Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Ina. It is seven oh five here Kentucky,
Speaker 1: INA's morning news with Coffee and Company on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That's me John on alongside.
Speaker 1: Thanks to John Shannon for the latest newscast. We'll have
Speaker 1: sports coming your way in about twenty minutes with Scott Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: And one of the big stories really nationally this morning
Speaker 1: right now, certainly on the national radar, comes from our
Speaker 1: home state here in Kentucky. As yesterday, it all started
Speaker 1: around eleven thirty am when a trooper was shot after
Speaker 1: he pulled over a suspect near the Bluegrass Airport. After
Speaker 1: the traffic stop got underway. The suspect opened fire during
Speaker 1: that traffic stop and obviously from there got a lot worse.
Speaker 1: He ended up than carjacking someone, and thankfully there were
Speaker 1: no injuries reported at that incident, But then he made
Speaker 1: his way to the Richmond Road Baptist church and shot
Speaker 1: and killed two people. And there are others that are
Speaker 1: injured as well, including the officer who was shot. His status,
Speaker 1: I've not heard an update this morning, but as if yesterday,
Speaker 1: there's been no real update at all on the status
Speaker 1: of that officer as well as the identity of the suspect.
Speaker 1: I would imagine we'll get that at some point today.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people, I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: every time I open up Facebook or even Twitter, I
Speaker 1: see someone sharing a picture of who will probably end
Speaker 1: up being who this suspect is. It just hasn't been
Speaker 1: confirmed yet, so and of course people will dig into
Speaker 1: everything about this person and try to blame one of
Speaker 1: the political sides as far as of their you know, see,
Speaker 1: this isn't a lefty, this isn't a map, I mean,
Speaker 1: and it's just kind of if I've learned that pretty
Speaker 1: quickly here in this this role that anytime there is
Speaker 1: a situation, really any situation in the world, probably there
Speaker 1: are people that are wired to just decide, well, how
Speaker 1: can we blame this on the other side of of
Speaker 1: of the aisle, And it's it's not surprising anymore. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's not the first thing that comes
Speaker 1: to mind for me when it when when you have
Speaker 1: situations like this. But maybe I'm maybe I'm in the minority.
Speaker 1: But again, we'll probably found that later today. Because yesterday
Speaker 1: the press conference in Lexton, law Enforcement said that they
Speaker 1: were going to make it public. However, they decided to
Speaker 1: do that as far as the identity of the suspect
Speaker 1: once the suspects family has been notified, so I would
Speaker 1: expect that that comes today. Also an overall scary situation,
Speaker 1: but nobody hurt, which at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that's a great thing, especially when you consider what happened
Speaker 1: in Lexington. But in Louisville here during one of the
Speaker 1: big events that this city has every year, the run
Speaker 1: for the Roses Girls basketball Tournament. I wouldn't think you'd
Speaker 1: say this if you couldn't back it up, but the
Speaker 1: event claims to be the biggest girls basketball tournament in
Speaker 1: the world, and yesterday, as they were into tournament play,
Speaker 1: they had to shut down because there was initially a
Speaker 1: report of an active aggressor at the basketball tournament at Fairgrounds,
Speaker 1: and then there was another report of an active aggressor
Speaker 1: at Kentucky Kingdom that led to chaos in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. And it's great to know that it ended
Speaker 1: up being a false alarm and everybody is okay, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people still went through some pretty traumatic experiences,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, just because when there's that chaos going
Speaker 1: on and nobody seems to know. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: to think about the timing here. I mean I got
Speaker 1: the news report that that was going on, and then
Speaker 1: there was some information available I feel like pretty quickly
Speaker 1: as far as what was going on. L and PD
Speaker 1: I thought did a great job on their social media platform.
