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Good morning, Welcome into the program Metro News talk Line
from the Encova Insurance studios eight hundred and seven to
sixty five. Talk He is the phone number three or four.
Talk three oh four is the text line I want
to hear from you this morning. As thousands of people
were stranded on the West Virginia Turnpike overnights after heavy
rains moved in, there was water and mud rushing across

(01:34):
the highway that forced the closure of the northbound lanes
back traffic up for over a dozen miles overnight. Many
of you spent the night camping on the turnpike. Let
us know what it was like. Eight hundred and seven
to sixty five.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
You can text us at three oh four Talk three four. Also,
another toad strangler hit Wheeling, and with all of the
mud and debris that was already in parts of Elmgrove
and Tridelphia where they were dealing with flooding from two
weeks ago, there was water overtaking streets again there. So
we'll get an update from Wheeling coming up. Bottom of
the hour. Steam release and Starwalt will join us as well.

(02:09):
Good morning Tojy.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Good morning. I was imagining coming back from vacation minivan
loaded up with my kids and everything, and being stuck
there overnight, and that was somebody. I'm sure somebody had
a lot of children in the van or whatnot. Very
tough to deal with. And you have my empathy and
my sympathy if that was you.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Governor Morrissey is scheduled to hold a news conference. This
was already scheduled. He was visiting, scheduled to come to
Fairmont today to discuss the flooding issues from Father's Day weekend,
get an update on the recovery efforts there. A news
conference is scheduled for this hour when the governor takes
the podium, We'll hop in with him and see what
updates he has to offer as well. With all of

(02:48):
that being said, Jeff Jenkins from the Menture News Complex
there in Charleston.

Speaker 5 (02:53):
He joins us as well. Jeff, it was a busy overnight.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
We came in this morning, the guys the sign on
Newshe trying to just get a handle on what exactly
was going on on the turnpike overnight.

Speaker 6 (03:05):
Yeah, so some heavy rain hit in pockets of the
state overnight, and they got some heavy rain down in
that part of Kanawk County, several inches of rain in
a short period of time, and from what we appears
to have happened, just a large amount of water came
rushing off the mountain there near the Sharon exit northbound,

(03:27):
so that would be between the Paint Creek exit and
the Sharon exit as you're getting kind of close to
the Shillion tollbooth, so the last toll booth on the
Turnpike northbound, and that's where it came rushing off of
the mountain there and it got into the road, got
into the highway. We've seen a little bit of video
since then, and you can see kind of the water left,

(03:47):
but there was a lot of mud and different things
from the hillside, including new parts of trees and just
the rocks and a bunch of things. And it stopped
traffic at about nine to fifteen last night, and then
it was not opened until about five fifteen this morning.
And then guys, it took about a half hour after

(04:08):
that to get it moving because it's kind of restricted
in that area where the water was. Plus they had
to wake up drivers who were sleeping so they could
start moving. And so when I came in this morning,
came in at three o'clock and check with the saw
the information, or just saw some traffic situations. It called

(04:30):
the turnpike dispatcher who was very helpful, and he told
me that at that time, at about three point thirty,
the backup was to Mayhat. Now that's twelve miles backed
up traffic, tractor trailers, passenger vehicles, who knows how many
vehicles in total, a twelve mile backup. So when it

(04:52):
was opened at about five point fifteen this morning. It
was it was longer than that. We have a member
of our new staff, Atherinne Skelton, who was coming into
work this morning, probably seven forty five, and she's from o'kill,
so she had been at her parents' house last night.
So she was getting on at Malsey and it was
backed up past Malsey, so she didn't get on good

(05:15):
move and she came down Route sixty one which was crowded.
Uress Route sixty crowded. Route three we heard, crowded through
Boone County my neck of the wid Yeah, just trying
to get around it. So let's we talked to a
couple of people, Dave and TJ one of those, so
there was We understand there was a big event last
night at the Greenbrok Okay, and there are a lot

(05:36):
of state officials who were there. So those who decided
to come back, state officials, former state officials got caught
in this. One of those was Mitch Carmichael, former State
Center president. Talked to him this morning shortly after four o'clock.
He sounds wide awake and sounds frustrated.

Speaker 7 (05:51):
People all around here just complaining. It's like, what in
the world could call this amount of delay and I know,
you know there's reports about water and so forth, but
it's been very slow getting any information to the traveling public.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Also, former Metro News reporter Jake Flatley was stuck in
traffic last night and we talked to Jake.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
I've seen people get out, some cars are just off.
There's people sleeping in their cars. I mean right in
the middle of the turnpike here, you know, people are out,
you know, stretching what, just walking around because as of
right now, you know, looking like it'll still be a while.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
So that was little after four this morning, maybe four thirty,
and we caught up with Jake and and Mitch there
and that's the that's the general sentiment.

Speaker 9 (06:41):
Now.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
Mitch, during my conversation with him, you'll talk to him later,
he thought that there could have been a better job done. Obviously,
we've heard nothing, I mean nothing from the parkway's authority.
We've heard nothing from the Governor's office so far on this.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
This.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Hearkens bot guys to two thousand and nine. You may
remember this. Two thousand and nine, there was a snowstorm
on the turnpike, not the entire turnpike, but an area
kind of between Mallsey and Mayhaan kind of in that area.
It was just a snowstorm in December two thousand and nine.
It dumped several inches of snow on a Friday evening

(07:23):
and it jammed up traffic and people were in that
for almost twenty four hours. After that, the Parkway's authority
spent money, spent a good bit of money and made
traffic and had had traffic gates constructed where you could
turn around, because if you know the turnpike in that
twenty or thirty miles section, it's very narrow. You've got

(07:46):
a medium wall and you got the two lanes and
that's about all. You don't even have much on the
side at all, right, and so there was no place
to turn around. So after that storm they created and
had constructed it was a big thing. You know, we
at Metro News here we covered the park authority, cover
the meetings, and they bid out and did construction over
a couple of year period to create these gates where
you could turn traffic around. Right, I think what happened

(08:09):
in this and we'll hopefully we can get some confirmation
this was kind of beyond those gates. I don't think
the gates could help in this situation. It doesn't appear
so they kind of got you know, because they had
detour routes and everything. When when when the turnpike gets
shut down? But I think it was kind of in
an area, you know, I don't I'm trying to place

(08:31):
exactly where it was. We've talked about. You know, it's
near the Sharon exit. But if you know the turnpike again,
the turnpike splits in that area. It's not the southbound
lanes and northboundlanes are not parallel to one another. The
northbound lanes are actually higher tod Rather, they're elevated to
the southbound lane. So the turnaround wouldn't do you any
good in that area anyway, No, right, because it's above it.

(08:53):
So it was a mess. And it's just imagine that
amount of traffic, even the traffic that stayed on the
turnpike and then trying to get through and then you know,
trying to get where it needs to go. Because you're
talking about I mean that is we've said it before.
I mean, that is the major north south route. You know,

(09:17):
you can go over to eighty one or you can
go over way to ninety five. Or whatever. But truckers
take the turnpike. That's to what they take because that's
the main north south route. So you had you had
a lot of that, You had a lot of you know, vacationers,
I'm sure, and different people, but a lot of frustrated people.
But we really, you know, need to hear get some

(09:39):
explanation here and just hear what happened.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Well, So one would think that you have some kind
of regular tabletop exercises for these kinds of incidents, and
I think they do, and they do. Yeah, I do
think hearing from them would be helpful though, because it's
fair to ask, Okay, how long did it take to
get resources in place and execute the plan? Was there
the option of maybe turning some of the traffic around,

(10:02):
stopping at Beckley, closing down, doing the other way? All
these questions and look at show him some grace, I mean,
because it's a tough situation, right, but I think there's
some questions here that I need to be answered.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
And don't discount this either. We've changed administrations. The former
executive director of the Turnpike of the Parkway's authority, Jeff Miller,
is no longer in that position. He was removed by
Governor Morrisey. Governor Morrissey just a few weeks ago. Earlier
this month, appointed Chuck Smith, who has been over facilities
in the Knawk County School System, as his new Parkway's

(10:34):
authority director. And I don't think he comes on until
July first. I might be wrong about that, but he
But Turnpike is in a transition quite honestly, all right,
there in a transition. There's been you know, there's been
some controversy about tolls raised and all that, and so
they're in a little bit of a transition. So I
don't know if that had anything to do with this

(10:55):
or not, you know. And then you have to get
workers out guys, right, I mean you got to call
workers out. It's a Thursday night at nine o'clock. You
don't have a full you know, you don't have a
full maintenance staff on board at that time.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Well, yeah, to.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Add to that, so you have to wait. You have
to wait till the weather event is over. Doesn't do
anything good to mobilize while the event is happening. But also,
like you said, the highway split here, so somewhere further
up the northbound lanes, you've got to shut it down
because I assume they had to bring equipment in if
we're talking about debris coming off the hillside, Yeah, you can't.

