Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, and it is five oh five here
Speaker 1: on a wet Tuesday morning as we come to you
Speaker 1: live from our beautiful studios here at four Street, Live again, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and it's Morning News with Nick Coffee. We've got the
Speaker 1: full crew in the house today, Scott Fitzgerald alongside John
Speaker 1: Alden and of course John Shannon. And the rain for me,
Speaker 1: it hit right around I guess I was probably just
Speaker 1: past U of L heading on sixty five North and
Speaker 1: it felt like for the last I don't know, twenty
Speaker 1: four hours plus that it was just waiting to rain,
Speaker 1: and it has. It is unloaded, and we have downpours
Speaker 1: here in downtown Louisville. So be prepared if you are
Speaker 1: getting your day started. It doesn't look like that rain's
Speaker 1: gonna let up anytime soon now. As far as just
Speaker 1: how hard it's raining right now, I don't hear it
Speaker 1: because I've got headphones on, but we could hear it
Speaker 1: in studio just how heavy the other rain is. We're
Speaker 1: looking here at WLKY, their four thirty news cast on
Speaker 1: our screen behind us, and there's some coverage in Newlu
Speaker 1: as the mayor set to discuss the takeovers that have
Speaker 1: taken place in Nulu herecently, but one of their reporters
Speaker 1: out there look looks like he's got something covering him
Speaker 1: because he's not getting drenched. But behind him, I mean
Speaker 1: you could almost barely see anything because of how hard
Speaker 1: it was raining.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I could.
Speaker 3: I came in before the rain hit, but I could
Speaker 3: smell it in the air.
Speaker 1: Is that you? Is that you letting everybody know you
Speaker 1: got here before us?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's just what it was one of those
Speaker 4: It's weird.
Speaker 3: It's one of those mornings where you get up, you know,
Speaker 3: and you're awake, and you go, Okay, I got about
Speaker 3: a half hour before I need to get up, so
Speaker 3: if I go back to bed, I'm probably gonna wake
Speaker 3: up more tired.
Speaker 1: That's become my morning every morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: As far as just I guess I'm now getting used
Speaker 1: to being up this early to where my instincts aren't
Speaker 1: to just roll over and go back to sleep. It's well,
Speaker 1: I'm awake. Yeah, so yeah, I've been there. In fact,
Speaker 1: you did beat me here today, which you often do.
Speaker 1: I think I may be able to claim that I'm
Speaker 1: more awake than you, and I'll tell you why. M
Speaker 1: hot water heater didn't work. Oh no, cold shower? Cold shower? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh dude, that's it. Did it work last night?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: It's like so so I'm not I'm not super worried,
Speaker 1: not because like I would know how to fix it.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm just maybe maybe I'm too optimistic here
Speaker 1: about the situation. But we had a breaker that went
Speaker 1: out and the one outlet in our unfinished area of
Speaker 1: the basement just didn't work, and there's something there that
Speaker 1: that powers it, and that we ended up unplugging it
Speaker 1: and realizing that that breaker was just bad and we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to have somebody come look at that. But
Speaker 1: we just ran an extension cord and plugged it in
Speaker 1: elsewhere and it worked fine. But it powered on and
Speaker 1: I just left it alone. Well, this morning, water wasn't
Speaker 1: eating up, so I'd go down there and it's on.
Speaker 1: But there was like this reset error button that it
Speaker 1: didn't get me. Even if it gave me some kind
Speaker 1: of an error code, I wouldn't know what it means.
Speaker 1: But I just hit reset and it looked as if
Speaker 1: it reset itself. It started making a noise as if
Speaker 1: it was doing something that it wasn't doing prior so
Speaker 1: I'll find out if the hot water is working when
Speaker 1: my wife wakes up in about two hours and she
Speaker 1: starts her day, because it'll be something I'm made aware
Speaker 1: of if she can't get a shower to get the
Speaker 1: day going. But and it wasn't like it was cold water.
Speaker 1: But any water that's like not warm for a shower,
Speaker 1: I mean it's you know, unless you're outside in the
Speaker 1: heat in a pool, it's different. So but man, it
Speaker 1: to wake you up.
