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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get it started. It is Coffee and Company,
Kentucky in his morning news with you here on a
Thursday morning, and a good friend of mine once told
me Thurst Day is the new Friday Aliga. It was
a guy named Scott Fitzgerald who said that it's true. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The first words out of my mouth when I saw
you this morning was We're almost there.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're almost there, almost there, almost there. We've got the
whole crew here today. John Shannon alongside today. He'll be
in with news coming up around five thirty. And of
course we've got the one and only John Alden. John,
Good morning, sir, how are you? Good morning? I'm doing
pretty well this morning. Your beard's looking good. It's looking
a little it needs to be shaped up a little bit,
but it's getting pretty thick. I mean, I just glance
(00:38):
out of the corner of my eye here to see
the beautiful John Alden here in this this monitor I've got,
and it popped. The beard popped. Oh that saw John jealous.
I can't grow a beard, so you know, I just.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Saw him back by the coffee machine.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I didn't notice, John. I'm sorry. It's easy to miss.
Remember who notices your glow ups. John, it was me,
not Scott. I don't remember. Just think that if we've
got a scoreboard and we're taking we're keeping score. I
think I just I think I just took the lead.
But again, we're all friends here and we're gonna be
with you for the next four hours. It's gonna be
a busy, busy morning, a lot to get into, and
(01:12):
of course we'll have a get Yes, I'm gonna make
sure I had my days right because we're making a
little bit of a change here because typically when he
joins us every other week, it is on a Friday.
But today Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg gonna join us at
eight o'clock and we'll catch up with him. Certainly a
lot to discuss with Mayor Greenberg, including what was a
record breaking turnout for both the Bourbon and Beyond and
(01:36):
the Louder Than Live Music festival. It clearly seemed as
if the numbers were really really impressive. But I will
admit I'm not someone that can look at a crowd
and try to give you any kind of a ballpark
as far as the amount of people, But four hundred
and fifty thousand people were in attendance in the last
two weekends. And that's and I know I've really been
(01:57):
emphasizing just what this does for businesses and just for
the economy. And I'm sure it's repetitive at times, but
if I've said it a million times, why not say
it once more. This is becoming part of something that
a lot of folks outside of here will think of
when they think of Louisville. And that's that's a good
thing that you've got. I mean, I've always felt like
(02:18):
Louisville has done a good job of being a city
that can host sporting events. I don't know if we
would actually ever be able to. It's one thing to
be able to. I was about to go down of
a rabbit hole. I don't need to go down. But
as far as like could Louisville, could Louisville support and
successfully have a pro team from like MLB, NBA, NFL,
We'll never know, to be honest with you, because I
don't think that's ever gonna happen. But when it comes
(02:39):
to events, when it comes to sports, we do that
pretty well. But this, of course is not sports. This
is Hey, if we want to bring I mean, just
think about other potential events. Maybe not a music festival.
Maybe I don't know. I can't even think of something
that's comparable that would be something people would travel for.
But this is another sign that when it comes to
doing big events, Louisville as a city, we do it
(02:59):
pretty pretty big. Oh you do?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I mean I was doing some of the Now
I just took it. Let's say a random number like
at that, Let's say each person that came to these
festivals spend a thousand dollars hotel, eating, YadA YadA ya.
That's how four hundred and fifty million dollars shot to
the economy.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That is. That's I'm glad you you did the quick
numbers there, because that does put in perspective just how
because honestly, there's probably people that spend more than that, right,
Maybe some that don't spend quite as much, yep, but
still that is that is huge for us. And uh,
you know, I'm sure if you've lived here your whole life,
or maybe you're somebody listening and you're a thousand miles away,
but you tune in because this is home to you,
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and I know there are people that do that, which
is really awesome. By the way, But you know, you're
not going to think of Bourbon and Beyond and a lot
of their life when you think of Louisville. But hey,
if we're on the minds of people and they've had
any if we got them to come here for anything
and they enjoyed it, and of course they gave our
businesses money, that's a good thing. Well, full disclosure.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
My wife works for GLI and she you know, she
they were bragging just how how many good things are
happening right now in Louisville on the heel of Burbanham
Beyond and Louder than life, and that just springboards so
many efforts moving on and what helps toun Nick and
I thought about this the other day when I was
looking through I was scrolling through TikTok. I get a
lot of foodies on my TikTok algorithm, and there's a
(04:12):
lot here in Louisville. I mean, anybody can be a foodie.
