Speaker 1: All right, it is seven oh five here Kentucky and
Speaker 1: it's morning News Coffee and Company on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me and John Shannon just
Speaker 1: delivered a phenomenal newscast and he is sticking around with
Speaker 1: us here because when it comes to the crimes involving
Speaker 1: children here in Louisville, the violence with children here has
Speaker 1: been a big talking point. But I was surprised to
Speaker 1: see that the actual number is down from a year ago.
Speaker 1: That's encouraging. It's not what I was expecting. However, still
Speaker 1: clearly a big issue, and maybe the awareness of it
Speaker 1: and people realizing just how frequent it's happening, maybe that's
Speaker 1: why it just feels as if it's at an all
Speaker 1: time high. But Chief Humphrey has said something here and
Speaker 1: there in recent weeks, and I know it was at
Speaker 1: least two weeks ago where he directly said that ultimately
Speaker 1: it is the parents in the community's responsibility to take
Speaker 1: care of this. Again, that was two weeks ago. He
Speaker 1: also went on to say, you need to know where
Speaker 1: your kids are. If I had a mechanism to deal
Speaker 1: with parents better whose kids commit violent crimes or caught
Speaker 1: in doing these types of crimes. I would prosecute parents
Speaker 1: all day long, and I needed to hear that, just
Speaker 1: because that's a given. And yet it just hasn't been
Speaker 1: said enough that when it comes to children that are
Speaker 1: involved in violent crime, law enforcement certainly needs to be
Speaker 1: there to hold those accountable and address it after the fact.
Speaker 1: But the preventive part of this is it starts at home.
Speaker 2: And I just don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, it's just a shift in society
Speaker 1: to where parents they just assume if their kid ends up,
Speaker 1: you know, getting in trouble at school, or if they
Speaker 1: end up, you know, getting in trouble with law enforcement.
Speaker 1: I just feel like now more than ever, there's at
Speaker 1: least some segment of the parents that assume, well, hey,
Speaker 1: they're out to get my kid, because there's no way
Speaker 1: I got to do my own investigation because I don't
Speaker 1: trust law enforcement or somebody that's an educator telling me
Speaker 1: that my kid was bad. And that's just not how
Speaker 1: it was when you and I were growing up. And look,
Speaker 1: you and I, we got some age between the two
Speaker 1: of us, but still it just I feel like that's
Speaker 1: got to be a part of this.
Speaker 3: It is, and I think we're beginning to maybe starting
Speaker 3: with your age group and younger, we're beginning to get
Speaker 3: into parents who were raised with the nothing is ever
Speaker 3: their fault, it's always somebody else's fault kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Nobody was really acceptable for their actions you did. It's
Speaker 3: not your fault, you screwed up. It's society. It's the
Speaker 3: teacher not watching after you. It's the policeman not policing
Speaker 3: you and totally taking the blame off of the person
Speaker 3: that's in trouble. And now that's manifesting itself in the parenting,
Speaker 3: no doubt. Well, it can't be my kid, you know,
Speaker 3: and why it's your fault for not watching my kid
Speaker 3: at school doing this?
Speaker 2: You know that that type of thing.
Speaker 3: It's it's beginning to manifest itself in parenting, and it's
Speaker 3: it's affecting how these kids act. And with the crime
Speaker 3: rates like we're seeing, I mean that that's one part
Speaker 3: of it. There's a gang aspect to it that the
Speaker 3: police could probably better address. But the gangs like using
Speaker 3: the juveniles because they get lighter sentences. They're dealing with
Speaker 3: a different courts. But we're not in the age where
Speaker 3: like when you and I were growing up the neighborhood,
Speaker 3: watched the kids. It's not that it takes a village
Speaker 3: type of thing, but it was you know, you were
Speaker 3: expected to behave a certain way if you were out
Speaker 3: in public, because it did reflect bad on your parents.
