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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Coming up this morning on Metro News talk Line. More
from Ohio County where they continue to clean up from
the devastating flash floods that occurred almost a week ago. Now,
plus the latest on Israel and Iran Chris dari Walt
and Steamer Lease. We have lost to get to. Let's
not waste any.

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Speaker 1 (01:19):
Gangs all here ready to go. Jake Link on the
video stream. Joe Nelson is manning the phones today of
course TJ's and Charleston I'm in Morgantown. Put it all together.
You get Metro News talk Line from the Encova Insurance
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oh four Talk three oh four. Bottom of the hour,

(01:39):
Chris Lawrence will be by. He'll stop in studio. Chris
has done an outstanding job this week telling the stories
of folks in Ohio County. Stories with the family of victims,
with the firefighters who have been impacted, everyone who's been
impacted in Ohio County. He's going to share some of
those with us. Coming up at the bottom of the hour,

(02:01):
Jared Halpern will stop by. We'll get the latest. As TJ.
The President says he'll decide in two weeks. I'm not
sure if that's an ultimatum or not, but it sort
of feels like one to me when it comes to
whether or not the US will get involved with Israel
and Iran or is it disinformation?

Speaker 5 (02:19):
Is it? I'll decide in two weeks and tomorrow. There
you go. I wouldn't put that past him, would you.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, not at this point. And we'll pose that question
to Halpern and Starwall See what Starwalt thinks. Yeah, he's
a man of the people. He understands these things.

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And that's tonight at where Fire Street at.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
The Fire Street Brewery downtown Charleston, six o'clock.

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I don't know why that reminded me of this, But
we'll get to this later in the hour. It is
West Virginia Day. Happy Birthday, West Virginia, Happy Birthday, one
hundred and sixty two. Don't look a day over one
hundred and four. But you your commentary this morning. The
names that could have been Yeah, for the great state.

(03:36):
We could all been proud Vandaliens. But Dustin's we'll get
into that coming up a little bit later this hour.
In Ohio County, the work continues to clean up and
assess damage from the flash flooding that occur on Saturday night.
For first responders, it has been a long week basically
working around the clock. That includes the Ohio County Sheriff's

(03:59):
Department joining us, so I'll mentioning his talk line this
morning is Ohio County Sheriff Nelson Croft, Sheriff, Good morning,
thanks for joining us.

Speaker 7 (04:06):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Appreciate you coming on. What is the last week been like?
If you can summarize it for you and your department
organized chaos.

Speaker 7 (04:19):
We have had an unbelievable outpouring of support, but we
have been very busy.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
So Sheriff, well go ahead. I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (04:30):
Oh no, no, you're good, goodhead.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
There's been reports, minimal reports. But are you seeing any looting?

Speaker 7 (04:37):
I'd heard yes, we are so. Rodney Miller, he's the
executive director of the State Sheriffs Association, contacted me the
day after the flood on last Sunday and asked if
we need help. At that time, we did not need
any help. Since then, our deputies are getting fatigued. We've

(04:57):
had to send deputies home to just my guy refused
to quit working. So that's a good problem to have.
But at any rate, Deputy well ex Deputy retired Deputy
Rodney Miller has had offered help from the State Sheriff's
Association and last night we had four deputies from Kanalla County,

(05:18):
three from Wexel County patrolling the area to keep the
looters at bay. It's really a shame when you know
our valley has never experienced, even in the O four flood,
this deep of a tragedy and people are benefiting from
it illegally. So yes, looting has been a problem.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Nelson Croft, Ohio Kenny Sheriff is joining us here on
Metro News talk line. Can you dive into that a
little bit more people getting into two businesses that are
opened up? Is where you know stuff is sitting out
because you're clearing out buildings are what kind of I mean,
what are we talking here?

Speaker 7 (05:55):
So in this area that was affected by the flood,
it's approximately i want to say, one mile wide by
eight miles long. There's an enormous amount of storage units.
Some of the storage units the doors were actually blown
off or blown in from the flood, So you have

(06:17):
people's property that's that's been damaged. But these storage units
are setting open and people have just been helping themselves
to their property. It's not that they're picking up things
on roadside, it's they're actually going into the storage units.
They're going into homes that are empty to steal copper
and personal belongings there, you know, anything that's left that's

(06:38):
worth anything. That's what we've been targeting the past few days.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
Are these locals? Are these folks coming from outside the area?
Do you have any idea?

Speaker 7 (06:48):
I would call it the Greater Wheeling Area, which you
know obviously includes clear to Washington, PA, and Saint Clairsville
and Belmont County, Ohio. We're kind of a close knit
community here and we're only fourteen miles across from border
to border. So some of them are locals and some
of them are just in the Greater Wheeling Area as

(07:10):
we call it.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Talking to him, County Sheriff Nelson Croft here, i'll mention
News talk Line this morning, Sheriff, that kind of highlights
how difficult it is during an emergency situation. Your department
has to deal with the emergency situation, But then there
are also your everyday calls that you still have to
deal with. There are other areas, Like you said, this

(07:32):
is one mile wide by eight miles long, and you've
got to manage every day responsibilities with the responsibility of
an emergency situation. So it's easy to see how quickly
deputies can become a fatigued and the department gets pulled
in so many directions.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
Yeah, and the public's becoming The public has done great,
I will say that, but they're starting to push back
on these that are coming here for bill gains, which
I don't mind. I just want our public to do
it in a legal way. This week we kind of
dodged the bullets, so to speak. We had two holidays,

(08:12):
so that shut our courts down for two days. Next
week we'll have a full court docket, so if we
you know, obviously as a sheriff's office, we have to
contend with that. So we will have deputies coming from
downstate in another agencies at least through next week to
help us patrol up here. Police. I'm sorry, I was.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Gonna say complicated question. Can we use the state police?
Can we use the National Guard here to help?

Speaker 7 (08:40):
Well, the National Guard is on the ground here. They're
helping with the cleanup. They're doing a great job. The
State Police has been a huge asset to us and
the Natural Resources Police. The d n R are quote
unquote game warnings. They have helped immensely, uh with with
a lot of equipment. We'll use them a lot during

(09:00):
the recovery in search and rescue efforts. So we are
very fortunate in this area. My agency is not the
largest in the state. It's big, but we also have
the Wheeling Police Department. They've helped out incredibly, Wheeling Fire Department,
and our volunteer fire departments. We actually have two that

(09:22):
set along the creek that flooded, and obviously, when you're
a member of a volunteer fire department, you live close
to your station generally, so we have volunteers that We
have one agency, the Trilpia Volunteer Fire Department, that lost
their fire hall. And if you know anything about fire
and police, our office is our second home. So these

(09:47):
folks lost their second home, but a lot of them
lost their first home as well. When they get done
at the end of the night or at the end
of the day, they have nowhere to go to, and
that's really troubling to us, should.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Have nothing off again. Joining us here on Mention News
talk line in Ohio County for your department, Have you
guys been involved were you involved in search and rescue
missions this week? What has the main responsibility been or
has it just been whatever happens to be the thing
at that time.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
So at the onset of it, our deputies were directly
involved with search and rescue. Our deputies found a couple
of our victims, which is unfortunate. We do have counseling available,
we have debriefing available. We're providing those services to our officers.

(10:38):
Now we have kind of switched. We have one missing
female yet that we're hoping to locate her. We're praying
for a miracle, but her family kind of knows it
kind of feels the way it's going. But we have
now switched to patrol and enforcement because of the lousers

(11:00):
and the site's heeres We're turning everyone around that doesn't
have a reason to be in this area.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
So share for these deputies that are from outside Ohio County.
If anyone would have concerns and see a police car
that's not an Ohio County car, or see a uniform
that's not an Ohio County Deputies uniform. Can they call
nine one one if they want to verify anything, or
just be aware that these folks are going to be
in uniforms, They're going to be in marked squad cars.

