Speaker 2: Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: It is six oh five here at Kentucky and it's
Speaker 1: Morning News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky. Anda going to be another hot one today,
Speaker 1: so be prepared. And the humidity is already thickest can
Speaker 1: be outside. We started the show this morning mentioning that,
Speaker 1: so this is still very new to me as far
Speaker 1: as starting my day as early as I do now
Speaker 1: with this being the new gig, But I don't remember
Speaker 1: in previous years where I would get up even much
Speaker 1: later than when I get up now, and it just
Speaker 1: be as humid as it is outside. So just be
Speaker 1: prepared for that, everybody. And again if you just this
Speaker 1: is just good tips to put out there. Not that
Speaker 1: I'm an expert by any means, but sometimes just replacing
Speaker 1: the filter in your in your system at home can
Speaker 1: go a long way, just because I would imagine just
Speaker 1: with how hot it is, there's a good chance that
Speaker 1: your your system is running more often than it typically
Speaker 1: does because again it's got to keep up with what
Speaker 1: you want to set it at.
Speaker 2: So anyways, be prepared for that. All right.
Speaker 1: We did get an update from Roriyo and Elim INBC
Speaker 1: News as far as the death total currently in Texas
Speaker 1: now over one hundred is the confirmed one four as
Speaker 1: of last night as the amount of people who have
Speaker 1: been killed with the flood that took place in the
Speaker 1: Guadalupe River in Texas, and there are still forty others
Speaker 1: missing as they're looking and trying to find what they
Speaker 1: hope would be those who've been able to survive, but
Speaker 1: that of course doesn't look doesn't look promising at this point, but.
Speaker 2: Just a tragic situation.
Speaker 1: I really can't put myself in the shoes of someone
Speaker 1: that was in that situation at that time. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't even like to think about what I would do.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I just think it's the human instinct where
Speaker 1: you think, wow, this person had to take action and
Speaker 1: did it quickly, and they saved not only maybe their life,
Speaker 1: but they saved somebody else's life. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: we would like to think that if we were one,
Speaker 1: if we were trained professionals, and that's really what we
Speaker 1: signed up for. Like the Coast Card, the young twenty
Speaker 1: six year old gentleman who is a hero. His leadership
Speaker 1: with the Coastguard helps save I think it was one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five lives. So you know, it's one
Speaker 1: thing to know if you'd be able to be in
Speaker 1: that position, if you are someone in the service, but
Speaker 1: even look, if you're just I mean, if you're an
Speaker 1: average Joe and you end up realizing, Okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we all hope that instincts would kick in,
Speaker 1: but you really just never know. But this story about
Speaker 1: a hero who did not survive is it's something for
Speaker 1: lack of a better word, So this is a twenty
Speaker 1: seven year old named Julian Ryan who saved his entire
Speaker 1: family from the rushing floodwaters after he punched out a
Speaker 1: glass window, but he ended up not surviving because of
Speaker 1: his heroic his heroic.
Speaker 3: Act, and the house got flooded. So in order to
Speaker 3: save his family, he broke a window to get him out,
Speaker 3: and while he was doing that, he cut off an
Speaker 3: artery and his arm. He got his family to safety,
Speaker 3: but unfortunately he he bled to death.
Speaker 2: It just started pouring in.
Speaker 3: We had to fight the door to get it closed.
Speaker 3: He had lost all of it, all all his blood.
Speaker 2: He looked at me and the kids and my mother
Speaker 2: in law and he's sorry, I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, just a I mean a hero. He
Speaker 1: saved his family's life, but with him breaking the glass
Speaker 1: to to help get them out of out of harm's way,
Speaker 1: he ended up cutting that artery and he and man,
Speaker 1: I just just just the chilling that was his by
Speaker 1: the way, that was his fiance who you heard there
Speaker 1: at the at the end of the of the clip
Speaker 1: from CBS News, And I mean he knew and he
Speaker 1: did he wasn't going to make it. And I just
Speaker 1: trying to process that as I as I try to
Speaker 1: put myself and this is what I do oftentimes, I
Speaker 1: try to put myself on the shoes of others and
Speaker 1: try to just think, Man, I don't know how what
Speaker 1: I would do if that was me.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I mean, not only is he a hero, and he
Speaker 1: probably wasn't thinking. He clearly wasn't thinking about it self.
