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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Good morning, Welcome into a busy Monday, the beginning of
the end of the government shutdown. Also, we've got snow,
big weekend of sports, lots to cover. Plus we're keeping
an eye on the situation in Nicholas County. This is
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Speaker 1 (01:18):
Good morning, Welcome into the program Metro News talk Line
from the Encova Insurance studios. Hope you're having a great
start to your Monday. We've got some snow out there,
hard to believe, first shot of winter. Almost enough to
put you in the holiday spirit. Almost almost. We will
get a weather update coming up. Second hour. Joe Bricando

(01:40):
stops by a lot of sports cover mountaineers when Marshall loses.
Sun Belt soccer tournament underway, and of course we are
a soccer state. Also, the latest on the federal government
shutdown coming up. Ryan Schmels will join us. Rad McElhenny,
a busy man, will join us as well. This morning.
Lots to get to, but first say good morning to
the Cruz at Carol check on the video stream Sofia

(02:02):
wassa handling the audio and TJ. Meadows Man's the Charleston Bureau.
Good morning to you, Jay.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Good morning David. This breaking just a minute ago. Supreme
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Kim Davis, at Kentucky County Clerk, who refused to issue
same sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider
its twenty fifteen decision. They have denied that request, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
So add that to the list. A third dive team
entered the Rolling Thunder coal mine in Nicholas County last
night in hopes of locating a missing minor. That mine
was flooded on Saturday when a wall gave way, flooding
the mine along twenty Mile Creek Road near Swiss and Drendam.
The host of Metro News Midday and wowk anchor and

(02:47):
Tonight Live anchor Amanda Baron has been in Nicholas County.
She joins us on Metro News talk Line this morning. Amanda,
good morning, Thanks for joining us.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Hey guys, good morning. It's such a such a sad
situation down there, and it was just you just your
heart goes out to them and after being through you
know these before, you just can't even wrap your mind
around what that family's going through right now.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Governor Morsey is going to join us a little bit
later on for an update. But what did you find
out while you were there yesterday, Amanda.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
So it's tough to get to the mine, guys. Where
where this mine is situated. It's down a road that's
called twenty mile Creek Road, So that kind of puts
it in perspective. You can you can be right at
the foot of the mine and then if you if
you go down that road just a little bit farther,
there's a very hurl road you can kind of get
to the mine in the back. In the back way,

(03:38):
you can see that crews are there and you can
see that there is some stuff going on, but there's
nothing that we can really see, you know, from from
our line of sight, obviously we know what's happening underground
is so intense, and that these dive teams are you know,
they're not they're not diving in clear water. They're they're
diving in underground and in these pitch black can and

(04:00):
these themes that they're going into. You know, I don't
know why I didn't think of this earlier, but they're
not flat. I mean, these are caves and crevices, and
it is just a tremendous it's an extraordinary effort that
these dive teams are putting on.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
I mean, is there any word about how the dive
teams are trying to systematically search, because I would think
with all that water, you can go in for so long,
you have to come back out. You have to establish
some kind of pattern. Any word on how they're trying
to reach this individual.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Yeah, So the mine is divided up into different sections,
so they have maps of like the different sections, and
as I understand it, there's some sort of I don't
want to use the wrong terminology, but some sort of
like an underwater drone that is helping, so thank goodness
for that technology. But those dive teams can do about
six hours at a time and then they're going in
those very very specific sections.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Amanda Baron is joining us host of metrodes midday and
of course anchor on WWK thirteen and Tonight Live. Amanda,
what are the dive teams saying about how full the
mine is? Is the water all the way up to
the to the ceiling. Are there places where the missing
miner could have sought refuge?

Speaker 5 (05:07):
So my all my information is coming from the county
commissioners that were all three of them were on the
ground there last night. It was a real united front.
It was very nice to see. So in some spots
the water is like you know, for up to their
knees or ankles. In other cases it's up to like
people's chins and things like that. So it just kind
of depends on, you know what area. There's some places

(05:28):
where they can actually walk through. But you know, I
arrived at the Dixie Dollar General yesterday it was kind
of like it's the meeting spot is very rural there,
I mean, there is no service, very very rural. And
I had asked this gentleman, I was, I said, which
way do I need to go? And then he said, oh,
I was, you know, I was. I was one of

(05:49):
those miners that was down there, and he said that
the water came up to his chin and that he
wanted to stay. He wanted to stay down there and
keep helping and pumping out water and doing everything that
he could. I just can't imagine what he's going through,
but the water is significant.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Thereame thing we know about the missing individual at this point.
Role he played in the mind why he might have
been late in getting out or intentionally stayed behind.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
I don't know, there was there was You know, there's
a lot of things that people tell you when you're
down there. So I don't want to necessarily speak out
of school or or do anything to maybe reveal an
identity TJ. But I can tell you that the gentleman
that I was talking to just said that when I said,
is there anything that we can do for you at
thirteen News, Like how can we help you guys? And
he said, just please pray for him. So it's just

(06:38):
just really.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Sad Amanda Baron joining us a Metro News midday host
co host and thirteen News and tonight Live anchor three
dive teams still trying to locate the missing Nicholas County minor.
How's the community coping, Amanda.

Speaker 5 (06:53):
Everybody is just devastated, and as you might imagine, and
that's all really anyone was talking about. And people were
so nice yesterday, and before we've seen like gathering spots
where the community's kind of you know, comes together and
and waste. I didn't experience that yesterday, But I think
that there's a lot of things at play here when
it comes to just like the rural nature of the spot.

(07:14):
And and I don't think people know what to do
right now, because the commissioners had said that people were
stepping forward and wanting to bring lunch to the dive
teams and bring lunch to the other first responders and
do things like that, and so for right now they
said that they were okay, but that that pushes there
on the community's part, which is no surprise that they

(07:37):
want to get out there and help. I talked to
my coworker, talked to somebody yesterday who was just in
tears asking if they could deliver food and do whatever.
And that's just all everybody knows somebody who has worked
in the mind, who has applied to work in that mind,
was going to work in that mine. So it's exactly
what you might have what you might imagine in that situation.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Ab recapping what happened here. So an old mind wall
gave way that caused water to start coming in. From
the reporting here, it looks like the water they are
trying to pump the water out. They've got an authorization
for the dep to do that. They're trying to do
use boreholes to aid in the rescue. Any word on
the ground that how effective that would be. I'm wondering
if those pumps can even keep up the water still flowing.

(08:20):
Can you give us any idea of how that looks.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
I can't TJ, and I'm hoping that we can get
some more clarification from the Governor's office today when we're
in there. I know that those things are happening simultaneously
as they try to pump water out and then the
dive teams are going in, but I don't really have
any specifics on how that is. We know that the
flooding was about three quarters of a mile under the

(08:43):
mountain there at the Rolling Thundermine, so you just can't
with the topography. It's hard to imagine how hard those
pumps are even working to do that, to get that
water out.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Amanda. This is unfortunately not the first situation like this
we've had to cover with We've had minds, as everyone
who has family in the minds knows, this is a possibility,
and every time, I think this is a unique Appalachian trade,
and I think it's a coping mechanism. I think it's
what makes Appalachian people so tough and so unique. Wanting

(09:16):
to help the people who are helping, wanting to bring dinners,
wanting to bring food. How can we help them. I
think it's part of coping mechanism. And I think it's
a uniquely Appalachian trade because we see this, whether it
was ubb any of the other mind disasters we've covered
in our careers, that always happens, and that always I
don't know what to make of it, Amanda.

Speaker 5 (09:36):
It's amazing. I remember at Upper Big Branch there was
so much food that was brought in for all I
mean at that time we were also their twenty nine
families you know that were there. But there was so
much food that they brought it over to all of
the media, I mean international media that was there and
feeding everybody because that was what was extra and there

(09:57):
was too much for the media. So that just goes
to show you, you know, the generosity that's out there.
Upper Big Branch was a unique situation, and that there
was a Marshwork Elementary School which was right there at
the foot of the mountain and it was spring break,
so I remember they let us in and there was
a landline there and then everyone would take turns calling

(10:17):
their new station, you know, using the landline that was
there because often when these happen, it's and very remote spots.
But you know, even a phone company, I think it
was Verizon at the time, they brought in a truck
so that we had service and things like that, and
so people, so not just the media, but everybody had
more of an ability to communicate. So it's from you know,

(10:39):
the kitchen in you know, in a small community like
in Dixie, like where we were yesterday, it's from a
kitchen there to a corporation that pulls out all the
stops to make sure that people have what they need
during these difficult times. But there were crews in yesterday
from Virginia. I saw a lot about of state license
plates flying up to that mine, so, you know, and
every time you see a car come down from the

(11:00):
mine entrance, you're just hoping that, you know, maybe that's
the time you're going to get word. But they're all
of the crews are you know, they're up there. They're
and they're doing exactly what they need to be doing
methodically to make sure that they're they're leaving no crevice unchecked.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Guys, I don't know what I don't know, but uh,
you know, the weather's not the greatest here in Charleston.
It's snow flurrying. I would think Nicholas County, higher elevations
might even gotten some more profound snow. I mean, I
would think that doesn't necessarily help the effort out, It
would just make it that much tougher.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yeah, it's just cold, and you just worry. It's already
cold in the mind when you when you're down there,
and then you know, dealing with that water and and
all of that. And last night, is I was leaving,
it was probably around eight o'clock. As I was leaving,
you could just feel the temperature dropping and you could
feel and it was raining also, so the weather was
was definitely on its way and I'm not sure what
it looks like there right now, but yeah, it's it

(11:54):
just complicates things because it's not an easy spot to
get to. If you know where you're going, it's fine,
but it's not an easy spot to get to.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
Amanda Baron, co host of Metro News, Midday thirteen News
and Tonight Live anchor, with the latest from Nicholas County
on the search for the missing minor. Amanda, thank you
very much. We'll keep updated as the day goes on.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Thank you, guys. I'll talk to you later.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Absolutely. Coming up, we'll go to Washington, d C. The
end is in sight for the government shutdown. Ryan Schmells
will have the latest from Capitol Hill. This is Metro
News talk Line from the Encobe Insurance Studios.