Let's let's just be honest, and that's okay. But there
are so many places that I discovered that Louisville hadn't
had before. And I wonder how many of the folks
who came in town hit these places up and they're
going to take that home with them as well.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I wish I had a more diverse palette, but I
don't because I've oftentimes said, well, there's so many great
restaurants here that I want to try, that I want
to check out, and sometimes we do, and I'm glad
we did. But this is just another one of the
many reminders for me that I need to expand because
there is a lot of really cool places in Louisville
to go get a bite to eat. I mean, you could,
(04:47):
you could have a date night every other every other
weekend with with your spouse. There's significant other and you
you could do it for a year and try new
places you've never tried and probably end up more often
than not finding really cool places.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If I walk past Toasties or Aveno over in Germantown
one more time and smell it when I'm on Godly Hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Toasties is one of those places that I've seen them
and you I've seen people post their stuff there. Yes,
it looks cool as can be, but I've just never
actually been. I'm gonna have to go, Yeah you do,
I'm gonna have to go a good stuff oka, right,
let's get this thing started. We'll get an update of
traffic and weather right here, right now as we roll
along here. It is five to eleven It News Radio
eight forty whas. Not something I was expecting to happen
(05:25):
this morning, But at before five point fifteen I was
given brisket for breakfast courtesy of John Shannon, who has
really spoiled me. He's he's cooked chilly for me. He's
cooked what else? Was it? Something else he made that
was really really good? And then today he's given me
a sampling of his brisket, which is really good. But
I'm having to scarf down brisket before coming back back
(05:49):
on the air here. And I got a little bit
ahead of myself. There probably something I should I should
make sure I chew up pretty good before I, you know,
try to try to swallow it. But anyways, we'll move forward,
We'll we'll push through. It's what we do. It's five
to seventeen here News ready to wait forty whas and
you've got your next update of trafficking weather coming up
here in just a couple of minutes. So far, so good.
(06:10):
Also looks like well I was gonna put my foot
in my mouth and act as if I know for certain,
But earlier this week the weather for the week was
expected to be really Monday Wednesday are wet days, and
moving forward it looked like it was going to be better.
I guess this morning we do still have some chances
for some showers, but moving through the rest of the day,
(06:30):
mostly clear and it won't be too hot, which is
which is good news in my opinion. All right, so
we'll talk about this throughout the morning, and I'm sure
it's something we talk about with Rory O'Neil coming up
here in just about thirty minutes or so. But that
is the ICE facility shooting in Dallas and being investigated
(06:53):
as a targeted attack. Looks like the gunman, twenty nine
year old Joshua John opened fire yesterday morning from the
roof of a law enforcement office that was across the
street from the US Immigration and Customs and Enforcement facility
in Dallas. So clearly this is this is being looked
at as a targeted attack on federal law enforcement. And unfortunately,
(07:18):
I mean, I wish I could say this was shocking
and a big surprise, but it's not. It just isn't.
But here's acting ICE director todd lyons on the situation.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
They were shot while they were in the vehicle, right,
So the shooter obviously didn't know who was in the vehicle.
He was just randomly shooting at windows into vehicles that
I had already seen down there.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So you would assume that this person was firing off
shots at the vehicle thinking that it would be ICE
agents in there. I mean, again, only he truly knows that.
But I think it's pretty easy to put two and
two together here.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All the vile talk against Ice conas Nazis, Gestapo's, that's
something like this was going to happen, and it did.
For me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's my worst nightmare, never thinking that in our own facility,
on our own location, we take sniper fire in a
major city.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, I mean this this comes just what twenty four
to forty eight hours after California Governor Gavin Newsom, and
we'll let you hear exactly what it is that he said.
But he certainly can't be surprised that with the timing
of this and of course what he said, that he
will be viewed as somebody that encouraged this. I mean,
(08:28):
it wouldn't be it wouldn't I mean you can't. You can't,
from like a legal perspective, say that he's responsible for it, right,
Like he didn't. He didn't tell this guy to go
do it necessarily. But then again, you know, and when
you get into the weeds, which a lot of us
are right now, when it comes to just the fighting,
the back and forth at each other's throats, I mean,
it's probably been said by countless people that you know,
(08:49):
he's essentially responsible for this, and I I'm not saying that,
but I get why people are. And here is Senator
Ted Cruz.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE
or CBP. This must stop. To every politician demanding that
ICE agents be docsed and calling for people to go
after their families, stop, this has very real consequences. Look
(09:20):
in America, we disagree. That's fine, that's the democratic process,
but your political opponents are not Nazis.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So again, we'll talk more about this throughout the morning.
