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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Kentucky Anda. Welcome in to a Tuesday edition
of Kentucky Anda's Morning News with Nick Coffee. I've got
Scott fitz Jared alongside mister John Olden back in the saddle.
John Shannon back with us as well, and we are
ready to get it rolling here at five oh six.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
As it is.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Scott and I were just discussing it is I feel
like the last two days, specifically today though the humidity
in the three am hour. I could be wrong here,
but it feels like record setting.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I dude, I do three laps and shall be parking
in the morning, three in the afternoon. My three laps
yesterday morning. By the time I got near the end
of the second lap, I was already dripping in sweat.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, and I'm not surprised, crazy dude.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Be prepared today if you've not left, I mean, if
you've if you're getting ready to head out of the
house to get your day started, you will you will
be hit with that thick humidity as soon as you
walk outside, So just be prepared. Having the air condition
you're on in my car in the morning feels rare,
but it's on from some I mean, it's like it's
just it's that it's that sticky.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Outside system holding up at home? Good? How about you?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Good? Yeah, I'm there, dude.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's nice because it's just my wife and I now,
so it's nice.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And it's been shutting on and off.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I talked to an acy guy I know, uh,
and he told me, he say, as long as your
unit keeps shutting off shutting on, you're good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
John. Do you You are? Probably?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think you You probably bought a house more recent
than than than myself and Scott did. Did the the
AC unit? Was it relatively new? Was it the original one?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was the original one, and we ended up having
to buy a brand new one couple years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Gotcha because I perked up a little bit when Scott
asked me because I've been paying attention just because I
don't have any reason to think mine would go out.
I think it's just realizing, man, my life would I'd
be I'd be I'd be struggling. It's a stress, yeah,
I mean it's not only do you have the you know,
you no longer have the ability to be comfortable in
your home, but you also worry about what it would
(01:53):
coust it could be something as minor as it froze
up because you didn't change your filter or you got
to replace it all together, and those are drastically different things.
So yeah, and this is the kind of heat summer
was right on time because the first weekend of summer
was brutal, and really since then it's been that way
in different ways. Right, Sometimes it's just been like over
the weekend, I think humidity was low, but it was
(02:14):
just hot. Now it's a little bit of both, but
I mean summer is it's brutal, and if you don't
have AC it's I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So there's no worse feeling than waking up in the
morning too. And you see that, you feel it the
minute you wake up, and then you see the therm
mom room when you go downstairs. It just didn't cool down.
You're like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And what I had to learn is say, this is
long ago. I used to just think, well, if I've
got my system set on seventy but it's not getting
below seventy two, that doesn't mean something's broken. It just
means that it's that hot outside and your unit is
working as best it can. That was our first house
I just assume, well, I got to call somebody, and
it wasn't because I was dying with it not being
colder than seventy two. It was more so just worried, Okay,
(02:56):
I got to have a plan in place if this
thing completely goes out. And then I realized, yeah, sometimes
it's just so hot that like seventy two, seventy three
is the best you're going to get.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did the same thing, and then I was thinking,
because are upstairs that we have high higher ceiling in
our upstairs, so upstairs forms up even more and it
takes harder to cool it down. But now I've noticed
that with just my wife and I in the house,
things stay a little bit more reasonable, given the kids
aren't going in and out. You know, when the kids
were younger that you know, I was my old man
(03:24):
shot the damn norm.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You know, so you had a munthle of that stuff
you do.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And so you had that. So it's nice.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So hopefully everybody listening your ac stays nine. If it doesn't,
I hope you have a good HVAC person.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yep, because though they certainly are are busy when you've
got the summer months going on and it's just disgusting
outside like it has all. So we've got a lot
to get into today here on a Tuesday. Obviously, I
will continue to keep you updated on the floods in Texas.
Now over one hundred deaths and there's still many that
are missing. Just a tragic situation there. We'll talk to
(03:58):
Rory and Neil coming up at eight five forty five
and get the latest on that. Also, one thing I've
yet to learn about both of you guys. I think
I know a little bit about John when it comes
to conspiracy theories. But Scott, are you a conspiracy theory
kind of guy? Not really, I was gonna guess that
you're not, and I I'm not. Yeah, And I think
at times i'm more maybe maybe I am naive. But
(04:20):
I'm fascinated by them just because I just the amount
of people who really get lost in a conspiracy theory
and let it consume them, and then they look at
everybody else as if they're a bunch of sheep, just
believing what everybody wants you to believe, when clearly there
was a conspiracy going on. I find those people, I guess, unrelatable.
But the Epstein thing, I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That is I that it'll make you think. Absolutely, it'll
make you think.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So we'll certainly talk about that, and then the latest
on the Crystal Rogers trial will give you the latest
again as yesterday was a big day and now we're
getting down to it as far as this jury going
to needing to make a decision on what they're gonna do.