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Speaker 1 (13:48):
Text lines wide open three or four Talk three oh four.
That is the text number. You can always give us
a call at eight hundred seven sixty five Talk eight
hundred seven sixty five eight two five five A scheduled
to speak with Governor Morrissey. He'll join us about ten
forty five. Get the latest on the search for that
missing miner in Nicholas County. The governor was on CBS

(14:09):
Face the Nation yesterday. Brad mclhenny at a recap of
that discussion that's posted for you over at the website
wv metronews dot com. Texture says, I'm a certified MIND
foreman and former UMWA Safety Committee I can tell you
that the law prohibits the impounding of water underground. If
that was an underground wall that gave way, this is

(14:31):
something that should have should have been prevented by MIND
management and the site and state and federal agencies. Naturally.
I do not have firsthand knowledge of what happened, but
it should not have happened, says the Texter. Well, certainly
there will be imshaw. There will be investigations into what
happened there in Nicholas County that'll be secondary to locating

(14:51):
the missing minor, still some three thousand feet underground. Late
last night, news started to break that there was a
deal and the government shutdown maybe coming to an end.
That looks like the end is insight. Fox News Radio
is Ryan Schmels joins us from Washington.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
D C.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Ryan, Good morning, what's the latest in DC, OH?

Speaker 8 (15:14):
Man, Well, yeah, the end is in sight. The light
is at the end of the tunnel. Now, all it
really has to happen is that the Senate needs to
vote on final passage for this agreement, and then they
can call the House back, which Speaker Johnson says he
is going to do as soon as the Senate passes
it's bill, and then they can vote on final passage

(15:36):
and the government will be funded until late January.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
So, Ryan, the eight Dems that came over to join
Republicans to make this happen, what do they get?

Speaker 8 (15:46):
Well, yeah, Hill, let me give me a little good here.
So thing is that there's a lot to talk about
who the winners and losers are here. Well, you know,
someone pointed out that maybe the winners of this whole
thing could be the three Democrats who are voting with
Republicans this entire time, because you know, initially they were
just on board with a clean extension of government funding

(16:07):
until late November. Well, now they get to extend biden
Ara spending levels until late January. They get guarantees that
these fired federal workers will get put back on the
job and get back pay. And they can also argue
that they could also argue that, look, they got the
Appropriations bill done, and they got a guarantee on a

(16:28):
vote on the Affordable Care Act tax threads, which you
know was not a deal on the table before. But
at the same time, you know there might be there.
The progressive wing of the party is absolutely furious about this.
I mean, Chuck Schumer is facing calls to be removed,
even from from Roecana, the Democrat in California, even though
Schumer voted no on the cr from yesterday, but I

(16:50):
hadn't stopped people from saying that the Senate failed to
fail the whole the line again, Fox News Radios.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Ryan Schmel's joining us. Ryan, I understand why they would
be upset publicly. Are they upset privately?

Speaker 8 (17:04):
I mean, I think there are some who are who
are happy that, you know, the shutdown is going to
be over, no doubt about that. But I mean, if
I go off of the text messages I've got yesterday,
not from members but from dem operatives, I mean, you know,
there were f words given to me about how they
feel about Chuck Schumer and some of these other Senate Democrats.
So there's definitely a lot of anger going on from

(17:28):
the progressive wing. I felt like it seems like they
were hoping that they get a little bit more out
of this, and they felt like they did not get that.
And you know, Hakeem Jefferies is going to speak a
little bit later on today. Well, last time he had
a press conference in a similar circumstance, it was kind
of a mess and he dodged several questions about Chuck
Schumer and and got pelted by the press over this.

(17:50):
So we'll see if he does that this time.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
Is that an opportunity ryan for him to emerge as
a true Democratic leader? There was a pull of the
weekend from Politico the Plurality say of the poll, the
largest voter group said twenty one percent of Democrats can't
identify who their leader is. Is this an opportunity for
Hakeem Jeffries to distance himself and put him in that position.

Speaker 8 (18:11):
I think it is. You know, it seems like Democrats
have a pretty unified front around him, even from the
centrist and the party the more moderate members, you don't
really see that dissension. You know, maybe they will always
vote with their leadership, but for the most part, it
seems like they have a unified front. Around who their
leader is on the House side, which is Hakeem Jeffries.
It's been a little bit different on the Senate side

(18:32):
and how House members view you know, Schumer and everything.
I mean, the Senate Democrats were under the microscope going
into this battle. They're still going to very much gonna
be under the microscope. So the progressive you know, and
the and the old guard debate that that the Democrats
are having, that's not going anywhere anytime soon, not at all.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Fox News Radio is Ryan Schmel speaker Johnson A speaker
Mike Johnson was at the podium just a few minutes ago.
What did he have to say this morning?

Speaker 8 (19:01):
Pretty much? I think you reiterated that the House is
going to be back in session now. I was on
a different call during that press conference, so I missed
the exact logistics of what he said. Because of one
of the big questions of this whole thing, if she
brings the House back, is going to be a are
you finally going to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the congressman
elect from Arizona, And b well, what's going to happen

(19:24):
with the Epstein files now? Because when she gets sworn
in She's going to be the final signature on the
petition to bring the Epstein Files Bill to the floor,
So it looks like that's going to be voted on
pretty quickly. So, I mean, there's already a number of
big storylines that are going to kind of emerge as
the fallout from the government shutdown, which is, you know,
we're going to go right back to talking about Epstein,

(19:45):
and also you know there's going to be about the
future of the Democratic Party once again.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Well, Johnson's going to have a tall order as well,
just with this legislation, because I'm guessing guys like MASSI
are going to vote no. Marjorie Taylor Green has been
out there beating the path talking about how disappointed she
is in no healthcare extension, et cetera. Is can he
get to the magic number if all the dams say.

Speaker 8 (20:05):
No, oh yeah, oh yeah. Well, and I don't think
there's any guarante. I don't think there's any guarantee that
every damn says no, you'll at least get one Democrat,
which was Jared Golden from Maine. He was the only
Democrat to vote for this for the cr the last time,
So you at least get one, and it seems like
Republicans are relatively unified around around around getting this done.

(20:25):
So I don't know if there's going to be much
dissension on the Republican side. If there is, yes, that
could put this bill in jeopardy, but I haven't got
an indication that's going to be the case yet. Keep
in mind, just but every single Republican except for Rand
Paul voted for this in the Senate last night, So
there's at least some signs and yes. While those like
Marjorie Taylor Green and from others might say, Okay, we

(20:48):
need to do something about healthcare, a lot of them
have been unified from the front. Even those who support
extending to healthcare the tax credits, all of them have
been unified and saying that this is not something that
should be a part of a government funding negotiation. This
should be something that's dealt with separately and there should
be reforms that are considered. And I think MTG is
one of the people who does agree with that.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Fox News Radios Ryan Schmels, looks like the end is
in sight for the government shutdown now and it's forty
first day. Ryan, Thank you very much. Appreciate the update.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
Hey, of course, thank you.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Coming up, We'll open up the text line three h
four Talk three oh four your opportunity to weigh in.
We'll also open up the phone lines at eight hundred
and seven to sixty five. Talk eight hundred seven sixty
five eight two five five schedule to speak with Governor Morrissey.
Get the latest on the search for the missing minor
in the Rolling thunder Mine in Nicholas County. A little
bit later on Brad McElhinney will stop by in the

(21:40):
second hour. This is Metro News talk Line from the
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It is ten thirty time to get a news update.
Let's check in on the Metro News radio network. Find
out what's happening across West Virginia.

Speaker 9 (21:56):
West Virginia Metro News in Jeff Jenkins. Dive team searching
for a missing coal miner Nicholas County can walk through
the water in some areas of the flooded Rolling thunder Mine,
but in other areas the waters above their heads. Nicholas
County Commissioner Grett Cole says the dive team work is
part of a comprehensive rescue plan.