(11:28):
There's nothing going to be plane closes that kind of thing.
Just to assure the public that yes, this is legit.

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Now we actually have our plane clothes officers on the ground.
In fact, I really appreciate the public's response. Two nights
ago there was a lady that chased down our undercover,
which great I applaud her for sticking up for her community.
The out of county agency there here will be in

(11:55):
marked police cars and they will be in uniform. And
we've put it out low clear on our news and
our Facebook page that we have these units on scene
and they have full authority under West reg Union State
Code to act as a deputy in Ohio County Sheriff.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
What do you want folks to know before we let
you go here? About just the week that has been
and moving forward here after the flash floods.

Speaker 7 (12:21):
So we appreciate the outpouring of support. If you cannot
form a function with a shovel in your hand. Just
please stay away. That's that's all we're asking. We have
a lot of sights heers now and there's a house
in Triedel for you that someone the owner had spray
painter on the side. That kind of slums it up.
Our tragedy is not your entertainment. Just remember that, please,

(12:44):
and just if you can't help on the ground, send
your donations. We appreciate that, but just please stay away
and don't come just for the view.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Jeff, we appreciate the time. Give our best to all
your staff. Everyone up there in Ohio County. We're thinking
about you.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
I will thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Thank you very much. Sheriff Melby Long Summer Sheriff Nelson
Croft with the Ohio County Sheriff's Department again continuing to
clean up and recover after Saturday's flash flood. We have
more Metro Neese talkline when we continue in a moment.
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Speaker 1 (16:48):
You know Tjo's getting borderline angry during the break you
and me both but just the absolute waste of oxygen.
People who see a tragedy nine people. Nine people have died,
presumably We've confirmed eight, but the ninth one is presumed

(17:10):
to have passed. Nine people have presumably died. People have
lost their homes, their businesses, fire departments have been wiped
offrom that, and you waste of oxygen. People see this
as an opportunity to go steal somebody else's property because
you're too lazy to actually do anything productive with your life.

Speaker 5 (17:28):
That angers me.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
And the sheriff, bless his heart, was trying to say
the thing without actually saying the thing. But people are
going to protect their property and they shouldfo I believe
is what they call that. Yeah, the kids know what
that means.

Speaker 5 (17:43):
The kids do know what that means. You know, And
there was a time, and it wasn't too long ago,
that even contemplating something like this would have been unimaginable.
No one would have thought that anyone would ever stoop
to that level. That's the first thing. And you already
hit on this. But how braved, how how wicked, how

(18:03):
sick does someone have to be to do something like that,
to steal from folks who have lost everything, and what
little bit of property they have left, go in and
physically take it. And third, and finally, make an example.
Law enforcement should use every tool they have. Prosecutors in

(18:23):
the county prosecutor's office should use every tool they have
and make an example. Throw an elbow people. This shouldn't
be taken lightly.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Well, we'll talk more about the recovery efforts coming up.
Bottom of the hour. Here, Chris Lawrence is going to
join us. He has done an outstanding job telling stories
of the folks who have been impacted by the flooding
and wheeling. Will do that coming up in a couple
of minutes. Right now, let's go to Washington, d C.
Where Fox News Radio Jared Halpern is standing by Jared.
President Trump says two weeks and he'll make a decision.

(18:55):
Is that an ultimatum? Is that a deadline extension? What
should we make of that?

Speaker 14 (18:59):
Well, to self imposed deadline to make a decision on
whether or not to engage directly with Iran, it sounds
like it is out of a belief that diplomatic negotiations
can still take place, and in fact, you are seeing
today Aaron's foreign minister go to or Is, Geneva to

(19:24):
meet with European foreign ministers. So perhaps it is just
a sign that a US strike may not be necessary
if Iran agrees on its own to dismantle its nuclear capabilities.
That being said, the US has said that its position
is unchanged. The president wants Iran to agree to never

(19:45):
obtain a nuclear weapon and to never have any enrichment
of uranium at all. That seems to be a major
sticking point. Iran says that its nuclear capability should remain
for civilian purposes. That does require a level enrichment. And
so we'll see if there is a diplomatic breakthrough. But
the two week deadline from President Trump is noteworthy. He

(20:07):
has been I mean, it's a very familiar timeline for
this president, isn't it. He's talked about two weeks on
trade and tariff announcements. Sometimes those come the past, sometimes
they don't. He's given putin two weeks to show he's
serious about a ceasefire with Ukraine. That has come and gone.
And so I do think that it still creates the

(20:27):
level of uncertainty as to what President Trump ultimately made
aside to do here. But it's clear that if the
end goal here of a military operation is to fully
eliminate Iran's nuclear capabilities, US airpower would be required to
do that. That four dough nuclear facility, that enrichment plant

(20:50):
seems to be the lynchpin here of Iran's nuclear program.
It is deep in a mountain. Israel does not have
bunker busting bombs. Israel does not have aircraft to carry
bunker busting bonds. That is the exclusive capability of the
US with these B two stealth bombers and Missouri. That
is a big operation. It requires a lot of air

(21:11):
of fueling because those planes do not land. They just
fly round trip around the world if necessary, and that
is kind of the capability that right now, it appears
that the President is laying Jared.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
Is there any chance this two week deadline is disinformation?

Speaker 14 (21:31):
I suppose, But the President's been pretty clear that he
will strike if he thinks he needs to, So I
don't know if it changes the calculation it all for Iran.
I mean, they're on a war footing anyway because of
what is happening between Iran and Israel. And as I said,
you know, the President imposed this two week deadline after

(21:55):
it was announced that Iran was going to negotiate with
European allies. So perhaps it's more a reflection of a
diplomatic channel remaining open and not wanting to close it
fully just yet.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
And the other part of this that at least crossed
my mind, Jared, I've not heard anything about a ceasefire.
Israel can do a lot of damage if it continues
the strikes over the course of two weeks, and we
may be in a different place to some degree in
two weeks.

Speaker 14 (22:23):
Yeah, And there's not been a call for a ceasefire
because this is an Israeli operation, and the President says that,
you know, Israel has every right to defend itself in
this is a defensive operation. The White House says that
being said, they don't discount that it could stop if
Iran stops developing uranium enrichment. Right, So it's kind of

(22:49):
I don't want to say it's like a two sided coin,
but both things I think can be true at the
same time. At least that's how the White House views
it right now.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Fox News Radios Jared Halpern in d C to appreciate
the update. Have a nice weekend, buddy, you too, thank you.
Coming up, Chris Lawrence is going to join us he's
going to be popping into the studio. He's had several
compelling and uh wrenching stories coming out of Ohio County
this week telling the stories of the flood victims. He's

(23:20):
got a story right now at wv metro news dot
com about the Triadelphia Fire Department losing its headquarters in
the flooding. So Chris is going to share some of
those with us. Coming up at the bottom of the hour.
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Speaker 15 (24:02):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Jeff Jenkins. Authorities in Ohio
County say all nine flood victims have been identified. The
Ohio County Sheriff's office has confirmed today the identity of
the body of the man found in floodwaters earlier this
week is forty three year old Jesse Pearson. He lived
in Tridelphia. Search crews back on the water today looking
for who they believe is the ninth victim, eighty three

(24:23):
year old Sandra K. Parsons of Tridelphia. Recovering cleanup continues.
Authorities say those nine people that died in the flood,
and there'll be funeral services in the days ahead. Wheeling
Mayor Denny mcgreuger says the whole area changed in a
number of ways when that four inches of rain fell
in forty minutes less than a week ago.