So a loaded Tuesday is coming your way, and I
hope you stick with us. We've got an update on
traffic from Bobby Elli's coming your way. Matt Melosavich will
get us caught up on the weather, and we'll keep
(05:05):
it rolling along. Here it's Kentucky, and it's Morning News
on News Radio eight forty WHAS.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Here at Kentucky, INA's Morning News on News Radio eight
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chime in and contribute to the show today. So this story,
it's one that fascinates me and I think we all
(05:33):
can agree that when someone is I guess get when
someone gets served what it is that a lot of
us think they deserve. It's a good feeling, right, somebody
having to pay the price for doing something wrong, And
I feel wrong as far as how satisfied, I am
to see what's playing out here with Misty Noel, who
(05:53):
is the She is the estrange wife of former Clark
County Sheriff Jamie Noel, who really this has been in
the news for years now now is the corruption, the
whole scandal where they used millions of taxpayer funds, meaning
Jamie Noel and his family with his wife. She ended
up getting recently sentenced for her involvement, and she was
(06:15):
implicated and again she used a lot of money on
personal funds. That money was taxpayer funds and this all
took place from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty two. So
he served let's see, he got twelve years in prison.
He's currently in prison right now. But he pleaded guilty
to twenty seven felonies and again she was charged and
(06:36):
that process played out last week as far as a
plea deal, And to me, this just screams I want
to say arrogance, but I also don't feel like that's
the right word. To use here because I believe this
is backfiring in a way that proves this individual just
there's no remorse, there's still wanting to have it your way,
(07:03):
get the last word. Because she pleaded last week guilty
to five counts of theft and five counts of tax
evasion for using the New Chapel EMS funds for personal purchases.
So her plea deal was accepted last week on July third,
and she was sentenced to eighteen months in prison or
ordered restitution for over six hundred and sixty thousand dollars
(07:26):
to the New Chapel EMS and also roughly thirty thousand
dollars to the Indiana Department of Revenue. So after this sentencing,
she wanted to be on TV. She did an exclusive interview.
I think she don't know. Let me back up. I
don't know if her interviews or exclusive. Maybe she's done
interviews elsewhere, but it was a WLKY interview. Our partner's
over at LKY the day that she was sentenced, did
(07:46):
an interview with her where instead of using that camera
time to truly express remorse and truly apologize for again
misusing millions of taxpayer funds for personal expenses.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Is she wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To get the last word and do the whole Well,
I had no clue. But if I'm you know, if
I'm guilty of anything, I guess it's that. And I
don't have her exact quote here, but anyways, in her interview,
she claimed that her husband, who of course they're now stranged,
misled her into believing the nonprofit was his private business,
not taxpayer funded. So this is somebody saying, you know, yeah,
(08:25):
I pleaded guilty today, but I want to go on
camera and still try to the arrogance of thinking people
will believe you that you had no clue that millions
of dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Where would you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Think that money was coming from? I mean, like nobody
believes that that she unknowingly was involved in this. Now
maybe she mean clearly she didn't have the same impact
in this as her husband, because he's going to prison
for twelve years and was and he played guilty to
twenty seven felony. She's not facing those kind of charges.
But the arrogance of wanting to be on TV and
still tell people that you didn't know you did anything wrong,
(08:56):
it is backfired because now the judge Larryry Medlock who
again was a part of her prot and when she
he accepted her plea last week, well yesterday, he ruled
that her statements that she did in that interview with
Wlky suggests that she did not knowingly and intentionally commit theft,
undermining her guilty plea, Like, you can't do that. I've
(09:19):
never had to plead guilty to a crime, but you
have to in court. You have to Legitimately, you can't
just plead guilty unless you guys do an outford plea
where you don't admit admit guilt, but you admit there's
enough evidence to convict you. So this, this you know,
this TV interview does still want to I mean, it's
just delusion as well, thinking that anybody will okay, you
didn't know makes total sense now, I mean again, people
(09:40):
can believe what they want to believe. But nonetheless, he
has now stated that a guilty plea, you know, it
can't it can't stand. So from here on out, I mean,
she's gonna have another hearing date and probably you know,
it sounds like she could possibly end up going to trial,
which means that if this get I mean, she could
have this interview could have got it to where she
(10:01):
probably did eighteen months and maybe not even that long.
Maybe she gets shocked probation, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I doubt it. I doubt she would have got shocked.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But nonetheless, this is you just still wanting like you're
never remorseful. You still want people to believe that you
didn't have a clue that you were using money that
you weren't supposed to be using. And how about the
judge just happened to see this on television or the
internet wherever it was, and see, oh, well, she's now
claiming that she entered a plea that she's since claimed
(10:29):
on television that she does she's not guilty. So anyways,
that whole that, I'm not sure if it will because
there's a lot of true crime stuff that will end up,
you know, that competes with this. But I wouldn't be
shocked if the whole Jamie Noel situation ends up being
some crime documentary, because there's a lot to it. All Right,
we've got an update of traffic and weather coming your way.