Speaker 1: I was following it on X and they were giving
Speaker 1: good updates throughout, and each update made it seem a
Speaker 1: little bit more clear that the threat was I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say not legit, but it just you know, there was
Speaker 1: no reports of anybody actually being shot, which again sounds
Speaker 1: like there wasn't even an active aggressor at all, which
Speaker 1: is again that's a good thing, but it did lead
Speaker 1: to again a lot of people in a situation that
Speaker 1: they probably have never been in before, at least hopefully not,
Speaker 1: and who knows how it impacts them. Everybody's different. But
Speaker 1: when you are running to find your loved ones because
Speaker 1: maybe your kid was out there playing basketball and you're
Speaker 1: you know, keeping you never if you've never been to
Speaker 1: one of the basketball tournaments, because there's many that have
Speaker 1: taken place in the in the north wing and the
Speaker 1: South wing over there at the Fairgrounds, I mean, you
Speaker 1: might know where they are, and then whenever the chaos
Speaker 1: happens and everybody's running around, it's easy to get lost.
Speaker 1: There were players meeting children interviewed yesterday after the situation
Speaker 1: that you know, talked about how scared they were and
Speaker 1: that they couldn't find their parents, and again that's understandable
Speaker 1: given what happens. So again the good news is that
Speaker 1: everybody's okay, but just hate that that's that's where we are,
Speaker 1: meaning you can never take those things lightly. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure now if you are in that situation, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to play psychologists here, but I'm just
Speaker 1: curious how many people would be in that situation and assume, well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure this is nothing, probably just a false alarm,
Speaker 1: because I don't mean, I would imagine most people wouldn't
Speaker 1: take it lightly because I don't know how surprised you
Speaker 1: can be if something like that did happen. That's just again,
Speaker 1: that's unfortunate. It's no longer uncommon to see headlines about
Speaker 1: these kind of things. So they're going to resume play
Speaker 1: today at the Run Run for the Roses tournament, but
Speaker 1: there are some teams that decided to back out. Some
Speaker 1: coaches who were here in town recruiting the event that
Speaker 1: said that they're gonna going to walk away as well.
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't even I'd be foolish to speculate what
Speaker 1: this does for the future of the event and it
Speaker 1: being in Louisville, because again, this is an isolated thing,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, I don't really
Speaker 1: know how you'd blame how you blame well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess that's for other people to decide. But a
Speaker 1: big event that brings so many people here and does
Speaker 1: so much for our economy, I hate that For many
Speaker 1: people who were here, the lasting memory for them, among
Speaker 1: many memories, will probably be that situation, because that's not
Speaker 1: something you forget if you're there and you're scrambling to
Speaker 1: try to find your family and you're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on. You know, the reason that that
Speaker 1: it's chaos is because there's belief that there's somebody there
Speaker 1: to harm people. So unfortunate, but again glad nobody was hurt.
Speaker 1: All right. What I want to get to coming up
Speaker 1: here after this next update on traffic and weather. A
Speaker 1: lot of people got duped. They think you can go
Speaker 1: to Vegas at the casino and play Uno. Now you
Speaker 1: can but a very good marketing, very good marketing as
Speaker 1: far as how they put that out there, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that and screen time. I can't be the only
Speaker 1: parent that is worried that my kids have way too
Speaker 1: much time in front of a screen. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: some of the findings and some of the things you
Speaker 1: could potentially do to find a good balance. Stick with
Speaker 1: US Radios Kentucky. It's Morning News with Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: on News radioaight forty whas if you were somebody that
Speaker 1: saw this headline yesterday and you thought that you were
Speaker 1: going to be able to go to Vegas and hit
Speaker 1: one of the casinos and gamble on the game Uno,
Speaker 1: you've been duped. So here are just two examples of
Speaker 1: headlines about this story. Uno gets a wild card entry
Speaker 1: into Vegas Casino Classic card game Uno lands in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Casinos. I would have thought the same thing. I
Speaker 1: did think the same thing, but it just seemed it
Speaker 1: seemed to be just so random. And then I noticed
Speaker 1: that it was being cited by some bigger outlets, but
Speaker 1: they really didn't give a whole lot of infos So
Speaker 1: I thought, well, maybe this is maybe it's not fake news,
Speaker 1: but maybe there's maybe there's some exaggeration going on, and
Speaker 1: that is exactly what is going on, because it's not
Speaker 1: being added added as a traditional wagered casino table game.