Speaker 1: He was thinking about what, you know, what he whatever
Speaker 1: he could do to try to save the lives of
Speaker 1: his of his family, and he did exactly that. But
Speaker 1: also that cost him his life. And it's not just
Speaker 1: what he did, I mean, think about what that would
Speaker 1: do to his family. I mean, obviously I'm sure they're
Speaker 1: they're fortunate to be alive, but what a tragic situation
Speaker 1: all the way around. So again this is uh, this
Speaker 1: is just it's awful again. I'm I'm I got some
Speaker 1: word vomit going on here. I'm spinning my wheels, as
Speaker 1: I say, sometimes because I'm not really sure how to
Speaker 1: how to discuss it other than just acknowledging that it is,
Speaker 1: in fact, just a tragic situation all the way around.
Speaker 1: All Right, we got an update of traviicking weather coming
Speaker 1: your way, Matt Melosovich. We'll get the latest with his
Speaker 1: forecast from w LK WHY. Bobby Ellis will tell us
Speaker 1: the latest when it comes to traffic. As I'm looking
Speaker 1: here at wk WHY, it looks like we do have
Speaker 1: some some some traffic early on here, so we'll get
Speaker 1: the latest on that. And then if you're somebody that
Speaker 1: is still trying to pay off student loans, which I've
Speaker 1: been there before, I get it. Uh, there's now some
Speaker 1: issues as far as knowing exactly what you owe. So
Speaker 1: that progress counter that was there for you for a
Speaker 1: while to kind of see the progress you're making to
Speaker 1: of course get your debt paid off for student loans.
Speaker 1: Right now, nobody seems to know where they stand, which
Speaker 1: could be an issue we'll talk about the latest on
Speaker 1: that in just a few minutes right here our news
Speaker 1: radioate forty whas. So those of you who have defaulted
Speaker 1: student loans, you could have your wages garnished. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a real thing. And apparently there are millions of borrowers
Speaker 1: who have defaulted on student loans that this summer, at
Speaker 1: some point, the expectation is that they will start to
Speaker 1: have money taking out of their paycheck. It is six
Speaker 1: fifteen here at Kentucky and it's morning news on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee with me, John all
Speaker 1: On alongside today and of course Scott Fitzgerald, John Shannon alongside.
Speaker 1: We've got the full crew here. But when it comes
Speaker 1: to student loans, if you are somebody that has been
Speaker 1: made aware and you are thinking, oh, oh, I really
Speaker 1: need to get this taken care of, because I don't
Speaker 1: want my paycheck to start looking dinner because I've I've
Speaker 1: just let this linger and just assumed that I would maybe.
Speaker 2: Never have to pay it back. Whatever your situation is.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the first step in addressing something
Speaker 1: that you owe money on would be to you know,
Speaker 1: know exactly what you owe so you can see what
Speaker 1: maybe you can put together to at least catch up
Speaker 1: or maybe get it paid off completely. But the Department
Speaker 1: of Education had a way of keeping track of where
Speaker 1: student debtors were in their progress towards cancelation, and for
Speaker 1: some reason they've now temporarily removed what is I guess
Speaker 1: the progress counter within that portal. So this means there
Speaker 1: are borrow borrowers right now that have no idea where
Speaker 1: they stand on the progress they've made. And technically it
Speaker 1: is whoever you borrow money from, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: on them to also to let you know sort of
Speaker 1: where you stand. But also, you know, it is a
Speaker 1: little bit confusing here because there are certain It's not
Speaker 1: quite like, hey, you borrowed fifty bucks from your relative,
Speaker 1: and that's just what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's there's interest, and there's.
Speaker 1: There's certain things you qualified to probably get some assistance
Speaker 1: on that debt that maybe others wouldn't qualify for.