(10:50):
Bobby Ellis with the traffic update. Matt Melosavitch will give
us the forecast, and of course we've got sports coming
your way here in four minutes right here on news
radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thank you very much, John Shannon.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It is five thirty five here Kentucky and it's Morning
News with Nick Coffee on news.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So yesterday was closing arguments in the second Crystal Rogers case.
As the defense, they are sticking with what you would
expect them to stick with, and that is that this
is a no body homicide, no physical evidence, it's just
witness testimony. But even that I'm sure they're arguing is
(11:30):
is not That's what any good defense representation would do.
But the prosecution, they're they're leaning heavily on just inconsistent
statements from Brooks howk like the time he omitted his
visit to the family farm the night Crystal Rogers vanished.
(11:52):
Just a lot of inconsistencies. And look the testimony, although
it's not proof, I just maybe this is because this trial,
specifically for me, is somebody that is just reading all
the coverage of it, right, there's no I mean, we're
literally just getting what those that are permitted to attend
this trial and Bowling Green are writing down, taking notes
and then sharing as soon as you know they have
(12:13):
a break in the in the in the trial, or
it wraps up for the day. So and by the way,
thank you to all those who were there, because without
their coverage we wouldn't we wouldn't know what's going on.
But I just think the amount of circumstantial evidence, despite
it not being any real proof, I just to me,
it seems as if this jury would would be would
(12:33):
be able to see that, yes, they did a good
job of cleaning some things up, but they seem to
be guilty in some form or fashion. But I've never
been on a jury, and I don't know if you know,
I don't think you could put yourself in the shoes
of someone on the jury unless you've been in that
situation before. But even if you have, I mean again,
you're not We're not there, right, You're not hearing every
(12:55):
second of this entire trial. So uh, well, we'll find
out here soon if this jury's ready to make a decision.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But it looks yea.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It says here that after the two weeks of trial,
the jury of fifteen, which will soon be twelve after
alternates were dismissed here recently, it's going to begin today.
So again, nobody no crime scene in this case hinges
on circumstantial evidence, And to me, it's just as an outside,
an outsider just taking what is being shared each and
every day, as far as the defense and what they're saying,
(13:27):
the prosecution, what they're saying, what we're hearing from these witnesses,
I have really no clue what to expect. But if
you put me on the spot, I would say, I
just assumed that these two are going to be found guilty,
but could be totally wrong here.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I'm just guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So I really, I guess nothing would ultimately shock me,
because again, I think it's one thing too. This is
something that you've heard before, but it's really I mean,
I don't think it can be overstated. Context matters, right,
How you say something matters a lot more than just
what is set, and I feel like lawyers are great
(14:01):
examples of that. So who knows, We're just again we're
we're we're only hearing from from what those are sharing
with us, and they're doing a good job of giving
us specific details and quotes as far as what is
said by the defense attorney here, But who knows, maybe
he's saying in a way that has this jury just
completely thinking, Well, you know what, I don't know if
that's enough for me to say that, yes, I think
(14:22):
that these two are guilty of what they're being charged with.
So I uh, I'm I'm anxious to see how this
plays out. But obviously, uh, the victim's family here, which
again the victim has never been recovered, never been I know,
there's no there's no body. But I'm sure they're hoping.
I mean, in fact, we know they're hoping for a
guilty verdict, and only time will tell if that's that's
what ends up happening. All right, So TikTok is apparently
(14:45):
creating a version of itself, but it'll only be available
in America because of the current issue right now with
it not you know that it's been extended, been kicked
down the line many times by Trump, but but him
being so confident about a buyer, maybe I guess that
fell through, because again TikTok is now developing a new
(15:05):
version of its platform that'll only be for US customers.
By Dance is the Chinese parent company that for a
while now it's been known that they've got to they
got to find a way to divest its used operations
to non Chinese owners in order to comply with the
new federal law by this upcoming September, or they'll be
banned now again.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
If it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
If it doesn't happen by September, I still feel like
we'll see President Trump just delay once again. But didn't
he just tell us a couple of weeks ago that
he was very confident in a buyer that he had
and that you know, but what I kept thinking of, Okay, yeah,
that sounds great, But in order to make a transaction,
you need a buyer and you need a seller. And
(15:46):
there's never, at any point been any indication that TikTok
Bye Dance.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I guess is who we're talking about. They own TikTok.
Why would they want to sell?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
This is a social media platform that is dominating in
that space, and there seems to be no sign of
that momentum stopping. So I think maybe that's just a
rich person thing. Well they just assume, well, if I've
got somebody with unlimited amount of money, then you'll sell.