Speaker 1: Mattel has partnered with Palm Casino Resort to launch the
Speaker 1: Uno Social Club, which is an experimental venue that will
Speaker 1: have Uno branded suites and lounges, custom Uno game tables
Speaker 1: with inroom dealers so Uno Room. Essentially, the Euno Social
Speaker 1: Club has led to people then thinking you can actually
Speaker 1: go and play Uno as if you're playing poker. And
Speaker 1: if the promotion just including included people talking about Uno,
Speaker 1: I think it worked, but there's so many people understandably
Speaker 1: so that like if those two headlines that I just read,
Speaker 1: which by the way, are real, I mean I I
Speaker 1: totally would have assumed, well that's wild, but hey, Vegas
Speaker 1: is getting creative. But then you think about it, that
Speaker 1: didn't make a whole lot of sense. It reminded me
Speaker 1: of the movie Vegas Vacation, the National Lampot's movie, with which,
Speaker 1: of course I think everybody knows the vacation movies, but
Speaker 1: there was a scene where Clark and Eddie end up
Speaker 1: in like the low rent casino because they've lost all
Speaker 1: their money and he's just trying to He's trying to
Speaker 1: win his money back with cousin Eddie Clark Griswold is
Speaker 1: and Ellen is she she's she's doing her thing with
Speaker 1: Wayne Newton and they end up in this casino. That
Speaker 1: is a time at the time as a kid, when
Speaker 1: I watched this movie, I thought it was real, but
Speaker 1: it clearly isn't. But they had games, and again the
Speaker 1: movie is trying to pitch it as just this lowest
Speaker 1: type of casino you could get into. But their games
Speaker 1: were flip a coin you call it in the air,
Speaker 1: heads or tails, or you go to a dealer and
Speaker 1: you got to pick a number one through ten. Rock
Speaker 1: paper Scissors was one of them. One of them also
Speaker 1: was guess which hand a dealer holds something in one
Speaker 1: hand and in the movie Clark grissold has to guess
Speaker 1: which hand it's in. I mean, again, none of that's real,
Speaker 1: by the way. Also, go fish was mentioned as well.
Speaker 1: You could play go fish, So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: I thought of whenever I was thinking, wait a second,
Speaker 1: I knew that wasn't real. I later learned that wasn't
Speaker 1: really where you could go and play those games, and
Speaker 1: I thought maybe this was the you know the same thing,
Speaker 1: and it is. So you know, you don't book your
Speaker 1: trip to Vegas and think you're heading to the casino
Speaker 1: to play Uno because you can play Uno, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. It's they're just gonna get you in this
Speaker 1: social club and it's just gonna be nothing but a mirage.
Speaker 1: So anyhow, I remember as a kid thinking, Okay, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to play Texas hold them or
Speaker 1: traditional poker, but yeah, when I get old enough, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the casino, I'm gonna play go Fish.
Speaker 1: I know, want to play that. Give me a little
Speaker 1: old maid gambling going on? Yeah, like, and that actually
Speaker 1: would be kind of fun. But there should be a
Speaker 1: casino for a juvenile card game. But those I bet
Speaker 1: those kind of games though, it would be harder for
Speaker 1: the house to win, as you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And that is what they're going to be mindful of, understandably.