Roy O'Neil of NBC News set to join us at
five point forty five this morning. Let's get a quick
update of trafficking weather. We will also get an update
on sports coming up on the other side right here
on News Radio eight forty whas five thirty six here
at news Radio eight forty whas, Happy Thursday to you.
(09:49):
So Sheriff John Aubrey passed away yesterday at the age
of eighty six. So Jefferson County of course mourning the
loss of a man who was in his position for
a long, long time. And this of course comes just
a few months, I believe, after he announced he had
plans to retire. But what a remarkable career in law enforcement,
(10:09):
public service. We're talking five decades plus of service and
from right here in Louisville, went to Shawnee High School,
was a US Army Reserve colonel twenty eight years with
Louisville Police, and of course became acting chief before becoming
sheriff in nineteen ninety eight. So that's somebody. When I
think of John Aubrey, I think of the commercials whenever
(10:33):
I was a little kid, and I don't remember if
it was. I remember if it was if he was
doing a commercial that was the weekly. I'm going to
butcher it, I'm sure, but something about like Louisville's Most
Wanted or something like that, like they were looking for
fugitives and he would be the one that would tell
us about these people. It was like at the peak
(10:54):
of America's most wanted when that became like a real
big deal. But of course, when you are in that
position for as long as he was, he's certainly a
very recognizable public servant and he will certainly certainly be missed.
So he uh, I'm just I mean again, I'm looking
at his his decades of dedication. I mean, you won't
(11:15):
find many that that that were in in that in
that realm, meaning public service for as long as as
he was, and again eighty six years old and was
was just recently announcing his his retirement. So again he'll
he he will certainly be missed. And yesterday there were
a lot of folks just paying tributes. Mayor Greenberg of
(11:37):
course talked about the decades of dedication from John Aubrey.
You had just different other political figures. Senator Mitch McConnell,
Governorrany b.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Sheher, A, g.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Russell Coleman all honored Aubrey for his service and a
legacy that of course will will leave leave a big impact.
There's no doubt about that. And of course this comes
just a couple of weeks after Bobby Holst law passed away,
so to it'll be remembered for a really long time because, uh,
they did they did great work for a really long time,
and of course for the community. I'll say when when
(12:08):
when I think of just what what what is? What
is different from me in this role compared to what
I used to do just talking yap in sports? Uh,
just now I think view what that is a little
bit differently. I don't want act like I was anti
public service or anti law enforcement or anything like that.
It's just, uh, you know, when you get a chance
to to to talk to some of the people that
(12:29):
work that that that that are in that world, right
they they are. They dedicate their their career, they want
to pursue being a public servant in some capacity and
it's a really selfless thing to do, and especially when
you consider the the current climate where they're not appreciated,
uh in in in a way that they should. And
it's not even just that, I mean there's some people
(12:50):
that just have these preconceived notions about especially law enforcement.
That's just I mean, it's awful and clearly nobody's perfect.
We have many examples of things that have happened that
were wrong, and again it was the fault of law enforcement,
but we're not that uncommon in that world, and I
just I just wish more people would would would understand
(13:14):
how isolated that really is when you consider how many
people out there are are signing up essentially and again
they get paid, they'll do it for free, but obviously
it's it's tough to get people to do it now
because of obvious reasons. So again, condolences to Sheriff Aubrey
and his family, and I know he'll be missed by
a lot of people around here, that's for sure. Our
quick update of trafficking weather's coming your way. Roy o'neils
(13:35):
set to join us on the other side from NBC.
We'll talk about the shooting that took place yesterday outside
of a Dallas ice facility, and of course it's being
investigated as a targeted attack. Also something I want to
have some fun with a little bit later on. Today
is National One Hit wonder Day, and I believe I've
got a hot take on one hit wonders. I think
(13:56):
there are some people we call one hit wonders, and
I don't know if I would call them that. I
think you can have one hit that's just substantially larger
than anything else you've ever had. But like if you like,
you're only a one hit wonder if nobody can name,
like any other song you did. And there are a
lot of those, by the way, So we'll get to
that in a lot more. Have some fun this morning.
It's a Thursday. It's Kentucky, and this morning news coffee
(14:17):
and company with you right here on news radio eight
forty whas coffee in company with you here on news
radio eight forty whas eppy Thursday. So let's bring him in.