Well I don't think they will. It doesn't sound like
they're they're gonna do that. All right, We've got Rory
O'Neil coming up in about five minutes time and we'll
(16:17):
get the latest on the tragic situation with the floods
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Stick with us.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's Kentucky and it's Morning News on News Radio eight
forty Whas.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It is five forty five here Kentucky and.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's morning News on news radio eight forty whas Nick
Coffee with you, and I've got Rory on eil of
NBC News with me. Rory, what can you tell us
about the latest in regards to the tragic situation with
the Texas floods. Sounds like there's many more deaths that
have been reported since we discussed yesterday, and still some
that they can't find.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, sadly, the death toll has topped one hundred. One
hundred and four now confirm fatalities across six counties. Most
of the deaths are in Kerr County, Texas, eighty four
of them there. That's where Camp Mystic was located, and
that's where many of the missing are still associated with
that camp. I think ten of children from that camp
(17:06):
are still listed among the more than two dozen still
considered missing. On the positive side, it looks like the
weather is about to get better, you know, another rainy
day yesterday, some scattered howers today, but after this we
should start to see a lot more sunshine, drier conditions.
Hopefully that swollen Guadalupe River will start to receive quickly.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So is there any indication that they could have been
notified the severity of this flood in a quicker manner?
I mean, I know, it's unfortunately just where we are
right now, where people want to weaponize this as you know,
who could have done more Republican Democrat that kind of stuff.
But just I don't know, if I mean to me,
this is just an act of God and it's a
(17:49):
tragic situation all the way around. But do we know
as far as resources in that community, are they without
some resources that maybe others have?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Well, some other communities in Texas I have installed sirens
to go along the river to alert in these kinds
of situations. And we should note this is known as
flash flood Alley. This is an area that has flash
flooding frequently. Now not to the scale, of course, but
this is a persistent problem. And you know nineteen eighty seven,
(18:18):
July seventeenth, a similar flood in a similar area killed
ten children from a camp. So this is not unheard of,
and we've seen again deadly flooding I think every at
least once a decade. So I think there are more
questions being asked now. Obviously the scale of this is
very different. But then saying, you know, do you rebuild camps?
(18:39):
I notifications systems should we have and then taking a
look at whether or not we pay attention to a
lot of these alerts that we get to our phones
that many people just ignore.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Rory and Nail of NBC News our guest joining us
here on news radio eight forty whas So the Prime
days are here, Amazon Prime that is, and bargains. This
is where you're supposed to be able to save money
as a shopper. What kind of are we looking at?
Legitimate deals here? Are gonna Are we gonna be able
to see some real relief here as far as prices,
because it seems as if everything is expensive right now
and day Prime days, I should say, that's when folks
(19:13):
feel like they're really getting a bargain.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, right, just make sure you actually are getting a bargain. Remember,
Amazon has a lot of third party sellers, people that
are just they're contractors and they use the Amazon platform
in order to sell their merchandise, and what we're seeing
more and more those third party vendors have been jacking
up their prices and then cutting them to make them
(19:36):
appear artificially low for prime days. So just make sure,
especially if it's something you're spending hundreds of dollars on
that it says, oh, it's thirty percent off or forty
percent off, make sure it really is forty percent off.
So use some price tracking tools. There are Camel Camel,
Camel Honey. You can go in there, put the Amazon
(19:58):
item number into that website and it will show you
the history of the price of that item. So a
lot of places will jack up the price two months
ago by one hundred percent and then lower it quote
unquote fifty percent, and you think you're getting a deal,
but you're really just paying the same price you would
have paid a month ago.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And it says here that about fifteen to thirty percent
roughly are actually checking to see if what is being
promoted as a sale is actually a sale, which really
doesn't surprise me, so good info there, or they need
to do their research to see if it's really a
bargain or if they just have been have been manipulated
to think that it's actually a bargain. Do we know
any type of products that may be you know, I
(20:39):
guess trendy type of items that could be big sellers
on Prime days here.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, I would say also, you know, look to the seller.
If it's Amazon that's selling it, you're pretty much going
to be it's a better bet that it's actually a
deal there. I mean, of course what we're already seeing though,
for the items that are on sale. Electronics are are
always popular, and we are seeing some solid deals there.
There are a lot of websites that have advice and
(21:05):
recommendations for some of the research they've done. Go to
sites like why are Cutter? From the New York Times.
They've done a deep dive into some of the bargains
that are really out there today and tomorrow and the
next day. It's the eighth through the eleventh.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Good stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Rory is always appreciate the time and enjoy the rest
of your day. We'll talk sooner, my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right, that's Rory and Eale of NBC News.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We've got Bobby Ellis with the latest on traffic coming
your way. Also, we'll get Matt Melosovich's forecast from WLKY
as We're getting this Tuesday started, and Scott Fitzgerald's got
an update on sports coming up here in about four minutes,
so stick with us. It is Kentucky Anda's Morning News
with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas
Good morning, Kentucky Anda. Welcome in to a Tuesday edition
of Kentucky Anda's Morning News with Nick Coffee. I've got
Scott fitz Jared alongside mister John Olden back in the saddle.