Speaker 16 (24:41):
What the tragedy on Saturday night To watch our community
and our neighboring communities at Tri Deelphia and Valid Grove
suffer such extensive damage and lots of life. But on
the other hand, we have seen the sunrise like no other.
The community has come together in an unbelievable way.

Speaker 15 (24:57):
At Ohio County. Wheeling emergency officials say seventy vehicles have
been removed from creeks and streams, with a few more
to be removed. More than two dozen homes have been
destroyed and more than one hundred and twenty homes have
sustained severe damage. A trial dates been set for it
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Speaker 1 (27:21):
Text line three oh four Talk three oh four. Texter says,
I remember images of Hurricane Katrina, people looting and carrying
TV's past dead bodies floating in the water. They can
all bleep a de bleep a dee bleep. That's where
I'll leave the rest of that message, thank you very much.
Though I agree with you. If there's looting and wheeling,
then Trump needs to send in the Marines, says the Texter.

(27:45):
I'm confident West Virginians can handle the problem on their own.
Text wants to know any thoughts why this robbing and
the flood victims of Ohio County residents happened at this
time in our history. I have none, shameful, says the Texter.
I got thoughts. Look, we have not to get into
a gigantic tirade rant about our social issues. I don't

(28:11):
know if it's a sense heightened individualism where everybody thinks
they're at the center of the universe, but there is
a I believe, a general just lack of respect for
each other, respect for people's property, and people suck. I mean,
I don't want to tell you they.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
Don't value morality the way we used to. And let's
face it, we got people strung out on all kinds
of different and everything else.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
There is that as well.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
I mean, you can't sugarcoat it. That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
And I would be careful if you are going to
go down that road, if you can't think of anything
better to do with your life, you are going to
get what's coming to you, So be careful. The sheriff
said it. He's like he was being very kind. He
chose his words carefully TJ which Leah on this show
as we we know, speaking of choosing his words carefully.

(29:06):
Man that always does that most of the time. Chris
Lawrence morning news anchor, Metro News reporter joins us. Is
he in studio? I assume he's in studio with you.
He yes, he's right here. I haven't actually seen him
yet on the camera, but he's I believe he's there. Chris,
good morning, Good to see you, bud Hi.

Speaker 12 (29:22):
They keep me off the camera. You should know that
by now. I've got the face for radio.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So that's you know what. We make that joke all
the time. But it's true. We got into radio so
we wouldn't have to be on camera.

Speaker 12 (29:34):
He's been making it's been making us ugly guys popular
for many, many years. That's what radio has been doing.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Do you remember meeting or let me ask you the question,
meeting your somebody in radio that you would listen to
growing up and you finally meet him and you go
not at all what I thought this dude was gonna
look like.

Speaker 12 (29:54):
Uh, yeah, I get I guess there were a few
of those. I remember meeting John who was the voice
of the Tennessee Valls for many, many years when I
went to college. I met him, and I had seen
pictures of him, but I was shocked that I was
two and a half feet taller than he was. I'm
usually only about a foot taller and everybody I meet,
but he was really short.

Speaker 4 (30:14):
I was. I was shocked by that.

Speaker 5 (30:16):
I'll give you a good one.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Remember the guy that used to be back in the
day when we did production of MSN, Paul Turner. Remember
that guy? Yeah, I mean I bet he ways what
ninety five pounds. I've never seen him, Chainsmoker, never seen
him and has the voice of God. Just amazing.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Isn't that amazing that my first Boston radio was in
Saint Mary's. Dave Jacobson was his name, and big big,
you know power for that that kind of golden voice
of radio, Big tenor you know, dude, couldn't be one
hundred twenty pounds soaking wet.

Speaker 12 (30:47):
Yeah, just you know, I didn't want to believe it.
When I started this job, people would meet me and
they would say, wow, I thought you were a lot older.
They will say that anymore.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
It's a compliment when you're like twenty four. Yeah, now
they go, yeah, that's about right.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
Yeah, like yeah, you sound like a like an old
crotchety dad who's just angry that everybody's messing everything up.
So that would describe me pretty well. It makes you lovable.
My first Boston radio, by the way, was hoppy. So
there's that.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
So what are you.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Saying about your first boss, Chris drown.

Speaker 4 (31:22):
It out there.

Speaker 12 (31:24):
I'm just saying that he left this thing in You're
all his capable hands, So I have to question his judge.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Yeah, well, you know, truer words whenever spoken.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Well, he must have done something right, because Chris, your
stories this week about what has happened in Ohio County
have been compelling. I mean, and they have done a
great job to just given a little bit of an
insight to just the absolute devastation in parts of that
county and tragedy and now nine people have confirmed passed
away from the flooding.

Speaker 12 (31:52):
I got the call last Sunday morning. Actually, I was
heading to your stomping grounds of Saint Mary's because I
was I was to host the way In of the
West Virginia Bass Festival on Sunday, and I got a
call from Taron Malone who said, Hey, I'm going to
Wheeling and I just woke up. I didn't even know
he said. He said there's been some flooding up there,

(32:14):
and he said it's like North Carolina style flooding. And
I thought, now, okay, I've seen North Carolina style flooding.
Whatever you say, Terren, go ahead. But then as I
as he started sending pictures, and I started looking at
social media and started hearing from people that I knew
in that area. He wasn't exaggerating it was. It wasn't widespread,

(32:37):
but in those three creeks where that water just poured
into that to that holler. And when I heard that
there had been four inches and a half hour that
that is that's Noah's Arc style flooding rainfall there. And
that's when I knew that just how bad it was.
And then Terran started sending back pictures and you could
just tell when you saw so many cars that were

(32:59):
just flipped over over and along the banks, and debris
washing up against the bridge. And then we started hearing about,
you know, missing missing people. It reminded me of twenty
sixteen where we you know, we lost twenty three people
in that particular flood. And when one of these things
hits at night and you cannot see, you think about it.

(33:23):
In the daytime, you can see just how bad it is,
but at night you have no idea where the water
level is or how far it extends. And if you're
trying to get away from it, you really sometimes will
unwittingly go into it, Yeah, and make yourself in an
even more dangerous situation, not even realize what you do.

Speaker 5 (33:41):
I don't even thought of that. With all the rain,
I would probably a lot of cloud cover. Probably didn't
have a lot of moonlight that night either, made it
even harder zero Yeah, so yeah, I thought about that.
There was no power. Yeah, so unless street light.

Speaker 12 (33:52):
Yeah, if you had unless you had a your car
lights and you can you know how much that'll flight up. Yeah,
But I I managed to get to reach out and
get ahold of the father of one of the young
men who perished. And it was just as he told
me the story. It was heartbreaking that he had gone
to move his car and when it was coming so

(34:15):
fast when he went to move his car, he was
coming back. He couldn't get back to his house, so
and he didn't have his phone. He'd left his phone
in his house. He went further down. He's in the
water actually caused him to move over to Route forty.
And then he went looking and he found his second
son who was with it at his mother in law's house.
And he's the one that told him. He didn't know

(34:37):
where his mom was, he didn't know where his brother was,
and the house was gone. And then the man panicked
and started calling everybody that he knew and calling MS
and fire and it turned out the house had been
washed away with the mother and her nineteen year old
son in there. The nineteen year old son, Travis Creighton,

(34:57):
had just received his ged less than a month ago
from the adult education program at Northern I Think It's
Northern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and last November
had received his Eagle Scout badge, and he was attempting
to save his mom and help her get out. He
was hanging on to her, and somehow they got separated.

(35:19):
And his last words, he told me, and I was
talking to the two of them. Mother could not say anything,
but you could hear her sobbing, and he said his
last words were swim, mommy, swim my goodness, and five
miles downstream. She managed to get to the shore, but
he did not, and they found his body a couple
of days later, nineteen years old, just getting ready to

(35:43):
start his life. And it was just such a sad
thing to hear. But then I got to thinking about
the first responders, and I started checking around, and I
knew that the fire chief in Phiadelphia had to be
the busiest guy on planet this week, and I've been
calling him. I had his cell phone and I'd called him.