He's Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, there was a
shooting yesterday outside of a Dallas ice facility currently that
that is being investigated as an attack. What do we
(14:41):
know as far as just the lead up to this?
And I guess what can you tell us as far
as the latest with the investigation? Twenty nine year old
Joshua John looks like is the suspect here?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah? And you know written on the casings of some
of the bullets that were either unfired or recovered from
the scene of the shooting, it said anti Ice. Now
keep in mind that there have been some conflicting information
about exactly who was shot here. All three victims were detainees.
One of them was killed, two of them were last
(15:10):
listed in critical condition. None of the law enforcement officers
who actually work at that facility, the ICE officers, none
was actually injured in that shooting. All the victims we
know to be detainees. And as you said, the suspect
of twenty nine year old still trying to figure out
what was going on in his head. He was a
bit of a vagrant, not a vagrant, but you know,
he lived out of his car. He had a couple
(15:32):
of odd jobs in the Dallas area and in the
Washington state as well. Some former coworkers described him as
lost in life. But yeah, they're trying to figure out
what triggered this rage.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So when it comes to scratching something onto a casing
before firing a shot, that of course is intended to
assume he was intending to kill ICE agents. Is this
a copycat of what we saw a couple of weeks ago.
I will admit I'm not sure how often this happens
when you have somebody take action like this to to
I guess leave essentially a note.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Right. Yeah, we've seen this in a couple of shootings,
not just the Charlie Kirk one, but in this case
they were written like in sharpie on the on the
on the bullet casings. In I think in the Charlie
Kirk case they were actually etched into the bullet casings.
But we're seeing this as much more of a trend.
It's some sort of symbolism or actual direct message written
(16:30):
on the bullet itself, which is something of a newer twist.
But this is more than one or two cases of
it that this is and look sadly more than one
or two cases of this political violence as well.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Ice agents hiding their identity while while on the job.
That of course has been something that a lot of
folks have had issue with, and in the other the
other side will tell you that it's it's needed. And
when you consider what happened yesterday, you could understand while
folks say that if they were public and it was
known what they were doing, then then they would they
would be attacked. Do you know how long has this
been a thing where if you're somebody that is enforcing
(17:03):
immigration and you are rounding up people here illegally, I mean,
they haven't always hit their identity, right, No.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But This is something that came you know, thanks to
the Internet, I guess and social media, this whole docsing
issue of you know once and now with facial recognition,
you can put upload up any photo and figure out
who a person is pretty quickly. You don't need an
FBI tech in order to do it. So one face
picture and suddenly you can get someone's identity, their family
(17:32):
and then you know, you start putting that information out
on the Internet saying, oh, this guy has two kids,
or this woman has got a husband and two parents
living over here. So you know, all that stuff can
be found almost instantaneously and put out there, and obviously
they feel that their lives could be endangered by some
of this information being put online.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Roy on AILIVI NBC News is our guest joining us
here on news radio eight forty whas we've got another
major national survey that is out and this tells us
how Americans feel about hot button issues like First Amendment,
the economy, vaccines. What can you tell us about this
latest survey we have here.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's that time of the month, it's right poll time
and from Quinnipiac always towards the end of the month.
This one is interesting in this case. One of the
headline numbers came from Quintipeck that found that, following the
assassination of Charlie Kirk, seventy nine percent of American voters
say the US is in a political crisis right now.
(18:31):
They say that, seventy one percent said that politically motivated
violence in the US is a very serious problem these days,
and fifty three percent of voters say they are pessimistic
pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected long term in
the US.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I can't say that, just given the current climate, that
those numbers surprise me. I really can't. But Rory has
always we appreciate your time, enjoy your day. My friend
will talk soon.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's Rory on NEALEVINBC News.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think if you to, you'd have given me those
survey results some years back. I would have certainly been surprised,
even knowing at that time that we were clearly building
and really just developing a real divide. But now currently not.