Speaker 3: Your parents would discipline you. The worst thing I used
Speaker 3: to hear if I messed up in public was my
Speaker 3: dad going, wait till we get home.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and it would be and it would be
Speaker 1: a You probably were a nervous wreck, wait until you
Speaker 1: got home because you knew what was coming. And that's
Speaker 1: I think, and I should say this too. There are
Speaker 1: parents who I'm sure try their best and they do
Speaker 1: everything they can, and you just end up in a
Speaker 1: situation that's just it's awful for you to wear your
Speaker 1: kid just a is a bad apple. And I know
Speaker 1: that that is a real thing. However, there's clearly people
Speaker 1: who just don't even really know what their parents, what
Speaker 1: their kids are exposed to, and what it is that
Speaker 1: they're doing. And to your point about the community, my parents,
Speaker 1: I know my mother certainly would have appreciated if somebody
Speaker 1: came to her and let her know that I was
Speaker 1: being a knucklehead. It wouldn't have been well, wait a second,
Speaker 1: you're talking about my kid, and now I think you
Speaker 1: hear more of that, and it's not just with I mean,
Speaker 1: I think that's a factor in why you see people
Speaker 1: not wanting to be educators anymore and get into being
Speaker 1: teachers or leaving that profession because they really can't. You know,
Speaker 1: the battle with the parents is probably something that just
Speaker 1: doesn't make it make it worthwhile for them.
Speaker 2: I think having a.
Speaker 1: Comfortable fear of authority, whether it be your parents or teachers,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, as a kid is a good thing
Speaker 1: for everybody to where you know that you're not scared
Speaker 1: to go to work or to go to school every day.
Speaker 1: You're not scared of your parents like they're gonna harm you,
Speaker 1: but you have that comfortable fear of knowing that if
Speaker 1: you get out of line, you're gonna be dealt with,
Speaker 1: and you want to avoid that.
Speaker 3: The worst thing that ever happen could have happened to
Speaker 3: me when I was in school, even up through high school,
Speaker 3: was a teacher calling my parents and saying, hey, your
Speaker 3: son's being a knucklehead. Yep, Because whatever the school could
Speaker 3: have done to me, licks detention was not gonna be
Speaker 3: as bad as having to face my mom and dad
Speaker 3: about being a knucklehead at school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not even the punishment. You just didn't want to
Speaker 1: let your parents down. You didn't want to disappoint them.
Speaker 1: That was a big, big deal. But now I'm sure
Speaker 1: there are many parents who they want to do their
Speaker 1: own investigation. They don't trust what those are telling them
Speaker 1: about their kid. They just assume that, well, there's no
Speaker 1: way my kid wouldn't do that, And that's clearly I
Speaker 1: think it's clearly a factor to an extent as to
Speaker 1: why we're in the situation that we're in.
Speaker 2: Agreed, Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: He'll have another newscast coming for you guys in about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 2: We've got a check of traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis will tell us how the roadways are looking
Speaker 1: here on a Thursday morning, we'll get a look at
Speaker 1: Matt Melosavich's forecast. As it is hot as you know what,
Speaker 1: which could lead to some youth football, soccer, whatever sports
Speaker 1: are going on. The heat IndX today may get to
Speaker 1: the point where you won't have practice. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit more as well.
Speaker 2: Right here.
Speaker 1: So, I just saw an updated forecast for the next
Speaker 1: week or so, and man, the hot weather is not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. I think Tuesday the highest ninety nine degrees. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, heat indecks will probably be a lot higher
Speaker 1: than that, and heat indcks is where it really gets dangerous.
Speaker 1: So if you are a parent or a grandparent, or
Speaker 1: maybe a coach that is involved in youth sports that
Speaker 1: take place in the summer, maybe even you know, high
Speaker 1: school sports. I think camps have started for the high
Speaker 1: school football teams in the area, which is an exciting time.
Speaker 1: But man, I'm sure it's also you know, you're excited
Speaker 1: the season to get in here and you're going to
Speaker 1: be playing under the lights on Fridays before too long.
Speaker 1: But the lead up to it, the two days at times,
Speaker 1: and just the practice that go I mean, just the conditions.
Speaker 1: I mean it's brutal when it comes to the heat,
Speaker 1: and you may be in luck and not actually have
Speaker 1: practice because of just how hot it is. So the
Speaker 1: heat in Decks is up to one hundred and seven
Speaker 1: degrees that's the expectation today, which if that is the case,
Speaker 1: that would mean that here in Kentucky you you would
Speaker 1: not be able to have any outside activity. So yeah,
Speaker 1: here's a breakdown of the Kentucky This the KHSBA, and
Speaker 1: I believe, in fact, my son, he plays flag football,
Speaker 1: they have conditioning tonight, and I'm hoping they don't have
Speaker 1: it because of the I mean, even if it was
Speaker 1: just below like the actual rule, I mean, I prefer
Speaker 1: that they just not do it, because you know, I
Speaker 1: don't just drop him off. We still have to go.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he just turned five years old. So anyways, selfishly,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that they don't have it tonight, but we
Speaker 1: shall see. Although conditioning for five and four year olds
Speaker 1: playing flag football seems a little excessive, but hey, you
Speaker 1: got to start him early and anything to get an edge,
Speaker 1: I suppose. But if it's under ninety five degrees, sports
Speaker 1: can proceed. But water should always be available, and you
Speaker 1: have an optional ten minute water breaks every thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: That's what's recommended, but it is optional. So under ninety
Speaker 1: five degrees, it's kind of you do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: But when you get to ninety five to ninety five degrees,
Speaker 1: when it comes to the heat index, water should always
Speaker 1: be available in a mandatory ten minute water break every
Speaker 1: thirty minute is required. Ice howel should be available for
Speaker 1: cooling and athletes are supposed to be monitored carefully. Now
Speaker 1: when it comes to contact, sports helmets and other protective
Speaker 1: equipment should be removed when not in contact, meaning if
Speaker 1: you're not in the action, you could take your helmet off.