(36:04):
His name is David Patterson. I'd called him several times,
and of course he's in and out of cell service,
and he's busy, and I was not surprised he didn't
call me back. But yesterday I thought, I'm going to
give him one more call, and I called and he
actually answered and was more than happy to talk to me,
and we talked for probably a half hour. But I
have about a David's about three minutes of excerpts of

(36:26):
the conversation I had.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Would you like to hear it? Yeah, we got to them. Yeah,
all right, here we go.

Speaker 19 (36:30):
We're sitting actually sitting on the patio just enjoying the weather,
and got some rain of nothing of any concern, nothing
out of the ordinary. And then we're sitting there the
rain stops and the pagers start going off for rescue
calls about three miles up the road from us. And
as those come in, I'm kind of looking at my
assistant chief and I'm going, what is going on? Because

(36:52):
we were i mean, there's nothing here, you know, just
a normal rain, and they're calling for people trapping in vehicles,
people surround by water in their houses. And so we
went firehouse. I got in the lighter truck and started
up the road and we made it about three miles
up to where if anybody knows, on Route forty where
the animal shelter is. The water was coming across the road,

(37:14):
and I stopped there was talking with the deputy, trying
to get a game plan to see how we could
get into these people. And while we're sitting there, we
walked in the water rising a little bit, and then
it just kind of rolled and just kept building and
building and building. It was just like a wall water
coming toward us. So we evacuated the area. Some of
it did hit my truck and pushed us backwards. That

(37:35):
was a pretty wild ride. My assistant chief, Jerry Alliet,
and she was standing in the firehouse in front of
the ambulance. We're in the wall water because she said
she heard a crack and she said it was a
god awful noise come through there. And next thing you
know that we had. It used to be what when
we first moved in was our office. It's now a
maintenance room. The wall water burst through the back wall

(37:55):
the firehouse, come through that room, blew the wall out
and all the contents right into the back of our squad.
So our squad's pretty much done. We would still run
able for now, but we can't transport patients or anything.
It's out of service.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Squad being the ambulance ambulance that the vehicle.

Speaker 19 (38:13):
Then, yes, our ambulances. We couldnot operate function as an
ambulance out of it because of the wall of water,
the debris, the you know, the contamination. He got it
safety here on. He went out on the ladder and
we were able to get the ladder over the cars
and check them and there was nobody, fortunately, nobody in them.
But then we also were able to get to the
other area on the other side of that bridge. There

(38:35):
was numerous elderly over there. We couldn't evacuate them out
of their homes. We just had to get them to
higher ground and had them to all shelter in place,
totally cut off till the following day when we could
actually get people into them. I mean we we told
a lot of people wanted out, but we told them,
you just got to move to higher ground and shelter
in place. I have nowhere to put you, and I

(38:56):
have nowhere to get you out, and I have nothing
here to get you out with. Last night is probably
the first night I actually had to myself to sit,
and I'm sorry, just to sit and fathom everything going on.
I just I've been up and down this road one

(39:16):
hundred thousand times, you know, getting stuff, going to meetings,
looking at people, helping people, and I've actually just had
a time last night. We ran a few culture tonight
and I just sat there and looked at a few
things and I just actually had time to actually look
and just put it together. And it's our town's just devastated.

(39:39):
Our town and the communities above us are just devastated.

Speaker 12 (39:43):
Triadelphia Fire Chief David Patterson, And you can hear it
in his voice, guys, he's he's been through it this week.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
His entire department has been through it this week.

Speaker 12 (39:51):
Because of those eight people that have been confirmed dead,
they had they had a list of about eleven people
initially that they were looking for, and I think eight
of them at this point had been confirmed dead. He
knew all but three of them personally. It's a small

(40:11):
community and the fire chief knows everybody. And in fact,
he knew the young lady who was lost with her
three year old daughter. He knew both of them. He
didn't realize it, but he ran into her husband that
night and the husband said, I can't find my wife.
And he said, well, who's your wife? And he didn't
realize she had just gotten married and they gave the

(40:33):
married name. He said, when I met his dad, it
dawned on me and I click, he goes, I knew
that I had known that little girl since she was
a little girl. And the other thing about him is
he hasn't even been back to his house. He can't
get home because the bridge to his house was washed out,
so he has been doing nothing but living in the

(40:55):
firehouse that, as you heard him talk about, was blown out,
and he credited a lot of the neighboring fire departments
that brought over equipment and helped them out. There was
a garage door company there in the Wheeling area that
came over and free labor and materials reinstalled the bay
doors so they could at least get their equipment in

(41:16):
there in the dry and they've been patching it up
and cleaning out the firehouse. They got that done with
the help of a lot of other volunteer firefighters that
came when they weren't busy servicing the public, just to
get the firehouse back in order. So it's been a
long week for him, and like you said, that was
the first time he'd gotten to just sit down and
kind of collect his thoughts, and it evidently was very

(41:38):
overwhelming to him, as one would imagine it would be.
Even these guys that dedicate their lives to serving everyone,
you know that everybody's got a limit, and it seemed
like he'd kind of reached his that night.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
You can read Chris's story over at the website. All
of our coverage of the flooding in Ohio and Marion
Counties over at the website Wmetronews dot com. Chris, good
work as usual. Appreciate it, buddy, Thanks for stopping by.
Coming up, we'll lighten things up a little bit to
say about some of the younger generation who may just
become the next round of fire fighters and first responders.

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The last week. In fact, just wrapped up yesterday the
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Speaker 28 (47:21):
Last Saturday they started. We had about one hundred and
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Speaker 5 (47:50):
Talk about how this helps recruiting because I don't know
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volunteer fire departments or not. But I would think this
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to join their local volunteer fire department.

Speaker 28 (48:03):
Absolutely, this is a it's a nationwide issue. It's not
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(48:28):
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Speaker 1 (48:51):
So Mark, over the course of the last week, do
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little bit of a an internship if you will, so
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Speaker 28 (49:06):
We do, we, you know, as much as we can.
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(49:29):
so it's not the same thing every year. But yeah,
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of them will get their First Aid CPR cards out
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How do you celebrate I'm not sure how to celebrate today.

Speaker 5 (55:01):
Oh you play eighteen after work. That's how it celebrates.

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So that's where you're headed.

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Come on, man, I presume, Oh absolutely, it's gonna be hot.
It is gonna be hot. We have a later tea time,
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talk to you.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Well, if I was celebrating it in West Virginia, I'd
be celebrating by waiting six hours to play golf behind
four foursomes of dudes out playing a brotastical scramble. I
can I can tell you that.

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You'd play with us, sir, because we'd have you right there.
You'd have a great time.

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Speaker 4 (55:52):
I would not because I'm not a good enough golfer
to do that. And I do like I do like
like a best ball, I like a scramble. I even
like to play a Scotch ball. I like all of that.
But the bro community and it's too intense. You guys
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guys now, and I'm a very chill golfer and I
can't take I can't take the heat.