Speaker 3: Hey, Well, And that's the great thing about this shift, too, Nick,
Speaker 3: is that we've got some great listeners that listen. So
Speaker 3: somewhere there's out there there's there's a plumber or hot
Speaker 3: water repair guy who's listening, or a lady who's listening
Speaker 3: and says, I can help Nick with this. So we
Speaker 3: either hit that talk back button, I don't shoot you
Speaker 3: an email.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people listening that could help me in
Speaker 1: a variety of Well, well, I know what, I'm a
Speaker 1: helpless man.
Speaker 3: I've fixed a lot of stuff when folks have called
Speaker 3: me and said, hey, Scott tried this. And but for you,
Speaker 3: there's no worse feeling than either one waking up with
Speaker 3: no hot water or waking up realizing in the summer
Speaker 3: your ac is quit or in winter your heater is quit.
Speaker 1: I thought about not showering just because I got a
Speaker 1: shower yesterday after the gym, and I didn't do much
Speaker 1: after that. But I don't know, even if it was
Speaker 1: warm water, a shower wakes me up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So yeah, it wasn't enjoyable for the two
Speaker 1: and a half minutes roughly that I was in there,
Speaker 1: but it definitely got me going. And I get what
Speaker 1: people who are all about the ice bath. If you can,
Speaker 1: if you can tough it out, I get it.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not doing the ice bath.
Speaker 4: I've seen those on TikTok and I'm not.
Speaker 2: There's no way, bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah wait, I hope you get it. I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to do it. Yeah. Again, we'll know this phone
Speaker 1: will be ringing if in fact it's not working, we'll
Speaker 1: find out soon enough. All Right, we've got a lot
Speaker 1: to get into this morning. We now know who the
Speaker 1: shooter was in Idaho, and we'll talk about what we
Speaker 1: know at this point. Roy o'nil's gonna join us around
Speaker 1: five forty five. Also, we have I think more damaging
Speaker 1: testimony for Brooks Howk and Joseph Lawson as the Krystal
Speaker 1: Rogers trial continues. Also maybe the closest thing we've seen
Speaker 1: or at least heard about, as far as real DNA evidence.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that and a lot more. It is
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Speaker 1: still relatively new. Therefore, you're going to continue to hear
Speaker 1: me remind folks of it. But anyways, this morning, I
Speaker 1: believe at ten o'clock, May Greenberg is set to talk
Speaker 1: to hold a press conference of some sort to discuss
Speaker 1: the recent New lou takeovers that are going on over
Speaker 1: the weekend, and I think it's now three straight weekends,
Speaker 1: maybe two, that you've had the New lou area with
Speaker 1: large crowds blocking streets, even hotel entrances, of course, has
Speaker 1: prompted police to intervene. And I don't think there were
Speaker 1: any arrest of the weekend. I did read that someone
Speaker 1: ended up in handcuffs, but I guess they were not arrested.
Speaker 1: And it was last week. I believe we had the
Speaker 1: second consecutive week of an attempted street takeover. I believe
Speaker 1: one was near River Road. I don't remember where the
Speaker 1: other one was. So we had the issue in the Highlands,
Speaker 1: which of course became a big enough issue to where
Speaker 1: there was a real emphasis that hey, you know, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have more presence there not only to
Speaker 1: hold those accountable who are breaking the law, but also
Speaker 1: to prevent it, to get to prevent it from getting
Speaker 1: to a point where it was it was really tough
Speaker 1: to control even if you had a lot of police presence,
Speaker 1: And I think the emphasis there was good meaning it
Speaker 1: seemed to work. But now even if there were no
Speaker 1: arrests over the weekend, which of course I guess that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. When you hear Greenberg is going to
Speaker 1: be addressing this, that tells me that what they're having
Speaker 1: to do, even though it's not turned into maybe it
Speaker 1: being quite as chaotic as it was at times in
Speaker 1: the Highlands, and I don't know that for certain, I
Speaker 1: wasn't there, But nonetheless, it's just not sustainable for law
Speaker 1: enforcement to just have to I mean, again, it's their job.
Speaker 1: It's what they have to do, and if you decide
Speaker 1: to break the law, they're going to have to hold
Speaker 1: you accountable. But it just can't be a sustainable thing
Speaker 1: here in the city to where the resources of law
Speaker 1: enforcement are just on alert, probably with a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of resources being used to just know that
Speaker 1: there's a group of individuals or maybe multiple groups of
Speaker 1: individuals that are just planning to take over streets somewhere
Speaker 1: in Louisville, and even if they know that, the cops
Speaker 1: are prepared to show up and intervene and keep it
Speaker 1: from getting into what those individuals want to turn it into.