(11:32):
You've got to go south on the northbound lanes to
get the equipment there to clean up the problem. Then
you've got to get that equipment. I mean, there's from
the time that shut down it would you say, nine
to fifteen ishifteen, probably talking at least a couple of
hours just to get the response there as you're executing
the plan, just to get there and get set up.

(11:54):
Then you've got to actually clean it up and get
it open. And by that time, I mean we've all
been on the interstate. Somebody going fifty five and a
seventy can back up traffic for miles alone when it's
at a dead stop.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
So yeah, more quickly goes.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think there'd be more grace if there was more
communication though. That was one of the criticisms I think
from that I saw on social media. Just no communication
over eight hours.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
That's tough, Yeah, it is, and that's what Mitch Carmichael.
You'll talk to him later, but he was frustrated about that.
Let's hear another So during the during the conversation is
about a four or five minute conversation. It went for
he was you know, he he you know, he was frustrated,
obviously human understandably, but by the end, you know, the conversation,
this is what he had to say, I want.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
To command everybody that's doing their work and so forth.
But still it's it's, you know, and maybe I'm just
in that moment where I've been sitting here for six
hours that there's a degree of frustration, but it's you know,
it does seem as if there should be equipment and
material that could clear water across the major interstate highway

(12:56):
system for a flash of van It's not like, you know,
this is a sustained rising water event that's happened over
you know, a day or two with severe flooding.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
Yeah, so that's the way he felt. If seen a
little bit of video kind of where the water was,
and again it looks like a lot of mud, a
lot of debris from the hillside. It looks like it
was up several feet on the medium wall and the
southbound lanes where you know, they were unaffected by the

(13:29):
flood as far as we know, there might have been
some water, but I think they stayed open. Now, they
weren't open the whole time, but they were open at points,
it sounds like. And so we'll see. We're just waiting
to hear. And I think it is restricted actually going
through that area right now. I saw that note before
I came down to come on the studio. It's the
right lane is closed. So it's still slow moving in

(13:52):
that area. That's only two lanes in that area. And
so the right lane is closed.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Looks like the governor's at the podium. I don't know
if he's seeing anything.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
We're actually going to take a break, Jeff, and then
we'll come back and join the governor who's holding a
news conference in Fairmont this hour.

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That's the phone number.

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The text line is three oh four Talk three oh four.
Governor Morrissey is at the podium. He's giving an update
on Ohio and Marion counties at the moment, and let's
go to Fairmont's and Governor Patrick Morrissey, who with an
updates on both the flood recovery efforts and we're hoping

(18:07):
to hear some more on the turnbike.

Speaker 18 (18:18):
We did have some good news to report recently in
terms of housing assistance. We know that there are a
lot of people on the ground working to help out
a lot of the.

Speaker 15 (18:28):
People in need. You didn't have to All you have
to do.

Speaker 18 (18:31):
Is see the images from the apartment complex to know
that a lot of people needed help. I know Fairmount
State stepped up quickly and they were helpful. And now
a lot of these people are settling in at a
minimum for short term housing.

Speaker 15 (18:46):
But these individuals are going to be able.

Speaker 18 (18:49):
To top into some of the five hundred and sixty
one thousand dollars that we made available just yesterday to
ensure that housing expenses can get mad be a security deposit,
it might be rent, there might be other expenses. But
we want to help those in need, those who are
affected by the floods, whether it's Marion County, Ohio County,

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or all parts of.

Speaker 15 (19:12):
West Virginia, including in southern West Virginia too.

Speaker 18 (19:17):
Last Friday, as you know, I requested a Major Disaster
declaration and an emergency declaration from Donald Trump to unlock
federal resources in Ohio and Marion Counties.

Speaker 15 (19:30):
We've been in close.

Speaker 18 (19:31):
Contact with Homeland Security and with FEMA, and we're currently
working with FEMA as we're continuing to gather information as.

Speaker 15 (19:40):
They're doing their damage assessments.

Speaker 18 (19:42):
And in fact, on that point, it's so critical that
if you have damage to report, we need to see
that that has to get submitted. Ultimately, that's a critical
part of the process to ensure that the FEDS know
exactly what happened on the ground and then they'll make
financial des decisions as a result of it. So if

(20:02):
you haven't done so already, we urge people to fill
out their disaster survey.

Speaker 15 (20:07):
Form and so folks can go to em.

Speaker 18 (20:10):
D dot WV dot gov forward Slash Disaster Survey. That's
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fill that survey information out and I think that's critical.

(20:31):
We've had close to one thousand people already submit evidence
between Marion and Ohio counties, and we want to make
sure we fully capture what's going on.

Speaker 15 (20:43):
Obviously, this has been.

Speaker 18 (20:44):
A lot of work over the last few weeks, as
many of you know. As soon as we heard and
we were talking to people on the ground, I immediately
deployed the National Guard to assist. I want to thank
General Seward and all the folks on his team who
have done an incredible job. They've really stepped up, and
you've heard of that in Marion County and in Ohio County,

(21:05):
and they're still really, really busy. I believe we still
have only stepped up, and you've heard of that in
Marion County and in Ohio County, and they're still really
really busy. I believe we still have over one hundred
people in Ohio County. I'm still doing work. We know
that there's been some tough weather. It's been very hot,
so we want to be mindful for our seniors and

(21:28):
people that are in a vulnerable spot, that neighbors continue
to look out for each other.

Speaker 15 (21:33):
That's certainly critical.

Speaker 18 (21:35):
As of Wednesday, it's my understanding that all the folks
in Marion County and the Guard have left, so obviously,
if there are issues that arise, we're always going to
be available to help out. But I think that we
were able to come in and do the job, and
people in the meeting before said, well, you're never really

(21:57):
ahead of schedule.

Speaker 15 (21:58):
You want to get it done as quickly as you.

Speaker 18 (21:59):
Again, there's been really good progress made in terms of
what the guard did, obviously what happened on the all right.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
That is Governor Patrick Morrissey. He is in Fairmont this
morning talking about the flood recovery efforts in Ohio County
and obviously Marion County as well. We're hoping to hear
some more information about what happened on the turnpike. Will
continue to monitor that as the program un foults, and
if we get an opportunity, we'll either jump back in
or we'll check in with Jeff and Chris, one of

(22:28):
the two from the Metro News newsroom, to see if
we get a few answers there TJ and look, this
is not about casting blame or trying to hold somebody responsible,
but just some communication. And look, I'll even give a
little grace on the communications part, because if you're the
guy on call, whoever that is, in the middle of
the night, your first priority has got to be assessed

(22:50):
the situation, figure out what we need to get there,
get these people and equipment there to get the road
back open.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
And I can also so.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
I got a little bit of empathy for someone who's
you know, hey, hey, I need to get a message out.
I need to get message out and you're like, well,
I'm trying to get workers there to open this thing up.
So again, this isn't about blame responsibility, just an assessment
of what happened overnight.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
My only desire or my only wish in this is
that there would be an effective after action exercise. We
would build what we learn into our tabletop exercises. For curiosity,
I would like to see what those tabletops look like,
what the plans look like. I think those are fair
questions after the fact, But look, it happened. People are human,
You're dealing with it. We show grace, but we need

(23:32):
to learn from it. That's the important thing, and we
shouldn't be afraid to learn from it.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Coming up, we'll go to Wheeling where they got socked
again by heavy rains and there was some street flooding
in the Elmgrove area again yesterday. We'll get an update
from Ohio County. Coming up. On the other side of
the news break, we'll continue to monitor the governor as well.
This is talk Line on Metro News, the Voice of
West Virginia. It is ten thirty times to get a
news update. Let's check in with the Metro News radio network.

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Find out what's happening all across the great state of
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Speaker 6 (24:03):
Metro News, I'm Jeff Jenkins. How would you like to
sit and stop traffic for hours on the West Virginia
Turnpike with That's what happened overnight when the northbound lanes
of the turnpike were closed near the Sharon exit in
Kanawa County because of high water. Traffic remained at a
standstill for more than eight hours. Former State Center president
Mitch Carmichael was stuck in the traffic with very little
information coming from highways officials.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
It's been slow in coming and it's there's hardly anything
that can be said that's going to alleviate the delay
of six seven hours on a major interstate for.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
Former Metro News reporter Jake Flatley was also there. He
says it was very little warning for approaching motors.