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You give this group too much credit as far as
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Speaker 4 (56:25):
I'm not saying they're all good. I'm just saying they're
probably loud, and they probably wear shirts like yours, And
can I point out for the people listening, neither of
you are dressed appropriately for West Virginia Day. I'm not
saying it has to be coonskin caps and the whole thing,
but I'm looking at a guy in red, and I'm
looking at a guy who looks like he was attacked
by a too can, and I don't. I'm frankly disappointed

(56:49):
because I was excited to be here with you to
celebrate West Virginia Day, and you guys are obviously not
feeling it.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
I was going to put one of these in the
mail for you too, So I guess that's off the list.
But anyway, uh.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Do you well, I probably shouldn't admit this on the air,
but I will admit it on the air, Chris, because
since it's just three of us talking, that's right. I
don't know if you're implying that we should be wearing
blue and gold, but I do not know right that
color combination and refuse to wear that color combination.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
So here's the thing for for the the Bissitt facing
Marshall community that you all have to bear in mind.
What are the colors on the state flag.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Well, they're blue and gold and some white, yeah, with.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
A little red with a little red trim in there.
So you're you're skating by that, but you can't. You
can't shun the rest of West Virginia out.

Speaker 33 (57:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
And I understand how Morgantown and WVU co ops the
whole brand and does that, and I understand why that
that would cause an Appalachian resentment. But you gotta, you gotta,
you gotta come in for the blue and gold. You
got to come in for the wheeling feeling.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
Hey, I've got I don't have it with me today.
I've got my Marshall hat has the state of West
Virginia on it, so I feel like I've got on
the basis covered.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Chris. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 5 (58:04):
So, Chris, I don't know the last time you were
on the West Virginia Turnpike. But the bridge that crosses
the Canaw there at the lower end of Kanaw City,
the state redid that and one side is blue, the
other side is gold. And let me tell you what, brother,
it is alive. That thing is hopp'in' gold.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
There are no.

Speaker 5 (58:23):
Lights, no moonlight, and you would still be able to
see everything, just be from the allure of the gold
on that bridge. It's quite taking shillion.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
Got the glow up? I like it?

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Chris Diarwalt joining us, of course. Chris political politics editor
for The Hill and News Nation. He's host of The
Hill Sunday on News Nation and a senior fellow at
the American Enterprise Institute. What should we make or how
should we interpret the president's handling here as we watch
him handle this Israel Iran conflict? Will he get involved?

(58:54):
Will he not get involved? Now there's a two week
deadline that he's self imposed.

Speaker 4 (58:58):
What should we make of all this? Chris, there's the story.
There's a there's been a recent story about Donald Trump.
Apparently it was reported that Donald Trump tried to stage
a dramatic meeting between the Prime Minister of India and
his Pakistani counterpart when and he was trying to pull

(59:20):
off this for like a big reveal. There's the famous
story of Trump. Do you remember the American diplomat's wife
who was charged with vehicular manslaughter in the UK And
Donald Trump tried to do a big reveal meeting between
the family of the slain child and the woman and
all this stuff. It's all to say. He's a TV producer, right.

(59:44):
His approach to all things is we got something good here,
people are interested in it. How do we have a
dramatic conclusion? When we think of the North Korea Summit,
the amazing North Korea Summit, the North Korean Summit didn't
necessarily produce a lot of results. North Korea still doing

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North Korea things, but it was a television spectacle. And
I would imagine that for Donald Trump being in the
position where the whole world wonders whether or not he
will allow the United States Air Force to help the
Israelis take out targets inside a rod that's exactly where

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he is, exactly where he wants to be. And the
moment that you decide, the moment that you make a decision,
then you lose the franchise. Right So I think right
now he's enjoying the franchise.

Speaker 5 (01:00:38):
Chris, you mentioned North Korea back mid nineties, even earlier.
We tried diplomacy, we tried sanctions, We tried a lot
of different Dennis Rodman, Dennis Rodman, we tried a lot
of different tactics to keep that state from becoming a
nuclear weapons state. We failed. We failed. How does that
shape what we do in Iran? What lessons from North

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Korea do we apply, if any at all, to Iran.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
Well, we know what the lesson for Iran is, and
we know what the lesson for other countries in the
world is from what's going on in Ukraine and Iran
in North Korea, which is, you got to get a
nuke right when you see how the as my colleague
Jonah Goldberg calls it, the divine right of Kim's has

(01:01:24):
tyrannized North Korea for generation after generation after generation. If
they did not have a nuclear weapon, the story would
be very, very different. But because they have nuclear weapons,
because Pakistan has a nuclear weapon, they are treated differently
than similarly situated countries. And so the message if you

(01:01:46):
are another aspiring authoritarian strong man somewhere in the world,
the lesson from what's going on in Iran now is
don't drag your feet.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Iran played for time. They wanted to get as close
as I could to having a nuclear weapon, but not
actually have it, and they negotiate, negotiate and negotiate. If
you're where would where would Russia have been on its
invasion of Ukraine if Russia was not a nuclear power, right,
no way, right NATO those tanks would have gotten incinerated

(01:02:20):
on their way into Ukraine. So the message, unfortunately for
the baddies of the world, is you got to get
a nuke if you want a seat at the table.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Well, it just solidifies too that we can't allow it
to happen, right, because it empties our options and how
we would deal with North Korea today versus how we
can deal with Iran Or am I wrong on that?

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Well, well, these are all prudential questions, right. The debate
around what's going on in Iran is are we going
to war with Iran? Or are we not going to
war with Iran? By that definition, the United States is
at war with a lot of places right now. We're
at war or with the Hoodies were at war in Syria,

(01:03:03):
where the the the forever war that people like to
denounce is still going on. Right We're still in the
forever war business. I don't think anybody is contemplating a
ground invasion of Iran. But the concern that people have
is if the United States takes offensive action against Iran,

(01:03:26):
what what does Iran do? And all of that stuff.
Right now, there's a lot of confidence in Washington, d C.
That the Israelis have done so much to degrade Iran's
capabilities that this is sort of a freebie. And this
is being treated as a freebie. The Iranians are have
their tear network is badly degraded, their air force, their

(01:03:48):
air force has been substantially wiped wiped out, They've fired
a bunch of their missiles, They're probably halfway through their
missile reserves. So this feels like a freebie. But if
of course Iran gets a vote and how this goes
and who knows what other terrible, terrible things that they
have kept as their doomsday options. So we don't know.

(01:04:09):
And I guess that's a very long way of saying
the idea that we should take out Iran's nuclear program.
The people who say that it would get us involved,
We're already involved. We are already involved. Israel would not
exist if it was not for the United States, and

(01:04:29):
the Israelis are flying US planes with US munitions on
these runs, and the United States is providing the missile
defense for Israel. It's not like the Mullas in Tehran
would say, well, you guys are cool, though we appreciate
that you guys have kept this substantial distinction between this
and that if the Iranians could do something to the

(01:04:50):
United States that they thought would make a difference, they
would do it. They would already do it, because we're
like the Great Satan and Great Satan Junior.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Chris immediately the comparisons to the Second Iraq War, we're
popping up in the talking heads all over that it
is like the Second Irock War. This is not like
the Second Iraq War. You remember that time vividly. I
remember that time. I was of military service age. So
I was watching very closely what was going on at
that time. Does this compare to what George W. Bush

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and the Colon Powell administration, if you will, that line
of thinking. Does this compare it all to two thousand
and two, two thousand and three.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
From nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety two,
the United States was very hesitant about using military force
because of what happened in Vietnam. The federal government lied
to the people. The mission was badly degraded. It was

(01:05:54):
a political fiasco, a bipartisan wreck. And when the United
States got out, people said, no more Quagmires, no more Vietnam.
We go in to win, or we don't go in
at all. And then over time people forget right. Generation
passes and people say, okay, well, maybe we can do something.