Speaker 1: It just you know, again, it's law enforcement's job to
Speaker 1: be prepared for people doing things they're not supposed to do,
Speaker 1: hold them accountable and whatnot. But it can't be an
Speaker 1: every weekend thing, and again and how you control that,
Speaker 1: how you keep it from happening, what needs to be
Speaker 1: done to prevent it to get to that point? I
Speaker 1: don't have those answers. If I did, I probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: be sitting here as a loudmouth on the radio. But
Speaker 1: clearly it's become a thing to where there are at
Speaker 1: least and I don't I mean, who knows if it's
Speaker 1: a different group of people every I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it does seem as if the city of Louisville has
Speaker 1: at least every weekend one either potential chaotic area where
Speaker 1: a group of folks are attempting to shut down the
Speaker 1: street and do whatever. I don't know what, and by way,
Speaker 1: what is when they shut down the street and they
Speaker 1: are they race? I'm not one that would really know
Speaker 1: what would take place, like when you take over a
Speaker 1: street with I guess, vehicles and just a bunch of people,
Speaker 1: masses of people hanging out like what do you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, and even if you're just you know, just
Speaker 1: standing out there doing nothing like you still can't be
Speaker 1: in the wag. And what I read yesterday from our
Speaker 1: partners over at WKHY was that the recent large crowds.
Speaker 1: I mean they were blocking streets and hotel entrances and
Speaker 1: businesses were having to shut down because they couldn't operate
Speaker 1: because it was just too chaotic. So again I don't
Speaker 1: I don't have the answer certainly, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: anybody does. But my guess is that the consecutive weekends
Speaker 1: of sniffing it out before it gets to the point
Speaker 1: of where it is out of control. Although that was
Speaker 1: again that's that's what you that's what you hope for,
Speaker 1: But I just don't think this appears to be sustainable.
Speaker 1: But we'll hear from Mary Greenberg a little bit later
Speaker 1: on today. All right, we've got a sports update coming
Speaker 1: your way. Also another check on traffic and weather, and
Speaker 1: make sure you pay attention to the traffic updates from
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis today because we've got some real wet roads
Speaker 1: to get the day. Started a real downpour on my
Speaker 1: way in about about an hour ago, So be safe everybody. Also, Roriyo,
Speaker 1: and you're going to join us coming up at five
Speaker 1: forty five, we'll get the latest on the Idaho shooter.
Speaker 1: We now know the identity of the twenty year old
Speaker 1: man who apparently wanted to be a forest firefighter. Don't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. Stick well us right here it's Kinsuckyana's Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee and the crew on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Thank you, John Shannon. That's right. It
Speaker 1: is another fresh batch year of Kasucky. In is Morning
Speaker 1: News with myself, Nick Coffee here on news Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas John all on alongside. So the second week
Speaker 1: of the Crystal Rogers trial continued, which it's the Crystal
Speaker 1: Rodgers murder trial. I keep just referencing as if she's
Speaker 1: on trial. She's not. She's missing and presumed dead, and
Speaker 1: the prosecution is charging her former boyfriend Brooks Houck and
Speaker 1: an accomplice, Steve Lawson with murder charges. Here and again,
Speaker 1: all the evidence that has been presented, the testimony, the
Speaker 1: just the inconsistencies at times and stories that to me
Speaker 1: just seems rather obvious as far as well. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean clearly these people that are charged, not only how
Speaker 1: but Lawson that's currently a co who's also a co defendant,
Speaker 1: but also the other Losson who's already pleaded guilty to
Speaker 1: lesser charges. I mean, it just seems rather obvious. But
Speaker 1: what I keep having around myself is that if you're
Speaker 1: somebody that's a part of this jury, you have to
Speaker 1: think to yourself, Okay, yeah that seems likely, something seems suspicious,
Speaker 1: something's not adding up. But do you feel as if
Speaker 1: there's enough proof to know without any doubt that these
Speaker 1: people are guilty of what prosecution is charging them with.