Speaker 8 (24:43):
Saw some delay ahead, but even like you know, Apple Maps,
you know, attacked on a few extra minutes. Didn't think
too much of it. And now it's been a very
long night which is heading into the morning.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, gratefully Jake is heading in the right direction this morning.
The road has reopened. We do have confirmation this morning
on the ninth flood related death from Ohio County. A
body recovered in the Ohio River earlier this week has
been confirmed to be that of eighty three year old
Sandra K. Parsons of Tridelphia. She died in the June
of fourteenth flood. Governor Patrick Morrissey in Fairmont this hour

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Day flood that happened two weeks ago. You're listening to
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Speaker 15 (27:15):
All right.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
During the newsbreak, Governor Morrissey touching on the turnpike, saying
that he will get to the bottom of it. He
will get answers, they'll do a full assessment of what
happened and the.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Response to it.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
That he was angry that folks were stuck on the
highway overnight. But that is about all he had to
say about the situation on the turnpike this morning. We'll
check back in with Jeff and Chris a little bit
later on Jeff or Chris a little bit later on,
But not much in the way of actual information coming
from the governor there about the situation again on the turnpike.
We want to hear from you if you're awake, many

(27:50):
of you. If you were stuck on the turnpike all night,
you might be in bed right now. Don't blame you,
but if you're awake, give us a call. Eight hundred
and seven to sixty five. Talk and three or four talk,
three or four is the text line. Mitch Carmichael, former
Senate President.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
He was one of those people stuck on the highway.
He's awake, he said, he'll chat with us.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Coming up about ten minutes from now. But also yesterday,
heavy rains once again hitting the northern Panhandle, just about
two weeks after floods swept through Ohio County and claimed
the lives of nine individuals.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Last night.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
There were multiple roadways, including National Road and several others,
that were closed due to debris and high water. Joining
us on Metro News talk Line this morning from Wheeling
is Philip Stall. He's the public information officer with the
Wheeling Police Department. Philip, Good morning, how are you.

Speaker 9 (28:41):
Hi, Dave.

Speaker 21 (28:42):
We're back at it again. So here we are.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
So what's the update. What happened last night? Again?

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Another storm comes through and just dumps a torrential rain
on the same area that got hit two weeks ago.

Speaker 21 (28:54):
This one was sort of more into the city of Wheeling,
the village of Bethlehem. Was a little bit of reports
of some some roadway flooding. I guess you could say
out in the Philadelphia Valley Grove area. But you know,
again we're estimating or we've heard about two and a
half to three inches of rain that fell, you know,
kind of that the witching hour of like eight o'clock

(29:16):
at night or something like that. It just it rained
very hard and heavy for quite a you know, significant
period of time, causing a lot of runoff that created
a lot of issues. A lot of the runs or
the streams, some of those started to overflow their banks
a little bit, and some of the residential neighborhoods that

(29:37):
I guess if there's some good news here, there were
no injuries, you know, nobody was you know, we had
no fatalities, obviously, as you're well aware that had two
weeks ago. But there but there were areas that took
on water that did not take on water two weeks ago.
So it's a little bit of a different system, a
little bit of a different scenario. And even just the

(29:59):
amount of rain that you received. Two people weren't just
getting water coming down their basement steps and into their
basic water was seeping through walls. That's how much you know.
I'm sure you know your come owner out there knows
how that works. How sometimes mother nature does its work
and water just comes into your house whether you like
it or not. So we're assessing all of that this
morning with emergency management, police and fire. I believe that

(30:23):
all roads that were temporarily closed last night for debris
and rock and mud have since been reopened.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Philip, How does this, I guess, reverse the progress you've
already made if at all, I know some areas were
different obviously some areas were the same. Are you seeing
any instances of progress that was made that has unfortunately
been reversed as a result of this recent round of rain.

Speaker 21 (30:50):
Well, yeah, so I think, you know, in the areas
that were hard hit two weeks ago, that's still an
ongoing process. But I think that you know, maybe the
answer question and now we have we have some more
areas to add on top of that, we don't have
the debris that we had from this because a lot
of it was street flooding and you know, you just
need to get you know, street cleaning crews out there

(31:12):
to kind of get the mud off the road, the
debris off the road. So I don't I don't think
it's going to have a significant setback that we think
now that it's hardening and we're kind of seeing you know,
what's like if I drove on some of the roads
that were underwater last night, and you know, maybe perhaps
the large debris was wiped down the creeks and into
the river last week, and we don't have that big,

(31:33):
big trees and pieces of wood that you see from
two weeks ago. I didn't see that this morning. I
did see that, you know, there are some things that
are on the road, you know, with vegetation, trees and
mud and all of that. But I think that we
should be able to get those areas clean up and
in the city pretty quickly. We're out there in full
force this morning. And like I said, it's it's very

(31:54):
spotty too. I mean a house here, I've gotten it,
a house there didn't get it. So a little, you know,
little little pockets of flooding just kind of widespread throughout
the area today or from yesterday into today.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Philip Staal joining US public Information officer with the Wheeling
Police Department. Philip, when the calls start coming in last night,
what was going through your mind?

Speaker 21 (32:18):
Well? Where do I got myself? Where I begin? Because
the calls that go are all over the place. You know,
some calls get Some calls aren't what they you know,
when you arrive at the call, it's not what it's
projected to be on what is dispatch, And that happens
a lot. You know, somebody has somebody thinks that a
callver is destroyed, but really, you know, we we have

(32:39):
a manhole that might be you know, gushing water out
of the streets. So you know, there were some reports
of things that we thought were happening that that didn't happen,
which is good something like that, but it's so it's
always just so chaotic where you don't even know where
to begin, because you hear reports of trees being down
on this street, and then the streets flooding, and then
the jews boom boom, boom, boom boom. One thing that

(32:59):
added to the mixed last night that I'm not sure
a lot of people might not even be aware of,
is that we had we had a full blown house
fire last night on a wheeling island on Ohio Street.
The house is sadly destroyed. That we do have a
been told that the emergency demolitions is taking place at
that residence today. But that had that into the thick

(33:19):
of things what was happening last night. It was just
it was kind of all over the place that you
just have to take a deep breath and you have
to process things, you know, slowly, one thing at a time,
and just kind of go from there. So it's a
lot of work going on this morning.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
I would imagine that first responders they're taxed to the limit,
they're just about spent. How do you start to focus
on their safety as fatigue sits, and ensuring that their
well being is being thought of as you go throughout
not only the continued clean up from the first event,
but now any effects from this second event.

Speaker 21 (33:53):
Well, you know, the good thing is that everybody's on
shift work when it comes to public safety for the
most part. You know, some of the behind the scenes
folks like myself and some of the office staff. I guess,
you know, we're we're kind of you know, day side out.
But you know, in a situation where we had a
state of emergency, it's one of those situations that's rare,
but you know, you have to have all hands on deck.
So you're right, I mean we are. We are a

(34:15):
little bit fatigued here, but you know, I think that
the faster we can get the majority of the work done, better.

Speaker 7 (34:22):
Off will be.

Speaker 21 (34:23):
I think if there I think, you know, we've had
a lot of volunteer help, which is which is huge
when it comes to the clean up process. But yeah,
we're just in this this weird patch of busyness right now.
Sometimes when people say how how's the job going? The
last every once in a while and I'll say, you
know what, sometimes it gets extremely busy, and then sometimes
it gets extremely slow. So I just feel like we

(34:44):
just go through these waves every once in a while,
and I think everybody is hoping and praying that we're
kind of on the downhill side of of the waves,
that we're happening here. Uh, and you know, the weekend
is upon us, and we're going to try to get
as much work done today and just take as many
breaks as we can and continue on.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Well, Philip glad to know nobody was heard. It sounds
like this was certainly nothing compared to two weeks ago.
But I'm sure a lot of people had that sinking
feeling in their gut when you start to see the
water come up, or you start seeing water get into
basements and you think, man, here we go again.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
It's it hasn't even been two weeks yet.

Speaker 21 (35:20):
Yeah, And I you know, even just over the past
couple of years, because we've had a little bit of
you know, pocket flash flooding here and there and everywhere.
But I think that you know, as time gets on,
a lot of people have you know, get anxiety anymore
when it rains, because it's not just your typical you know,
light rain or moderate rain through the day that waters flowers,
waters the grass. You know, it replenishes the streams and
the creeks and all that. But you know, we're getting

(35:42):
these two and a half three inch downpours nowadays, and
it's can it can?