(01:06:14):
And George H. W. Bush, you mentioned the Second Rock War,
the First Iraq War. People said maybe we can do it. Look,
if maybe we can do it, would I would say
every president, including Donald Trump in his first term, has
deployed ordinance against states in the Middle East, even the

(01:06:36):
ones who say that they were, even Baraka Obama, certainly
Bill Clinton, the Joe Biden, Donald Trump term one all
found occasions to use US munitions against targets in that
region as a as a as a police measure. I

(01:06:58):
don't think it always has to be the same thing.
But I also think that the order of the Middle
East is rapidly changed, and it's rapidly changed against Iran's interests,
and Iran is cornered. They have a friend in Russia
kind of, but Russia is a little busy right now.
And Russia, by the way, is taking this opportunity to
kill as many people as possible in Ukraine. While the

(01:07:20):
world's attention is diverted to will Donald Trump or wont
Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin is making the very most of
this moment to slaughter as many people as he can
in Ukraine to try to gain as much advantage as possible.
I think that's again another very long way of saying
the Iraq syndrome that the United States has had since

(01:07:43):
two thousand and seven, it has been as profound in
many ways as the Vietnam syndrome. And I don't know
whether that precludes I don't know whether that precludes Donald
Trump from taking action, but we certainly know this it
had not been for the Iraq War. I don't even

(01:08:03):
think the financial panic would have been enough to make
Donald Trump president. But the populist moment that America has
found itself in, with the double whammy of the bank
bailouts and the panic of two thousand and eight, combined
with the misadventure in Iraq, is what gave us the
political moment that we've been living in for more than
a decade. And I'm sure Donald Trump is cognizant of

(01:08:25):
that when he listens to Tucker Carlson and Tulci Gabbard
and the people who came out of that same movement.

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
Chris, I want to go back about a week ago
tomorrow watched a bit of your coverage of the parade
in Washington celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the US Army. He worked a Yeah, you were co
hosting on News Nation. Well, just your general thoughts about
the parade itself, any takeaways you might have.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
Well, I'm very much looking forward now to the what
are we supposed to call it the semi Quincentennial, the
the two hundred USA two fifty that's coming up next year.
Because what I didn't understand was that this was part
of that, and since the Army is a year older

(01:09:16):
than the United States, this was this was part of
that celebration. The Army did a good job, got a
little a little tanky there for a minute at the end.
There were some a little too much armor for my
tastes as a Madisonian smaller Republican, But overall it was neat, right,

(01:09:39):
I think neat is the word that you would use.
There were mules and robot dogs and guys carrying drones
and people in old fashion, and the turrets of the
tanks were open and the tankers were waving at the kids,
and it was it was pretty wholesome, and it felt
pretty American. I don't think Donald Trump got the parade
he wanted. I don't think that at his critics got

(01:10:02):
the parade that they expected. And I think that's all
to the good. I think it's all to the good
that the Army was cool about it and didn't have
it be North Korean.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Chris Starwalt, politics editor for The Hill and News Nation,
host of The Hill Sunday on News Nation, Senior fellow
at the American Enterprise Institute, of Course, author, podcaster, and
all around great West Virginian. Sure, why not? Chris appreciate
it as always, but.

Speaker 4 (01:10:30):
I love the heartfelt dis of that. That's good. Why
not throw it in Fellas montin I sempra lebree. Same
to you, Chris, Thank you buddy. All right, take a break,
come back. We can have a dialogue for a couple
of minutes. We'll check the text line three or four
talk three oh four, and we'll get to the names
that could have been before we commenced with steam release.
We'll do that coming up, talk line on Metro News

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Speaker 22 (01:10:53):
Who is Congress's big beautiful bill really for? Because it's
not West Virginian's. This bill makes the biggest cuts to
food assistants in history, slashing help for working families, taking
school meals from kids, and hiking grocery prices, and then
dumps the cost onto state lawmakers and food pantries. It's
a handout to the wealthy, paid for by West Virginians.

(01:11:14):
Senator Capito and Senator Justice, will you stand with West
Virginians or wealthy special interests paid for by West Virginia
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Plan a holiday weekend get away to the sixty third
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Enjoy live music, heritage.

Speaker 36 (01:12:37):
Craft demonstrations, a quilt show, and don't forget the great food.
Then enjoy the fourth of July at America's largest small
town Independence Day celebration in Ripley. It's all happening in
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Speaker 35 (01:12:52):
Once you do it, you'll be back.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
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Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
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Speaker 15 (01:13:13):
The annual measurement of the Welfare of Kids in all
fifty state show children in West Virginia faring better. The
annual Kids Count book is out this morning. West Virginia
ranks forty first, moving up from forty fourth last year.
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Director of Kelly
Allen says been improvement, but more progress is needed. The
study says things are getting better for kids in West
Virginia the areas of housing security, children being covered by insurance,

(01:13:36):
and declining team birth rates.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
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Speaker 37 (01:13:40):
West Virginia trailed from the top of the first on
at LSU Mountaineers tried to battle back. The offense did
park up, but LSU won the game twelve to five,
and the Super Regional in West Virginia season ends at
forty four and sixteen.

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Speaker 38 (01:14:58):
Com three or four Talk three or four.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
TJ. Because we cannot respond in steam release, Texter wants
to know what is your golf handicap.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
So I'm a bogie golfer. I'm anywhere on a course
between I shoot a ninety to up to one hundred,
so that puts me what around But I think around
to twenty. I'd have to go back and look at
the app.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
Oh oh, that's what I thought. It was your short game.

Speaker 39 (01:15:44):
Joke.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
That joke didn't land at all. Your handicap. No, I
knew handicap.

Speaker 5 (01:15:48):
I knew what you were saying, didn't land at all.
My game is that I'm I love or my handicap is.
I love the game of golf. It just doesn't love
me as much as I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
I have never seen a sport very few of the
sports we get to watch professionally, right, I mean, it's
not like we can go pick up a baseball bat
and go to Dodger Stadium.

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
But you can.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
I mean, you can go play Oakmont if you know
the right people. Oh no, have you know the right
kind of cash around? You can go play Oakmont, just
like the guys dead last weekend. But such an infuriating, frustrating,
irritating sport that people love to play so much, it
fascinates me.

Speaker 5 (01:16:22):
Fascinates me. Well, it's truly you against yourself, it really,
it really isn't. And the whole point of the handicap system.
You know, I could go play Tiger Woods if I
wanted to. He's gonna have to give me fifty strokes.
But I mean, you know, that's what makes it, that's
what makes it fun.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
All Right, I've left you sixty seconds here, TJ. Your
commentary today talking about the names that West Virginia could
have been. I guess which is your favorite?

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
You know, Kanaw was considered, Vandalia, Augusta, Allegheny, New Virginia,
Western Virginia, which wasn't new enough. Uh, you know, honestly,
I think they got it right. West Virginia does it right?
I just hey, you know, did the Great State of
Allegheny the Great State of Vandalia?

Speaker 28 (01:17:06):
Nah?

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
That just doesn't I'm good. I think we got it right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Could you imagine trying to explain to people where we
were located if we were Vandalia, you're from where?

Speaker 5 (01:17:15):
Oh, great State of Vandalia, Great State of Vandalia, not
far from Richmond. Of course, if they hadn't named it
Vandalia or I guess stuff. And that's all we'd known
for the last one hundred and sixty two years. And
someone said we could have named it West Virginia, we'd
have been like, why would we have done that? So
I guess the perspective is key talk line on Metro
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Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
It is eleven thirty. Let's get a news update. Check
in with the Metro News Radio network. Find out what's
happening across the great state of West Virginia.

Speaker 12 (01:17:43):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. The Wheeling, Ohio
County Emergency Management Agency is now identified the last known
person missing since last weekend's flood. She is eighty three
year old Sandra Parson of Triedelvia. She'd been missing since
the high water last Saturday night. So far, eight are
confirmed dead, and five of those are from Tridelphia. Wheeling
Mayor Denny McGruder says, as heartbreaking as this event has

(01:18:07):
been to his town, it's been equally heartwarming to see
how people have reacted.

