Speaker 1: All right, good morning Kentucky, Anah, Welcome in. It is
Speaker 1: Kentucky Anda's Morning News with Coffee and company here on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas the crew has assembled, we're
Speaker 1: all here, Nick Coffee, that's me Scott Fitzgerald alongside. We
Speaker 1: also have got the one and only John Alden producing.
Speaker 1: He's running the show. In fact, he's he's behind the
Speaker 1: board hitting buttons that without him doing what he's doing,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be here. I mean we'd be sitting here,
Speaker 1: but we wouldn't be with you over the airwave. So
Speaker 1: he's certainly a big fixture within the show. And then
Speaker 1: of course John Shannon alongside as well. And I've got
Speaker 1: some exciting news for all of you. If you are
Speaker 1: somebody that really really loves thick, disgusting humidity, today is
Speaker 1: your day. Today is your time to shine.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 3: It was nasty yesterday, Oh god, it was.
Speaker 4: I went and walked around the neighborhood in Germantown yesterday
Speaker 4: and it was garbage day. Oh the humidity just brought
Speaker 4: that smell out.
Speaker 1: The humidity mix in some garbage smell. I was ready
Speaker 1: to cancel summer yesterday, fellas I was ready to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, that's.
Speaker 3: Already canceled it. Oh have you. We don't need summer.
Speaker 3: Bring me fall, bring me spring. Winter's pretty good too,
Speaker 3: but give me, give me the medium seasons. I like
Speaker 3: those better.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was one of the days where throughout here and
Speaker 1: there I would think, as I'm worried about having to
Speaker 1: change my clothes because I've got swamp ass, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: What, who likes this? Who prefers this? People live in Florida. Yes,
Speaker 3: give us fall in football.
Speaker 4: I saw a thing on TikTok. I said it to
Speaker 4: my wife and daughter last night. They said, here's an
Speaker 4: idea for those of you dealing with the swamp ass heat.
Speaker 4: Have yourself make a bunch of Christmas treats, throw those
Speaker 4: bad boys out on a Saturday night and have a.
Speaker 1: Party and just distract yourself and just throw living your
Speaker 1: own world to where you're not dealing.
Speaker 3: With the I' it's not enough, I agree, John.
Speaker 1: Yesterday it's it's like we've been waiting for a good
Speaker 1: stretch of rain to come in, and that's why the
Speaker 1: humidity is the way that it is. And we're supposed
Speaker 1: to get some rain, I believe later today. So therefore,
Speaker 1: as we wait, it'll be thick and gross. And I'm
Speaker 1: using the word thick because that's the word that was
Speaker 1: used last night by w Olk.
Speaker 3: Why is Jake CARDOSSI?
Speaker 1: And he could not have he could not have been
Speaker 1: more accurate, because it's gross outside. I tried to put
Speaker 1: my daughter's new training wheels on her bike last night
Speaker 1: and it's like eight thirty and I you would have
Speaker 1: thought I jumped out of the pool. And I mean again,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like I was just sitting in the shade.
Speaker 1: But it was in the garage, and it wasn't like
Speaker 1: I was working out. I mean, I unsuccessfully. I don't
Speaker 1: have a tool that I need to get him complete.
Speaker 1: But that's beside the point. But I couldn't believe I
Speaker 1: was out there maybe fifteen twenty minutes. And again, you
Speaker 1: would have thought I just jumped out of the pool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens in your garage. For example, I was
Speaker 4: on my way home last night and I came through
Speaker 4: Heike's Point at Taylorsville Road flooded out and I get
Speaker 4: maybe five minutes down the road to my neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Now one bit of rain.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that because I'm I'm of the
Speaker 1: belief that's more normal than I realized. And maybe it's
Speaker 1: because I referenced the weather eighteen times exaggeration throughout the morning.
Speaker 1: So therefore I'm just I'm thinking. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: knocking these guys. I get it, there's no perfect way
Speaker 1: to predict the weather. But oftentimes they see in the forecast,
Speaker 1: either it changes or they just you know, they get
Speaker 1: it wrong. It happens. But I feel like the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks we have had more so isolated rain
Speaker 1: hitting spots to where it's just not it's not everywhere.