Speaker 2: But yeah, just be prepared.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there, I'm sure there are many
Speaker 1: that have an outstanding student loan that they just have
Speaker 1: come because there was a break on it. Right there
Speaker 1: was a time where you didn't have to pay on
Speaker 1: it during the pandemic. I don't remember how long that
Speaker 1: actually lasted, but that could have led to people just
Speaker 1: deciding they were gonna, you know, or maybe maybe times
Speaker 1: are just hard financially to where they don't have the
Speaker 1: ability and it's not a priority as far as paying
Speaker 1: their bills and whatnot. But yes, the US Department of
Speaker 1: Education resumed collections on defaulted federal student loans earlier this
Speaker 1: year in May, and wage garnishment notices will apparently be
Speaker 1: sent out to five point three defaulted five point three
Speaker 1: million defaulted borrow were starting later this summer, with collections
Speaker 1: likely to begin in the fall. So as of May fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, about two hundred thousand borrowers received thirty
Speaker 1: day notices for the Treasury offset program. And that's another
Speaker 1: thing that is worth mentioning, is that there is a
Speaker 1: there's yeah, let's see it. So let me make sure
Speaker 1: I've got it correct here, But the how do they
Speaker 1: describe it? The Department of Education has a plan where
Speaker 1: you get it's the PSFL. It is the Public Service
Speaker 1: Loan Forgiveness Program, which allows the government and nonprofit work
Speaker 1: government and nonprofit workers to have student loans forgiven after
Speaker 1: ten years of payments. So currently the changes in this
Speaker 1: in this program are that you could disqualify organizations from
Speaker 1: the eligibility if they engage in legal activities as determined
Speaker 1: by the Education Department Secretary. So if you are somebody
Speaker 1: that has violated immigration laws, you know you've got other
Speaker 1: I guess criminal situations going on, you could then maybe
Speaker 1: not qualify. But that's an example as to why it's
Speaker 1: not just like keeping. Not only would it be important
Speaker 1: to note how much you owe on student loans, but
Speaker 1: also it can be confusing because again, you may qualify
Speaker 1: for something that gives you assistance, you may qualify for
Speaker 1: something that makes it to where if you've been paying
Speaker 1: for ten years, then you're just you're good to go.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you this, what it with with
Speaker 1: the current economy, would it cost to go to college?
Speaker 1: If you just go straight up student loans and you
Speaker 1: don't have any assistance, you're not paying out of pocket?
Speaker 1: I mean, look, getting an education there's not only not
Speaker 1: only is that a good investment for a lot of
Speaker 1: people as far as just having a productive life with
Speaker 1: a good career, but also I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of personal I mean I think graduating college is a
Speaker 1: big accomplishment that people should feel great about. But when
Speaker 1: it comes down to just thinking, like big picture projecting,
Speaker 1: which is hard to project the future, But is it
Speaker 1: a good investment to just go ahead and put yourself
Speaker 1: in a ton of debt for one year? Why you
Speaker 1: still try to figure it out? Because there's so many
Speaker 1: people that end up with a student loan for a
Speaker 1: year of college that they just thought, Okay, I got
Speaker 1: to go to college right now because high school's over,
Speaker 1: and they wasted not only a year, because they ended
Speaker 1: up realizing when they didn't need college as far as
Speaker 1: what they wanted to do, or maybe they got into
Speaker 1: a trade, whatever it may be, and not only did
Speaker 1: you waste a year, but like you put yourself in
Speaker 1: a lot of debt, I just think you'll see more PEP.
Speaker 1: Like I would not be shocked if the high school
Speaker 1: graduating class that just wrapped up high school, other than
Speaker 1: those of course that already have plans, but like if
Speaker 1: you were somebody that really didn't know what you wanted
Speaker 1: to do, it wouldn't shock me if you are thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm actually going to take a year off, And some
Speaker 1: people say that just to buy time and enjoy life
Speaker 1: without having to go to school.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that'll be a factor as well.
Speaker 1: But another factor I think is going to be, Hey,
Speaker 1: before I sign up to put myself in all this debt,
Speaker 1: I don't have a clue what I want to do.
Speaker 1: I really do, I really want to go to college.
Speaker 1: Let me take a year or two to figure out
Speaker 1: which direction I want to go, and maybe by that
Speaker 1: point it's not as scary to put yourself in that
Speaker 1: amount of debt in this economy. All right, we got
Speaker 1: an update of traving weather coming your way. Bobby Ellis,
Speaker 1: we'll give you the latest on traffic. Matt Melosavich WK why,
Speaker 1: we'll tell us today's forecast. And we've got an other
Speaker 1: sports update coming your way with Scott Fitzgiald right here
Speaker 1: on news radio eight forty WHAS. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: John Shannon. It is six thirty five here Kentucky in
Speaker 1: this morning news with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight
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Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio apps. So the Crystal Rogers case continues
Speaker 1: as we now are expecting or expecting. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: see here, I want to make it how many days.