Speaker 10 (22:12):
We're doing such an excellent job mobilizing resources, putting pieces
together and taking it down the mine.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I'm getting to him as fast as they can.

Speaker 9 (22:19):
Crews have not been able to make contact with the
missing minor. The federal government shutdown may now be just
hours away from ending. There were procedural votes in the
Senate overnight, with now enough Democrats coming over to the
Republican measure to resume government funding. Governor Patrick Morrissey appearing
on Face the National CBS Sunday, saying the Trump administration
is helping the state where it can.

Speaker 7 (22:38):
They've been very supportive a lot of the efforts that
we're taking to make sure that people don't get hungry.
That's the ultimate goal we have to make sure we're
protecting our people.

Speaker 9 (22:48):
Today's day forty one of the shutdown. Charleston firefighters say
two people were pulled to safety this morning at a
large industrial type building fire on the city's west side.
They suffer from smoke in elation and firefighters use a
ladder truck to battle that blaze, and it looks like
that building will be torn down. Today's schedule for demolition
because the fire left it unstable. Read more at wv

(23:11):
Metronews dot com. And the cold, snowy weather today should
help efforts put out that fire that's been burning in
the Monongahita National Force in Pendleton County since last week.
You're listening to Metro News for forty years, the Voice
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Speaker 9 (24:22):
A Marshall County man in an Ohio County woman. Are
the victims in a head on crash on Interstate seventy
in Washington County, Pennsylvania. That collision came Friday evening, not
far from the West Virginia line. One of the victims
from Glendale, the other from Wheeling. You can readmar at
our website this morning. The Barber County Board of Education
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Speaker 1 (25:11):
Welcome to your thoughts at three oh four Talk three
oh four, eight hundred and seven sixty five talk. That
is the phone number, eight hundred seven sixty five, eight
two five five. The Senate, voting late Sunday night, sixty
forty move forard with the stop gap funding bill to
reopen the government through January thirtieth. The final votes still
to come. Then the House of Representatives need to return

(25:32):
to Speaker Johnson saying during that news conference, sending out
the message to members of the House return now or
begin returning to the hill now so they can get
that done as quickly as possible. Eight Senate Democrats joining
with Republicans, including Virginia's Tim Kaine, in exchange from for
opening the government, Senate majority leader John Thune as guaranteed

(25:55):
a vote by mid December on expiring affordable care subsidies.
I think that's key language. We'll get back to that
in the moment. Let's see what else. Also getting some
deals on those rift government employees and nobody else being
let go at least until January thirtieth as part of

(26:16):
that deal. Three or four talk three or four is
the text line eight hundred seven and sixty five eight
two five five. Isn't this the inevitable outcome we were
going to get to anyway?

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah? Too much pain, not enough pork for what you
went through to get it. I mean they could have
had this on day one. Republicans said, I will give
you a vote. Forty days of nothing, no government function,
and this is where you end up. I tell you
the silver lining out of this. Chuck Schumer's gone. He lost,
plain and simple, audio see you later. If Democrats and

(26:48):
Hakeem Jeffers is in the driver's seat in my opinion,
if he doesn't step forward and claim his spot, and
then the Senate doesn't do something with Schumer, I mean,
it's a missed opportunity if you're a Democrat, Chuck Schue.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Is that you called it a silver lining? Chuck Schumer's
an old school type of politician though that we so
often yearn for, aren't we? Isn't he? Isn't he the
old school kind of cut the deal in the back
room type of guy rather than the play case. He's
pandering to the base now because he cut the deal
in the back room the last time and he got
spanked for it.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Well, maybe he used to be a deal cutter and
that's what he should have done this time. I mean,
the end results in result, nobody cares how you get there.
People remember what happened, and I mean he looks like
a loser.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Out of this. See that's the thing. I don't think
anybody will remember. We had to be reminded there was
a thirty five day shut down in twenty eighteen. Well
it'll come up. Will it have any impact? In November
Chris Tyrewalt has written columns It says, maybe maybe not,
probably not. We'll move on to the next thing.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
What I think the base forty one days for what, Well,
that's what I'm said. Well, your points will taken. But
with the base, if this is an opportunity for a
Democrat to come forward and mark themselves as a leader
in a time where they don't have one, they don't.
I mean Donald Trump is clearly in charge of the
Republican Party. Who the heck's in charge of the Democratic Party.

(28:15):
No one knows. That's the political opportunity here. And that's
why this is different and it can't be Chuck Schumer.
He had a chance to win, He had a chance
to move this thing forward. The result was the same.
To your point, his time has come, somebody steps forward
and overshadows him.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
In the meantime, well, the government is still shut down.
It's not reopened yet. That means not benefits are not flowing.
That means there are still people in need. Brad mcklhenny
has a very detailed story about it over at the
website wv metro news dot com. Governor Morrissey was on
Face the Nation yesterday as well, we'll talk to Brad
about that coming up top of the hour. All right,

(28:51):
let's get in some text three or four talk three
four well, well, well, says the Texter, with this shutdown
and no food stamps, I do believe that New York
City just got a taste of what their little government
run grocery stores are going to be like. Can you
say Soviet breadlines? Wake up, people. Never forget that Democrats
called all of this their leverage. All right, Dave, you

(29:14):
enthusiastically reported many times that Republicans said they would negotiate
affordable health care with Democrats. Let's all now hold our
breath and see if your Republicans keep their word. Don't
hold it too long, though health care in this country
is exorbitantly expensive, says the text. That's what they said. That,
that's what they said. And to the Texter's point, we

(29:34):
will see. Senator Capito said she was willing to negotiate
on those things on this program. They're guarantee to vote,
which I said, I think the wording there is very
interesting to you. Jay. Yeah, yeah, we'll give you a vote.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Doesn't get se passage, Yeah, it does guarantee passage. We're
talking about that thirty billion dollars. So that's what these
subsidies are. We're not talking about dealing with just the
inflationary rises that you're seeing, which is a huge chunk
of what's driving the premiums when you log onto healthcare
dots dot gov. Rather, we're talking about that thirty billion
dollars in subsidies. They'll get their vote, and if no

(30:06):
other reason, people like MGT, people like Capito, they're on
the record and want it. You'll get the vote. You
may not get the result, but you'll get the vote.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Yeah, that's always interesting. You can have a vote, doesn't
guarantee passage of that. Now, there is room there because
I do think senators such as Capito, Justice and others
realize the political reality is that their constituents are facing
those huge increases on the premiums. They need some help there.
Whether we like it or not, whether we can pay

(30:37):
for it or not. The political calculus is that is
not going to help you in the primaries or in
the general election in November. If people are paying two, three, four,
five times as much on their healthcare premiums health insurance premiums,
whether you can pay for it or not. And I
know you have pointed out many times, we can't.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
We can't. Another winner out of this state doesn't get
a lot of play. Angus King of Maine steps forward,
leads this negotiation, gets it done, gets the eight over.
He's an independent. By the way, a centrist might be
a good time to think about what camp he's in.
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Three or four talk, three or four is the text
line eight hundred and seven six five eight two five
five textas says TJ's wrong. Eight Democrats will be gone,
says the Texter.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Is that before or after they become Republicans. Angus King
and others.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
What is the proposed compromise or what is the proposed
compromise proposed? Uh? I will try to detail that quickly here. Basically,
guaranteed vote on the ACA subsidies that have been a
point of contention. Ummm, I lost the sheet I was
looking at.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
You got your three appropriation bills.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Three appropriation bills in there, stop gap funding through the
thirtieth The rift employees will be restored. Back pay for
federal employees been laid off, if you want to call it.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
That threw the shutdown, which was always going to happen politically,
who wasn't going to pay them?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I think no more. Let me see no more
reductions in force until at least January thirtieth, I believe,
while they negotiate the rest of those spending bills. So
there's there's your compromise, which again, this was we could
have done this forty days ago, could have done it
forty days ago. Your thoughts were welcome. Three oh four
to talk three four and eight hundred and seven sixty

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join us. We'll get the latest on the efforts in
Nicholas County to locate a missing minor after the thunder
rolling thunder mine was flooded over the weekend. We'll get
the latest from the Governor, Brad mcklehenny top of the hour,
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Speaker 1 (34:24):
Three or four Talk three or four is the text
line eight hundred seven sixty five eight two five five.
That is the phone number eight hundred and seven sixty five.
T Alk Talk Texter says Dave and TJ. Lol, don't
you think that The Democrats really understand that the Republicans
are going to vote the healthcare down for subsidies, and

(34:44):
it's a win for the Democrats, says the text. The
good thing about the government reopening, Republicans will get to
show how unserious they are about healthcare. And I wish
I could say her name properly, but I cannot. Ryan
did a good job. The new House member. We'll get
seated so the Epstein files can be released. Democrats have
opportunities for wins.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Says the Texters.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
I can't wait to talk about the Epstein files again,
three or four.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
You're excited about that.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
I know, just hey, if I release them, just release
them so we can all see them. What the heck? Dems,
We're never going to get Obamacare subsidy extensions, so just
getting a vote in the Senate is a win for
them and creates issues for Republicans moving forward. The American
people lost overall, but the issues for Republicans are coming
down the road with healthcare vote. True colors will show

(35:35):
through eight hundred and seven to sixty five talks the
phone number and three or four talk threeh four is
the text line. We'll get two more of your thoughts
coming up in just a bit. Once again, three dive
teams have continued working to try to locate a missing
Nicholas County minor. A wall separating a previous mind area
from the active mind at the Rolling Thundermine gave Way

(36:00):
that's out twenty Mile Creek Road near Swiss and dren
in the mine owned by Alpha Metallurgical Resources. Nicholas County
Commissioner Craig Chapman told Metro News that's believed the minor
could be three to four thousand feet underground. No contact
has been made with him, but efforts continue to try
to locate him. Joining us now with an update is
the Governor of the Great State of West Virginia, Governor
Patrick Morrissey. Governor Morrissey, good.