Speaker 1: And again, I know that's common. I know that's not
Speaker 1: something that's that's super rare, but it just seems like,
Speaker 1: for example, the storms over the weekend, I mean, there
Speaker 1: were some people that had to kind of you know,
Speaker 1: shut down a little bit because the wind, and then
Speaker 1: there's other areas where nothing happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. But fortunately there will come in time, and
Speaker 3: this happens every year. I get just like you do.
Speaker 3: I'm done with summer.
Speaker 4: I'm just especially if you know, they see in the
Speaker 4: car and when it rains, I gotta roll the windows up.
Speaker 3: That makes it awful. Oh, yes, Oh dude, it's nasty.
Speaker 3: We're on the same page and I could and it
Speaker 3: was so funny.
Speaker 4: And then then we hit that one magical point out
Speaker 4: of the year where we turn a corner and it's
Speaker 4: gone and it just disappears. So I'm with you, guys,
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to I got some full recipes. I'm
Speaker 4: kicking out.
Speaker 3: I can't believe it's already July fifteenth, dude.
Speaker 4: I mean, well, and that's what we'll talk about in
Speaker 4: sports as we move on through the morning. Is that
Speaker 4: really Baseball's All Star Game represents sort of that turning
Speaker 4: point because it led us the place to be now
Speaker 4: because you have the All Star Game and you have
Speaker 4: SEC media days going on as well, So you got
Speaker 4: these teams taking to the podium.
Speaker 3: Everybody's getting excited.
Speaker 4: The high schools, I believe the football teams are wearing
Speaker 4: helmets now, they're back in action.
Speaker 3: It's coming, yep.
Speaker 4: It's just you got to get there, and we get
Speaker 4: to that point now where we all, I think collectively.
Speaker 3: We here at the station are just done with summer, yep.
Speaker 1: And this is the time of year for my days
Speaker 1: doing a sports show. By now you've kind of exhausted
Speaker 1: all different ways. You can talk about your upcoming football
Speaker 1: season and you're just ready to actually see your team play.
Speaker 1: So it'll be here at some point, yes, sir, good
Speaker 1: stuff fellas. All right, we'll be Scott to be back
Speaker 1: with us for another update on sports coming up at about
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. We've got your first check of traffic and
Speaker 1: weather coming your way. Also, what I want to get
Speaker 1: to here on the other side, some updates on the
Speaker 1: big stories from yesterday. We can't catch a break if
Speaker 1: you guys haven't been following what ultimately led to the
Speaker 1: situation at the Fairgrounds on Sunday. That's just bad luck.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little bummed by the way it's being
Speaker 1: maybe i'm sensitive to it, but I mean nobody did
Speaker 1: anything wrong, literally, just terrible luck.
Speaker 3: That's what happened.
Speaker 1: And also the tragic situation in Lexington again yesterday during
Speaker 1: the show, it was revealed who the gunman was in
Speaker 1: that situation, but nobody knows why, what would have led
Speaker 1: to it. And I've got some thoughts sort of on
Speaker 1: that question that I want to share with you guys.
Speaker 3: So stick with us.
Speaker 1: It's Kentucky and it's Morning News with Coffee and Company,
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee and the crew with you as we get
Speaker 1: this Tuesday started. Swamp ass season is here, folks. Look,
Speaker 1: I've been wrong many times in my life. I'll be
Speaker 1: wrong probably many times throughout the show this morning, so
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here. But how can you look
Speaker 1: at what happened on Sunday at the Fairgrounds Kentucky Kingdom
Speaker 1: and during the run for the Roses girls basketball tournament.
Speaker 1: How can you look at what we now know and
Speaker 1: not call it just terrible luck? Right? I mean I'm
Speaker 1: a little sensitive to people just assuming that you know Louisville.
Speaker 1: The only things that take place here is what you
Speaker 1: see in the news. That's not good news, right, And look,
Speaker 1: we're not perfect. We could be better. But the big
Speaker 1: basketball event that we talked a lot about yesterday that
Speaker 1: led to a shutdown for the rest of the day Sunday,
Speaker 1: which I believe it's still continuing today as we speak.