Speaker 1: So the public opinion is, I think pretty obvious. I've
Speaker 1: yet to see anyone not that there's not people out
Speaker 1: there doing it, but I haven't seen a single person
Speaker 1: advocate for those being charged here as if they're innocent
Speaker 1: of what they've done. And again that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: it's not happening, but the coverage and again just the
Speaker 1: obvious shady stuff that's going on even since she disappeared,
Speaker 1: Like if you remember, there were people associated with the
Speaker 1: Hawk family that were removing signs that were set up
Speaker 1: in Barchetown that just were signs of hate. She's missing.
Speaker 1: We want to I mean it just clearly these people
Speaker 1: look guilty. However, does the jury think that despite looking guilty,
Speaker 1: they've been convinced that they have enough proof to say, yes,
Speaker 1: this is we're going to find them guilty. And as
Speaker 1: somebody who does consider myself a nerd for true crime stuff.
Speaker 1: I've never really put myself. I've tried to. I've never
Speaker 1: tried to put myself in the shoes of a jury member,
Speaker 1: sort of like I am here. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: a feeling that if I was on the jury, I
Speaker 1: know which way I would lean, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe if I was there and I heard everything throughout,
Speaker 1: every little detail, maybe I wouldn't. Maybe I wouldn't say, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're guilty. I'm supporting finding these individuals guilty. And there's
Speaker 1: no technology allowed at all, So those that are covering this,
Speaker 1: they're going old school. They're literally just right everything down,
Speaker 1: taking notes. So it's been interesting for sure, and I
Speaker 1: think each day that passes sometimes it's a big step
Speaker 1: forward in me assuming these are these two individuals are
Speaker 1: gonna be found guilty. But maybe, you know, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: wrong here. So the fifth day of the trial was yesterday,
Speaker 1: and again there was more key testimony surrounding brooks Out
Speaker 1: and his attempts to contract contact Rogers around the times
Speaker 1: she vanished. And I don't know if that's being I mean,
Speaker 1: him trying to reach out to her after she had vanished.
Speaker 1: I mean, can't prove it at least I don't think
Speaker 1: you can. But to me, that's just an obvious way
Speaker 1: of trying to cover your rear end of Oh, I see,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: I was worried I didn't know where she was. So anyways,
Speaker 1: I guess what was learned yesterday that I believe his
Speaker 1: new information is the testimony from Amber Bowman, who is
Speaker 1: the former girlfriend of Nick out Brooks Howk's brother, former
Speaker 1: law enforcement officer, of course, who has since been relieved
Speaker 1: of his duties as a law enforcement officer and is
Speaker 1: currently listed as a unindicted co conspirator. His girlfriend claims
Speaker 1: that she testified this that she couldn't reach him despite
Speaker 1: multiple calls during the He had an unusual absence on
Speaker 1: July third, and she said she couldn't reach him despite
Speaker 1: multiple attempts, and he reappeared the next day without any explanation.
Speaker 1: And that's to me again, a really it's a bad look.
Speaker 1: But is that is that proof? Now? Apparently, one of
Speaker 1: the questions I suppose by the defense when questioning the
Speaker 1: witness here, Amber Bowman, Nick Cowk's former girlfriend, the question
Speaker 1: was did he did he reappear bloody as if he
Speaker 1: had you know, I again I'm paraphrasing here, but something
Speaker 1: along the lines of did he look like he had
Speaker 1: just committed a murder? And of course she said no.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, like, if that's your questioning for the defense,
Speaker 1: that he didn't look, I mean like that kind of
Speaker 1: tells me you don't have a whole lot to run
Speaker 1: with as far as defending your you know, defending your
Speaker 1: client in this situation. Also, another witness to testified yesterday
Speaker 1: is Charlie Gerdley, who's a former employee of Halck who
Speaker 1: testified in the previous trial of Steve Lawson, and his
Speaker 1: claims was that he heard Hawke's mother Rosemary say that
Speaker 1: quote it would be better off if Crystal were gone,
Speaker 1: which of course suggests a motive within the Hawk family.
Speaker 1: He also testified that Joseph Lawson claimed he would quote
Speaker 1: Barry Rogers car with the skid steer and nobody would
Speaker 1: ever find it, of course, implicating Lawson and tampering with evidence.