John Shannon back with us as well, and we are
ready to get it rolling here at five oh six.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
As it is.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Scott and I were just discussing it is I feel
like the last two days, specifically today though the humidity
in the three am hour. I could be wrong here,
but it feels like record setting.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, it's gross.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I dude, I do three laps and shall be parking
in the morning, three in the afternoon. My three laps
yesterday morning. By the time I got near the end
of the second lap, I was already dripping in sweat.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah, and I'm not surprised, crazy dude.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Be prepared today if you've not left, I mean, if
you've if you're getting ready to head out of the
house to get your day started, you will you will
be hit with that thick humidity as soon as you
walk outside, So just be prepared. Having the air condition
you're on in my car in the morning feels rare,
but it's on from some I mean, it's like it's
just it's that it's that sticky.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Outside system holding up at home? Good? How about you?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Good? Yeah, I'm there, dude.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
It's nice because it's just my wife and I now,
so it's nice.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
And it's been shutting on and off.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I talked to an acy guy I know, uh,
and he told me, he say, as long as your
unit keeps shutting off shutting on, you're good.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
John. Do you You are? Probably?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I think you You probably bought a house more recent
than than than myself and Scott did. Did the the
AC unit? Was it relatively new? Was it the original one?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was the original one, and we ended up having
to buy a brand new one couple years ago.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Gotcha because I perked up a little bit when Scott
asked me because I've been paying attention just because I
don't have any reason to think mine would go out.
I think it's just realizing, man, my life would I'd
be I'd be I'd be struggling. It's a stress, yeah,
I mean it's not only do you have the you know,
you no longer have the ability to be comfortable in
your home, but you also worry about what it would
(01:53):
coust it could be something as minor as it froze
up because you didn't change your filter or you got
to replace it all together, and those are drastically different things.
So yeah, and this is the kind of heat summer
was right on time because the first weekend of summer
was brutal, and really since then it's been that way
in different ways. Right, Sometimes it's just been like over
the weekend, I think humidity was low, but it was
(02:14):
just hot. Now it's a little bit of both, but
I mean summer is it's brutal, and if you don't
have AC it's I can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
So there's no worse feeling than waking up in the
morning too. And you see that, you feel it the
minute you wake up, and then you see the therm
mom room when you go downstairs. It just didn't cool down.
You're like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And what I had to learn is say, this is
long ago. I used to just think, well, if I've
got my system set on seventy but it's not getting
below seventy two, that doesn't mean something's broken. It just
means that it's that hot outside and your unit is
working as best it can. That was our first house
I just assume, well, I got to call somebody, and
it wasn't because I was dying with it not being
colder than seventy two. It was more so just worried, Okay,
(02:56):
I got to have a plan in place if this
thing completely goes out. And then I realized, yeah, sometimes
it's just so hot that like seventy two, seventy three
is the best you're going to get.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did the same thing, and then I was thinking,
because are upstairs that we have high higher ceiling in
our upstairs, so upstairs forms up even more and it
takes harder to cool it down. But now I've noticed
that with just my wife and I in the house,
things stay a little bit more reasonable, given the kids
aren't going in and out. You know, when the kids
were younger that you know, I was my old man
(03:24):
shot the damn norm.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You know, so you had a munthle of that stuff
you do.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
And so you had that. So it's nice.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So hopefully everybody listening your ac stays nine. If it doesn't,
I hope you have a good HVAC person.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yep, because though they certainly are are busy when you've
got the summer months going on and it's just disgusting
outside like it has all. So we've got a lot
to get into today here on a Tuesday. Obviously, I
will continue to keep you updated on the floods in Texas.
Now over one hundred deaths and there's still many that
are missing. Just a tragic situation there. We'll talk to
(03:58):
Rory and Neil coming up at eight five forty five
and get the latest on that. Also, one thing I've
yet to learn about both of you guys. I think
I know a little bit about John when it comes
to conspiracy theories. But Scott, are you a conspiracy theory
kind of guy? Not really, I was gonna guess that
you're not, and I I'm not. Yeah, And I think
at times i'm more maybe maybe I am naive. But
(04:20):
I'm fascinated by them just because I just the amount
of people who really get lost in a conspiracy theory
and let it consume them, and then they look at
everybody else as if they're a bunch of sheep, just
believing what everybody wants you to believe, when clearly there
was a conspiracy going on. I find those people, I guess, unrelatable.
But the Epstein thing, I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
That is I that it'll make you think. Absolutely, it'll
make you think.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So we'll certainly talk about that, and then the latest
on the Crystal Rogers trial will give you the latest
again as yesterday was a big day and now we're
getting down to it as far as this jury going
to needing to make a decision on what they're gonna do.