Speaker 18 (35:48):
You know?

Speaker 21 (35:48):
Everybody looks to the sky when that happens and crosses
their fins and nothing happens. So, you know, we we've
had it twice now in the last two weeks. Obviously
two weeks ago was worse than last night, but nonetheless
there is still very widespread play going on today. So
fingers crossed.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Well, Philip, our best to everybody up there in the Panhandle.
Appreciate the update this morning. Thank you, Thanks guys, Philip Stall,
public information officer with the Wheeling Police Department, with the
update from there. So certainly nothing compared to two weeks ago,
but again, heavy rains hitting that Ohio County area coming up.
Mitch Carmichael, former sent of President, he camped out on

(36:26):
the turnpike last night.

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We'll talk to him next.

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Text line three or four Talk three four eight hundred
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release coming up at eleven thirty three this morning. So
among those camped out on the turnpike last night, friend
of the show, former Center president Mitch Carmichael was I

(40:20):
don't know what he was doing, but he was on
the turnpike last night.

Speaker 7 (40:22):
Mitch, Good morning, Good morning, Dave TJ. Yeah, I'm I've
recovered from Maria camp out on the turnpike.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
So I mean, so, describe what was happening. You're you're
driving along, You're you're head at home, I presume, and
you run into a standstill.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:39):
Yeah, So I was coming back from the Greenbrier Local
Economic Development Authority dinner, Greenbrier, Poconic, Moroe County, and it
was a great event that we're coming back, and I
just look at approaching the last hole booth as we're
coming north and look, you know, you just see stop

(41:00):
tractor trailer. It's about nine o'clock and I think, okay,
this is going to take a little bit, and you know,
maybe ten minutes or whatever.

Speaker 27 (41:07):
And it just.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
Kept going and going and going and going and going,
and we finally started getting some information from the Metro
News and other WV five to one one that indicated
there was some flooding and flash flighting and those so forth,
and I thought, well, back can how long could that take?
This is a major interstate artery north south in West Virginia.

(41:33):
This you can't just shut down a road for water
unless it's complete. You know that it wasn't like a
you know, a three day flood, and yet it took
until six am in the morning before the road was cleared,
and they just I had a degree of frustration about that.

(41:54):
You know, I probably got home and got over it now.
But but we should not as a state. We should
expect more. We should expect immediate response, great information, and
you know, we respect all those who are working on
the program and so forth. And I frankly, I know

(42:15):
the gentleman who's just been appointed executive director of the Parkway,
the close friend of mine, Chuck Smith. He'll do a
great job, but he just you know, he just walked
into the role. So Governor Morrisey appointed him. And I'm
sure that we'll get these issues. They'll get these issues
straightened out. But it does send a terrible message when
you have to spend the knots you know what, eight hours,

(42:39):
eight hours shut down the northbound lane. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
So, Mitch, we don't have a TikTok on this yet,
so maybe helped me out with the timing. But I'm wondering,
given the timing of where this was at and in
the Sharon area when you were coming through Beckley, was
there any kind of pre warning so that you could
have taken nineteen or another route and went around this.
I'm wondering about the timing of that. Did that ever come?
Do you know how quickly did that come? No?

Speaker 7 (43:03):
It did not. It did not come until, you know,
hours after I had already had been sitting there, and
then you know, it's not just me, it's everyone that was.
Traffic was backed up for twelve miles and it hadn't
been in the day, it would have been a lot
further than that, because you know, traffic at night is less.
But no, in fact, and I'm sure you guys have

(43:24):
traveled these other interstate systems where they have the banners
that display, you know, road conditions ahead or take this
exit road closed, something like that. We as a state
need to, you know, take the next step in our
transportation network and make sure that we provide those services

(43:45):
and information and we have the resources and the equipment
to quickly open these major arteries. It's you know, it's
just incumbent upon a world class, twenty first century state
to to provide those services.

Speaker 5 (44:02):
So what'd you do all night?

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Mitch Man?

Speaker 7 (44:05):
I tell you there was nothing to eat in the car,
and so, uh, you know, we just slapped and tried
to sleep, got out, talked to you know, people made
some friends on.

Speaker 4 (44:15):
The knew you.

Speaker 7 (44:19):
And uh, you know every one of them, you know.
But like I started out being like, hey man, this
is a kind of a you know, a hard time, right,
uh yeah, but we'll make the best of it. And
then as the night went on, more people were just
getting madder and madder, and uh, you know, as you
can imagine, then finally we just got through the fight
where it was you know, we got a laugh instead
of cry. But uh uh but fortunately it was no

(44:42):
one was hurt. And uh but we just like to
need to do a reset from a resource and technology
perspective to make sure we can address these kind of
issues because it rains in West Virginia and we have
hills and uh you know, uh, of course, my prayers
go out to all those were affected by and lost
life in northern in central West Virginia. But uh, you know,

(45:05):
let's get to them proper resources and uh, you know,
motivation to get these problems resolved. Hey, before I you know,
I know transit. I just want to say this one
thing for uh and congratulate Emily Lewis from Ripley, West
Virginia for winning the West Virginia Scholar And I just
I'm just so proud of her. She had served as

(45:25):
a her her mother worked for me Ronica in the
state legislature. Just did a fantastic job. And I watched
Emily grow up and just so proud of her and
all of her accomplishments. And so it's a great program
you all do. And just thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Believe it or not, match, I was going to give
you a second. I was going to bring that.

Speaker 5 (45:44):
Up to you because you had to like and win
that yesterday.

Speaker 7 (45:48):
Yeah. Yeah, it's just terrific and you know, they are
all kinds of great applicants and uh, it's a really
great program. It motivates people to achieve, you know, academic success,
and uh, just very proud of her. As you can
imagine when you see someone you know mature and grow
up and then be successful. It's just fantastic.

Speaker 3 (46:08):
Well, it was a great day yesterday. We had a
good time. There was a great day yesterday seeing the kids,
and of course congratulations to her and the other winners.
I do want to circle back before we let you
go from your time in state government. Have you ever
seen any of the incident management plans or any kind
of the contingency plans for something like this along the turnpike.
I mean, can you confirm they exist? Can you confirm
how often they're looked at? Do you have any knowledge there?

Speaker 7 (46:31):
Yeah, very vaguely. That's not an area that the legislature
typically digs into, although I would suggest this TJ is
that you know, based on this event and the one
with the snowstorm where it was twelve hour delay, although
that's more understandable that the legislature, you know, convene a
panel to have some receive some testimony and review some

(46:54):
of those plans, because you know, it's better to be
now react active. Uh, and when we previous administration should
have been maybe proactive, although there have been I'm not
placed and blame on anyway. I mean they have put
the previous administration with the Justice Ministry and spent enormous
amounts of money on roads and uh technology to help.

(47:16):
And so it's it's an evolution, it's a staff process,
and we shouldn't you know, cast us versions here and there.
But it's uh uh it's now the new governor Morrisey,
that's his uh uh you know, he's got the reins
and uh, I'm sure I'm confident he'll deliver. And Chuck
Smith as the executive director, and uh, I just wanted

(47:37):
him to know from the perspective of a you know,
a uh for just a regular public citizen traveling the highways,
it was a pain last night and it should we
should do everything we can to make sure that does
not happen again.

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Mitch Carmichael, former Center president, camped out on the turnpike overnight. Mitch,
appreciate it, buddy, thank you. I'll get some rests.

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Speaker 5 (51:45):
By the way. TJ. Wolf Blitzer looks like he's had
a bad week.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
We're gonna have to have a daily wolf Blitzer check.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
The Supreme Court has issued a couple of rulings this morning.
Looks like they were unclear on birthright citizenship ban, but
limits the use of nationwide injunctions. I'm just reading the
lower thirds. So h there's that happening in the midst
of all of what we've got going on here between
the turnpike and what was happening up in Ohio County,

(52:19):
yes last night as well.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
So would it makes sense to have a panel of
judges of district circuit judges or something if you wanted
a national injunction. I'm not sure that one judge in
La County shouldn't have that authority.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
Frankly, well, fine, apparently they won't have that authority. Well, yeah, true,
And that's off of one line on the lower third.
Is again Wolf needs the weekend.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Let me just get another very quickly. This water have
you seen any pictures of I mean, was it flowing
continuously off the side of a mountain? Was it standing?
I haven't seen any pictures.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
I've not seen any pictures other than some of the
obviously the stuff that is on Facebook and other social
media sites where.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
It looks like again, I'm assuming a lot here water
was coming down.