Speaker 7 (36:21):
Morning, Hey, good morning guys, Thanks for having me on.
I know this is a very challenging situation and appreciate
everyone's patient says, everyone does all things imaginable to try
to help.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Well, Governor, I know it's been a very anxious situation
in Nicholas County. Folks have been praying and been waiting,
holding out hope that this miner can be located. What
is the latest you can tell us.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Well, I'll start and just give a little bit of
information from the beginning. On Saturday afternoon, as people know,
a section of the Rolling thundermine in Nicholas County flooded
after an old mine wall was compromised and many of
the miners in were able to exit safely, but one
miner remains unaccounted for. From that time on, there's been

(37:15):
the alpha by the Office of Miners, Health Safety and Training,
the MIND Safety and Health Administration, the DP, the National
Cave Rescue Commission really to do everything to dewater the
area because there was a lot of the part of
the cave that was flooded that makes it very very

(37:36):
difficult to navigate, so to dewater it and then ultimately
to begin searches to try to find the missing minor,
and so that has proceeded. There have been multiple diving
teams that have gone down. It's actually a very very
difficult thing to do because you have to have people
that are very skilled at diving, which represents a different

(38:00):
skill set than some of the MIND Rescue staff that
normally are engaged in a process like this. So part
of what I've been on the phone with is talking
to different people across the country and some of the
folks in the federal government of finding more people with
the kind of expertise who could both be engaged in
the diving aspect of it and the mind rescue side

(38:24):
of the equation. And then of course there are a
lot of really difficult environmental challenges on the ground with
respect to the level of oxygen that's available in some
of the crevices and the open spots where someone may
be able to breathe. So those two dives, the diving

(38:44):
teams had gone down and they have not located the
missing minor. The efforts continue right now. A lot of
the focuses on draining the water to obviously them be
in a position where it'll be easier to identify the person,
but we're still doing everything we can to locate them.

(39:05):
We have not located the individual. We don't have additional
information or a timeline other than the dewatering process is
very aggressive, but that does take some time. It also
includes the drilling of a new hole to make sure
that more of the water can get released, and also

(39:27):
we can send more people down to operate safely. But
we have to do this in a safe manner while
being very aggressive to try to save someone's life.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
Given what the dive teams have been able to do, Governor,
can you give us a sense of how much of
the mind I guess that they've cleared, so to speak,
or that they've searched and they've ruled out that the
minor is not present in the areas where they've already been.
How much area do they still have to cover.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
They have been able to cover. I think a significant
portion of it TJ. I don't know that I have
a certain percentage, but a lot of times when these
divers have gone down, they're down for hours and they're
doing a lot of the search work, and they're really
their efforts have been focusing on some of the areas
of the cave where someone could survive, right where there

(40:14):
would be pockets of air that were available, and so
they've covered a lot of the ground, but there's still
other areas that need to be covered. And so obviously,
as we continue to get information, we're going to let
people know, and as the water levels go down, that's
going to make things easier. Once again, the biggest challenge

(40:35):
has been you need to send people down and dive,
but when you do that, a lot of the traditional
search equipment used form mine rescue can't kind of go
through the water. And I probably can't explain all of
that right now on the radio, but I can tell
you that all of us have been very aggressive, and

(40:56):
you know, we've reached out to all of the potential
experts nationally. We've talked to different people through our networks
with the Secretary of Army, the Guard and others to
identify people that might be able to help.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Governor Patrick Morrissey joining us on Metro News talk line, Governor,
what can you tell us about the miner who is
still unaccounted for?

Speaker 7 (41:18):
You know, because this is an ongoing search, I can
say that, you know, we're not in a position to
release the name, and I don't think that would be
fair to the family or to the community. But I
can say that we are doing everything we can and
we know that, you know, we have a very individual
and someone who people think very highly of, and we're

(41:41):
going to do everything we can to make sure that
there's no state resource that's not going to go at this.
And as I mentioned, I reached out to the federal
government as well, trying to get their support, and I've
been in very close communication with the company and some
of the people on the ground. But we're going to

(42:01):
keep treating this that this is an active search and
rescue mission. I'm not going to speculate in terms of
what happens or the condition he may be in, but
i can tell you that we're doing everything we can
to try to find him.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
Is there any hypothesis as to why the other miners
were able to escape and this miner was not. Was
he in a different section working alone? Just trying to
understand if there's any intelligence about why the others got
out and he didn't.

Speaker 7 (42:33):
Yeah, I mean, first of all, thank god that the
other miners did get out, and we're really pleased about that.
I mean, there are teach As you might imagine, there's
always speculation about it. I'm going to hold on this
speculation until after this is done to get a better
sense when there's a more formal review and investigation in

(42:54):
terms of what's happened. So right now, literally all of
our efforts have been focused on can we look through
all the potential places that this person may be And
we know that time is really really critical because there's
a lot that we don't know. As you might imagine
it's incredibly dark down there and so dangerous gases and

(43:19):
a lot of tough circumstances. So that's been really a
big part of our focus.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Governor and Patrick Morrissey with the latest on the search
efforts for the missing minor in Nicholas County. Governor, we
appreciate the update and our thoughts and prayers certainly with
everyone there in Nicholas County this morning.

Speaker 7 (43:35):
Yeah, guys, thank you. Prayers to everyone, not only the
people on the ground and the missing minor, but we
have so many people that are stepping up in state,
out of state. I mean, some of the dive teams
have come from other places because there's really unique expertise
you're trying to leverage. And I want to thank everyone

(43:57):
from the bottom of my heart. People are doing everything
imaginable to be helpful.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Governor, Patrick Morrison, Governor, thank you so much. We appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (44:05):
Hey, thank you.

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(48:01):
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bottom of the hour. A ton of sports to go over,
including the Mountain State Derby Part two coming up in
the Sunbelt Conference soccer tournament. We'll talk to Joe by
the hour. And of course we barely we haven't even
mentioned the snow. Hardly snow coming down in parts of
the state today. Where is it snowing? Not so much
here in Morgantown there was some snow this morning. It

(48:45):
looks like we're out of the snowband here. What about
the Kanal Valley tj Any snow down your way this.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Morning, Flories, I mean, you know, look the yard was
covered nothing sticking to the roads. However, you know, deeper
in Southernwest Virginia, I noted and this is new on me, Dave.
I guess they do three hours delays. Now, have you
heard of this? Yes, okay, so we're doing three hour delays.
A couple of counties did that. But you know, when
we were kids, you just went, dude, I mean you
just went.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Yeah, our parents made fun of us for being soft
twenty five thirty years ago. It all comes around, is
that what you're a you know, yes, yes, it all
comes around. It all comes around. But I know there's
some of the mountain counties. The ski resorts love this.
Oh yeah, they love this.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
You know.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
Well, we might have to check in with our buddy
Joe Stevens see how the ski resorts are handling, because
if they can get snow ToJ you know, Thanksgiving weekend
coming up, that's always an early if they can get
some snow on the mountains up there.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Yeah, I think was it a couple of weeks ago
there was snow up at Snowshoe.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
I believe I saw some pictures.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
Yeah, and maybe I don't know when they start laying
the base down, but if they happened to have gotten
somewhat of a base and then picked up some snow.
Then yeah, they're in good shape.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
I got a couple of friends that live over in
Preston County, which is, you know, might as well be
on the other side of the planet. Once you get
up on the top of the mountains over there. They
we've had some snow. So if it's snowing where you are,
let us know. Three or four talk three or four,
eight hundred and seven six five eight two five five.
I think the lights just flickered in the studio and
that was a little bit freaky. That can't be good
if the lights go out and you're on your own meadows.