Speaker 16 (01:18:11):
They have just come out in mass to share, you know,
whatever they have. They shovel mud, they sort groceries, they
hand out water, They provide hope, conversation to those families.
And so we've seen the darkness at times, quite honestly,
in some ways turn into the brightest, and I think
that's the silver lining.

Speaker 12 (01:18:32):
And the search for Parsons and potentially others who may
have not been reported missing in the massive debris piles
along Wheeling Creek will continue today. Wheeling Fire Department also
reports more than seventy cars have been fished out of
the water, and there's still more work to do there.
The agency reports two dozen homes in Ohio County have
been destroyed, another one hundred and twenty sustained significant damage

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in the flooding. Damage assessment in Fairmont continues from flooding
there last weekend. The estate in FEMA are collecting and
in Marion County, debris pickup will begin on Monday. The
debris needs to be pulled out of homes and taken
to the curb to be hauled away. You're listening to Matronows,
the Voice of West Virginia.

Speaker 9 (01:19:12):
Let no one ever say President Trump isn't a friend
of cold Posting recently on his truth social account, the
President said, and I quote, after years of being held
captive by environmental extremists, lunatics, radicals, and thugs allowing other countries,
in particular China to gain tremendous economic advantage over us

(01:19:32):
by opening up hundreds of coal fired power plants, I
am authorizing my administration to immediately begin producing energy with beautiful,
clean coal.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
Unquote.

Speaker 40 (01:19:42):
President Trump, his energy team, and the EPA are doing
everything imaginable to increase the use of coal to provide
reliable and cost effective electricity. West Virginia's leaders must follow suit.
It's time we change the policies keeping coal from reaching
its potential, and let's follow the President's lee and maximizing
this once in a lifetime opportunity to unleash our coal

(01:20:04):
resources for the betterment of all West Virginians.

Speaker 5 (01:20:07):
A message Trump the friends of coal.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
The ribbon's been cut on the new Morrison Rehab Science
and Athletic Center at the University of Charleston a ceremony yesterday,
and on hand for that was US Senator Shelley Moore Capito,
who helped secure the funding.

Speaker 41 (01:20:21):
What I like about what we've done today cutting the
ribbon on this new building for rehabilitative sciences is occupational
therapy and physical therapy is we have a shortage in
our healthcare workforce and we want to end. University of
Charleston is changing to try to meet the demands of
the workforce.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
From the Metro News anchor desk, I'm Chris Lawrence.

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Speaker 42 (01:22:30):
Morning TJ and the other I feel put in people
and Troddelphielia valid groove. I live on the crisk. I
know what it's all about. You know, sad sad, sad sad.
But that Holie Monroe listen to this. He should have
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day consisted of two lobster tales, baked potato salad, bread,

(01:22:56):
and a pound of old May shrimps. I was lunch
not seeing me. He got a deflicial. What happy Allie?

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Speaker 5 (01:23:19):
Tax says Dave. I hope they catch the looters in
Ohio County, and I hope they post pictures of them
so the Trump worshipers don't blame it all on immigrants,
blacks and Muslims. Three oh four Talk, three oh four.
Chris is Trump derangement syndrome may need some money? Texter says,

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if the current Ranian government makes it through this attack,
it'll solidify their power. Some have speculated they'll close up,
become like North Korea and then develop a bomb. Three
oh four Talk, three oh four. This tax says Dave
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Good morning, gentlemen, Happy birthday, West Virginia. My steam is simple.

(01:24:04):
Donald Trump is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated onto the
United States. He's a liar, a grifter, and is incapable
of telling the truth. Everything Trump touches fails. Three h
four Talk, three oh four. Trump didn't get the parade
that he wanted. Quote unquote, how does Chris STEYERWALDT know

(01:24:25):
what kind of parade Trump wanted? Stirewald TDS has now
gone to the pathetic reach column three or four Talk
three oh four. It's like a hornet's nest if you
try to destroy it and you don't get it out ouch.
If they cannot bomb deep enough underground to get those nukes,
Old boy Texter says, my steam. You guys are great,

(01:24:48):
but the old hoppy entry bumper is getting old. If
you are still switching in, tell those phones from Charleston
to Morgantown. That would be impressive since the company hasn't
existed in almost a decade. Get a new bumper Steam. Please,
mister President, keep your campaign promised to stop the Ukraine
Russian war. You are now one hundred and fifty days

(01:25:10):
question mark, beyond the one day you said it would
take to stop this terrible war. Please make putin send
the hundreds or thousands of stolen Ukrainian children home to
their families.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
Three oh four talk three oh four. That is the
text line. Eight hundred and seven sixty five eight two
five five is the phone number. Let's go back to
the phones. Let's go to Weston and Linda. What is
your steam? Hey, Linda, Linda, Linda going once, Linda going twice,

(01:25:43):
Linda gone. Let's go to Paul in Poconnas County. Paul,
what is your steam?

Speaker 43 (01:25:47):
Morning, Fellas? My steam is our traitorous and selfish politicians
who for decades have taken our money and built themselves
some super nice underground digs in case they really get
the nuclear war they're looking for. Russia's got modern facilities
for over half their population, with hospitals, machine shops, and

(01:26:08):
ways to come out of it. We have nothing. We
need to have our politicians from the local all the
way up start to help pay attention to us and
give us some civil defense and places to hide from
the rate, you know, from the fallout if this happens.
Instead of them being so important, they just take our
money and buy, you know, build their dumb underground bases.

(01:26:28):
So people call your representatives, spend their tax dollars for us,
not just the muckmucks.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Paul appreciate the steam stand in Wheeling. What's your steam?
This morning?

Speaker 33 (01:26:39):
Stand at one of these protoctoms Wheeling and I started
down the street after drinking quite a few beers bar
to park, I fell into their streets date and I
put my pants. I go into a store, say I
want to buy some pants. They say you can't buy pants,
and the really you can only buy protect comes now
the thought, this idea with the man that hits the

(01:27:01):
bush for basketball kids, it could be Thank you very much, Stan,
the public in.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Talks, you are welcome Stan eight hundred and seven to
sixty five Talk eight hundred seven sixty five eight two
five five. That is the phone number to release your steam.
You can text your steam at three or four Talk
three oh four. We will continue with steam release in
a moment, but first, you know, the weekend is almost here.
It's going to be hot, it's going to be human.
It's going to be great to be out on the

(01:27:29):
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Steam Release continues. Phone number is eight hundred seven sixty
five Talk eight hundred and seven six five eight two
five five. You could text us at three oh four
Talk three oh four. Back to the phones. We've got
Linda in Weston. She's back, Linda, good morning, what's your steam?

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Good morning?

Speaker 30 (01:32:33):
My steam is Donald Trump.

Speaker 33 (01:32:35):
He is not a king.

Speaker 39 (01:32:36):
He needs to go and everybody in Congress needs to
step up and help get rid of him.

Speaker 30 (01:32:42):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
You are welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
Linda.

Speaker 1 (01:32:45):
Let's go to Fairmont and Ike. Ike, you're on Steam Release.

Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
Hi.

Speaker 39 (01:32:51):
I just wanted to let the gentleman know that messages
in about the bumper leading into the program that's still
there in a memory to Lacey Neff, who's no longer
with us. So if you don't know the history, you
shouldn't open your mouth, and if you don't like it,
don't listen.

Speaker 1 (01:33:09):
I appreciate the phone call. Have a great weekend, buddy.
Eight hundred and seven to sixty five Talk is the
phone number eight hundred seven sixty five eight two five five.
You may also text us at three or four talk
three oh four TJ Back to the.

Speaker 5 (01:33:21):
Text line texture seems Dave, it should have been North
Virginia and South Virginia three oh four talk three oh four.
Why is racism and discrimination against Jewish people being tolerated?
The rhetoric that comes out of Iran on a yearly
basis about the annihilation of the state of Israel should
not be tolerated. The whole world should speak out against it.