Speaker 28 (53:04):
You have.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Ditches that weren't maintained. I would suppose then you've got
to breathe that the water brings along with it that
washes up and causes problems as well. Okay, again we're
drawing conclusions based on obviously some limited information there Well,
change gears up a little bit and we'll visit with
Chris Stirewaltz. He will join us coming up after the
top of the hour. Ball I got a whole list

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will join us before Steam release. Governor Morrissey touched on
the situation on the Turnpike overnight, albeit briefly. We'll get
an update from Jeff coming up about fifteen minutes from now.
Once again, say good morning TJ. Meadows and the Charleston
version of the Encova Insurance studios this morning, Good morning TJ.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
What up?

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Uh? Well? High water mud muck?

Speaker 1 (54:47):
I guess a little bit of everything overnight once again
here in West Virginia, and again uh I haven't checked
five to one to one during the break, But traffic
moving on the turnpike today, unlike last night it was
a parking lot for about twelve miles back. We'd love
to hear from you if you're awake and we're in
that mess last night. Let us know at three or four,

(55:08):
talk three or four at eight hundred and seven to
sixty five, talk the phone number.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
This is how impatient I am, and I need to
work on this. I'd have been the guy trying to
figure out how to take the guardrail down, get the
van off road ready, finding some kind of alternate route.
I just go stir crazy, and that that would have
been me. I wouldn't have been as calm as Mitch
Carmichael or others, and that's a flaw I need to
work on. But that's just how you know I want

(55:32):
to do something.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
I would have been the guy you would have had
to wake up to get the traffic moving again.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
I mean, there's nothing you can do, so.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
You can do, yeah, nothing you can do, you know, stretch.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Out in the truck bed and uh, you know, wake
me up when the when traffic's moving again.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
My kids would have been fine as long as there's
enough gas in the vehicle that iPads could continually be charged,
and we had a cell phone signal. We could have
dealt with that. Minus that of the movies. Yeah, there
may have been an issue.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Friend of mine texted right there before the end of
the hour and reminded me he was stuck in two
thousand and nine in the snowstorm. He spent a night
and another half a day. Oh jeez, on the turnpike,
stuck in the snow, no place to go, and it
was cold, so you couldn't even like, you know, hang
out outside your vehicle.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
It was snowing.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Obviously, it's bringing Chris Stirewalt to the conversation. Of course, Chris,
he's an author, he's a national commentator. You can watch
them Sunday Mornings on the Hill Sunday on News Nation.
So are you the guy Chris going stir crazy or
do we have to wake you up to let you
know traffic's move it again if you're stuck on the
turnpike like that.

Speaker 32 (56:38):
How long were people stuck on the turnpike?

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Nine hours?

Speaker 32 (56:43):
Oh my goodness. Oh I'm that's the worst feeling. And
this is why you don't take the West Virginia Turnpike.
This is why America knows. Don't get on the West
Virginia Turnpike. It's a real bummer. And wow, I'm sorry
to everyone who was caught.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
In Well, and we're getting conflicting social media posts, so
take it for what it's worth. That some people actually,
after being stuck on the turnpike had to pay the
toll at the next toll.

Speaker 5 (57:13):
Booth sounds about right.

Speaker 3 (57:16):
Yeah, that's horrible optics and just a bad decision if
that is the case. I mean, surely we opened it
up and just waved people through after they sat for
nine hours. And if we didn't, shame on us. Sorry, Chris,
I didn't mean to interrupt you.

Speaker 32 (57:31):
Well, you didn't do it. You're I fully believe that
you would have let everybody go. And you know the
thing about toll roads here in the Washington metro area,
we have a lot hotlane hot lanes high occupancy vehicle
that you can just pay extra. You can buy your

(57:52):
way out of traffic, and it can be very expensive.
And toll roads can be great, right if you're getting
a good service for it. And the problem that West
Virginia Turnpike is the the West Virginia Turnpike was supposed
to have a toll on it to pay for itself,
and then after it was paid for, you know what,

(58:13):
they realized, this is money we should just we should
just take the money we should this is this is
money that we can have, and it's a tax that's
already in place, so we can just take it. And
that's you know, one of the problems that you have
in government is that any program, any tax, any anything,
once they can get it in place, never goes away.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Chris tarr Well joining us this morning. Chris, I've got
about eight things on the list. I'll just start with
a simple question. Has this been a good week for
Donald Trump?

Speaker 4 (58:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 32 (58:45):
I mean sure, the Donald Trump found out this week.
He realized this week what every American president in our
lifetime has realized, which is being the policeman of the
world is actually cool, and they like it. I've been

(59:06):
thinking a lot about Bill Clinton. And Bill Clinton who
was not going to be into overseas adventurism, and Bill Clinton,
who had been forged as his generation was by the
experiences of Vietnam and was going to be a departure
from George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. Well, guess
what he got in there and was like, well, maybe
we could bomb some stuff. Bombing stuff is awesome, and

(59:31):
your allies like it. Because there's the thing that happens
is that your America's allies complain constantly about America on camera,
and then when the cameras are off, they say, hey,
I know we said some things, but we would really
appreciate it if you could go kill those people. That
would be very helpful for us, because we don't have

(59:52):
the military for it, or we don't have the political
will for it, and you guys will do it. And
Madeline Albright called Bill Clinton Secretary of State, called the
United States the indispensable nation because again it is true
in the sense that and Trump said it many times
to set it many times in the past week. Only

(01:00:15):
the United States could do this, and he likes that.
He likes that only the United States has the hardware
to do it number one and number two, he goes
over to NATO and they say that he is the
daddy who came in and broke up the fight between
the children of Iran and Israel, and they tell him
how wonderful he is. And Donald Trump, who I was

(01:00:37):
told for the past decade was trying to take the
United States out of NATO, leaves the NATO summit saying,
these guys are great. I don't think they're trying to
rip us off. I think they just love their countries
and I think they're wonderful, and we're wonderful, and NATO's great.
So Donald Trump is like a normal presidency, just on
fast forward. And in the span of six months, he

(01:01:02):
went from toying with isolationism. If you go back and
read the chat that the Pete haggs As chat that
was inadvertently shared with the Atlantic, and compare the things
that like JD. Vance was saying about Europe's stinks and
we're not going to fight their wars and we're not
going to do their stuff. So what Donald Trump was

(01:01:23):
saying after NATO this week, you see how substantial the changes.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Chris, I want to spitball on the big beautiful bill.
Did somebody forget to have a chat with or invite
the parliamentarian out for some coffee and say, hey, what
do you think about this? Were they caught off guard
and they thought she was on the team or or
is this somehow a safety valve If folks are having

(01:01:50):
second thoughts on Medicaid cuts, that, oh well, lam it
on the parliamentarian.

Speaker 32 (01:01:56):
So the we have a problem and the executive branch
that executives continue to do things that they know are
unconstitutional and then wait for the courts to reject them.
So right now, you know, we have a big decision
on birthright citizenship and a win for the administration because
the judges are restricting. The justices restricted the ability of

(01:02:19):
district courts to issue nationwide injunctions on the question. But
in the end, I don't think very many people expect
that there's a majority on the Supreme Court to reinterpret
the fourteenth Amendment to mean something other than what it
says and the but for Trump it's a win win.
He's tried, he's given his base something and then when

(01:02:40):
he doesn't get it, he says, oh, those meanal justices.
I think that the parliamentarian. So the stuff that was
put in by the House goes over to the Senate.
Thenate works on it, and the Senate is working on
it knowing that it's that the Robert, the ghost of
Robert Byrd is there and that a bunch of the

(01:03:01):
stuff's going to get dumped out. So sweeteners that were
used in the House to get people on the bill,
whether it is new spending or less spending, changes to medicaid,
other provisions, get to the parliamentarian, and the parliamentarian says, well,
obviously not, that's not what this is for. The parliamentarian
has let a ton of stuff stand, and the Senate

(01:03:24):
will rework legislation, rework the legislation in order to meet
the standards. So it's not dead, it's just it's just
been knocked back. But yeah, I think option three that
you laid out is the right one, which is it's
somebody to blame. It's a way to advance the legislation
and then have somebody else to blame.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Later, Chris Darwalt join us this morning, politics editor for
The Hill and News Nation. He's host of The Hill
Sunday on News Nation, of course, and a senior fellow
at the American Enterprise Institute, Chris, I've heard a lot
about the New York City mayorial race. I don't really
have a dog in that fight, obviously, sitting in a

(01:04:04):
chair in Morgantown. But are there larger takeaways from that
particular race that you that could be applied across the country.