(50:14):
All right, I'm out of here.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
I don't know how that would work. With the way
this program is engineered. Morgantown's kind of critical to the operation.
You got a point, You've got a point. I'll just
keep talking. Maybe they'll hear me, maybe they won't.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
All right, Brad mcilheady, Joe Barcado going to join us
and Jeff Curtis. Joe Curtis, We've got a lot of
Joe's today. A little bit later on we'll get some
details on the weather. We just spoke to Governor Morrissey
a few minutes ago getting an update on that search
for the missing minor in Nicholas County at the Rolling
Thunder mime for more on how the community is handling
all of this. Joining us now on Metro News talk

(50:47):
Line is Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole, Commissioner, Good morning,
and thank you for joining us.

Speaker 10 (50:53):
Good morning, and thank you all for the needed coverage
on this situation.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Absolutely. We talked to Amanda Baron, who's of course co
host to mentioned who's Midday and thirteen News Live and
West Virginia Live Tonight anchor. She joined us earlier. Governor
Morrissey had an update, but Commissioner, how are folks there
in the community handling this situation with all of the
uncertainty swirling around the mind right at the moment.

Speaker 10 (51:17):
Well, in one quick note, I do want to say
that Governor Morrissey has done an excellent job pullying every
resource he can even imagine to pull into this. We
were down in front of the mine yesterday with Amanda
Baron and some other reporters and just to see all
of the different resources in and out of the state
has been impressive and I'm sure that the family and
the community appreciate that, and really, you know, we haven't

(51:40):
had anything like this in Nicholas County for some time.
But it seems like it's just such a horrible waiting game.

Speaker 8 (51:46):
You know.

Speaker 10 (51:46):
You obviously there are resources going in and out of
the mind, the mind that the dive crews are working
through what they can work through, but it's just a
tedious process and the community is just i mean, they're
reaching out in droves of what can we bring, Can
we feed them, can we bring them tents and heaters
to keep them warm in this snow which we do
have in Nicholas County today, and you know, just wanting

(52:08):
to do everything they can, even just for the first responders,
let alone the family. But you know, alpha the resources
on the ground, everyone is doing great on seeming to
keep up with the situation and take care of what
needs to be taken care of. But again, we're all
just kind of waiting. It seems like hour by hour
of is there anything that we can do? Is there

(52:29):
anything that we can do? And so far everything seems
to have went smooth and went well, and we're just
in this waiting period.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Commissioner do you know, if the dive teams are back
underground now. I think Amanda Baron told us there's a
six hour window that you need to come in and out.
Just curious if you can tell us what exactly is
happening on the ground at this moment.

Speaker 10 (52:48):
Honestly, as of this morning, I would have to defer
to the governor just to make sure that you know
the appropriate information is getting out. But to my understanding,
there is a rotation that is there to be in
play depending on the findings of the previous dife crew,
and so I know resources there are stand by and
then when necessary and when called upon, they're ready to jump.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
Talking to Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole joining us here
on Metro News talk line, are churches getting involved, community
organizations just trying to be there for each other at
this point.

Speaker 10 (53:23):
Yes, And that's the large portion of the outreach that
we have received and forwarded to our Nicholas County Homeland
Security Director to get to the state resources and Emergency
Management offices to just know that we're on standby if
anything comes up, they're ready to mobilize, and you know,
fortunately in a way, you know these resources haven't been

(53:44):
caught on yet, but there have probably been at least
five to ten groups and then multiple, multiple, multiple individuals
just ready to jump whenever the opportunity arises, just to
give a helping hand, as all West Virginians are good
at doing there on.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
The ground at the command side, the staging area. I'm
just curious what kind of conversations you know, because in
a time like this, you hit on it. You're waiting,
You're waiting, you're waiting. What are you hearing as people
wait together? What are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (54:15):
Well, I can tell you it seems to be extremely
smooth operation. It truly does seem that everyone you know,
in the midst of all of this chaos, because I mean,
you have the weather, you obviously have the circumstances of
the miner, that everybody's rushing to get to the resources
that are having to be pulled in not just manpower
but also materials with the like the governor mentioned, you know,

(54:35):
the letting of the water to get it down to
where they can get in there quicker. And so really
it's just all these resources working in tandem. And I
will say, from the top to the bottom, from our understanding,
there's a level of calmness that I appreciate and I
hope that we could all appreciate that. You know, now
one is making drastic decisions. Everybody's keeping everything safe, and

(54:56):
it seems to be progressing very well, just as the
process itself will let it progress.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
Commissioner Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole joining us here on
Metro News talk line. Can you describe the location a
little bit for folks who are unfamiliar with the area,
and the mine's along a road called twenty Mile Creek Road,
which you know here in West Virginia, we tend to
name things very accurately, just gives folks a sense of
where this is located.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
So this is in a larger mining area. You would say,
you know, you're surrounded by Jerry's Wark mine, you're surrounded
by other Alpha mines, but really it's kind of accessed
from the belv Swiss area. There was some mention of
the Drennan area, but that's a little farther away at
the other mining areas. But it's accessed by Drennan and
it's close to a small community in Nicholas County that's

(55:46):
unincorporated called Vaughan and really it's just up in the
we'll call it the northwest corner of Nicholas County where
it's all mines. I mean, there's not a lot of communities,
there's not a lot of residents. It's in a very
remote area, which also causes a little bit of challenge
on getting these resources to the right place. But it's
also well contained in a manner that you know, frankly,

(56:09):
situations like this, you have a lot of people that
just want to come look, but it's able to be
you know, separated from that to where the professionals can
have their space to do what they need to do.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
When we talk about that particular mind for those of
us that are unfamiliar with that industry, haven't spent a
lot of time underground, I'm curious, do we have a
sense that water was behind that wall? Do we know
or had that built up over time and folks were unaware.
I'm curious as to what extent the knowledge of the
water was known and if there's any idea how much

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water we're dealing with.

Speaker 10 (56:44):
Well, and frankly, there's been a lot of speculation and
you know, as the governor mentioned, actually you know there'll
be investigations to prove the different concepts and theories that
will come out of this, but there are there is
speculation that this is potentially old mind works from the sixties,
possibly seventies, and you can imagine old mind works that

(57:06):
have sat idle for that long. If they're collecting water
and that's not being addressed from the other mining complex,
you know, that's going to be a lot of water
to be very forceful to come into this mine. But
I mean it could even just be a matter of
an underground and aquifer. But to everything that we've heard,
and you know, of course reports will prove later that

(57:28):
this was a very substantial amount of water that came
very quickly. And kudos, prayers and appreciation to the miners
that did get out as well as the miners that
we're still after here because they had to move fast,
and really it seems that they did a very good job.
We just have one man that we still need to get.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Nicholas County Commissioner Garrick Cole. Our thoughts and prayers obviously
with those folks with you all in Nicholas County this morning,
and hopefully it's the outcome. We're all praying for Thank
you very much for the update this morning.

Speaker 10 (57:59):
Yeah, yes, thank you all here.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Cole Nicholas County Commissioner there. When we come back, we'll
be joined by Brad mclehenny. We'll get an update. Governor
Morrisey was on Face the Nation yesterday. Plus there's a
hearing later today in Canawa County Circuit Court once again
regarding the National Guard deployment to Washington, d C. Brad
joins us. Next, it's talk line from the Enco Insurance Studios.

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Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Three h four Talk three oh four. How about the
viral video of Wheeling Parks six foot one, three hundred
and twenty pound lineman A King Davis plowing through sixty
yards of John Marshall players Friday night. It's been dubbed
the Thick six and has been covered by The New
York Post and even was shout out on ESPN's College
Game Day. Give him the ball more yelled at Pat McAfee,

(01:00:28):
who later responded to the viral moment on his x account.
We're in the playoff season, let's get him at fullback.
Coach Rod. Coach Rod says the Texter I did see
the video. Lineman's dream absolutely just makes your heart glow.
Every lineman dreams about that opportunity. Right there, you're dragging

(01:00:48):
guys down the field, and the King Davis did that,
and he's getting a ton he's going viral. He's going viral,
which we all aspire to do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
You might think that the millions that that Pat has
given the universe, you know, if he's asking Rich Rod,
I mean, you know, at some point one hand washes
the other.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Right, I saw him speaking to McAfee and his millions.
He's already said he's got to be careful. Game day's
are going to be in Pittsburgh this weekend, just you know,
yards from the casino there, and McAfee said he whill
have to be very disciplined to where that field goal
try that the guys try during game day might be
a twenty five dollars field goal try something like that,

(01:01:26):
he tweeted out.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
So somebody tried to get me to put a bet
last week on whether or not McAfee would keep his
shirt on during game Day, and I'm like, no, bet
who would take that?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Didn't I didn't get to see game Day. I was
working this week. I'm sure I did take a shirt
off this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
You know, I don't know. Because YouTube, TV and ESPN
and still aren't getting along. I don't believe. So I've
been handicapped for a while.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Three or four talk three or four is the text line.
By the way, just received a note a Keen Davis
will be on Met your new sports line tonight Kyle Wiggs,
Brad Howe and the crew. So there you get a
little tease for the program tonight. Speaking of viral sensations
joining us mentioned new state. My correspondent Brad macklelhinny this morning. Brad,
good morning, Oh Hi, good morning.