Speaker 1: You know, they they there was a report of an
Speaker 1: active aggressor, which of course a real scary situation. That
Speaker 1: was one of the lead stories yesterday and now we
Speaker 1: know sort of what led to it all. And again
Speaker 1: it's just terrible luck. And unfortunately this is a reminder
Speaker 1: that the the reaction, or maybe not the reaction, maybe
Speaker 1: the you know, the cut, the update on the story
Speaker 1: is not going to get near the attention as the
Speaker 1: story itself whenever the news broke on Sunday, and that's
Speaker 1: really just a sign of the times and currently how
Speaker 1: the new cycle works. But it is an important thing
Speaker 1: to point out that nobody did anything wrong, nobody was
Speaker 1: in danger, nobody cut any corners. As far as keeping
Speaker 1: people safe, it was just terrible luck. So it was
Speaker 1: first feared to be a mass shooting, turned out to
Speaker 1: be something again just bad timing and really a rare coincidence.
Speaker 1: Still a terrifying situation all the way around, but it
Speaker 1: turned out a loud noise and then someone having a
Speaker 1: medical emergency is what caused mass panic that had people scrambling.
Speaker 1: And I did see yesterday more of those videos on
Speaker 1: social media surfacing as far as just what the scene
Speaker 1: looked like, as those that were there were under the
Speaker 1: impression that there was an active shooter. Very scary, no doubt.
Speaker 1: So it was about three point fifteen LMPD received reports
Speaker 1: of an active aggressor at the Kentucky Exposition Center and
Speaker 1: that led to the chaos. So the explanation from LMPD
Speaker 1: is now that a ceiling tile fell and struck a
Speaker 1: metal chair that created noise that might have sounded like
Speaker 1: a gunshot at the same time this happened, and maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe the scare from this ceiling tile hitting a
Speaker 1: metal chair is what caused this. But a woman nearby
Speaker 1: maybe simultaneously ended up having a medical emergency, so that
Speaker 1: noise somebody having a medical emergency. The combined sounds and
Speaker 1: commotion created clear confusion, and then that fear quickly escalated,
Speaker 1: so Kentucky venues. They later clarified that the building's fire
Speaker 1: alarm system was also triggered by a Duck smoke sensor. Now,
Speaker 1: their statement didn't reference what LMPD said as far as
Speaker 1: the tile and the medical emergency, but again they swept
Speaker 1: the facility and determined there was no shooter, no credible threat,
Speaker 1: and it was really.
Speaker 3: Just all for nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's probably not even fair to say it
Speaker 1: that way, because that's what you have to do when
Speaker 1: those kind of things happened. And more than any thing,
Speaker 1: this is just I mean, this is just a sign
Speaker 1: of of sort of where we are, a reminder that
Speaker 1: you can't take those things. It's not something that you
Speaker 1: can be in disbelief about, you, you know. Unfortunately, nobody
Speaker 1: I think walks out and expects to be in a
Speaker 1: situation where they be. They may be near an active
Speaker 1: aggress or an active shooter. But again, it happens enough
Speaker 1: to where it's not the it's not unheard of. And
Speaker 1: again that situation somebody having a medical emergency and that
Speaker 1: noise and then the fire alarm system going off, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just bad luck. And and again I just maybe
Speaker 1: I'm just the maybe this is the pessimist in me,
Speaker 1: But there will be people that just assume some kind
Speaker 1: of dangerous, violent situation unfolded because they're not as plugged
Speaker 1: into it as we are. Maybe they don't live here,
Speaker 1: and they'll just this will be a bad look on
Speaker 1: Louisville in their eyes. And I just hate that. I
Speaker 1: really do. Again, I'm probably more sensitive to it than
Speaker 1: I need to be. But and a lot of coverage. Again,
Speaker 1: maybe this is all interviews and stuff that took place
Speaker 1: prior to the information that we got, but I'm still
Speaker 1: seeing like all these interviews from players and parents and
Speaker 1: coaches that were there being sort of critical of the
Speaker 1: event and how they were handling the security as if
Speaker 1: there was an active shooter or something. And I just
Speaker 1: think context is important. I think those people interviewed after
Speaker 1: we got this information would have been a little bit
Speaker 1: more fair.