I mean, that doesn't surprise me at all that we
have that the vast majority, essentially eighty percent roughly of
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Americans that were polled believe that we are in a
political crisis. I cannot disagree. All right, We've got trapping
weather updates on the way. We'll see how these roadways
are looking on a Thursday morning. Also get a look
at the forecast from WLKY, and then another sports updates
coming your way right here on News Radio eight forty
whas
All right, let's get it started. It is Coffee and Company,
Kentucky in his morning news with you here on a
Thursday morning, and a good friend of mine once told
me Thurst Day is the new Friday Aliga. It was
a guy named Scott Fitzgerald who said that it's true. Right.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The first words out of my mouth when I saw
you this morning was We're almost there.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're almost there, almost there, almost there. We've got the
whole crew here today. John Shannon alongside today. He'll be
in with news coming up around five thirty. And of
course we've got the one and only John Alden. John,
Good morning, sir, how are you? Good morning? I'm doing
pretty well this morning. Your beard's looking good. It's looking
a little it needs to be shaped up a little bit,
but it's getting pretty thick. I mean, I just glance
(00:38):
out of the corner of my eye here to see
the beautiful John Alden here in this this monitor I've got,
and it popped. The beard popped. Oh that saw John jealous.
I can't grow a beard, so you know, I just.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Saw him back by the coffee machine.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
I didn't notice, John. I'm sorry. It's easy to miss.
Remember who notices your glow ups. John, it was me,
not Scott. I don't remember. Just think that if we've
got a scoreboard and we're taking we're keeping score. I
think I just I think I just took the lead.
But again, we're all friends here and we're gonna be
with you for the next four hours. It's gonna be
a busy, busy morning, a lot to get into, and
(01:12):
of course we'll have a get Yes, I'm gonna make
sure I had my days right because we're making a
little bit of a change here because typically when he
joins us every other week, it is on a Friday.
But today Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg gonna join us at
eight o'clock and we'll catch up with him. Certainly a
lot to discuss with Mayor Greenberg, including what was a
record breaking turnout for both the Bourbon and Beyond and
(01:36):
the Louder Than Live Music festival. It clearly seemed as
if the numbers were really really impressive. But I will
admit I'm not someone that can look at a crowd
and try to give you any kind of a ballpark
as far as the amount of people, But four hundred
and fifty thousand people were in attendance in the last
two weekends. And that's and I know I've really been
(01:57):
emphasizing just what this does for businesses and just for
the economy. And I'm sure it's repetitive at times, but
if I've said it a million times, why not say
it once more. This is becoming part of something that
a lot of folks outside of here will think of
when they think of Louisville. And that's that's a good
thing that you've got. I mean, I've always felt like
(02:18):
Louisville has done a good job of being a city
that can host sporting events. I don't know if we
would actually ever be able to. It's one thing to
be able to. I was about to go down of
a rabbit hole. I don't need to go down. But
as far as like could Louisville, could Louisville support and
successfully have a pro team from like MLB, NBA, NFL,
We'll never know, to be honest with you, because I
don't think that's ever gonna happen. But when it comes
(02:39):
to events, when it comes to sports, we do that
pretty well. But this, of course is not sports. This
is Hey, if we want to bring I mean, just
think about other potential events. Maybe not a music festival.
Maybe I don't know. I can't even think of something
that's comparable that would be something people would travel for.
But this is another sign that when it comes to
doing big events, Louisville as a city, we do it
(02:59):
pretty pretty big. Oh you do?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And I mean I was doing some of the Now
I just took it. Let's say a random number like
at that, Let's say each person that came to these
festivals spend a thousand dollars hotel, eating, YadA YadA ya.
That's how four hundred and fifty million dollars shot to
the economy.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
That is. That's I'm glad you you did the quick
numbers there, because that does put in perspective just how
because honestly, there's probably people that spend more than that, right,
Maybe some that don't spend quite as much, yep, but
still that is that is huge for us. And uh,
you know, I'm sure if you've lived here your whole life,
or maybe you're somebody listening and you're a thousand miles away,
but you tune in because this is home to you,
(03:35):
and I know there are people that do that, which
is really awesome. By the way, But you know, you're
not going to think of Bourbon and Beyond and a lot
of their life when you think of Louisville. But hey,
if we're on the minds of people and they've had
any if we got them to come here for anything
and they enjoyed it, and of course they gave our
businesses money, that's a good thing. Well, full disclosure.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
My wife works for GLI and she you know, she
they were bragging just how how many good things are
happening right now in Louisville on the heel of Burbanham
Beyond and Louder than life, and that just springboards so
many efforts moving on and what helps toun Nick and
I thought about this the other day when I was
looking through I was scrolling through TikTok. I get a
lot of foodies on my TikTok algorithm, and there's a
(04:12):
lot here in Louisville. I mean, anybody can be a foodie.