Speaker 18 (01:02:08):
Please to see you. You said viral. I thought we
were not talking about vaccines today. That was onder the
impression of no vaccines, no.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Vaccines today, viral. We will get to court though in
just a moment.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Thank god. We can still laugh a little bit though.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Fellas yesterday Governor Morrisey on CBS Face the Nation was
on talking about snap benefits. What did Governor Morrisey have
to say, Brad?

Speaker 18 (01:02:35):
So, I mean the context of the question, there were
two questions asked. Mostly it was about the disruption to
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, so generally, there was a
question about our West Virginians, who at about a sixteen
percent pace require SNAP benefits, need them to get by

(01:02:58):
our people getting the resources they need in terms of food.
The second question was, I mean, it's really been back
and forth with the federal government and its guidance over
the last few weeks on SNAP, and the most recent
one was for the states like Maryland and Virginia surrounding
states that had decided to use state funds just to

(01:03:18):
load SNAP Benefits cards. The administration was saying, look, you
can't do that. You can't use state funds for SNAP,
for one, and if you do, we're going to penalize you.
Governor Morrissey was asked about that, in addition to the
broader picture and in general praise the Trump administration and

(01:03:39):
its handling of both the shutdown and SNAP.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
More specifically, is that unexpected? I mean, I think the
question could have been what color is the sky? Trump
is great? Go Trump? I mean, that's what we were
going to get back, right.

Speaker 18 (01:03:57):
I thought politically it was the answer that you would expect,
you know, and on these programs you're very familiar. You
only get a certain amount of time with the guests.
I thought Governor Morrissey studiously did not answer the question. Uh,
you feel the pain of that, and you know, then
the segment was over. He talked about a lot of

(01:04:17):
other things. In fairness to the governor, you know, you
had him on today about the search for the minor,
and he had been I think up and focused on
that issue, but to my ear, did not actually really
answer the question about snap mechano.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
State Wide correspondent Brad Macklelheney joining us here Metro News
talk Line in conjunction with that, Brad, you were out,
So we've got a story post at wv metronews dot com.
What's the real world impact here? We can talk about
funded not whether we release money. But you went out
to see what the real world impact is. What did
you find?

Speaker 18 (01:04:53):
Yeah, I was in Jefferson County on Friday for a
food drive and then I stopped off at the food
pantry that is benefiting from the food drive. That is
one of the things that is happening all across West Virginia.
I felt like it was representative because West Virginias have
poured out their hearts and their resources to help those

(01:05:13):
who are in need right now. But also there is
a significant need.

Speaker 1 (01:05:19):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:05:19):
We've made that QR code to donate available on our website,
the Governor's asked for people to chip in. But it's
been a real need across West Virginia. I thought Jefferson County,
which is where I was, stood out in part because
it's got the same snap need as the rest of
the state, the same level of people who did not
get their benefits at the start of November, who are

(01:05:41):
now relying on their local food pantries. But the Eastern
Painhandle has an additional pressure, not that it doesn't exist
in the rest of the state, but a higher percentage
of federal workers who've been furloughed or not getting paychecks,
and so it's really been a double whammy in the
Eastern Painhandle. I wound up this was a food drive

(01:06:03):
for boy. Let me make sure I get the name
of the organization correctly, the Jefferson County Community Ministries. I
showed up unannounced. They were very welcoming to me, but
in no uncertain terms described just really almost a doubling
of the number of people that have come in the

(01:06:25):
amount of food that they have needed to provide starting
last month, starting before the snap situation even hit. Just
an incredible increase on the need being provided by that organization.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
Brad, I want to pivot to Judge Richard Lindsay's courtroom.
We're back today. We're talking the guard in DC. What
do you expect? What are you watching today?

Speaker 18 (01:06:50):
Well, so this has gone on. This will be the
third hearing in this case, so I do anticipate some
ruling by Judge Lindsay today. We will say though that
this question whether various state national guards can be assigned
to d C or wherever. It's being heard in courtrooms

(01:07:11):
across the country, including at the federal level. The judges
so far who've heard these arguments have been very cautious.
There is a case in d C where this is
a federal case. The judges has heard all the evidence
and is still taking some time to rule. So it's
possible Judge Lindsay gets to the end of the arguments

(01:07:31):
today and still says, all right, I need your findings
of fact and your conclusions of law, and I'll take
it and consider it. But the National Guard three hundred
to four hundred West Virginian still on patrol in d C.
That may last now, we believe into February. And in
addition to the areas of law being considered both at

(01:07:53):
the federal and state level, I think it's a question
of resources. You know, the National Guard is also doing
this duty with the who drives across West Virginia. Is
it a good idea to send three hundred or four
hundred West Virginians essentially for six months to Washington DC.
Those people have families, they have jobs, They could be
used for other reasons in West Virginia. I think that,

(01:08:17):
aside from the area of law, there's a use of
resources question here as well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Met New State Wine correspondent Brad mclelhenny, you can read
his story on Governor Morrissey CBS appearance and what he
found at those food pantries over wv metro news dot com.
We've also got the QR code on the front page
of the website so you can donate to the Facing
Hunger Food Bank or Mountaineer Food Bank as well. Brad
always appreciate it good stories at the website and we

(01:08:43):
look forward to seeing what happens this afternoon. Hey, thanks
metch New State Wine correspondent Brad mclhenny, hardest working man
in sports media, will join us next Joe Bricado. Big
weekend for the Mountaineers on the football field, on the
hardwood and the pitch. Plus high school football football playoff
ratings are set. This is talk line on Metro News
for forty years, the voice of West Virginia. It is

(01:09:09):
eleven thirty. Let's get a news update with the Metro
News radio network. Find out what's happening all across the
great state of West Virginia.

Speaker 21 (01:09:17):
West Virginia Metro News.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
I'm Chris Lawrence.

Speaker 21 (01:09:20):
Difficult work continuing deep in the earth under Nicholas County
today trying to locate a missing coal miner. The man,
whose name was not released, was unaccounted for after a
sealing an old mind broke and the Rolling thunder mine
was flooded on Saturday. Since then, crews have been boring
airholes from above, pumping water from the mine, and as
a man to Baron of Metro News midday reports, dive
teams are searching those flooded entries of the mine in

(01:09:42):
hopes of locating the missing man, but it's dangerous work.

Speaker 5 (01:09:45):
We know what's happening underground is so intense, and that
these dive teams are you know, they're they're not diving
in clear water. They're they're diving in underground in these
pitch black conditions, and these these themes that they're going into,
you know, they're not flat. I mean, these are caves
and crevices, and it is just a tremendous it's an

(01:10:05):
extraordinary effort that these dive teams are putting on.

Speaker 21 (01:10:08):
The mine is owned by Alpha Metallurgical Resources. It would
appear that forest fire that began last week on federal
land and Penalding County is starting to wind down. The
latest information on the woodside fire at Cherry Grove indicates
it's about seventy five percent contained. Crews were able to
take advantage of wet cold weather over the weekend, which
enabled them to get the upper hand. Fire encompassed about
three hundred and sixty acres. Crews are now monitoring the

(01:10:31):
fire lines and beginning to work to rehab land altered
to fight the fire, and starting to pack up unneeded
equipment to be returned to its origin tomorrow. The responsibility
for the fire will be turned over to local officials.
You're listening to Matroneus for forty years, the voice of
West Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:10:48):
You guys just didn't want it bad enough.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
That should have been an easy win.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
What were you doing out there? You got a hustle.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
You could have made that play if you've been open.

Speaker 22 (01:10:58):
On the car ride home after the King, when you
think you're helping by telling me what I did wrong
and what I need to work on, Holly, here is
that I'm not good enough, that I'm supposed to be perfect,
That it's not okay to lose.

Speaker 13 (01:11:17):
On the car at home.

Speaker 16 (01:11:18):
All I need to hear.

Speaker 22 (01:11:20):
Is how much you love me and enjoy watching me play.
That my worth isn't determined by my performance, that even
on my worst day, I am worthy. That you see
me learning, growing and doing my best, and that is enough.

Speaker 13 (01:11:40):
This message presented by the WVSSAC and the West Virginia
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Speaker 21 (01:11:46):
Huntington Blaize have arrested a local man tied to the
death of his girlfriend's teenage son. Tony Eldon Lee Junior,
was arrested Sunday in the city for a range of
charges dimming from the fifteen year old's death due to
methan fhetamine intoxication from meth soul to hiz say by
Lee just a short time before he died. Back in July,
the boy was founding cardiac arrest in the twelve hundred
block of Huntington's Madison Avenue and was down on arrival

(01:12:08):
at the hospital. Lee was charged with a delivery of
a controlled substance causing death. From the Metro News anchored ESK,
I'm Chris Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
Text line is three or four Talk three of four.
Phone number is eight hundred and seven sixty five Talk
eight hundred seven sixty five eight two five five ton
of sports over the weekend, and Brad Howe told us
last week, this one's a winnable game, this one's gettable,
and the Mountaineers beats Colorado and send coach Prime home

(01:12:55):
with the loss twenty nine twenty two on Saturday. Joining
us is the heart working man in sports media Metro
New Sports. Joe Braccato, Joe, good.