Speaker 3: But that's just the way I see it.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 1: We got an update on sports coming your way with
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald. First, we'll take up we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at traffic with Bobby Ellis and of course get the
Speaker 1: latest forecast from WLKY, and we'll get to the latest
Speaker 1: as far as what we continue to learn about the
Speaker 1: shooter in Lexington on Sunday. So a busy Tuesday with
Speaker 1: us here, so don't go anywhere. It's Kentucky and it's
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Speaker 1: radio eight forty whs. That's how you deliver a newscast
Speaker 1: right there, John Shannon, good stuff, my friend. It is
Speaker 1: five thirty five here at Kentucky ANDAs Morning News, Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company, News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee. That's
Speaker 1: me John all on alongside and I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: we will talk coming up in about ten minutes with
Speaker 1: Rory O'Neil NBC News. Get his thoughts on a variety
Speaker 1: of things, including the recent comments from President Trump about
Speaker 1: Russia and the tariffs. And also something else that we
Speaker 1: need to take a look at with Rory is drones
Speaker 1: now being provided within the battlefield for the United States,
Speaker 1: which I don't think that's super rare, But as far
Speaker 1: as who's manufacturing these drones and whatnot, that's something we'll
Speaker 1: talk with Rory about coming up here in just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. All right, So, yesterday the big story not
Speaker 1: only here in Kentucky, but it was certainly a story
Speaker 1: nationally just because when you combine the tragic combo of
Speaker 1: officer involved shooting and then somebody showing up to a
Speaker 1: church and killing two people shooting others. Unfortunately, that's not
Speaker 1: as rare the type of stories that that that you
Speaker 1: see anymore, but certainly just a tragic situation all the
Speaker 1: way around. And right now, here's what we know, and
Speaker 1: I do believe the majority of what we of what
Speaker 1: we learned, the big I guess information that people were
Speaker 1: either wanting or just wanting confirmation on was who in
Speaker 1: fact did this, who this person was, And we did
Speaker 1: get the confirmation yesterday towards the end of the show.
Speaker 3: As far as who who it.
Speaker 1: Was, and it is the same it's the same person
Speaker 1: that that everybody assumed was the shooter, who of course
Speaker 1: is now dead, and that is a guy by the
Speaker 1: name of Guy House, forty seven year old. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the other details that were rumors but I
Speaker 1: guess have since been confirmed, is that he had a
Speaker 1: clear connection to some people at that church. I think
Speaker 1: the the his his I guess girlfriend ex girlfriend. She's
Speaker 1: been talking a lot to to to the media and
Speaker 1: and honestly just kind of surreal to see how I mean,
Speaker 1: I get the sense, and not to play psychologist just
Speaker 1: by listening to someone in an interview. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure she's distraught and just probably every probably on atle
Speaker 1: pilot given what's taken place, but I almost get the
Speaker 1: sense that she she's not that surprised because of just
Speaker 1: I guess this this individual. But one thing that I
Speaker 1: think is another added detail that is relatively now information
Speaker 1: that one of the one of the victims that he
Speaker 1: ended up killing was the grandmother of his children. So
Speaker 1: clearly there's a there's a family dynamic there, uh that
Speaker 1: that that that that's the connection, that's how we ended
Speaker 1: up there, and I guess just some other information that
Speaker 1: that that is worth mentioning. If you guys haven't haven't
Speaker 1: seen it as that the officer involved the trooper he's
Speaker 1: he's out of surgery and expected to recover and be okay.
Speaker 1: And we now know of some people would We'll get
Speaker 1: to this later on, but we now know of some
Speaker 1: people who are just good Samaritans and clearly saw the
Speaker 1: situation and did did whatever they could to help. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's always I love being reminded that there are people
Speaker 1: that would that, that will do that. And I don't
Speaker 1: think you ever ever can know when that situation is
Speaker 1: going to present itself, but nonetheless it did, and it
Speaker 1: sounds as if there were people that were there to
Speaker 1: try to help the officer. And again, as far as
Speaker 1: the motive, there's been no official motive release. Family members
Speaker 1: did go on to say that he had clearly a
Speaker 1: criminal issue, had some mental health issues with drugs, but
Speaker 1: it was the mother of his children, Angel Rutherford, that
Speaker 1: I don't know if people suspect that she was the target,
Speaker 1: but he did ask where she was when he arrived
Speaker 1: at the church, and she was not there, and that's
Speaker 1: when he decided to take you know, I mean to
Speaker 1: take the lives of two other people and I guess
Speaker 1: attempt to kill others. And this is not new, This
Speaker 1: is just I think how I mean, this isn't this
Speaker 1: isn't a sign of the times or society. This is
Speaker 1: just I mean, I think it's just how we're wired
Speaker 1: as human beings. But this is new to me in
Speaker 1: what I in this job, this role compared to what
Speaker 1: I used to do. Is that what I've because I've
Speaker 1: been interested in this story and of course it's my
Speaker 1: job to now know the information as best I can
Speaker 1: and share with you guys, and of course share my
Speaker 1: own thoughts on it.