Speaker 32 (01:04:12):
Well, I mean there's a fight in the Democratic Party
over what is the way forward. Is the way forward
to go radical progressive left, to go to the base,
crank him up, maximize enthusiasm and do that, or is
it to moderate, move to the middle and focus on

(01:04:32):
persuadable voters. That's the fight that happens in both parties,
constantly driven in substantial part by our dumb media and
our incredibly stupid primary election system. But I would say
that Mam Donnie, if the Democrats end up with Mom

(01:04:54):
Donnie as a hood ornament, if he gets through, he
wins in November, and he's in New York, he is
an excellent foil for Republicans to use most of all
in congressional races. Well, they've got a New Jersey uberlatorial
race coming up this year, but certainly in congressional races
around New York, and there's a lot of congressional races

(01:05:16):
within let's say a sixty mile radius of New York City.
There's there are many competitive races. But even nationally, Republicans
will try to say, this is the anti Zionist, pro
tran socialist weirdo, this is who the Democratic Party is,
and for you know, eighty percent of Democrats, that's not true.

(01:05:40):
So that's that's that's the threat that Mandani represents to
his party as a whole.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
I'm giving you have an eye. I'm given rather that
you have an idea on how to fix our dumb
primary system, and I'd love to hear it.

Speaker 32 (01:05:53):
Oh yeah, Oh well, so if I could wave a
magic wand of what I would do, I would have
non partisan primaries. Well, look, if I could do anything,
I'd have smoke filled rooms and let the parties pick
their own nominees and leave the voters out of it.
But short of that, I would have non partisan or

(01:06:16):
trans partisan primaries where everybody ran in the same primary,
and then the top two finishers, regardless of party, advanced
to the general election. So in West Virginia, for example,
those statewide would very often be two Republicans, but they'd
probably be two different kinds of Republicans, and then those
Republicans would vie for the support of Democrats and independence

(01:06:41):
in the general election, helping forge a broader coalition. Closed
primaries and limited I mean, opener, closed isn't really the problem.
The problem is the partisanship of the primaries period, and
it is making us a lot of dummer.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
He's Chris star Walt. You can watch him on Sunday
mornings on News Nation with The Hill Sunday. Of course,
you can read his work over at the Hill, and
he is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
He's an author, he's a podcaster, and he's our favorite
Friday eleven six guest.

Speaker 5 (01:07:14):
Chris always appreciate it, buddy, Thank you.

Speaker 32 (01:07:17):
Heck yeah, fellas, Happy Friday.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Happy Friday to you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
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Let's bring Metro News and Jeff Jenkins back into the conversation.
Jeff right there. As we went to the news break
back at ten thirty, Governor Morrissey briefly touched on the

(01:11:35):
situation on the Turnpikes motor is stranded for over eight
hours nine hours last night.

Speaker 5 (01:11:41):
What did the Governor have.

Speaker 6 (01:11:42):
To say, Well, it sounded like he had just, you know,
worth trying to get a grasp of what it was.
He didn't want to say too much, you could tell,
and he just basically gave some general comments that they
were looking at us. So here's a couple of things
that he said, We're going to get.

Speaker 15 (01:11:57):
To the bottom of everything.

Speaker 18 (01:11:58):
I'm going to tell you that we're going to get
it's the bottom of things to make sure that everything
is done right. And if there are problems that were
decisions that were made that were bad, we're going to
make sure that we let people know about that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:11):
And then he said that one of the things he
said was the best thing or the most important thing
to him was getting the road fully open. They're still
doing some work in the right hand lane because there's
still a little water and debris, but to get the
road fully open so traffic can flow freely. And he
kind of concluded with this, we.

Speaker 15 (01:12:30):
Have to get to the bottom of that.

Speaker 18 (01:12:31):
And I'm not happy when I look and I see
the people are sitting there. That's unacceptable, and we're going
to get to the bottom and we're going to report that.

Speaker 15 (01:12:42):
Back to folks.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
Okay, so those are pretty general comments. He didn't want
to go too far. Probably he's still learning on what happened.
I think, guys kind of maybe an educated guess here
a little bit on what's I mean. There was a
lot of rain and it came off the hillside, I mean,
and it got into the road, and those are those
are steep areas. There not a lot of place for

(01:13:05):
it to go.

Speaker 15 (01:13:06):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:13:07):
Maybe the biggest thing is to come out of this
is the communication or lack thereof to the traveling public.
How do you how do you communicate that to the people.
So if you're in the traffic, you know, I don't
know the best way to do that, But you know,
how do you tell those people, hey, it's going to
be a while. I mean communications in that area. I mean,

(01:13:30):
do you go through with a loud speaker? What do
you do?

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
Remember the AM radio stations they used to have along
the freeway, right, what about something like that?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Well, yeah, or something like that. But you know, I
think that might be the biggest thing because I don't
know how you can avoid what As far as what
happened the event itself, right, I mean, it rained really
hard and it came down off the hillside, and so
for the safety you had to close the road. Now
there might be some response issues too, I mean how
quickly they responded those type of things, But it seems

(01:13:56):
like the communication because people just didn't know what was
going on or how long you heard Mitch Carmichael say
that or how long it was going to be, and
then it just keep it just kept stacking up and
stacking up and stacking up the traffic. So we'll see
where it comes. There's no loss of life, as he mentioned,
just a terrible inconvenience for people and up very upsetting

(01:14:19):
if you're sitting in traffic obviously, So we'll see. I
think we'll we'll find out some more things. And I
thought it was interesting that Mitch Carmichael said, Chuck Smith,
who we've had some dealings with here in the newsroom
because he had a high ranking position as the facilities
director of Karnak County Schools. Always have have you know,
had got along well with him here in the newsroom.
He's been you know, helped ustinal stuff over the years.

(01:14:40):
He thinks he'll do a really good job in that position.
He's coming in at the time when you know they've
got this thing going. So, uh, we'll see. We'll see
what's said in the future about this.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Again, not casting dispersions, a simple post on Twitter saying
the road is shut down here with subsequent updates of
have been dispatched. We are work that would have gone
a long way. Every like Mitch said, Everybody on the road,
almost everybody I'm certain has a smartphone, could have looked
that up, and then the word spreads like wildfire from

(01:15:12):
there on. It seems like a very simple step that
could have been taken, that would have, at the very
least you would have gone, well, and that sounds like
there's water over the road two miles up from us.
We're going to be here a while. Let's let's play
blackjack or something.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
So Dave to your point, once you get workers there,
everybody's got a smartphone, have them take two or three pictures,
pop it on Twitter so people can see, Jeff to
your point, if that water is still ring, that kind
of stuff goes a long way with folks if they
can actually see the issue that is causing the impediment
twelve miles away. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:15:43):
Well, one of the things is is that you know, Parkways,
it's its separate agency, but the kind of handles their
communications at times, not all the time, but at times
it's kind of a you know, who had does handle
the community traditionally over the years, the communications when news
comes out of Parkways, it's the executi director who talks
Yeah you know, so, I mean, well, yeah, I think

(01:16:07):
something like that. And now five to one one was
posting things, but it was the general five to one
one language that said wrote close both lanes closed.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Tell us something we don't know, you know, just it
was that.

Speaker 6 (01:16:17):
It was that type of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Dave, did you hear ownership and Morcy? I think I
heard ownership. I think I heard him saying, all right,
we'll get to the bottom of it. I think I
heard ownership. Okay, okay, I need you to go back.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
I'd have to go back and hear it again.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:16:31):
So yeah, I mean he's in Marion County. They're waiting
to hear. It's his first media briefing there after there
after the flood there so he concentrated on that. Right, fair, fair,
and uh. But he did say something about the turnpike
and and you know, probably at some point there will
be another media briefing on that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Well, he is chairman of parkways by default.

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
Yes, he is chairman of parkways.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
You're right.

Speaker 6 (01:16:52):
He usually has a dosign need to do that, but
but by default he is the chairman of the parkways authority.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
All right, Hey, Jeff, appreciate the update andinue to follow
at wv Metro News throughout the day and Dave Allen
coming up with the Metro News Midday a little bit
later on as well.