So a loaded Tuesday is coming your way, and I
hope you stick with us. We've got an update on
traffic from Bobby Elli's coming your way. Matt Melosavich will
get us caught up on the weather, and we'll keep
(05:05):
it rolling along. Here it's Kentucky, and it's Morning News
on News Radio eight forty WHAS.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Five point fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Here at Kentucky, INA's Morning News on News Radio eight
forty whas. Nick Coffee with you. You could take us with
you wherever you go. Listen live at WHAS dot com.
Also listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Keep in mind
the talkback features there as well if you want to
chime in and contribute to the show today. So this story,
it's one that fascinates me and I think we all
(05:33):
can agree that when someone is I guess get when
someone gets served what it is that a lot of
us think they deserve. It's a good feeling, right, somebody
having to pay the price for doing something wrong, And
I feel wrong as far as how satisfied, I am
to see what's playing out here with Misty Noel, who
(05:53):
is the She is the estrange wife of former Clark
County Sheriff Jamie Noel, who really this has been in
the news for years now now is the corruption, the
whole scandal where they used millions of taxpayer funds, meaning
Jamie Noel and his family with his wife. She ended
up getting recently sentenced for her involvement, and she was
(06:15):
implicated and again she used a lot of money on
personal funds. That money was taxpayer funds and this all
took place from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty two. So
he served let's see, he got twelve years in prison.
He's currently in prison right now. But he pleaded guilty
to twenty seven felonies and again she was charged and
(06:36):
that process played out last week as far as a
plea deal, And to me, this just screams I want
to say arrogance, but I also don't feel like that's
the right word. To use here because I believe this
is backfiring in a way that proves this individual just
there's no remorse, there's still wanting to have it your way,
(07:03):
get the last word. Because she pleaded last week guilty
to five counts of theft and five counts of tax
evasion for using the New Chapel EMS funds for personal purchases.
So her plea deal was accepted last week on July third,
and she was sentenced to eighteen months in prison or
ordered restitution for over six hundred and sixty thousand dollars
(07:26):
to the New Chapel EMS and also roughly thirty thousand
dollars to the Indiana Department of Revenue. So after this sentencing,
she wanted to be on TV. She did an exclusive interview.
I think she don't know. Let me back up. I
don't know if her interviews or exclusive. Maybe she's done
interviews elsewhere, but it was a WLKY interview. Our partner's
over at LKY the day that she was sentenced, did
(07:46):
an interview with her where instead of using that camera
time to truly express remorse and truly apologize for again
misusing millions of taxpayer funds for personal expenses.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Is she wanted.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To get the last word and do the whole Well,
I had no clue. But if I'm you know, if
I'm guilty of anything, I guess it's that. And I
don't have her exact quote here, but anyways, in her interview,
she claimed that her husband, who of course they're now stranged,
misled her into believing the nonprofit was his private business,
not taxpayer funded. So this is somebody saying, you know, yeah,
(08:25):
I pleaded guilty today, but I want to go on
camera and still try to the arrogance of thinking people
will believe you that you had no clue that millions
of dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Where would you.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Think that money was coming from? I mean, like nobody
believes that that she unknowingly was involved in this. Now
maybe she mean clearly she didn't have the same impact
in this as her husband, because he's going to prison
for twelve years and was and he played guilty to
twenty seven felony. She's not facing those kind of charges.
But the arrogance of wanting to be on TV and
still tell people that you didn't know you did anything wrong,
(08:56):
it is backfired because now the judge Larryry Medlock who
again was a part of her prot and when she
he accepted her plea last week, well yesterday, he ruled
that her statements that she did in that interview with
Wlky suggests that she did not knowingly and intentionally commit theft,
undermining her guilty plea, Like, you can't do that. I've
(09:19):
never had to plead guilty to a crime, but you
have to in court. You have to Legitimately, you can't
just plead guilty unless you guys do an outford plea
where you don't admit admit guilt, but you admit there's
enough evidence to convict you. So this, this you know,
this TV interview does still want to I mean, it's
just delusion as well, thinking that anybody will okay, you
didn't know makes total sense now, I mean again, people
(09:40):
can believe what they want to believe. But nonetheless, he
has now stated that a guilty plea, you know, it
can't it can't stand. So from here on out, I mean,
she's gonna have another hearing date and probably you know,
it sounds like she could possibly end up going to trial,
which means that if this get I mean, she could
have this interview could have got it to where she
(10:01):
probably did eighteen months and maybe not even that long.
Maybe she gets shocked probation, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I doubt it. I doubt she would have got shocked.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
But nonetheless, this is you just still wanting like you're
never remorseful. You still want people to believe that you
didn't have a clue that you were using money that
you weren't supposed to be using. And how about the
judge just happened to see this on television or the
internet wherever it was, and see, oh, well, she's now
claiming that she entered a plea that she's since claimed
(10:29):
on television that she does she's not guilty. So anyways,
that whole that, I'm not sure if it will because
there's a lot of true crime stuff that will end up,
you know, that competes with this. But I wouldn't be
shocked if the whole Jamie Noel situation ends up being
some crime documentary, because there's a lot to it. All Right,
we've got an update of traffic and weather coming your way.