Speaker 3: But why, That's what everybody's asking?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: And that's just again, that's that's that's common. When you
Speaker 1: see somebody do something unthinkable, you think, well, why, what
Speaker 1: in the world would lead someone to do that? What
Speaker 1: could possibly bring someone to take this action and just
Speaker 1: do something unthinkable? And for some reason, I'm still like,
Speaker 1: what does does it matter? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I need to reprogram my brain to not hear so
Speaker 1: many people asking why and think that it's because they're
Speaker 1: looking for some type of like justification for it. They're
Speaker 1: not it's just, you know, as human beings, I think
Speaker 1: you want to try to understand what, how did this happen?
Speaker 1: How could something so heinous take place? And with the
Speaker 1: suspect now dead, we won't probably find out a whole
Speaker 1: lot more other than what we know right now, and
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but just a tragic situation all
Speaker 1: the way around. And yeah, we know of two people
Speaker 1: that have that have been killed from this. It is
Speaker 1: Beverly Gum of seventy two years old, and then her daughter,
Speaker 1: Christina Combs, and then the injured that is Randy Combs
Speaker 1: Jeremy Gumm, who is the church pastor. And again both
Speaker 1: of these all of these people are connected and related
Speaker 1: in some way. So again, just an awful situation. And
Speaker 1: we'll let you know when we have an update on
Speaker 1: the trooper that was shot.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I don't believe his identity has been released, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like he is expected to make a full recovery
Speaker 1: after some surgery on Sunday. All right, Rory O'Neil set
Speaker 1: to join us, coming up here on the other side,
Speaker 1: Let's get a check of traffic with Bobby Ellis and
Speaker 1: we'll get the latest forecast from at Melosvitch WLK. Why
Speaker 1: this is Kentucky Anna's Morning News with Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas, good morning, Kentuckyana. It
Speaker 1: is Kentuckyana is Morning News with Coffee and Company here
Speaker 1: on news Radio eight forty whas it's time to bring
Speaker 1: in Rory O'Neal of NBC News. We certainly always appreciate
Speaker 1: his time. Royal. Start with the latest with President Trump
Speaker 1: and Russia. As Trump is giving Vladimir Putin a deadlined
Speaker 1: in the world the Ukraine, and of course he's threatening
Speaker 1: to push those tariffs to really press the issue here.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us as far as the latest
Speaker 1: is this threat believed to be one that'll result in
Speaker 1: some action.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you know where the president is famous for
Speaker 2: making those we'll see in two weeks kind of timelines,
Speaker 2: but in this case, it's a fifty day timeline that
Speaker 2: he's laid out for Vladimir Putin to stand down. The
Speaker 2: President clearly saying he's frustrated that they'll have a good
Speaker 2: phone call with Putin, they'll seem to reach some sort
Speaker 2: of an accord, but then the bombs start flying on
Speaker 2: Ukraine again, and he's frustrated by it. He told the
Speaker 2: BBC that he's had four different sort of verbal agreements
Speaker 2: with Putin only to have Putin turnaround and increase the
Speaker 2: violent attacks against Ukraine. So this is why he's put
Speaker 2: down this fifty day timeline, saying, look, you've got fifty
Speaker 2: days to back down, otherwise we're going to start implementing tariffs,
Speaker 2: secondary tariffs. That's the important thing, not just on what
Speaker 2: we would import from Russia, which these days isn't much,
Speaker 2: but also what Russian partners like China and India also
Speaker 2: export to the US. So those countries could face tariffs
Speaker 2: of up to one percent unless they can get Russia
Speaker 2: to back down and finally get to a peace deal.
Speaker 1: So if these tariffs did take place, these are ones
Speaker 1: that would be and we would feel more like a punishment,
Speaker 1: right if in fact we get there. This is one
Speaker 1: that the ever more people would feel or know that's
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: Well, right, But it's also an effort by President Trump
Speaker 2: to have China and India put more pressure on Putin.