Speaker 8 (01:13:04):
Morning, guys.

Speaker 23 (01:13:06):
It's an honor, a privilege, and a great responsibility to
follow Brad mclhaney in the show Rundown this morning. I'll
do my best to meet the losty standard that he
has said, we know.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
You will succeed Joe. So what stood out in the
Mountaineers win over the Buffalo Is on Saturday.

Speaker 23 (01:13:21):
I think there were a couple of points in the game,
particularly in the second half, where this one could have
gotten away from West Virginia and they were able to
see the game out and get their second consecutive victory.
You know, Scottie Fox throwing or two interceptions in a
third quarter, and you could make the argument that one
was on a fourth down play. He's trying to make
a play that maybe under normal circumstances you wouldn't try

(01:13:42):
to force in there. Another was tipped. But Colorado had
a lot of momentum in the second half, and yet
West Virginia was still able to find.

Speaker 24 (01:13:49):
A way to get the victory. And now Rich Rodriguez
brought it up in his postgame press conference that he
had the Jim Carrey paraphrasing Jim Carrey's famous line. So
you're saying, there's a chance, and there is a chance
that West Virginia can still find their way into a
bowl game. I have to do it against some pretty
tough competition with Arizona State and type of type to

(01:14:10):
close out the schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
So, Joe, I don't know if we rushed well, but
we rushed better than Colorado, I'll put it that way.

Speaker 23 (01:14:18):
Fair and I think you have to give a ton of.

Speaker 25 (01:14:20):
Credit to d Or Hubbard, who was not only wash
Jay's leading rusher in that game, but also their leading receiver.
He had that sixty five yard.

Speaker 24 (01:14:27):
Reception on the wheel route to set.

Speaker 23 (01:14:29):
Up a touchdown late in the first half. You know,
the running game int an issue just because of the
number of guys that aren't there because of a number
of injuries. You know, Jahim White was lost to injury
in game two of the season, and you're thinking going
into the year, he's going to be the guy that's
really going to carry you.

Speaker 25 (01:14:46):
But Weshrginia has been able to find some other guys
and obviously getting the quarterbacks involved enough in the run game.

Speaker 23 (01:14:50):
Scottie Box did enough there to move the sticks a
couple of times. So it rushed it well enough, I
guess is a good way to say it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
Yes, they've got highlights. Sanna recaf over at Double DV
metro news dot com yesterday at the Hope Coliseum Mountaineer
basketball stays un beating sixty nine to forty seven with
the win over Lee High and coach Coach Ross Hodge,
so that first fifteen minutes of the game probably the
best his team has played so far.

Speaker 23 (01:15:14):
Yeah, very good first half and you look at the
score line. Unlike the first two games that the Mountaineers
had against Mount Saint Mary's in their season opener and
then in game two against Campbell, West Virginia was able
to put this one out of range quickly. And I
think the biggest takeaway from Coach Odge and listening to
his postgame press conferences.

Speaker 25 (01:15:35):
After playing three games in six days to open up
the season, which is a pretty compressed opening week of
the season, he's now got a little bit of time
to get some practice time and to really work on
some things rather than necessarily prepare.

Speaker 23 (01:15:47):
Immediately for an opponent. However, that next opponent coming up
on Thursday is the toughest test on the schedule, and
Ross Hodge has been well acquainted with the West Virginia
rivalry and he'll get his first taste of that Thursday night.

Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Give me a Mountaineer who stood out on Sunday in
your mind, Joe, no.

Speaker 23 (01:16:05):
Question, Brendan Laurian and he had played well in the
first two games, certainly, but to have twenty six points
to set a new career high for him, I think
that was a very strong performance. And it's probably not
surprising that he's one of the guys that has really
stood out full Ross Hodge so far in the first
three games, because he played for Hodge in North Texas.
He and Jasper Floyd coming over and joining Hodge at WVU,

(01:16:27):
and I think although some guys have played well in spurts,
Lawrence probably through the first three games, has been your
most consistent performer.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
We also have highlights and a recap of that at
wdvmetronews dot com. Can you catch the pattern going here? Also,
the Sunbelt Conference men's soccer tournament is underway and West
Virginia had to make a comeback against ODU and go
to penalty kicks in this one.

Speaker 23 (01:16:52):
Joe, Yeah, It's not often in a soccer match you
score in the ninetieth minute, or as a soccer parlance
might say, you score at the death of regulation, but
Wes Virginia did that to send the match against Old
Dominion to overtime, tied to two. Nobody scores in overtime
and then you have the excitement and yet maybe not

(01:17:13):
the best way to settle a match, but you have
to settle it via penalties, and West Virginia is able
to advance five to four on penalty kicks. Mark Bonaire
makes two saves in six rounds in the shootout. So
we will have the second Mountain State derby in the
course of two weeks. Marshall took care of business on
their half the bracket with a three to one win
over Georgia State. So we'll have West Virginia against Marshall

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Wednesday at seven o'clock in the Sunbelt semi finals. And
it's a big match for both teams because both teams
will probably if you look at the national.

Speaker 25 (01:17:42):
Rankings, you look at the RPI, probably right on the
bubble of being in the top sixteen, and top sixteen
is significant because it gives you a first round by
in the NCAA tournament and then hosting rights once you
get there, if you're able to get a national seat,
and both we was Virginian and Marshall probably right on
that line as we speak.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Many soccer programs, both schools. Why didn't you ever think
West Virginia as a soccer state.

Speaker 23 (01:18:06):
It's fantastic. And you talked about the fact that Chris
Grassey Marshall head coach and Dan Stratford, the WVU head
coach coach on the same staff at the University of Charleston.
They are great friends, have a tremendous degree of respect
for each other. Obviously, the text messages may slow down
a little bit during game week when they go up
against each other. But it's fantastic that those two guys

(01:18:29):
that have met has meant so much to the state
in terms of soccer at the Division I level, and
they both were on a tremendously successful program in the
Mountainee Conference and University of Charleston one that went on
to win the Division two national championship.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Yeah, it should be a packed house at Dick de
Lusk Soccer Stadium coming up on Wednesday. Introding Sports Joe
Bricado joining us Joe. It's also postseason time for high
school football here in West Virginia. We've got all the
pairings posted over at the website. What stands out to
you of the first round games?

Speaker 23 (01:19:02):
It's well, some of the records of some of the
teams that get that have gotten into the playoffs. And
I know it's gonna be alarming to some people who
maybe don't follow high school football regularly and they see
teams with two wins or three wins getting into the playoffs.
And obviously that's not a feature we've seen in the past.
But since we've expanded to four classes in high school football,

(01:19:23):
this is the second year that you certainly see some
matchups that look very one sided in the first round.

Speaker 10 (01:19:28):
And certainly we're.

Speaker 23 (01:19:29):
Gonna have running clock, We're gonna have a lot of
lopsided matchups. But the hope is that some of the
eight nine, seven to ten, six eleven games may yield
some competitive matchups. Certainly you can look ahead at the
quarterfinals and semi finals, look a little bit down the
bracket and see some good games coming up. You may
not see that on Friday night with some of the

(01:19:50):
top seeds. I don't know how many of the top
seeds you know, one through four in each bracket will
be in any way tested, but hopefully it yields to
some better competition down the lad I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
Joe, there was a lot of that talk on especially
social media, over the weekend. I don't normally like this cliche,
but it kind of is what it is. I mean,
I don't know what you do to change that.

Speaker 23 (01:20:12):
The argument of tj that some have made is particularly
in Class quade, where you have twenty teams for sixteen
spots would have been potentially to go. Instead of sixteen
playoff teams, maybe go with twelve playoff teams and have
the top four seeds all get first round buys. That's
an argument that's out there. I understand it. Certainly, that's

(01:20:37):
the best way. I understand the argument that that's the
best way to say.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
That's a new sports Joe Ricado. And again you brought
up the records, but keep in mind, with the point
system the way it is now, you get you get
credit for playing a tough schedule. So if you look
at a team such as Jefferson six and four, they're
the four seed. They're probably the hottest team in the
state right now in Class four A, Joe, but those
first four games included Martinsburg, Springs, Morgantown. The Cougars played

(01:21:02):
a tough, tough first part of that schedule, and because
of that they've been rewarded for that. So the records
don't tell the entire story with some of these programs.

