
All right, let's bring them in. He's ory O Neil,
NBC News Rory.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I know you have covered a lot of hurricane You've
had a lot of hurricane coverage throughout your career.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
How would you.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Compare what's going on with Hurricane Melissa right now? Obviously
a lot of coverage everywhere just because of the devastation
expected here.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, you know, we really are waiting for the sun
to come up to get a better idea is to
exactly what Hurricane Melissa did to Jamaica. Right now, the
center of that storm is over eastern Cuba, so our
military base there at Guantanamo Bay is in the crosshairs.
Later today, the storm is expected to move over the
Bahamas and later in this week out over the Atlantic.
Could impact Bermuda in the next forty eight hours, but
(16:13):
it will be much weaker by then. But some of
the numbers from the storm are just amazing. One hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds at landfall, gusts
over two hundred and fifteen miles per hour, just some
staggering stuff. And you know, we're just getting a little
bit of information here and there about some of the damage,
but obviously most of Jamaica now without power. The damage
(16:34):
assessments that are getting underway, try to get the airports
open so reliefs supplies can get in or people can
evacuate as they need to, and of course getting hospitals
up and running damage assessments to roads bridges. There's an
awful lot of work to do.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
So you mentioned Cuba now dealing with with issues as well,
but is the Bahamas next in line. I'm seeing reports
that they could feel the real force of this storm
here soon.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yes, should be getting it, probably within the next twelve
to twenty four hours. It will start impacting the Bahamas.
One thing that's changed with this storm is that it's
finally picking up forward speed. When we spoke at this
time yesterday was moving around three to five miles per hour.
Now it's up to about twelve miles per hour, which
is probably a bit more average for these kinds of storms.
(17:20):
But the faster forward speed means that there's less time
for it to dump rain on these areas or inflict
damage with those strong, strong winds. And you know, look,
this is an area of the world that's certainly used
to hurricanes, but you know, of the category three variety,
which and I don't want to diminish it, they are
still incredibly dangerous storm systems, but you know, the building
and infrastructure is more capable of withstanding that, when this
(17:44):
thing made landfall as a Cat five with one hundred
and eighty five mile per hour winds, there's not much
that can stand up to that for eight ten hours.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Louisville is not alone, I'm sure, but there's been at
least three different stories I've seen of folks in from
this community that are in Jamaica for vacation. And I mean,
what a scary situation that is finding your way quickly
back to where you reside here.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
In the States.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I mean, that sounds like it's almost impossible right now, well,
right now it is.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
You know, the airport's being closed, and I'm sure the
ports are closed as well as they do damage assessments there. Again,
we'll get a better idea as to you know, exactly
what the damage has been once the sun comes up.
But yeah, you know, people honeymooning couples were trying to
get out of there desperately, and vacationing families all trying
to flee. But you know, the storm sort of whipped
(18:34):
up rather quickly this weekend, that was the forecast. But
you know when you plan that vacation eight months ago.
You didn't think you picked the one weekend to get
hit by the worst storm ever to hit Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Rory on Nilivi, NBC News is our guest joining us
Heerra News Radio eight forty whas, So did we we
get ahead of ourselves expecting there to be some real peace?
Hamas has violated the ceasefire by shooting it Israeli soldiers
in Gaza, and now we've got Prime Minister that Y'ah
who he's going to retaliate, which is probably not a
real surprise here, but not a great sign as we expected.
(19:05):
Well maybe not everybody expected it, but obviously there was
some good news, some promising news.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
But maybe we got ahead of ourselves.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, you know, we're still optimistic, right, they're still saying
on paper the ceasefire is holding, you know, Israel, as
you said, there were skirmishes among Hamas members and the
Israeli forces. Israel responded overnight with a series of strikes.
I think more than ninety people in Gaza were killed.
But now Israel says, okay, we're back to seasfire now,
so essentially good. They had the little dust up and
(19:34):
that both sides are now back to the ceasefire, President
Trump saying this thing is gonna hold. He's still insistent
upon it. So they're hoping this was just a flare up.
But there's a lot of frustration among Israelis because Hamas
is not doing more to turn over the bodies of
those hostages. There are still the remains of thirteen hostages
that have yet to be turned over. Hamas had claimed that, oh,
(19:55):
we can't reach them, we can't get to them because
of all the damage and destruction. But they were turning
over mains yesterday that were of a different person than
you know, not one of the hostages from years ago.
So it's a there's a lot of frustration growing among Israelis.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
You've got a lot of wisdom, Rory, and that's why
you are an expert. And I think you just reminded
me the expectation that, despite their being good progress made
obviously with President Trump's administration, the scenario where it's just
completely you know, kumbai ya, everybody just you know, loves
each other, that was that was not reality, right, Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, Look, it's a path to piece, but no one
said that path is a straight line.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
And I'll say this is going Rory. As always, we
appreciate your time. Enjoyed the rest of your day, my friend.
We'll talk tomorrow. Thanks Nick Tark you then, Rory O'Neil,
NBC News always appreciate his time. Let's get to a
quick traffic and weather update again. It's wet to start
the Wednesday here, be advised, be be safe, and so
far it looks like we don't have any real major
issues causing our major accidents causing any issues just yeah,
(20:52):
but Bobby Ellis will get us straightened out there, and
of course we've got a forecast update too, So stick
around right here on News Radio eight forty whas
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