Speaker 2: You know, these countries have become strong allies now with
Speaker 2: Russia over the past three years of this conflict with
Speaker 2: Ukraine because essentially the rest of the world is snubbing
Speaker 2: its nose at Russian exports like their oil, and China
Speaker 2: and India are picking them up on the cheap. Now,
Speaker 2: there are two other countries we should mention, Iran and
Speaker 2: North Korea. They would also be subject to this, But
Speaker 2: of course we don't import much from those companies at
Speaker 2: all countries at all, so we don't have the same
Speaker 2: economic sway we would have with India and China.
Speaker 1: Rory and Neil is our guest joining us here on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty. Whas it's been clear that drones
Speaker 1: have been pretty critical when it comes to winning wars
Speaker 1: on the battlefield, What can you tell us about who
Speaker 1: is actually manufacturing the drones here as far as as
Speaker 1: far as how they're being used.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating piece by the New York Times looking at
Speaker 2: America's drone programs, and look, we were leading the way
Speaker 2: with those predator drones and the reaper drones. But those
Speaker 2: things are like the size of a small plane. What
Speaker 2: we're seeing happen in Ukraine now is that it's these
Speaker 2: tiny little drones that you send up a thousand of
Speaker 2: them rather than worry about one big, expensive.
Speaker 3: Predator drone.
Speaker 2: So American, Right, we build the suv, but not the
Speaker 2: compact little car that can actually get you around. It's
Speaker 2: that same sort of mentality.
Speaker 3: And we're way behind.
Speaker 2: When it comes to building those smaller drones that you
Speaker 2: would sort of lo launch en mass. So President Trump
Speaker 2: recently signed an executive order to quote unleash American drone dominance,
Speaker 2: so federal agencies are now on they're authorized to fast
Speaker 2: track any approval for drone manufacturers. We got a lot
Speaker 2: of companies in the US that make big promises. They
Speaker 2: just had this four day demonstration up in Alaska. Those
Speaker 2: companies didn't deliver as much as they were promising, So
Speaker 2: we are in serious catch up mode when it comes
Speaker 2: to drone tech in the US.
Speaker 1: One more for you or the Senate is debating spending
Speaker 1: that could trigger I guess a government shut down and
Speaker 1: President Trump's big bill. It's creating a budget nightmare for
Speaker 1: a lot of states that don't know if they're going
Speaker 1: to be getting the help from the federal government. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us as far as the latest on
Speaker 1: these cutbacks and the impact that may be coming for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a few things going on there. So the one
Speaker 2: big beautiful law I guess we'll call it now that's
Speaker 2: going to cut Medicaid and food stamp supplements or to states.
Speaker 2: So state's astors scrambling like, wait, how are we going to.
Speaker 3: Fill that budget hole?
Speaker 2: Now? A lot of these cutbacks don't really happen until
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, after the midterm elections. What a shock.
Speaker 2: But it's already sending up red flags in state governor's
Speaker 2: offices all across the country. Red state, blue state. Some
Speaker 2: of these states are going to be taking big hits
Speaker 2: and have to adjust their spending accordingly more immediately. This week,
Speaker 2: the Senate is expected to vote on proposed clawbacks, taking
Speaker 2: back about nine point six billion and spending most of
Speaker 2: it going to public media like NPR and PBS, a
Speaker 2: lot of it going. Most of it were for aid
Speaker 2: programs like USAID. The Trump administration wants to bring back
Speaker 2: about nine billion dollars in all. Not every Senator is
Speaker 2: on board with some of this, so fascinating maneuvers ahead.
Speaker 2: They've got a Friday deadline.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Rory, really appreciate your time. Enjoyed
Speaker 1: the rest of your day. We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks Nick. All right, that's Rory and Nale NBC News.
Speaker 1: A little Rapid Fire with Rory. Always enjoy the conversation.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. We've got an update of traffic coming your way.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis will tell you what it looks like out
Speaker 1: there as you start your Tuesday. And then of course
Speaker 1: we'll get an update on the weather forecast with Matt
Speaker 1: Melosavich of WLKY. This is Kentucky Ana's morning News with
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company on news Radio eight forty whs.