Let's let's just be honest, and that's okay. But there
are so many places that I discovered that Louisville hadn't
had before. And I wonder how many of the folks
who came in town hit these places up and they're
going to take that home with them as well.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I wish I had a more diverse palette, but I
don't because I've oftentimes said, well, there's so many great
restaurants here that I want to try, that I want
to check out, and sometimes we do, and I'm glad
we did. But this is just another one of the
many reminders for me that I need to expand because
there is a lot of really cool places in Louisville
to go get a bite to eat. I mean, you could,
(04:47):
you could have a date night every other every other
weekend with with your spouse. There's significant other and you
you could do it for a year and try new
places you've never tried and probably end up more often
than not finding really cool places.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
If I walk past Toasties or Aveno over in Germantown
one more time and smell it when I'm on Godly Hungry.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Toasties is one of those places that I've seen them
and you I've seen people post their stuff there. Yes,
it looks cool as can be, but I've just never
actually been. I'm gonna have to go, Yeah you do,
I'm gonna have to go a good stuff oka, right,
let's get this thing started. We'll get an update of
traffic and weather right here, right now as we roll
along here. It is five to eleven It News Radio
eight forty whas. Not something I was expecting to happen
(05:25):
this morning, But at before five point fifteen I was
given brisket for breakfast courtesy of John Shannon, who has
really spoiled me. He's he's cooked chilly for me. He's
cooked what else? Was it? Something else he made that
was really really good? And then today he's given me
a sampling of his brisket, which is really good. But
I'm having to scarf down brisket before coming back back
(05:49):
on the air here. And I got a little bit
ahead of myself. There probably something I should I should
make sure I chew up pretty good before I, you know,
try to try to swallow it. But anyways, we'll move forward,
We'll we'll push through. It's what we do. It's five
to seventeen here News ready to wait forty whas and
you've got your next update of trafficking weather coming up
here in just a couple of minutes. So far, so good.
(06:10):
Also looks like well I was gonna put my foot
in my mouth and act as if I know for certain,
But earlier this week the weather for the week was
expected to be really Monday Wednesday are wet days, and
moving forward it looked like it was going to be better.
I guess this morning we do still have some chances
for some showers, but moving through the rest of the day,
(06:30):
mostly clear and it won't be too hot, which is
which is good news in my opinion. All right, so
we'll talk about this throughout the morning, and I'm sure
it's something we talk about with Rory O'Neil coming up
here in just about thirty minutes or so. But that
is the ICE facility shooting in Dallas and being investigated
(06:53):
as a targeted attack. Looks like the gunman, twenty nine
year old Joshua John opened fire yesterday morning from the
roof of a law enforcement office that was across the
street from the US Immigration and Customs and Enforcement facility
in Dallas. So clearly this is this is being looked
at as a targeted attack on federal law enforcement. And unfortunately,
(07:18):
I mean, I wish I could say this was shocking
and a big surprise, but it's not. It just isn't.
But here's acting ICE director todd lyons on the situation.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
They were shot while they were in the vehicle, right,
So the shooter obviously didn't know who was in the vehicle.
He was just randomly shooting at windows into vehicles that
I had already seen down there.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
So you would assume that this person was firing off
shots at the vehicle thinking that it would be ICE
agents in there. I mean, again, only he truly knows that.
But I think it's pretty easy to put two and
two together here.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
All the vile talk against Ice conas Nazis, Gestapo's, that's
something like this was going to happen, and it did.
For me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's my worst nightmare, never thinking that in our own facility,
on our own location, we take sniper fire in a
major city.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, I mean this this comes just what twenty four
to forty eight hours after California Governor Gavin Newsom, and
we'll let you hear exactly what it is that he said.
But he certainly can't be surprised that with the timing
of this and of course what he said, that he
will be viewed as somebody that encouraged this. I mean,
(08:28):
it wouldn't be it wouldn't I mean you can't. You can't,
from like a legal perspective, say that he's responsible for it, right,
Like he didn't. He didn't tell this guy to go
do it necessarily. But then again, you know, and when
you get into the weeds, which a lot of us
are right now, when it comes to just the fighting,
the back and forth at each other's throats, I mean,
it's probably been said by countless people that you know,
(08:49):
he's essentially responsible for this, and I I'm not saying that,
but I get why people are. And here is Senator
Ted Cruz.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE
or CBP. This must stop. To every politician demanding that
ICE agents be docsed and calling for people to go
after their families, stop, this has very real consequences. Look
(09:20):
in America, we disagree. That's fine, that's the democratic process,
but your political opponents are not Nazis.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So again, we'll talk more about this throughout the morning.