Speaker 23 (01:21:12):
Yeah, and I don't know anybody that would sign up
for playing Jefferson right now. Their run really started with
a Saturday victory when they went to George Washington and
picked up a one point win. They're at GW. That
kind of got them rolling starting the second half of
their schedule, and there's a potential exist if the top
seeds advance that Jefferson would then host George Washington and
what would be a very good quarter final matchup next week. Certainly,

(01:21:35):
strength to schedule and you mentioned that, I don't want
to go into all the particulars of the format, but
you look at strength to schedule and that helped some
teams it In Class Triple A, it really hurt one
team in the Chapmanville Tigers. They entered the Triple A
playoffs as the number nine seed. They're unbeaten at ten
to zero. Now, the reason for that is Chapmanville, like

(01:21:56):
many schools, went into the season thinking that they were
going to be a Class Double A team. They set
their schedule up that way. At the last second in May,
Chapmanville was one of those teams that moved up from
Class Double A to Class Triple A. So really they
had a schedule that had them playing against a number
of Double A teams that ultimately hurt them. So if

(01:22:18):
you see one thing in the ratings of Triple A
that kind of looks out of place, that's the reason
for with Chapmanville, not necessarily their fault. They went into
the season thinking they'd be a Double A team. Turns
out at the last second their Triple A squad and
that did affect them in their rating.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
So tonight on sports Line, I think I heard they're
going to have Dave the Youngster from Wheeling park A. Yeah,
tell us about that, Joe, did you see that?

Speaker 23 (01:22:41):
Absolutely? And I know everybody shares the video and passes
around it. It's important to give.

Speaker 25 (01:22:45):
A little bit of credit to the guys, their production
crew from WTOV.

Speaker 23 (01:22:50):
Up in the Wheeling area that put that play out there.

Speaker 24 (01:22:52):
They had the game broadcast of it.

Speaker 23 (01:22:54):
Jack hill Grove had a fantastic call on the play.
They got that video out there pretty quickly after the game.
So then it gets picked up by all the national sites.
It gets on Sports Center, Pat McAfee starts talking about it.
But it originates from them, So I think that's an
important point to pass along a Keen Davis, very good player.
It's three hundred and twenty pounds, and Dave, you played
line so you can answer this better. I'm sure it's
a play that every lineman is hoping for. But he

(01:23:17):
makes a very athletic play to get the interception and
then just simply refuses to go down on a fifty
eight yard return, dragging tackles with him into the end zone. Yes,
it will be prominently featured on the Metro News Top
Plays segment, which will be released either this afternoon or tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Joe, it brought a tier to my eye.

Speaker 23 (01:23:39):
I think, I know the return is what gets a
lot of credit, but he goes well dropping into coverage there,
and I think the interception for a guy of his size,
it's three hundred twenty pounds, was as good, maybe not
as good, but equally on par with the return that
he made, which was ultimately why the play got out
there and got so much traction.

Speaker 8 (01:23:58):
As it did.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
Metro Day's Sports Joeb oh Oh, he's the hardest working
man in sports media. Joe, always a pleasure. We appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (01:24:04):
Buddy, TJ.

Speaker 23 (01:24:06):
Did you get your nine holes in on Friday, because
I don't think anybody's getting any golf in anytime soon.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
Brother, I was looking for you. I know you had
other things to do. Admittedly, I got four and a
half in until the wind in the rain got so bad.
I was just like, nah, we're not doing this anymore.

Speaker 23 (01:24:20):
Understandable.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Obviously, wasn't the best round of your life?

Speaker 4 (01:24:24):
Oh it was a heck of a four and a
half holes. I was right there. I just you know,
I didn't want to Unlike the Bishop, you weren't going
to tempt fate. Huh No, Joe, always a pleasure.

Speaker 23 (01:24:34):
Thank you, buddy, Thank you guys.

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Three oh four talk three oh four the text line
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parts of West Virginia. Got an updates from a textass
at snowing in Clarksburg, snowing in Preston County, which is
it's not really breaking news there, but a little bit
early for the snow to hit. So what are we

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expecting of the next twenty four hours or so? Let's
get an update from National Weather Service meteorologist forecaster Joe
Curtis joins us on Metro News talk line. Joe, good morning.
Where's the snow and the cold weather coming from anyway?

Speaker 7 (01:26:35):
Oh, good morning.

Speaker 27 (01:26:36):
It's actually all coming from a blast of Arctic air
from Canada coming on in, and that cold Arctic air
is moving over the Great Lakes, which is relatively warm.
It's picking up the moisture from the Great Lakes and
it's bringing it in the form of snowshowers to the
Ohio Valley and the Appalachians. So that's where we're seeing

(01:26:56):
our snowshowers from today.

Speaker 4 (01:26:58):
Joe, as was reading, the earliest measurable snow in thirteen years.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
Is that right?

Speaker 27 (01:27:05):
Yeah, I mean it's been. It is fairly early, and
now I can confirm that statistic for you right now.
But yeah, it certainly is an early snow for us
this season.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
So, Joe, what parts of the state could see some
measurable snow as far as accumulation goes today?

Speaker 27 (01:27:24):
Yeah, So we're expecting anywhere from about one to three
inches across the West Virginia Lowlands, so across central West
Virginia and northern West Virginia along the Ohio River, the
western part of the state as well, and then the
most snowfall is actually going to be in the higher elevations,
especially areas above thirty five hundred feet, So you can

(01:27:47):
think about some of the highest ridges there in Pocahontas
at Randolph County. Those areas are going to see anywhere
from about four to six inches, with some locally higher amounts.
And it's going to occur through the rest of the
day and into this evening. We'll still have some lingering
snow showers tonight before things wind down tomorrow morning.

Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
So, Joe, given this early snowfall, when you look at
longer range models, does this tell you anything over the
next thirty days? Does this give you any sign that
we're going to have an early winter?

Speaker 27 (01:28:18):
Yeah, I mean you certainly can't look at the long
range models and see what do the signals look like
in terms of precipitation and temperatures over the long term,
And that's actually done by the experts over at the
Climate Prediction Center. They take care of those long range forecasts.

(01:28:39):
Here at the Weather Forecast Office that we work from
in Charleston, our expertise is within the next seven days,
and we actually started tracking this here last week. We
saw the potential of the accumulating snow last week and
we've been tracking it and here it is. So yeah,
an early snow for us here across.

Speaker 8 (01:29:01):
Much of West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
Hey, Joe, tonight, are we talking about temperatures getting down
to the teens possibly?

Speaker 27 (01:29:06):
Yeah, that's certainly correct. We'll see temperatures down into the
single digits and teams down over in the higher elevations.
Across the lowlands, we'll get down into the lower twenties
for tonight. So Charleston, Huntington, up to Clarksburg and Morgantown,
all those locations likely to be into the twenties tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
Not ready for it. I'm not ready for it, Joe.

Speaker 27 (01:29:32):
Yeah, most of us aren't, but you know there are
some of us who are. So take what you can get.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
Joe Curtis, National Weather Service. Hey, buddy, appreciate the update.
I guess it's a reminder winter is come. Winter is coming.

Speaker 27 (01:29:45):
Here's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
That's right, Thanks, Joe, appreciate it. Joe Curtis, National Weather Service.
We worked in then, we worked in the pun.

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
Yeah, you better make sure somebody check the snow pile
or excuse me, the salt pile. How's the salt budget?

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
And early this year did you see I saw a
couple of trucks staged this morning on the way into work.
They weren't out spreading, but they were staged just in case,
which you know I'll take.

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
I mean, if you're gonna get into the teens tonight,
I mean, I don't know what point. I don't know
if you can use the salt if it does anything
that low. But I mean I.

Speaker 1 (01:30:18):
Think I think twenty degrees. Somebody check me on that.
I remember a dot official once time. I think it's
twenty degrees where the salt becomes ineffective. I'm not ready
for that either. Oh, I'm just cold thinking about it. Yeah,
the ice sucks has already declared that she's not taking
the dogs out. That is my job from now until June.

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That's too cold at night to be doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
Well, it's good to know where you stand, what you
got to do on your honey do list.

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It all depends on the kind of salt you get.

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All I know is it ends up all down the
sides of my truck, and that annoys me. Maybe if
we use less salt, it would keep more bad drivers
at home and I could get to work much easier.

Speaker 4 (01:33:05):
When it does snow, people do tend to forget how
to drive in the snow. I don't know why, especially
maybe they never could. I don't know, especially the first
one of the year. Right, you get that first one.
This is kind of a this is a test run.
We'll get that first accumulating snow and everybody will lose
their mind.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
It'd be no bread or cheese at the stores, no milk,
because you know, if it snows, I don't know what
you're gonna do with bread and milk and cheese. I
like to throw cheese in there, but everybody's got to
go to the store and get bread and milk, and
then we're Okay, after that, we're fine for the rest
of the winter.

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You sound surprised this is a nation that went out
and bought up all the toilet paper at one time
during COVID because we're just like, oh my goodness.

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This texture says flights to Florida are better than salt.

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I love it.

Speaker 7 (01:34:34):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
Coming up, what's next? Metro News Midday, David Amanda, come up,
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