Speaker 1: I feel like this has gone on for a month.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here. I believe yesterday was the
Speaker 1: eighth or ninth day, But closing arguments were heard yesterday
Speaker 1: and jurors are set to begin deliberating today, So that
Speaker 1: is the just as far as just the schedule here,
Speaker 1: but as far as yesterday and what we heard from
Speaker 1: and again we didn't hear it. And I know I've
Speaker 1: said this many times, but the no technology allowed in
Speaker 1: this trial is I guess not that uncommon for cases
Speaker 1: like this, but I feel as if I've got very
Speaker 1: good information. I feel like I've been caught up with
Speaker 1: every step of it. One because I'm interested, and I'm
Speaker 1: certainly looking and actively trying to get as much info
Speaker 1: as possible, just because one my job also the interest level.
Speaker 1: But those that are there covering it, they are probably
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a young reporter working for one
Speaker 1: of these news stations, your coverage here is probably different
Speaker 1: than maybe anything you've ever done as far as just
Speaker 1: there's quite literally no technology allowed at all to where
Speaker 1: it's just you jotting down notes. But again those who've
Speaker 1: covered it. I feel like I've done a pretty good job.
Speaker 1: But again closing argument, closing arguments for yesterday, and prosecutor
Speaker 1: coming out strong saying Brooks howck In his accomplice here,
Speaker 1: I guess his co defend and I should say loss
Speaker 1: In that they're murderers, And they paint the picture essentially
Speaker 1: of how CAUs this calculated businessman who conveniently forgets his
Speaker 1: whereabouts July third, which was the night she went missing.
Speaker 1: And they also tied Joseph Lawson to the cover up,
Speaker 1: accusing him of moving Roger's car to hide the crown.
Speaker 1: These are all things that you knew about as far
Speaker 1: as the prosecution's claims, and I guess they're just reiterating
Speaker 1: that in closing arguments, and as you could expect, the defense,
Speaker 1: they're reiterating that these two are completely innocent loss In
Speaker 1: and how and they are emphasizing the case being built
Speaker 1: on shaky theories, no hard evidence, and continue, as they
Speaker 1: rightfully should, point out that there's no DNA or physical
Speaker 1: evidence that links these guys to her disappearance at all,
Speaker 1: despite decades a decade of searching. So I just think
Speaker 1: it's going to come down to the jury deciding are
Speaker 1: they are they willing to say, yes, we find these
Speaker 1: these two guilty despite their being no physical evidence. But
Speaker 1: there's just there's no way that all this is coincidence.
Speaker 1: And also there's I mean, I think some of the testimony,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you'd have to be someone that
Speaker 1: just assumes that that somebody under oath would lie. And
Speaker 1: and again I've never been on a jury before, probably
Speaker 1: never will certainly in a case this of this magnitude,
Speaker 1: just because these are rare. But if someone is testifying,
Speaker 1: and they are, they are providing testimony that is of
Speaker 1: course to benefit the prosecution. You know, maybe where you
Speaker 1: would think that maybe they are being untruth untruthful would
Speaker 1: be that they are cooperating because of a deal. They've
Speaker 1: got an incentive to say what the prosecution wants them
Speaker 1: to say, because with their testimony, they're they're avoiding further
Speaker 1: punishment for something they did. But if it's not somebody
Speaker 1: that's facing any kind of charge and they're testifying, what
Speaker 1: do they have to gain about about lying? Now again,
Speaker 1: if you're the defense, I'm sure you've got a prepared
Speaker 1: answer and saying, well, it's just because these people have
Speaker 1: been brainwashed because of all the coverage, all the media everything.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody these two are innocent, but there's no proof,
Speaker 1: and now people just assume.
Speaker 2: That these guys are guilty.
Speaker 1: So again, I've keep trying to put myself in the
Speaker 1: shoes of those that are that are on the jury,
Speaker 1: and that's impossible to do because it's not just what
Speaker 1: you know, the defense is saying and what the prosecution
Speaker 1: is saying, because again the coverage of it has provided
Speaker 1: great details, but how you say it.
Speaker 2: Can go a long way.
Speaker 1: And if you're in a court room, I mean again,
Speaker 1: lawyers are I mean that's what that's their job is
Speaker 1: to not only present facts and you know, present either.