(01:33:45):
In my humble opinion, Texter says, Yo, happy Gilmore in
the Charleston studios, after you finish your tuna salad on
whole wheat, maya West Virginia flag, tape it to the
golf cart and don't forget your son. And a bumper
sticker that says if you hate loggers, try wiping your
butt with plastic. Texter says, why is there no discussion

(01:34:10):
on the awful leadership in Charleston? Increased violent crimes, increased homelessness,
stores closing, population still declining, and terrible roads. Please local
media shine a light on something other than Trump. Bashing
and your personal interest thinks three oh four Talk three
oh four. Texter says, TJ. Your opinion on sushi, and

(01:34:34):
we have yet another gift of Donnie asof this time,
the one where he's eating the fish that's in the
office from the fish bowl. Thank you. Texter says, I
hope Whoopy Goldberg has an eye opening vacation in Tehran
this summer. Three oh four Talk, three oh four. We're
getting hammered by unprecedented storms. You keep running coal commercials

(01:34:59):
three oh four Talk three before Dave and TJ. I'm
celebrating West Virginia Day by attending a John Denver tribute
concert in Maryland. We're wearing the official West Virginia Collers
Golden blue. I'm pretty sure we'll be singing country roads.
Have a great weekend. This texture says what happens to

(01:35:19):
the nuclear fallout shelters when the nuclear sites are bombed
in a rant? Is it a legit federal holiday if
it was just another auto pin signature question mark? This
texture opines how in the world does Stirewalt know what
Trump wants? Texter says, I'm tired of being force fed

(01:35:44):
the sexual preferences of others. No one needs to see
those rainbow flags. Three zho four talk three oh four.
My steam is the Trump haters. They're brainwashed. Trump works
hard every day, doesn't take a salary. The parade was
beautiful and patriotic. People who've never served, or don't have

(01:36:05):
people serving, would never understand. They just want to hate.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Three h four talk three or four is the text line.
The phone number is eight hundred and seven sixty five
eight two five five, eight hundred seven sixty five talk
to release your steam. Let's go up to the Middle
Ohio Valley, Parkersburg, Earl. What is your steam?

Speaker 45 (01:36:26):
I just want to steam for a couple things. Israel
has been saying that Iran has going to get nuclear
weapons in two weeks since the mid nineteen eighties. I
can show you the newspaper articles that we're getting ready.
We're about two weeks from the possible start of World
War three. There are two aircraft carriers over there right now.

(01:36:49):
A third one is leaving Norfolk next week. We're going
to have two hundred and fifty naval aircraft on three
carriers and whatever we can fly from Europe and the
United States to bomb the daylights out of Iran, and
it's all because Israel wants us to do that. We

(01:37:10):
need to get rid of a pack because they are
dictating all of our policies and it's not right. And
my biggest them is I'm just tired of the killing,
especially the kids go on fights and you can find
them and see the bodies of young kids with injuries.

Speaker 7 (01:37:34):
Laying in a pool of blood.

Speaker 45 (01:37:36):
I don't care if they're Iranian, Israeli, Gauzin anything. The
killing has got to stop. Thank you.

Speaker 38 (01:37:44):
You are welcome, earl.

Speaker 1 (01:37:46):
Have yourself a nice weekend. Eight hundred and seven to
sixty five Talk eight hundred seven sixty five eight two
five five. That is the phone number. Got a couple
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two five five, or you can text your team to

(01:38:30):
three oh four Talk three oh four. Let's finish strong.
Steamer Lace continues in a moment.

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West Virginia's nineteen seventy nine your trusted partner in the community.

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hundred seven sixty five eight two five five. Of course
you can text your steam as well at three oh
four Talk three oh four TJ back to the text
line and the text teams.

Speaker 5 (01:42:39):
I will move as quickly as I can. My steam
is West Virginia has moved to the right and Metro
News has moved left. From ten am to three pm,
Texter says, I'm steam because on Amanda Baron's news show,
I requested police music, but she played Bad Boys. What's
she Gonna Do? Instead of a song by the band
with sting. Texter says the high that lends with acres

(01:43:00):
and acres of asphalt and concrete resulting in immediate precipitation
runoff was a leading contributor factor to the devastated flooding.
Three oh four Talk three oh four. Let's follow up
last week's no King's protest with no queens marches that
fatigue is a real drag. TJ News Alert Barbersville, West

(01:43:23):
Virginia KFC serves chicken livers, Young Steam release TJB easier
on yourself about your golf. Several pros told me that
Bogee Golf was a good score for US golfers who
could play only two to three times per week. My
best score ever was a seventy six one time only.
My next best score eighty two. My handicap was eighteen.

(01:43:44):
I didn't take up golf until I was fifty five.
Hardest game I've ever played by far Texter says, please
screen some of the Trump bashers. They're not accomplishing anything.
These racists and anti semi anti Semites need to crawl
back into their whole or change their ways. God bless Israel.
Earl unfortunately is a uniformed man. Goodwill doesn't work against fanatics.

(01:44:08):
Thinks the text saying for people who did not serve
to be quiet. Trump did not serve he had Bunyans.
I think they meant to say billions, although they spelled it.
Bunyans paid his family doctor to fabricate lies.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
He had bunions, They had Bunyans.

Speaker 5 (01:44:28):
No steam, guys. With the devastating temperatures coming, please don't
forget about your pets and their paws on hot pavement
and keeping cold water out. The Texter says, I completely
and totally agree. The killing has got to stop, and
the US needs to stop being the world's bully, called
on only when other nations need to beat somebody up.
Justifying the deaths of innocence as collateral damage to destroy

(01:44:50):
terrorists is horrific and perpetuates the hatred and violence we
claim that we want to end. Three oh four talk
threeho four get your steam in a few minutes here
left to do so, or you can call eight hundred
seven six five eight two five five to round out
your week.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
You see oh one from the Northern Outpost here Dave
and TJ. TJ. You need to up your game as
you age and practice, unless you are one of those
wannabes that say I shot my age today again and
what they don't say is my gross minus my handicap.
We who are purest of the game. We'll look at

(01:45:28):
you with a very wry smile. God bless America and
all the veterans that steam from the northern outposts. Let's
go to the phones. Ray and Nitro.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
What is your steam?

Speaker 38 (01:45:39):
Ray?

Speaker 6 (01:45:40):
Hey, I got in treble a while back. I was
visiting North Korea and I'll just over there to see
the scenery and cut postage stamps. I was arrested as
a spy. Well, after a lot of trouble, I finally
ended up in front of the eleven leader Kim and

(01:46:01):
thank god, he was a basketball fan, and he said
where are you from. I said, well, let's stay called
West Virginia. He hes, ah, you know logo Jerry West.
I said yeah, yeah. He said you know PATR. Rhoades
John Denver. I said yes. He got a big smile

(01:46:24):
on his face. And well, they let me go, and
I got a free announced robin basketball sign, of course,
and I'm thankful to get the hell out of there.

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
Thank you, You're welcome.

Speaker 16 (01:46:36):
Brent.

Speaker 1 (01:46:40):
I was just wondering where he was headed with that one.
Uh texts Steve says we are not the world's bully.
Moved to North Korea Trader texta says if you if
your Texter thinks your station's moved to the far left,
they must be so far right the hair on planet Pluto.
All Right, we will leave it there for the week.
Thank you for all of the text thank you for

(01:47:02):
all the calls and letting us be part of your
day each and every day. All Right, we're back Monday
morning at eleven oh six Metro News Midday coming up
on many of these same Metro News radio stations with
Dave and Amanda. We'll talk to you Monday morning at
or ten oh six and eleven oh six. It's talk
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