Speaker 1: So all right, we've got an update of traffigand weather
Speaker 1: coming your way. Also we'll get an update on sports
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitzgerald. And also I would like to discuss
Speaker 1: something I mentioned just a moment ago, as far as
Speaker 1: parents and what they think about the amount of time
Speaker 1: their kids spend in front of a screen, mostly tablets
Speaker 1: and devices, but also television screens as well, because I
Speaker 1: know I'm one of many parents that thinks there's a
Speaker 1: benefit from my kid being able to utilize technology to
Speaker 1: learn a lot of things. But also you don't want
Speaker 1: them to become robots. So we'll get to that in
Speaker 1: a lot more. Keep it locked right here. It's Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky Ana's
Speaker 1: Morning News with Coffee and Company on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas, Nick Coffee, that's me the company man himself,
Speaker 1: John Alden alongside today. And one thing that you and
Speaker 1: I are alike many things we are I think alike
Speaker 1: with but we didn't have tablets devices phone in front
Speaker 1: of our face when we were growing up. You are
Speaker 1: about a decade younger than I am, and as you
Speaker 1: got older, it was there, but like you didn't have
Speaker 1: like an iPad when you were a little kid, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, maybe I didn't have an iPad.
Speaker 1: I remember having a leap Frog pad. Yeah, much different though,
Speaker 1: and those were educational and there wasn't a whole lot
Speaker 1: you can do other than whatever the leap Frog program
Speaker 1: had on it. Right, You weren't surfing the internet, no,
Speaker 1: So I I'm glad that I had that. I grew
Speaker 1: up in the era that I did, where technology was
Speaker 1: cool and we were able to do cool things. The
Speaker 1: Internet really kind of exploded and became a thing during
Speaker 1: my childhood, and I remember that. I remember very well.
Speaker 1: I remember the doing doing sound when you would have
Speaker 1: the dial up. Actually, do you remember dialogue? You know
Speaker 1: we did have dial use. Yeah, so I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: maybe you don't remember that, but yeah, I guess it
Speaker 1: probably would have been. Which I feel like the when
Speaker 1: you realized what the internet was, and it wasn't on
Speaker 1: any device. It was literally a connection through your your
Speaker 1: your home phone. I mean I remember not. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was such I was so interested to see really
Speaker 1: what it was like, you know, I would I remember
Speaker 1: as a kid hearing like people describe what it is
Speaker 1: and which you can do, and I'm thinking, well how
Speaker 1: and then sure enough, now we're all I mean, technology
Speaker 1: is a big factor in everything that we do. But anyways,
Speaker 1: there's a new study that I guess a survey, I
Speaker 1: should say, that's the best way to describe. It's a
Speaker 1: survey that says eighty five percent of US parents monitor
Speaker 1: screen time for kids under eighteen, and thirty nine percent
Speaker 1: want stricter limits, which you know, I get it. As
Speaker 1: a parent, I'm thinking, well, wait a second, if you
Speaker 1: want that, then do it. You're the parent, You're in charge.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure there's there's the balance of you know,
Speaker 1: it does keep them occupied, and there are some things
Speaker 1: that clearly you know that they enjoy when it comes
Speaker 1: to screen time, or there be a tablet, a video game,
Speaker 1: a phone, whatever it may be. And you want to
Speaker 1: see your kids enjoying things that they like. And I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of things you can I mean,
Speaker 1: you can learn a lot of things. You can teach yourself,
Speaker 1: teach yourself stuff as a kid that when we were kids,
Speaker 1: we didn't, we didn't have the ability to do. But also,
Speaker 1: you know, you don't there's not as much social interaction.
