This is Gary and Shannon and you're listening to KFI AM six forty, the
Gary and Shannon Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Did Sheannon really get
in trouble? And that why? And that's why she's not there because she
said something on the air, because I will beat somebody up management, iHeart
management. Excuse me, I listen in to hear that beautiful lady every day.
I'm getting a little defensive over here. Uh. Oh, sounds I
hope you're joking. Gary, Okay, bye, Well, yes, you'll
ask her when she comes back. He was joking. Shannon's not in trouble.
She's enjoying vacation. Well, whether it was forced on her or not,
she's enjoying it. What else is going on? Time for what's happening?
Oh, she'll be fine. Well. More records are expected to fall
about one hundred and thirty million people under a heat threat as we get into
our next week. Expected to shatter more from east coast to west coast.
We saw some very high temperature. They said that one hundred degrees will be
a thing of the past in the Pacific Northwest. Remember that a couple of
years ago when Portland got up around one hundred and thirteen, and Seattle was
well over one hundred. In Oregon, they said records could be broken in
Eugene and Portland and Salem, dozens of other records throughout different parts of the
country, from Bullhead City, Arizona's in Norfolk, Virginia. We did see
temperature of what is it one twenty four in Palm Springs. Palm Springs one
twenty eight in Death Valley, YEP didn't reach that one thirty mark that they
were looking for, and then one eighteen I think it was in Vegas and
by ten am or ten thirty am, it was one hundred degrees in Vegas.
That's incredible, I mean, and I'm going to Vegas in for my
nephew's twenty first birthday. Antim is taking him to Vegas. Are you in
just a couple of weeks? Are you a pool party person? I will
be. I will be so today this week here in southern California. There
are still some heat advisories and things to keep an eye on for the next
week, but for the most part, it's not going to be anywhere close
to what we saw Thursday and Friday. The lake fire that's burning up in
Santa Barbara County is continuing to expand. It's one of twenty one wildfires currently
burning in the state. According to CalFire. It's about forty miles north of
Santa Barbara and started near Zaka Lake in the Los Padres National Forest. So
it's up over twenty thousand acres and the last number I saw was about eight
percent containment. It was in the area where Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was located
along Figaro Mountain Road. So this successive heat warning, I mean you said
this. I think it's hard to describe the amount of energy and effort it
takes for these firefighters to be out there, Oh my gosh, full turnout
gear in one hundred degree weather, which if they were just walking through the
forest or through the grasslands and one hundred degree weather, that would be incredible,
But they're also dealing with fire and which tends to be warm, so
it makes it even that much hotter in the area. And the turnout gear,
I mean you're talking about, it's thickness which you attack on. I
believe it was thirty extra pounds or so plus carrying all the equipment, plus
in the oppressive heat That's why it's paramount that they drink a lot of water,
get a lot of fluids. But that's why we're also we tend to
say, you know, a firefighter injured before heat related injuries, you know,
taken hopefully minor injuries. We did that a couple of times last week
when we heard that there were a couple of firefighters who were exhausted from the
heat. But the heat is the number one killer when it comes to weather
phenomena. The United States just saw the busiest air traveled in history. More
than three million people passed through airport security just yesterday, setting a new single
day record. We mentioned earlier that it was something like seven or eight of
the top ten most traveled days when you judge the number of security screenings the
TSA does in history, had all happened since May first, Seven of the
top ten, and now we've had I think three more so all of them,
all of the top ten busiest days in the history of the United States,
I should say, in the history of the TSAF. We're using that
metric as it count have all happened since May first, breaking records left and
right. And you know this makes the airlines happy, right Delta reports at
the second quarter earnings on Thursday fifteen point five billion, nearly a billion more
than the same period a year ago. I traveled at the beginning of May,
and in fact was a day off of one of those very heavily traveled
days, like I flew in on a Saturday, but Friday was considered to
be one of the heaviest traveled days. I didn't notice a particularly congested airport.