Speaker 2: But here's where it gets tricky. If it is.
Speaker 1: Above one hundred and four degrees, as far as the
Speaker 1: heat indecks, all outside and inside activity must stop unless
Speaker 1: you have air conditioning. If you have air conditioning in
Speaker 1: a gym, they'll let you do that. But we have
Speaker 1: heated the expectation today as far as the heat indecks,
Speaker 1: could eventually have a lot of these practices canceled. And
Speaker 1: if it's ninety if it's ninety nine to nine oh four,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, from ninety nine to one oh four, it's
Speaker 1: a threshold that just triggers more, I guess just I mean,
Speaker 1: there's certain things you got to do as far as
Speaker 1: water and breaks. But really, it sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of folks if it gets in that eight in that
Speaker 1: range of ninety nine to one oh four, most just
Speaker 1: decide not to not to practice. It looks like I
Speaker 1: guess there's no way to know that for certain, but
Speaker 1: it says here that it's become a trend that you'll see.
Speaker 1: You'll see practices moved indoors or canceled if it's around
Speaker 1: one hundred. But again, one O four is the rule
Speaker 1: that you must stop. All right, let's get to a
Speaker 1: quick break. We'll come back after a check of traffic
Speaker 1: and weather. We'll get the roadways, see what's going on
Speaker 1: out there with Bobby Ellis, We'll get a look at
Speaker 1: Matt Melosa its forecast from WLKY, and then we've got
Speaker 1: another sports update coming your way right here on news
Speaker 1: radio eight forty WHS. Thank you very much, John Shannon,
Speaker 1: it is Kentucky and his morning news coffee and company
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee with you here on news radio eight forty whas. So,
Speaker 1: frustration continues to mount across this state over long wait
Speaker 1: times at these regional driver driver licensing offices and the problem,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not new, and they've thrown out some
Speaker 1: potential fixes that just don't seem to be sticking. So
Speaker 1: Kentucky moved to one hundred and twenty local licensing offices,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, moved from one hundred and twenty local licensing
Speaker 1: offices to just thirty four regional ones back in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, and it's I mean, look, the people are
Speaker 1: fed up. You've got long lines, confusing systems. There are
Speaker 1: rural areas within the state where those residents are forced
Speaker 1: to travel pretty good ways just to go get an
Speaker 1: updated driver's license. There's a judge in Harrison County that
Speaker 1: put out a post on Facebook earlier this week just
Speaker 1: blasting the new system and just really calling for a change.
Speaker 1: And there's a House Bill five one eight that would
Speaker 1: return to the standard license issuing power, that is that
Speaker 1: would go back to the local circuit clerks, but it
Speaker 1: failed in the last session, and there's some reps that
Speaker 1: are going to reintroduce it in hopes to expand it
Speaker 1: and basically just get back to what we were doing
Speaker 1: prior to this move in twenty twenty two, because clearly
Speaker 1: this has not been effective. Now, they did hire I
Speaker 1: think it was one hundred and twenty five new workers
Speaker 1: to help get this situation resolved. They've also had some
Speaker 1: tech upgrades as far as just improving the system. But
Speaker 1: I mean, it has been a lingering point of frustration
Speaker 1: for people in the community. And I'm lucky my wife,
Speaker 1: she kind of takes care of me. Adult type of
Speaker 1: things like this, you know, making sure I get my
Speaker 1: ID updated before it expires. You know, she usually monitors
Speaker 1: that stuff for me. Actually she really And I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to speak for her, which maybe I shouldn't,
Speaker 1: but she'll know, hey, my license is about to expire.