Speaker 1: And what I think is is a bigger it's just
Speaker 1: speaking for myself as a parent, The bigger concern for
Speaker 1: me is just what my kids are exposed to, because
Speaker 1: that is going to be something that we learn about
Speaker 1: over the years, because there's going to be people that
Speaker 1: grow up and become adults and they'll be the first
Speaker 1: test for us. As far as them having access to
Speaker 1: so many things via the Internet and via the tablet
Speaker 1: that they have at their home, I mean, well maybe
Speaker 1: their cell phone. So you can obviously learn a lot,
Speaker 1: you can educate yourself, you can teach yourself how to
Speaker 1: do certain things with this technology, but also it can
Speaker 1: expose you to things that could have an impact on
Speaker 1: you that is not good. I mean, that's one thing
Speaker 1: that I don't think. I don't think can be said
Speaker 1: enough because a lot of parents, and I guess there
Speaker 1: are parents that are younger than even you know myself
Speaker 1: and even John that maybe when they were growing up
Speaker 1: they had they had much more of a they've they've
Speaker 1: they had these tablets and these devices in front of
Speaker 1: him at all times. But if you're like me, like
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I wasn't exposed to a lot
Speaker 1: of things because we just didn't have that. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a thing at the time, so I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I didn't know that makes sense. Well, now, I mean
Speaker 1: every now and then my son will end up off
Speaker 1: of the YouTube Kids tablet or the YouTube Kids app
Speaker 1: on his iPad and end up on YouTube, and a
Speaker 1: lot of times, more often than not, he's watching something
Speaker 1: that you know, he's watching kids play video games where
Speaker 1: he's watching no joke, like old horse races. He's he's odd.
Speaker 1: He loves horse racing and it's it's it's it's an
Speaker 1: obsession for him. But then sometimes he'll end up on
Speaker 1: something not knowing what it is, and I guess he's interested,
Speaker 1: and then he'll start crying and it'll be because you know,
Speaker 1: something scary happened, and that's that's I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: scared that, I don't want that to happen. But you know,
Speaker 1: it just reminds me. Light bulb goes off, like wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, really, if I'm not monitoring it,
Speaker 1: he could be exposed to a lot of things. So
Speaker 1: excuse me. We're much more mindful of it now than
Speaker 1: especially that he's getting a little bit older. But I
Speaker 1: just you know, who am I to give parenting advice?
Speaker 1: But when it comes to just kind of you know,
Speaker 1: keeping them preoccupied, keeping them busy, they're not you know,
Speaker 1: if you've got siblings, they're not fighting with each other
Speaker 1: because they're each in their own world on their iPads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that can be beneficial. And then whenever they don't have
Speaker 1: devices and they don't know how to act and they're
Speaker 1: whiny and fussy. My kids do that all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. Sometimes you do it just
Speaker 1: to say, okay, right, let's just calm down here, here
Speaker 1: you go. So finding the balance as far as being
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of the ability to learn and
Speaker 1: utilize technology like we didn't have when we were younger,
Speaker 1: but also knowing that it may not be for good, right, Like,
Speaker 1: there's clearly a lot that you can be exposed to
Speaker 1: on the World Wide Web. And this is something that
Speaker 1: doesn't really surprise me, but it is. It is certainly
Speaker 1: troubling information that this survey says that parents claim that
Speaker 1: their family conflicts forty three percent. Yeah, it says that
Speaker 1: parent survey. Yeah, it says the eight percent of parents
Speaker 1: were concerned, with forty three percent reporting that family CONTUCTI
Speaker 1: family conflict, I should say, tied to the excessive screen use, which, again,
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't want to hear your parents
Speaker 1: arguing or whatever it may be, put your headphones in,
Speaker 1: watch your tablet, and get lost in your own world.
Speaker 1: So I just don't know. As a parent myself, I'm
Speaker 1: now more than ever just trying to be mindful of
Speaker 1: things that like my kid could see, that like I
Speaker 1: would never see because there was no way for me
Speaker 1: to see it. All right, let's get to a quick update.
Speaker 1: We'll get you caught up on weather traffic. That of
Speaker 1: course is next. And then also yesterday, Andy Basher did
Speaker 1: an interview with Meet the Press and was asked about
Speaker 1: a potential run for president. We'll let you know what
Speaker 1: he had to say right here on. He's ready to
Speaker 1: wait forty whas So, the suspect that was shot and
Speaker 1: killed by police in Lexton yesterday after killing two individuals
Speaker 1: at a church has been identified. Lexning Police Department said
Speaker 1: forty seven year old Guy House died from wounds after
Speaker 1: three officers shot him. Of course, this was after he
Speaker 1: shot an officer after a traffic stop at the near
Speaker 1: the Bluegrass Airport and then ended up carjacking someone, only
Speaker 1: to then make his way to that church and killed
Speaker 1: two innocent people. So we politicize everything. This day and age.
Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised that right now, if you just
Speaker 1: look up the name Guy House, search the name Guy
Speaker 1: House on any social media platform. I'm doing it on
Speaker 1: x formerly known as Twitter, and no joke. The first
Speaker 1: two posts that I see. One is somebody claiming that
Speaker 1: he is a free Palestine Muslim, and then they show
Speaker 1: pictures of him. I guess what he's wearing. I assume
Speaker 1: they're sharing this as evidence that hey, see he's on
Speaker 1: the left, he's a Democrat. And then you also have
Speaker 1: another picture and I don't know, I don't know what's real,
Speaker 1: but there's another picture of him wearing what appears to
Speaker 1: be a Confederate flag hoodie, and it's somebody claiming that's
Speaker 1: that's he's maga. And again I don't know what to believe,
Speaker 1: because I don't. I still don't really when these things happen.
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not wired, and hopefully I never am.
Speaker 1: To just just think, Okay, who can we blame this
Speaker 1: on the other can we blame this on the other side,
Speaker 1: the other side of the aisle. And none of that
Speaker 1: surprises me at all, because that's just where we are
Speaker 1: right now. But regardless of what political side he's on
Speaker 1: who he voted for. What I think is just really
Speaker 1: unfortunate to know is that while doing this and committing
Speaker 1: these crimes yesterday that of course took the lives of
Speaker 1: two people, an officer injured, and of course he's dead now.
Speaker 1: He did this while while being on felony probation. So
Speaker 1: this guy, his name is Guy House, and he was
Speaker 1: on felony probation when he when this occurred yesterday. So
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three arrest for being in possession of a
Speaker 1: firearm while being a felon, and he's violated probation numerous times,
Speaker 1: including just a few months ago. It looks like so
Speaker 1: again I'm when I this is something I'll admit hand,
Speaker 1: I was ignorant to how many people are out roaming
Speaker 1: the streets that have done a pretty good job. They've
Speaker 1: been pretty consistent at showing they break the law. They're dangerous,
Speaker 1: they're violent people. And I know that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of criticism thrown towards judges who make these decisions, and
Speaker 1: I understand that totally, but also, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: think it's as easy as well, Okay, nobody should ever
Speaker 1: get a second chance and get out there, but also
Speaker 1: like if you repeatedly are proving to everyone who you
Speaker 1: are and that you are in fact a threat somebody
Speaker 1: that is dangerous, there's got to be something done to
Speaker 1: believe these people when they tell us who they are.
Speaker 1: Is that a good way to describe it? So anyways,
Speaker 1: the victim in this, well, he's not a victim. He's
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess he was, but technically he probably
Speaker 1: when committing the awful acts that he did yesterday, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what the hell was going on in his
Speaker 1: brain and I'll never want to relate to that, but
Speaker 1: not surprised that law enforcement showed up and did what
Speaker 1: they had to do after he took two lives and
Speaker 1: of course shot at an officer. So again, his identity
Speaker 1: is now known. Forty seven year old guy House. All right,
Speaker 1: quick update on traffic and weather is coming your way.
Speaker 1: Another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald coming up as
Speaker 1: well in just a few minutes, and we'll get into
Speaker 1: it in the eight o'clock hour. I wanted to discuss
Speaker 1: the breaking news here as far as the identity being
Speaker 1: confirmed of the Lexian shooter, but we'll talk about when
Speaker 1: Andy Rasher had to say when He had his interview
Speaker 1: yesterday with Meet the Press, was asked about a potential
Speaker 1: run at president again. We'll talk about it right here
Speaker 1: on news radioaight forty whas