Speaker 1: If you're somebody that's defending somebody that's up for a
Speaker 1: charge like this, not only are are you there to
Speaker 1: put together the best defense that you can, but you
Speaker 1: got to execute. You got to deliver that defense to
Speaker 1: a jury to where in which they hesitate to think
Speaker 1: if there's enough evidence to say, yes, we as a
Speaker 1: jury find this person guilty. But again, we'll find out
Speaker 1: soon enough. And I know this is probably one of
Speaker 1: the biggest cases, biggest trials we've had in Kentucky.
Speaker 2: In quite some time.
Speaker 1: As far as just national interest, due to the fact
Speaker 1: that this has been ten years, there have been countless
Speaker 1: TV shows that have featured all the true crime stuff
Speaker 1: out there, so we'll find out soon enough. All Right,
Speaker 1: it is six point forty here at news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whs. Let's get an update on the traffic out
Speaker 1: there in the Kentucky and area with Bobby Ellison. We'll
Speaker 1: get an update on Matt Melosovitch's forecast from Woky right
Speaker 1: here on news Radio A forty whas. It is six
Speaker 1: forty eight here Kentucky and is Morning News with Nick
Speaker 1: Coffee on NewsRadio eight forty whaa. If you are getting
Speaker 1: ready to head out of here via airline, you're gonna
Speaker 1: head to the airport and leave, I have some good
Speaker 1: news for you. I don't know if it's in effect
Speaker 1: just yet, but I did see somebody sharing yesterday that
Speaker 1: their experience was this isn't place as of now, but
Speaker 1: you will no longer have to take your shoes off
Speaker 1: to go through airport security. So I guess this is
Speaker 1: not every airport, but many airports will no longer require
Speaker 1: you to take your shoes off to go through the
Speaker 1: security checkpoint. So the TSA, they're quietly rolling out what
Speaker 1: is believed to be a big game changer as far
Speaker 1: as just speeding up the process because they're gonna let
Speaker 1: travelers keep their shoes on.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's here in Louisville, but there's
Speaker 1: many airports here, mostly the big market's Baltimore, Washington, Laguardy,
Speaker 1: Lax Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale. So I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: happened just yet here at Louisville, but if so, I
Speaker 1: can imagine that we'll speed some things up. So it's
Speaker 1: just I mean, it's been two decades now since you've
Speaker 1: been required to take your shoes off at the airport
Speaker 1: when you go through, and it's due to Richard Reid,
Speaker 1: who in two thousand and six was labeled as the
Speaker 1: shoe bomber who attempted to blow up a plane with
Speaker 1: an explosive that was hidden inside of his shoes. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I think maybe I'm exaggerating here, but I
Speaker 1: feel like if that's not a process for anybody anymore
Speaker 1: to where you don't have to take your shoes off,
Speaker 1: even if they're sandals, not only I mean, I think
Speaker 1: that could speed up the security process substantially at the airport.
Speaker 1: And it's not that like everybody takes a long time
Speaker 1: to get their shoes off, but again, even I mean
Speaker 1: the amount of people that go through that line if
Speaker 1: you just trim off let's say five to ten seconds,
Speaker 1: which let me tell you, for me, with my kids
Speaker 1: and my daughter not wanting to ever take her shoes off,
Speaker 1: I mean, it was longer than that for us as
Speaker 1: far as just the added time to get through security,
Speaker 1: knowing that everybody's got to have their shoes off and
Speaker 1: they've got to be in one of those bins. So
Speaker 1: let's just say it's five to ten seconds that you
Speaker 1: are that you are saving. That goes a long way
Speaker 1: with the with just the overall process of how many
Speaker 1: people come through at that time.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Good news.
Speaker 1: I mean, Airport travel can be I mean I say
Speaker 1: it all the time. Airport's are the most helpless place
Speaker 1: in America, probably not just America, probably across the world.
Speaker 2: At times.
Speaker 1: You can have a good experience, you can have a
Speaker 1: terrible experience, and you really just never know. But if
Speaker 1: we no longer have to take our shoes off, I
Speaker 1: think that can only be a positive and it won't stink.
Speaker 1: I mean we've all been there, right, somebody that just
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't remember they were gonna have to
Speaker 1: take their shoes off in front of a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: and they stink. All right, we've got trapping in weather
Speaker 1: updates coming your way also, Scott, we'll come back with
Speaker 1: another sports update here in just four minutes, so stick
Speaker 1: with us right here, Kazuchiyana's morning news News.
Speaker 2: Ready to wait forty whas