(10:50):
Bobby Ellis with the traffic update. Matt Melosavitch will give
us the forecast, and of course we've got sports coming
your way here in four minutes right here on news
radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Thank you very much, John Shannon.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It is five thirty five here Kentucky and it's Morning
News with Nick Coffee on news.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So yesterday was closing arguments in the second Crystal Rogers case.
As the defense, they are sticking with what you would
expect them to stick with, and that is that this
is a no body homicide, no physical evidence, it's just
witness testimony. But even that I'm sure they're arguing is
(11:30):
is not That's what any good defense representation would do.
But the prosecution, they're they're leaning heavily on just inconsistent
statements from Brooks howk like the time he omitted his
visit to the family farm the night Crystal Rogers vanished.
(11:52):
Just a lot of inconsistencies. And look the testimony, although
it's not proof, I just maybe this is because this trial,
specifically for me, is somebody that is just reading all
the coverage of it, right, there's no I mean, we're
literally just getting what those that are permitted to attend
this trial and Bowling Green are writing down, taking notes
and then sharing as soon as you know they have
(12:13):
a break in the in the in the trial, or
it wraps up for the day. So and by the way,
thank you to all those who were there, because without
their coverage we wouldn't we wouldn't know what's going on.
But I just think the amount of circumstantial evidence, despite
it not being any real proof, I just to me,
it seems as if this jury would would be would
(12:33):
be able to see that, yes, they did a good
job of cleaning some things up, but they seem to
be guilty in some form or fashion. But I've never
been on a jury, and I don't know if you know,
I don't think you could put yourself in the shoes
of someone on the jury unless you've been in that
situation before. But even if you have, I mean again,
you're not We're not there, right, You're not hearing every
(12:55):
second of this entire trial. So uh, well, we'll find
out here soon if this jury's ready to make a decision.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
But it looks yea.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
It says here that after the two weeks of trial,
the jury of fifteen, which will soon be twelve after
alternates were dismissed here recently, it's going to begin today.
So again, nobody no crime scene in this case hinges
on circumstantial evidence, And to me, it's just as an outside,
an outsider just taking what is being shared each and
every day, as far as the defense and what they're saying,
(13:27):
the prosecution, what they're saying, what we're hearing from these witnesses,
I have really no clue what to expect. But if
you put me on the spot, I would say, I
just assumed that these two are going to be found guilty,
but could be totally wrong here.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I'm just guessing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
So I really, I guess nothing would ultimately shock me,
because again, I think it's one thing too. This is
something that you've heard before, but it's really I mean,
I don't think it can be overstated. Context matters, right,
How you say something matters a lot more than just
what is set, and I feel like lawyers are great
(14:01):
examples of that. So who knows, We're just again we're
we're we're only hearing from from what those are sharing
with us, and they're doing a good job of giving
us specific details and quotes as far as what is
said by the defense attorney here, But who knows, maybe
he's saying in a way that has this jury just
completely thinking, Well, you know what, I don't know if
that's enough for me to say that, yes, I think
(14:22):
that these two are guilty of what they're being charged with.
So I uh, I'm I'm anxious to see how this
plays out. But obviously, uh, the victim's family here, which
again the victim has never been recovered, never been I know,
there's no there's no body. But I'm sure they're hoping.
I mean, in fact, we know they're hoping for a
guilty verdict, and only time will tell if that's that's
what ends up happening. All right, So TikTok is apparently
(14:45):
creating a version of itself, but it'll only be available
in America because of the current issue right now with
it not you know that it's been extended, been kicked
down the line many times by Trump, but but him
being so confident about a buyer, maybe I guess that
fell through, because again TikTok is now developing a new
(15:05):
version of its platform that'll only be for US customers.
By Dance is the Chinese parent company that for a
while now it's been known that they've got to they
got to find a way to divest its used operations
to non Chinese owners in order to comply with the
new federal law by this upcoming September, or they'll be
banned now again.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
If it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
If it doesn't happen by September, I still feel like
we'll see President Trump just delay once again. But didn't
he just tell us a couple of weeks ago that
he was very confident in a buyer that he had
and that you know, but what I kept thinking of, Okay, yeah,
that sounds great, But in order to make a transaction,
you need a buyer and you need a seller. And
(15:46):
there's never, at any point been any indication that TikTok
Bye Dance.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I guess is who we're talking about. They own TikTok.
Why would they want to sell?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
This is a social media platform that is dominating in
that space, and there seems to be no sign of
that momentum stopping. So I think maybe that's just a
rich person thing. Well they just assume, well, if I've
got somebody with unlimited amount of money, then you'll sell.