I flew out, I mean into Lax at the time too. Do
you have pre check? Does that matter for you? That makes seems to
make a big difference. I do have pre check, but I don't.
It didn't seem like it was much of anything I traveled in a while.
I need to get out more with you. I don't know well. Hurricane
Burrel made landfall as a Category one along the Gulf coast of Texas very early
this morning and has continued to churn her way through the states, joining US
now from I'm assuming a pretty gray Dallas is ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim,
what's going on? Pleasantly gray? It's nice to have some cool weather for
one, even if it's from a tropical storm. But yeah, that's where
we are. Right now, Gary, it's a tropical storm. Hurricane Barrel
came ashore as a low level hurricane Category one with winds sustained winds of about
eighty miles per hour. We saw some gusts around Houston of ninety four ninety
five miles per hour. So yes, the category one now has been back
down to tropical storm as it gets weaker, but continues to the northeast,
dumping rain wherever it goes. Gary, Yeah, and Marla Tay is here.
Jim Ryan, nice to talk to you. I'm in for Shannon today.
So now that it's that tropical storm you're in Dallas, what does the
forecast look like for you in the coming hours? Rain? Just some rain,
some normal, you know, typical afternoon rain, nothing too horrific at
all. It's all moving to the east again, the east and the northeast.
So at the point where Texas sand and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma kind
of all come together, the town is called Texahoma and Texama by the way,
Texas Canada. That's they're going to start getting some rain up there too.
And by the end of this week, if the projection holds true from
the National Hurricane Center. This storm will start having started in Texas up through
Arkansas up into the Ohio Valley, and on Thursday they'll have rain in Michigan
from Burrel. Wow, that's a sat. Yeah, that is some reach.
And power is obviously an issue. It's out for what almost three million
people as well and so far to deaths correct, two point seven million power
outages. Now that's homes, businesses, could be an apartment complex, could
be an individual house. The two point seven million customers essentially, and two
fatalities at least that we know of. There was a house fire US this
morning and then the Houston area that may have been started by lightning caused by
Beryl. We don't know that yet. But there also were some tornadoes in
the area too, And those are some of the things that often come with
hurricanes, and in fact, usually most of the casualties, the deaths and
injuries come after the storm is gone. People misuse generators, for example,
and electrocute themselves, or they start a fire, or it's carbon monoxide poison,
or somebody drowns. So just because the storm has moved out of a
very popular place like Houston doesn't mean that the danger is gone. Very general
question, how is the grid in Texas? You know, obviously when the
cold snap hit a couple of years ago and there were some problems. We
see it every summer that the heat brings with it its own issues. And
with two I think two point seven million is the number I saw without power.
The utilities know this, right, so they're going to be sort of
prepositioned and ready to respond. But how has that been going generally for the
state. Well, the numbers haven't started going have not been going down yet
in terms of out it is. But yeah, the grid after that big
February of twenty twenty, I guess it was the big freeze that exposed the
real weaknesses in that power grid and the you know, the fatalities that came
out of that, people freezing to death. Essentially millions of dollars were spent
in upgrading and solidifiing that grid to ensure that that didn't happen again, and
by the way, fortifying it against he two and those things have helped to
protect it against this sort of wind and rate event. So you can't speculate
this how many outages there might have been had those things not happen, But
two point seven million outages out of thirteen million, you know in the fourteen
million tracked isn't so bad at this point. Well, we appreciate you taking
the time out. We've seen some images of these down power lines, the
effects of just the strong wins. It looks like you have quite the afternoon
ahead of you. You can follow him on X at Jim Ryan t X.
We appreciate you, Thank you, sir. Thanks Marlin, you bet
Jim Ryan there live in Dallas. Up next, we're going to get into
a little bit of music news. One great album that was released over the
weekend that I've listened to about five times now already, which one is that
it's just the It's the new Zach Bryan album. Oh that's right, but
it's good. It's got some good cameos on it. We'll talk about that
among other things tomorrow. By the way, Dodgers are taking on the Phillies
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