Speaker 5 (01:17:05):
Thanks Jeff, see you coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Your chance to release your steam and if you were
stuck on the turnpike last night, you probably have some
steam to release. You have the next half hour to
do it. Eight hundred and seven to sixty five. Talk
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Talk three oh four. We haven't even got to the
Supreme Court rulings that came down today. You can weigh
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(01:17:28):
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Speaker 14 (01:17:43):
West Virginia Metro News. I'm Chris Lawrence. A lot of
really upset folks after they were abruptly forced to spend
the night on the West Virginia Turnpike. What appears to
have been high water in a mudslide shut down the
northbound lanes in the area of sharing about nine thirty
last ninth, traffic backing up all the way to the
Mayhan Egg sit in Faya County, and the road didn't
reopen for almost nine hours. There has been little to

(01:18:05):
no communication from Parkway's authority about what happened, and that
has rankled on people even further, including Governor Morrissey, who
mentioned it in a press briefing last hour.

Speaker 15 (01:18:13):
We're going to get to the bottom of everything. I'm
going to tell you that we're going to get to
the bottom of.

Speaker 18 (01:18:18):
Things to make sure that everything is done right, and
if there were problems that were decisions that were made
that were bad, we're going to make sure that we'd let.

Speaker 15 (01:18:27):
People know about that.

Speaker 14 (01:18:28):
Thousands of vehicles were backed up and their occupants forced
to just sit there wondering when they would get moving.
Among them former Senate President Mitch Carmichael, who was among
the frustrated and spoke to Metro who was about three thirty.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
This morning shut down a major artery through West Virginia
for you know, six seven hours should just be unacceptable.

Speaker 14 (01:18:48):
The road has since reopened, but it's still a slow ride,
rainfall and wheeling overnight more headaches there. Phillip Stall with
the Wheeling Fire Department says, just like last time, it
was a big de ilusion, a brief period.

Speaker 21 (01:19:00):
Or record about two and a half to three inches
of rain that sell you know, kind of the witching
hour of like eight o'clock at night or something like that.

Speaker 14 (01:19:08):
You're listening to Metro and New's the voice of West Virginia.

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(01:19:31):
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Unquote.

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A messy frum the Friends of Coal.

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A rising senior at Ripley High School has her path
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I just didn't even think it was real.

Speaker 9 (01:20:25):
I thought I was just dreaming the whole thing.

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It was amazing.

Speaker 14 (01:20:29):
She was selected from a pool of fifteen finalists and
earns a full ride scholarship to West Virginia Wesley. From
the metro to Who's anchored? ESK, I'm Chris Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
I've got twenty seconds before we start Steam release, TJ.

Speaker 5 (01:21:04):
Do you know what was one year ago today?

Speaker 1 (01:21:07):
Enlighten me the now infamous Trump versus Biden debate that
changed the entire course of last year's election.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
Talk about today, Yeah, talk about a moment. You are
right on that.

Speaker 5 (01:21:19):
I just thought i'd mentioned it before Steam release. That's all.
Let's go.

Speaker 9 (01:21:25):
I want you to get up now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:28):
I want all of you to get up out of
your chest.

Speaker 12 (01:21:31):
I want you to get up right now and go
to the window, open it and stick.

Speaker 7 (01:21:36):
Your head out and yell, I'm as mad.

Speaker 14 (01:21:39):
As hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
That probably describes your feelings pretty well. If you were
stuck on the turnpike for nine hours last night. Well,
we offer this to you each week as a way
to exercise the demons. As one might say, eight hundred
and seven to sixty five. Talk is the number. Eight
hundred seven six five eight two five five. That's the

(01:22:05):
number to call. If you want to release your steam.
You can text the show at three or four Talk
three oh four. We will read all of the text teams,
or as many of them as we can get to
before the top of the hour. We absolutely love to
hear from you. Just keep a couple of things in mind.
Number one, we very much enjoy our jobs for the
most part. We like you know, every once in a

(01:22:27):
while they even compensate us for a time.

Speaker 5 (01:22:29):
We appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
We'd like to continue to do that. So please don't
get us fired, Please don't get us sued. Keep it tight,
keep it on thought. That's always appreciated. Otherwise, you can
steam about us. You can steam about anything except for
can't steam about Jake the video guy or Kyle on

(01:22:50):
the phones. They do a very very good job, and
you know what, they don't deserve unless it's a good steam.
If it's a good steam, it's okay. But otherwise take
it easy on those two. Otherwise everything else is just
about guidelines eight hundred and seven six five talk eight
hundred seven sixty five eight two five five and three
oh four talk, three oh four. Let's begin on the phones,

(01:23:13):
all right, the pressures on John and South Charleston. You
are batting, lead off, Go ahead, what's your steam?

Speaker 9 (01:23:20):
Guys, You have got to stop assuming that everybody out
here is like you, and that everybody has a smartphone.
They don't. My brother in law is eighty five years old.
He's mobile. He has a phone, but it only makes
phone calls. He was hospitalized recently, and I was trying

(01:23:43):
to arrange to get copies of his medical records. And
they said, well, all he has to do is go
on his smartphone and tap this. And I said, he
doesn't have a smartphone. They said, oh, well, and all
he has to do is go on his computer. I said,
he doesn't have a computer. He lives in Pocahontas County.
You all may or may not be aware. It's a

(01:24:05):
quiet zone over there, so please stop thinking that everybody's
like you and think about the folks who aren't.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
Thanks, guys, you are welcome, Well done, good start. John,
appreciate the call. Let's go to Tucker County and Donnie. Hey, Donnie,
what's your steam?

Speaker 4 (01:24:23):
Oh? Can we get some Porta crappers set up on
the road there the turnpike and maybe some hot dog stands?

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Donnie will take that under advisement. Eight hundred and seven
sixty five Talks. The phone number eight hundred and seven
sixty five eight two five five. That is the phone number.
You can text the show at three or four Talk
three four text teams TJ if you can compose yourself there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
I really wanted to ask him, would prefer more?

Speaker 5 (01:25:01):
Well, one might go with the other.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
I'm just saying, well, three or four talk three or four, Dave?
Is it really true elan Omar was married to her
own brother? I thought California was bad, but some all
estyles far out there? Man? Uh, do you think Mothman
is real? Perhaps a fallen angel of some type, a
demon manifestation Thank you, mister governor for your quick response

(01:25:26):
and being on the ground in Ohio County. Well done.
From a true blue Democrat, Texter says, I travel this
section of the Turnpike often. While the cell service in
that area can be spotty, there are AM and FM
radio stations that cover the area. Simple announcements could be
made on the Metro News AM stations and West Virginia

(01:25:47):
Public Broadcasting FM radio stations to let people know what
was happening. Texter says, my Steam local radio station in
Greenenbrier County isn't carrying Clay and Buck anymore. Two hours
of liberal crap and Trump hater is enough for me
from you all, three oh four Talk three oh four.
The need to shut down the interstates needs to be

(01:26:09):
reviewed and revised after safety and treating victims. Oh, they
texted again right in the middle. I hate when that happens.
I'm sorry I lost you there because of your texting. Again,
my apologies. Will someone please hold out our local news
stations accountable for their fake and unverified content. They're slowly

(01:26:32):
injecting the left agenda that clearly the West Virginia voters
have unanimously opposed. Texter says, why not set up some
signage and open the south lane to two way traffic.
Text says I'm with Donnie. We need more hot dog
stands on the turnpike and porta potties. Donnie for Governor
twenty twenty eight. Hoppy, never thought I would miss you

(01:26:56):
this much. Okay. Next ruling, the Supreme Court rules Texas's
age verification law for porn websites is constitutional and does
not violate the First Amendment. In a sixty to three
decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Claarience Thomas, the
Supreme Court upheld a Texas law regarding porn sites to

(01:27:19):
verify that users are at least eighteen years of age.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
Eight hundred and seven and sixty five talks the phone number.
Let's go back to the phones, Randy and Shady Spring.

Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
What's your steam? Randy?

Speaker 36 (01:27:31):
My steam is that turnpike. Of course, I've been driving
a truck for fifty five years. I called a turnpike
the other day. So if they have construction zone set
up and you'll see a white pickup truck sitting in
the grass with one flash of light, I told him,
I said that, don't tell you nothing, because that guy
might be out hunting butterflies. They didn't want to hear

(01:27:51):
nothing I had to say, even though I got fifty
five years experience on a highway. They just act like
I don't know nothing. They know everything, saying they're the
most arrogant bunch of people that ever was, and they
could care less about the risks.

Speaker 7 (01:28:05):
They're the worst in this nation.

Speaker 1 (01:28:08):
Randy appreciates Steam Stay safe out there on the highway.
Budd appreciated eight hundred and seven to sixty five talks.
The phone number eight hundred seven six five eight two
five five. You can text the show at three oh
four Talk three oh four. Steam Release rolls on in
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(01:32:47):
Let's continue on the phones. Greg in ONWA, what's your steam?

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Greg?

Speaker 39 (01:32:53):
Hey?

