Rep. Morgan McGarvey just toured the UPS jet crash debris field

One day after the tragic crash of UPS flight 2569 at Louisville International Airport, Rep. Morgan McGarvey shared his feelings after seeing the smoldering debris field with Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've gotta check in now with Kentucky Congressman Morgan McGarvey. Morgan, welcome,
Sorry on this awful situation, but I know that was
tough for you to have to go through that debris field.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tell us what you can, Oh, thanks, Chair, I mean,
the whole thing is tough for us, as Lituivillian's right.
I mean, I was in DC last night when the
whole thing happened, but was getting pictures back from from
friends all over the louds from their driveways, from sports practices.
I mean, the sky's look apopp the apockalyptic. I got
a text from one of my kids had just said, Dad,
what's happening. I think people were that scared. And then

(00:35):
to go out and see the site today, I know
why people were that scared and why it looks so bad, Terry,
I mean, without being flipping, it looked like a scene
out of a Terminator movie. It was charred, mangled, wretched wreckage,
and like in a line that was just a path
of destruction from where the plane went, like a huge

(00:56):
missile had just gone through an incinerated what was there
and left rubble and charred remains, and it was cars
semi trucks, tankers, things like that. And then what's weird
is because it was such a defined path, was to
slowly see the sides of normalcy outside of that very

(01:19):
defined path. But the the smells, those sites, it's just
that's gonna be something that stays with me a long time,
and especially knowing you know, right now we know at
least twelve people have lost their lives. And with that, have.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
You been able to try to console family members of
any of the deceased?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Not yet, And and we don't know the identities of
those family members yet. And I know I've spoken with
everybody really, but you know, particularly the governor and the
mayor on this issue. You know, we want we want
to make sure that that is moving both career actually
and deliberately but with all due speed, to try and

(02:03):
get people closure, you know, if their loveless in fact,
as someone who has deceased, we want to make sure
that they're able to know and to grieve. But we
don't have any identities yet.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, I was wondering if they were slipping information to
you and the governor and the mayor in advance so
that you were able to go and try to console families,
and then there's obviously people in the hospitals as well
and the city. I know people not just here but
all around the country who want to express support and

(02:37):
prayers for these folks, and I'm not sure how they
can do that quite yet. Is there any system set
up for that?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean one, I'm just a believer in the power
of prayer and really hold people close in your prayers,
and I hold everyone close. You know, there's a lot
of people impacted by this, and you and I've talked
about this before, Terry, I've said it today. Louis was
the biggest small in America. Everybody knows everybody. If you
don't know somebody impacted by this, you know somebody who does.
And you know, please lift people up in their prayers.

(03:09):
There there are some resources that don't have the websites
memorized off off the top of my head about where
people can go for relief efforts that are happening here.
And you know, I think this is going to be
one where our community is going to deal with this
for a while. You know, just like the mass shooting
at Old National Bank a couple of years ago. The
hurt is going to be here when the television cameras leave,

(03:31):
and you know, for us to wrap our arms around
our neighbors, to be here, for each other, to be here,
for those first responders, for everybody on the scene that day.
I mean, those those Oklahoma, Oklahoma fire guys, Terry, they rushed,
every single one of them, every single one of them
put on that uniform and rushed headfirst into an inferno.

(03:51):
I mean it was described to me as hotter than
hell and raining oil, and those guys rushed in doing
everything they could. So there's gonna be a lot for
people to do over the coming days, overcoming weeks, overcoming
months and years. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I just think some powerful words from people, just like
we were expressing here through prayer, but also written words
and notes and cards that we're able to send to
family members who are survivors, who've lost people, or people
who've been injured here are going to need our support.
So we've got to wrap our arms around them in
the coming months and years. Sure.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean once those names become public too,
I think there'll be more of that.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Okay, Congressman McGarvey, thank you so much for the insights
and giving us giving us a few words this after
I appreciate it, Thanks Terry. All right, there's Kentucky Congressman
that is Morgan McGarvey. He represents District three in the
US House of Representatives. And we are typically rolling out here.
In just a couple of minutes. Joe Lincoln's joining me.

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