Speaker 1: I need to go get that done because she's a
Speaker 1: responsible adult. And then she probably realizes, oh, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: sure Nick is not going to pay any attention to that,
Speaker 1: so I'll check on his and I'll get it taken
Speaker 1: care of to avoid any kind of hassle. And I
Speaker 1: certainly appreciate her for adulting for me at times. But
Speaker 1: I didn't even realize that I had a real ID
Speaker 1: and I got went a long time ago, which is
Speaker 1: a reminder that if you waited to get a real ID,
Speaker 1: I mean you.
Speaker 2: Had a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Now, not to say that it would have been a
Speaker 1: super convenient thing for everybody to do as far as
Speaker 1: just the process, but the time there was a lot
Speaker 1: of it, and when that deadline hit, many people didn't
Speaker 1: have it, and I'm sure they still don't have it
Speaker 1: because it just the links you got to go currently
Speaker 1: here in Kentucky to get a new ID. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I've heard some disaster stories about the appointments available being
Speaker 1: months out, or you get an appointment that's within a
Speaker 1: few weeks and it's hours away from you, only for
Speaker 1: you to get up, only for you to get there
Speaker 1: and wait in line, and the appointment was set it
Speaker 1: a certain time and you're still in line two hours later.
Speaker 1: It's been I mean, it's been a disaster. So again,
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to improve some things, but Sheher's
Speaker 1: made it a point that they're I mean again, they
Speaker 1: hired one hundred and twenty five new people to help
Speaker 1: and added new tech upgrades, so they're trying to implement
Speaker 1: some fixes, but it doesn't appear that it's really working,
Speaker 1: meaning going back to what they did for many many
Speaker 1: years that they decided to change in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like that's what a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of people are asking for, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: totally understandable. Yeah, And I know that the DMB is
Speaker 1: just thrown in there as far as places people just
Speaker 1: don't want to be and they want to avoid in
Speaker 1: the thought of waiting at the DMV is just this
Speaker 1: awful experience. I'm very lucky that I've never had any
Speaker 1: bad DMB experience really at all.
Speaker 2: So hopefully I never have one.
Speaker 1: But if I needed, I'm sure if I needed to
Speaker 1: get a new ID anytime soon, that would be that
Speaker 1: would be my first experience there was a bad one.
Speaker 1: In fact, my ID does expire, and I think it
Speaker 1: expires relatively. In fact, I'm gonna look right now because
Speaker 1: now I'm thinking, did I am I driving around? Should
Speaker 1: I admit on this radio station that I may be
Speaker 1: driving with an expired license? My license expires on August seventh,
Speaker 1: so I've got a little bit of time. But I
Speaker 1: went through the process online a while back. In fact,
Speaker 1: I lied my wife went through the process for me
Speaker 1: online to get my license updated, because all they've got
Speaker 1: to do is just basically issue me a different one
Speaker 1: and not you know, I don't have to go and
Speaker 1: get a new picture taken or anything like that. And
Speaker 1: they're supposed to mail it to me, but I haven't
Speaker 1: got it yet, so and I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the timeline was. But if it's late, because it just
Speaker 1: how slow they are at doing everything, rather it be
Speaker 1: getting it mailed to you or taking your appointments in person,
Speaker 1: I guess that's to be expected.
Speaker 2: But also like I'm.
Speaker 1: Flying when I go on vacation in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: And even if I don't have my new ID, I
Speaker 1: have my passport and that works too. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if people know that, but the real ide is
Speaker 1: probably what you want to get. But if you have
Speaker 1: a passport, that'll that'll suffice when it comes to the airlines.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a check of traffic and weather
Speaker 1: and also what I want to get to coming up
Speaker 1: here in just a few minutes. The just story that
Speaker 1: doesn't seem real, but in fact it is about the
Speaker 1: organ donation scandal here in Louisville.
Speaker 4: Yikes, this clean.
Speaker 1: So we've got an organ donation scandal that has sparked
Speaker 1: some congressional scrutiny, and of course it's got some Louisville ties.
Speaker 1: In fact, it's it's because of what went on in Louisville.
Speaker 1: A Louisville based nonprofit is under intense federal scrutiny following
Speaker 1: allegations that it tried to have organs from patients, basically
Speaker 1: taking organs from patients who were not actually dead yet.
Speaker 2: I mean that that doesn't seem.