Speaker 34 (01:32:53):
Greg Riley down and Ona. Last night, as I'm slipping
through my channel as I go to the the uh,
the wonderful Fox News and across the bottom of the screen,
Trump's big, beautiful bill will create seven million jobs.

Speaker 39 (01:33:06):
First of all, the United States government doesn't create any jobs.
Companies do. People do, stockholders do, the small business owners do.
And if you read that bill, ninety one percent of
everybody who listens to this radio station will not get
any kind of a tax cut of any kind. And
tax cuts don't make jobs. It's been proven by every president,

(01:33:30):
probably since George Washington, which he didn't have tax back then.

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
Thank you, Greg, you are welcome, appreciated. Eight hundred at
seven sixty five Talk eight hundred and seven to sixty
five eight two five five to get your steam on,
just like Greg did. All right, let's get some text
teams DJ sure.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
Thing, Texter says, another step back and let down from
the out of state administration. Three zero four talk three
oh four. I think there is no denial that climate
change is here and real. This will become the norm.
This text says, I agree with Mitch. We've got to
find a way to stop these heavy rains. Three to

(01:34:07):
four talk three oh four is the text line, Dave.
After listening to Mitch this morning, I thought, what the
hell has happened in this state? The optimism, the go
getter attitude of Carmichael is non existent. If we keep
hiring low energy people with no vision for this state,
we are going to keep getting more of the same.

(01:34:27):
Bring back the visionaries and quit electing SoundBite idiots. Have
a great weekend. Text steam. They need to shut down
the interstates. Okay that sorry, that one came back in
again twice. Skip it, uh, Texter says, guys, how does
it feel to be liberals? Three oh four to talk
three all four If it was still winter, how many

(01:34:50):
people would have froze to death if they were in
electric vehicles? Like back in two thousand and nine when
the turnpike was shut down for twenty hours. Has anyone
even thought about this possible steam glaring contradiction cutting Medicaid
snap and medicare to the bone two trillion while giving
an almost three trillion dollar tax reduction with ninety percent

(01:35:12):
of this going to the top ten percent who do
not need it. So who is pretending to be worried
about the national debt? Biggest gripe today? Can't read that one?
Uh Happy Friday, boys, no steam, have a great weekend.
This texter said, Hoppy is a pioneer. I listened to
him from Inception Daily. You guys are doing a great job.

(01:35:33):
Three oho four Talk three oh four. I find it
amusing that normal people put up these travel delays. Are
put up with these travel delays all the time, but
then when a politician gets stuck in it, it's totally unacceptable.
Texter says, yes, I miss happy, but the twelve to
three slot is also in big trouble. Metronews has dropped
the ball three oh four Talk, threeh four. Diamond Dave

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and TJ the Subtle d Hobby went off the rails
after retiring could be out there searching for ron and
Nicole's real killers, but no Texter says Texter says free

(01:36:19):
Brian Cohlberger in Idaho trying to blame a white guy
for a quadruple murder just joking, could be guilty? Who
the hell knows?

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Speaker 35 (01:37:08):
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get back to some of your text. Steams let's go
to the. Phones let's go To. Charleston, sarah what is your?

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
Steam?

Speaker 40 (01:41:16):
Sarah for the person who said we need more visionaries
working for state, government la lah, blah all that. Stuff,
well if the state government would cut some of the
salaries of the fluff at the top and the state
could competitively hire people with vision people with, intelligence that

(01:41:38):
would be really. Great but right, now salaries aren't. Competitive
we're losing good employees to other states who can pay
them what they're. Worth that is, All.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
Sarah have a great. Weekend appreciate the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
Call eight hundred and seven sixty five talk eight hundred
seven to sixty five eight two five. Five let's do
some text.

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TEAMS Tj he, Says, morris don't trip over that big
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be a major loss For West. Virginia could not have
chosen a more damaging location Than davis to debut severely
FLAWED hb twenty, fourteen irreversible harm to our most valuable natural.

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Gem morrisy needs to fix this mess he created before
it's too. Late texter, Says, wow leave the voters out of.
It that was a wild slip up By steyerwaltz three
oh Four talk three oh. FOUR i would love to
find a restaurant that doesn't play. Music nothing. Ruins nothing
ruins ruins a meal worse than your least favorite songs

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blasting through the. Speakers That Chris guy said he'd have,
elections have candidates chosen by, groups and leave voters out of.
It now that's The american. Way he's the worst guest
you all have on regularly eight.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
Hundred and seven to sixty. Five talk back to the.
Phones mark In. Morgantown what is your?

Speaker 27 (01:43:00):
Mark, HEY i don't know about the Moth, man But
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here and we're at The Holly Gray park with The ames,
Team jeff And willie and Other Karen oia uh people
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and the sighting Of. Bigfoot.

Speaker 1 (01:43:24):
Here, Hey, mark BEFORE i know we're not supposed to
interact on steam. Release i'm gonna break the. Rules did
you Know Trapper?

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
John, YES i knew.

Speaker 5 (01:43:32):
Him, well we're from the same. Hometown we're.

Speaker 27 (01:43:35):
Good, yeah sorry to see him, go BUT i named
Yeah willie and Uh bill and Wild bill and Uh
jeffer here in, person like to meet you and talk
to you And stein autographs all, Right.

Speaker 5 (01:43:48):
Mark, hey have a great time downe. There appreciate.

Speaker 27 (01:43:50):
It, mark you, too all from the trophy Husband.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
Mark In, Morgantown jake and a zoom in on my
hat of wearing today you can see that which camp
there it is if you can see.

Speaker 5 (01:44:02):
THAT i BELIEVE. TJ i believe got that time lost.

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
Caverybody you're like my. Dad you know everybody though we
give it a rest up In. Georgia oh, hey it's
g H minos and they'd start a. Conversation you're just like.

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Him uh three or four talk three or four of
the text line eight hundred and seven sixty five talk
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phone number textor, says no roundabouts In Putnam, county no
experiments In day's.

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Valley how unbelievably.

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Despicable how far In New York city has fallen away
in one generation from losing two point nine seven seven
souls in one hundred two minutes In, oh that's a
comment two nine hundred and seventy seven souls and one
hundred two minutes On september eleventh by a Radical islamist
to electing a Radical islamist for. Mayor and, YES i
know it was the, primaries but you know.

Speaker 5 (01:44:53):
This evil is going to.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
Win so government doesn't create, jobs businesses, Due but if
corporations our, people and our government is of the, people
by the, people for the, people and then corporations have
taken over the government to benefit, themselves time for the
rest of us to take it. Back stop buying all
the bs our corporate overlords are. Selling eat the. Rich

(01:45:15):
nice to Hear Mike Mitch carmichael on earlier hope he
seeks political office again, soon text, Team the overpowering smell
of fabuloso is What ruins restaurant meals around, here says The.
Texter all, right big thanks To Jake. Link he is

(01:45:36):
our video producer each and every. Day Kyle wiggs on
the phones today and just want to take a minute
while we have it here at the end of the
show to thank all of our friends down At West
Virginia wesley and In bukenan yesterday for The West Virginia
Scholar program and. Luncheon it was a fantastic. Day thank
you for letting us do the show from down, there

(01:45:57):
helping us. Out we got several to, meet several of the,
students got to meet and talk at length with Doctor,
moore the president At, wesley and so again thanks to
all the sponsors who were involved in that. Program very
much enjoyed being part of that this year and getting
to meet the students AND tj. Again we talked about it.
Yesterday it's very encouraging to see what some of these

(01:46:20):
seventeen year olds are up, to and certainly the winner,
Yesterday emily From, Ripley she's got a very bright, future
as do all the. Finals two are there. Yesterday they
all have very bright futures ahead of.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
THEM a job well done by all of our. Finalists
tough to pick just one and then a runner up
and a second runner. Up BUT i rest solidly in
what you. Said they all have bright, futures, enthusiastics smile
on their, faces good. Attitudes that's a winning, combination and
so look for big things out of all of those
students that we met yesterday At West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
Wesleyan coming up on many of these Same metro news radio.
Stations it'll Be Metro news, midday more on The turnpike.

Speaker 5 (01:46:57):
Turmoil over.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
Night we'll have the latest throughout the, afternoons and of
course over at the WEBSITE wdv metronews dot. Com have
a great, WEEKEND tj AND i will be Back monday
morning at ten oh. Six we got a lot to
get to that we couldn't even get to. TODAY i
had a lot of breaking news for A, friday for
the whole.

Speaker 5 (01:47:14):
Gang I'm. Dave thanks for.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
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