Roy O'Neil of NBC News set to join us at
five point forty five this morning. Let's get a quick
update of trafficking weather. We will also get an update
on sports coming up on the other side right here
on News Radio eight forty whas five thirty six here
at news Radio eight forty whas, Happy Thursday to you.
(09:49):
So Sheriff John Aubrey passed away yesterday at the age
of eighty six. So Jefferson County of course mourning the
loss of a man who was in his position for
a long, long time. And this of course comes just
a few months, I believe, after he announced he had
plans to retire. But what a remarkable career in law enforcement,
(10:09):
public service. We're talking five decades plus of service and
from right here in Louisville, went to Shawnee High School,
was a US Army Reserve colonel twenty eight years with
Louisville Police, and of course became acting chief before becoming
sheriff in nineteen ninety eight. So that's somebody. When I
think of John Aubrey, I think of the commercials whenever
(10:33):
I was a little kid, and I don't remember if
it was. I remember if it was if he was
doing a commercial that was the weekly. I'm going to
butcher it, I'm sure, but something about like Louisville's Most
Wanted or something like that, like they were looking for
fugitives and he would be the one that would tell
us about these people. It was like at the peak
(10:54):
of America's most wanted when that became like a real
big deal. But of course, when you are in that
position for as long as he was, he's certainly a
very recognizable public servant and he will certainly certainly be missed.
So he uh, I'm just I mean again, I'm looking
at his his decades of dedication. I mean, you won't
(11:15):
find many that that that were in in that in
that realm, meaning public service for as long as as
he was, and again eighty six years old and was
was just recently announcing his his retirement. So again he'll
he he will certainly be missed. And yesterday there were
a lot of folks just paying tributes. Mayor Greenberg of
(11:37):
course talked about the decades of dedication from John Aubrey.
You had just different other political figures. Senator Mitch McConnell,
Governorrany b.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Sheher, A, g.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Russell Coleman all honored Aubrey for his service and a
legacy that of course will will leave leave a big impact.
There's no doubt about that. And of course this comes
just a couple of weeks after Bobby Holst law passed away,
so to it'll be remembered for a really long time because, uh,
they did they did great work for a really long time,
and of course for the community. I'll say when when
(12:08):
when I think of just what what what is? What
is different from me in this role compared to what
I used to do just talking yap in sports? Uh,
just now I think view what that is a little
bit differently. I don't want act like I was anti
public service or anti law enforcement or anything like that.
It's just, uh, you know, when you get a chance
to to to talk to some of the people that
(12:29):
work that that that that are in that world, right
they they are. They dedicate their their career, they want
to pursue being a public servant in some capacity and
it's a really selfless thing to do, and especially when
you consider the the current climate where they're not appreciated,
uh in in in a way that they should. And
it's not even just that, I mean there's some people
(12:50):
that just have these preconceived notions about especially law enforcement.
That's just I mean, it's awful and clearly nobody's perfect.
We have many examples of things that have happened that
were wrong, and again it was the fault of law enforcement,
but we're not that uncommon in that world, and I
just I just wish more people would would would understand
(13:14):
how isolated that really is when you consider how many
people out there are are signing up essentially and again
they get paid, they'll do it for free, but obviously
it's it's tough to get people to do it now
because of obvious reasons. So again, condolences to Sheriff Aubrey
and his family, and I know he'll be missed by
a lot of people around here, that's for sure. Our
quick update of trafficking weather's coming your way. Roy o'neils
(13:35):
set to join us on the other side from NBC.
We'll talk about the shooting that took place yesterday outside
of a Dallas ice facility, and of course it's being
investigated as a targeted attack. Also something I want to
have some fun with a little bit later on. Today
is National One Hit wonder Day, and I believe I've
got a hot take on one hit wonders. I think
(13:56):
there are some people we call one hit wonders, and
I don't know if I would call them that. I
think you can have one hit that's just substantially larger
than anything else you've ever had. But like if you like,
you're only a one hit wonder if nobody can name,
like any other song you did. And there are a
lot of those, by the way, So we'll get to
that in a lot more. Have some fun this morning.