Well I don't think they will. It doesn't sound like
they're they're gonna do that. All right, We've got Rory
O'Neil coming up in about five minutes time and we'll
(16:17):
get the latest on the tragic situation with the floods
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Stick with us.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It's Kentucky and it's Morning News on News Radio eight
forty Whas.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
It is five forty five here Kentucky and.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
It's morning News on news radio eight forty whas Nick
Coffee with you, and I've got Rory on eil of
NBC News with me. Rory, what can you tell us
about the latest in regards to the tragic situation with
the Texas floods. Sounds like there's many more deaths that
have been reported since we discussed yesterday, and still some
that they can't find.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah, sadly, the death toll has topped one hundred. One
hundred and four now confirm fatalities across six counties. Most
of the deaths are in Kerr County, Texas, eighty four
of them there. That's where Camp Mystic was located, and
that's where many of the missing are still associated with
that camp. I think ten of children from that camp
(17:06):
are still listed among the more than two dozen still
considered missing. On the positive side, it looks like the
weather is about to get better, you know, another rainy
day yesterday, some scattered howers today, but after this we
should start to see a lot more sunshine, drier conditions.
Hopefully that swollen Guadalupe River will start to receive quickly.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So is there any indication that they could have been
notified the severity of this flood in a quicker manner?
I mean, I know, it's unfortunately just where we are
right now, where people want to weaponize this as you know,
who could have done more Republican Democrat that kind of stuff.
But just I don't know, if I mean to me,
this is just an act of God and it's a
(17:49):
tragic situation all the way around. But do we know
as far as resources in that community, are they without
some resources that maybe others have?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Well, some other communities in Texas I have installed sirens
to go along the river to alert in these kinds
of situations. And we should note this is known as
flash flood Alley. This is an area that has flash
flooding frequently. Now not to the scale, of course, but
this is a persistent problem. And you know nineteen eighty seven,
(18:18):
July seventeenth, a similar flood in a similar area killed
ten children from a camp. So this is not unheard of,
and we've seen again deadly flooding I think every at
least once a decade. So I think there are more
questions being asked now. Obviously the scale of this is
very different. But then saying, you know, do you rebuild camps?
(18:39):
I notifications systems should we have and then taking a
look at whether or not we pay attention to a
lot of these alerts that we get to our phones
that many people just ignore.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Rory and Nail of NBC News our guest joining us
here on news radio eight forty whas So the Prime
days are here, Amazon Prime that is, and bargains. This
is where you're supposed to be able to save money
as a shopper. What kind of are we looking at?
Legitimate deals here? Are gonna Are we gonna be able
to see some real relief here as far as prices,
because it seems as if everything is expensive right now
and day Prime days, I should say, that's when folks
(19:13):
feel like they're really getting a bargain.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well, right, just make sure you actually are getting a bargain. Remember,
Amazon has a lot of third party sellers, people that
are just they're contractors and they use the Amazon platform
in order to sell their merchandise, and what we're seeing
more and more those third party vendors have been jacking
up their prices and then cutting them to make them
(19:36):
appear artificially low for prime days. So just make sure,
especially if it's something you're spending hundreds of dollars on
that it says, oh, it's thirty percent off or forty
percent off, make sure it really is forty percent off.
So use some price tracking tools. There are Camel Camel,
Camel Honey. You can go in there, put the Amazon
(19:58):
item number into that website and it will show you
the history of the price of that item. So a
lot of places will jack up the price two months
ago by one hundred percent and then lower it quote
unquote fifty percent, and you think you're getting a deal,
but you're really just paying the same price you would
have paid a month ago.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And it says here that about fifteen to thirty percent
roughly are actually checking to see if what is being
promoted as a sale is actually a sale, which really
doesn't surprise me, so good info there, or they need
to do their research to see if it's really a
bargain or if they just have been have been manipulated
to think that it's actually a bargain. Do we know
any type of products that may be you know, I
(20:39):
guess trendy type of items that could be big sellers
on Prime days here.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Yeah, I would say also, you know, look to the seller.
If it's Amazon that's selling it, you're pretty much going
to be it's a better bet that it's actually a
deal there. I mean, of course what we're already seeing though,
for the items that are on sale. Electronics are are
always popular, and we are seeing some solid deals there.
There are a lot of websites that have advice and
(21:05):
recommendations for some of the research they've done. Go to
sites like why are Cutter? From the New York Times.
They've done a deep dive into some of the bargains
that are really out there today and tomorrow and the
next day. It's the eighth through the eleventh.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Good stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Rory is always appreciate the time and enjoy the rest
of your day. We'll talk sooner, my friend.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
All right, that's Rory and Eale of NBC News.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
We've got Bobby Ellis with the latest on traffic coming
your way. Also, we'll get Matt Melosovich's forecast from WLKY
as We're getting this Tuesday started, and Scott Fitzgerald's got
an update on sports coming up here in about four minutes,
so stick with us. It is Kentucky Anda's Morning News
with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty whas
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