Speaker 1: Real, but it is, And there's been a conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: out there for a while that you don't really know
Speaker 1: what happens to your loved one's organs whenever they pass away,
Speaker 1: because they can just tell you whatever and you'll you'll
Speaker 1: never know, and that I'm sure there have been some
Speaker 1: examples of that happening over the years. But I just assume, well,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's not there's no way who would do that,
Speaker 1: And I'm naive clearly, because it's there's a real market
Speaker 1: for organs in the black market, and there are people
Speaker 1: stupid enough to and just awful. I mean, not only
Speaker 1: is it just a disgusting and vile thing to do
Speaker 1: in every way, it's just really stupid to think you would,
Speaker 1: I mean, you'd be able to do it and eventually
Speaker 1: it wouldn't catch up with you.
Speaker 2: But who knows. Maybe look, there may be people who have.
Speaker 1: Who have come and gone here in the world that
Speaker 1: that did that and just knew that it was a
Speaker 1: pretty full proof thing as far as actually getting getting exposed.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's led to just how reckless some people
Speaker 1: were considering the fact that they were trying to encourage
Speaker 1: people to you know, call it quits. On their loved
Speaker 1: ones so they could go ahead and declare them dead
Speaker 1: and take their organs.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: This sounds like something in a movie, but it's in
Speaker 1: fact real. So there is a a nonprofit called Network
Speaker 1: for Hope that recently merged with the Kentucky Organ Donation
Speaker 1: Affiliates CODA. That was in twenty twenty four, and this
Speaker 1: pro followed allegations that organs were again nearly harvested from
Speaker 1: living patients.
Speaker 2: Think about that.
Speaker 1: And also, out of the three hundred and fifty reviewed
Speaker 1: cases here, seventy patients had neurological issues that should have
Speaker 1: disqualified them from organ donation, but they weren't rejected. And
Speaker 1: what's even more alarming is twenty eight cases involved patients
Speaker 1: who may not have been dead when the donation process began.
Speaker 2: That is just horrific.
Speaker 1: And one case that really got a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: it was right here in Kentucky and it was national attention,
Speaker 1: was a gentleman named Anthony TJ. Hoover the Second who
Speaker 1: was declared brain dead after cardiac cardiac arresident Richmond, and
Speaker 1: while preparations for organ donation were underway, he reportedly opened
Speaker 1: his eyes and began thrashing and pushing his hands away,
Speaker 1: and two doctors refused to proceed. But, according to report,
Speaker 1: a code of official Toults quote, find another surgeon or
Speaker 1: you'll lose your job.
Speaker 2: I mean, think about this. This is this is insane.
Speaker 1: So the Department of Health and Human Services they vowed
Speaker 1: to reform national organ donation policies to prevent these types
Speaker 1: of things going on. And I mean that's not going
Speaker 1: to be good enough for people, I think to just
Speaker 1: assume everybody's on the up and up, because I mean,
Speaker 1: I think, no matter what you put in place, there's
Speaker 1: going to be a level of just trusting the judgment
Speaker 1: and trusting the actions of those that are in this position.
Speaker 1: But talk about I mean, this is now me overthinking it.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure some of you have been thinking this
Speaker 1: for a long time. But this has probably been a
Speaker 1: real thing. For this there's probably and I shouldn't even
Speaker 1: say probably because that's irresponsible to me to say that
Speaker 1: without any real proven facts. But seeing this story develop
Speaker 1: and getting all the info that we have here, when
Speaker 1: I see that there is a code of official, somebody
Speaker 1: who you know as an official for the Kentucky organ
Speaker 1: donor affiliates claiming, hey, despite this guy showing signs of life,
Speaker 1: and these two surgeons not wanting to do it. They
Speaker 1: got to find somebody or they're gonna lose their job
Speaker 1: because we need this organ from this guy, dead or alive.
Speaker 1: I mean that to me just fuels the narrative that
Speaker 1: it just became such a thing and they got reckless
Speaker 1: thing and they never get caught. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know that for certain, but this is again,
Speaker 1: I think the best way to describe this story is
Speaker 1: one that quite literally does not seem real, and it's
Speaker 1: disturbing beyond belief. All Right, we've got another update of
Speaker 1: traffic and weather coming you way, Bobby all us to
Speaker 1: get it straightened out on the roadways here in Kentucky
Speaker 1: and to get the Thursday morning started. Also, we will
Speaker 1: get an updated look at the forecast from at Melosa
Speaker 1: to WLK. Why another sports update coming your way in
Speaker 1: about five minutes right here on News Radio eight forty.
Speaker 1: Whas let's get to another check at traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: Also another news update which John Shannon is the eight
Speaker 1: o'clock