It's a Thursday. It's Kentucky, and this morning news coffee
(14:17):
and company with you right here on news radio eight
forty whas coffee in company with you here on news
radio eight forty whas eppy Thursday. So let's bring him in.
He's Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Rory, there was a
shooting yesterday outside of a Dallas ice facility currently that
that is being investigated as an attack. What do we
(14:41):
know as far as just the lead up to this?
And I guess what can you tell us as far
as the latest with the investigation? Twenty nine year old
Joshua John looks like is the suspect here?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yeah? And you know written on the casings of some
of the bullets that were either unfired or recovered from
the scene of the shooting, it said anti Ice. Now
keep in mind that there have been some conflicting information
about exactly who was shot here. All three victims were detainees.
One of them was killed, two of them were last
(15:10):
listed in critical condition. None of the law enforcement officers
who actually work at that facility, the ICE officers, none
was actually injured in that shooting. All the victims we
know to be detainees. And as you said, the suspect
of twenty nine year old still trying to figure out
what was going on in his head. He was a
bit of a vagrant, not a vagrant, but you know,
he lived out of his car. He had a couple
(15:32):
of odd jobs in the Dallas area and in the
Washington state as well. Some former coworkers described him as
lost in life. But yeah, they're trying to figure out
what triggered this rage.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
So when it comes to scratching something onto a casing
before firing a shot, that of course is intended to
assume he was intending to kill ICE agents. Is this
a copycat of what we saw a couple of weeks ago.
I will admit I'm not sure how often this happens
when you have somebody take action like this to to
I guess leave essentially a note.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Right. Yeah, we've seen this in a couple of shootings,
not just the Charlie Kirk one, but in this case
they were written like in sharpie on the on the
on the bullet casings. In I think in the Charlie
Kirk case they were actually etched into the bullet casings.
But we're seeing this as much more of a trend.
It's some sort of symbolism or actual direct message written
(16:30):
on the bullet itself, which is something of a newer twist.
But this is more than one or two cases of
it that this is and look sadly more than one
or two cases of this political violence as well.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Ice agents hiding their identity while while on the job.
That of course has been something that a lot of
folks have had issue with, and in the other the
other side will tell you that it's it's needed. And
when you consider what happened yesterday, you could understand while
folks say that if they were public and it was
known what they were doing, then then they would they
would be attacked. Do you know how long has this
been a thing where if you're somebody that is enforcing
(17:03):
immigration and you are rounding up people here illegally, I mean,
they haven't always hit their identity, right, No.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But This is something that came you know, thanks to
the Internet, I guess and social media, this whole docsing
issue of you know once and now with facial recognition,
you can put upload up any photo and figure out
who a person is pretty quickly. You don't need an
FBI tech in order to do it. So one face
picture and suddenly you can get someone's identity, their family
(17:32):
and then you know, you start putting that information out
on the Internet saying, oh, this guy has two kids,
or this woman has got a husband and two parents
living over here. So you know, all that stuff can
be found almost instantaneously and put out there, and obviously
they feel that their lives could be endangered by some
of this information being put online.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Roy on AILIVI NBC News is our guest joining us
here on news radio eight forty whas we've got another
major national survey that is out and this tells us
how Americans feel about hot button issues like First Amendment,
the economy, vaccines. What can you tell us about this
latest survey we have here.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
It's that time of the month, it's right poll time
and from Quinnipiac always towards the end of the month.
This one is interesting in this case. One of the
headline numbers came from Quintipeck that found that, following the
assassination of Charlie Kirk, seventy nine percent of American voters
say the US is in a political crisis right now.
(18:31):
They say that, seventy one percent said that politically motivated
violence in the US is a very serious problem these days,
and fifty three percent of voters say they are pessimistic
pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected long term in
the US.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I can't say that, just given the current climate, that
those numbers surprise me. I really can't. But Rory has
always we appreciate your time, enjoy your day. My friend
will talk soon.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That's Rory on NEALEVINBC News.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I think if you to, you'd have given me those
survey results some years back. I would have certainly been surprised,
even knowing at that time that we were clearly building
and really just developing a real divide. But now currently not.
I mean, that doesn't surprise me at all that we
have that the vast majority, essentially eighty percent roughly of
(19:22):
Americans that were polled believe that we are in a
political crisis. I cannot disagree. All right, We've got trapping
weather updates on the way. We'll see how these roadways
are looking on a Thursday morning. Also get a look
at the forecast from WLKY, and then another sports updates
coming your way right here on News Radio eight forty
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