Speaker 1: So these statements were these statements basically underscored the prosecution's
Speaker 1: narrative of conspiracy here. And then there's another witness who
Speaker 1: was Raccoon hunting on the Hawk family property on July third,
Speaker 1: that testified seeing a white car later identified as belonging
Speaker 1: to the grandmother of Brooks. Hawk, investigators found a hair
Speaker 1: in the car's trunk that was similar in color and
Speaker 1: characteristics to Crystal Rodgers here through DNA testing, but was
Speaker 1: not confirmed in court. So again, maybe that's not as
Speaker 1: uncommon as as I believe, but it's similar in color
Speaker 1: and characteristics, but through DNA testing it wasn't able to
Speaker 1: be confirmed in the trial as being her DNA, So
Speaker 1: again that's far from the smoking gun, but that to
Speaker 1: me is the closest thing we've had since this whole
Speaker 1: thing started as far as physical like DNA evidence, But
Speaker 1: again it's it's kind of DNA evidence, right, similar color
Speaker 1: and characteristics, but the DNA testing didn't confirm in court
Speaker 1: that it was that it was actually hers. I guess
Speaker 1: it didn't confirm that it wasn't. Maybe it was inconclusive.
Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens today because day I guess
Speaker 1: it's day six getting underway later today. All right, we've
Speaker 1: got an update on Travick and weather coming your way. Also,
Speaker 1: Royo and Eli of NBC News set to join us
Speaker 1: on the other side. Keep it locked right here. It's
Speaker 1: Kentucky and it's Morning News on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas five forty six. Here Kentucky and it's Morning News
Speaker 1: with Nick Coffee on. He was Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Let's bring in Rory O'Neil of NBC News. Good morning, Rory.
Speaker 1: Let's get started when it comes to the shooter in Idaho,
Speaker 1: the twenty year old that killed two firefighters and of
Speaker 1: course injured one. What do we know as far as
Speaker 1: who this individual is and any potential motive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we still.
Speaker 4: Don't have a lot of questions about the motive in
Speaker 4: the case. And what we've heard from some family members
Speaker 4: of this suspected gunman is that he may have wanted
Speaker 4: to be a firefighter. That's what I think his grandfather
Speaker 4: had said. But still that part of the investigation is ongoing.
Speaker 4: They have identified, as you said, the shooter though, as
Speaker 4: being a twenty year old really described as a transient
Speaker 4: to live with family member. After family members so sort
Speaker 4: of hopped around a great deal, he set the fire,
Speaker 4: we believe, and then that brought the firefighters out to
Speaker 4: the scene, and then they were the targets of his
Speaker 4: gun fire. Two veteran firefighters were killed and a third
Speaker 4: is still listed in critical condition this morning.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned being a transient, Is that I mean,
Speaker 1: does he the area where this took place? Do we
Speaker 1: know is he considered a local? Obviously he was in
Speaker 1: the wilderness seemingly, but it didn't seem as if anybody
Speaker 1: in the community really knew a whole lot about this
Speaker 1: guy at all. It seems as if those who have
Speaker 1: had any knowledge of this individual, it's people from his
Speaker 1: past when he was younger. I think I saw his
Speaker 1: father didn't have much of a relationship with him at.
Speaker 4: All, right, Right, And that's why we say it was
Speaker 4: difficult to describe his living status again, because it seemed
Speaker 4: he would stay with his grandmother I think most recently,
Speaker 4: but sort of hopped around with family member to family
Speaker 4: member and had a strange, perhaps difficult upbringing.
Speaker 2: So a lot of that is still the.
Speaker 4: Subject of this investigation as they pieced together his personal timeline.
Speaker 4: But obviously what led to this is still such a
Speaker 4: stretch because to take this kind of action. You know, again,
Speaker 4: we know his father or grandfather had said that he
Speaker 4: sort of dreamed of being a firefighter, but it wasn't
Speaker 4: clear if he had actually made any practical efforts to
Speaker 4: try to become one.
Speaker 1: Yes, I see that he had applied for a forestry
Speaker 1: service job but was eventually was not hired for that
Speaker 1: job that he applied for. So maybe he'll he'll we
Speaker 1: won't hear anything now, but maybe we'll find out that
Speaker 1: there was some bitterness towards that. But certainly a tragic situation.
Speaker 1: What has been the response there locally as far as
Speaker 1: just the community. Obviously you've got people who sign up
Speaker 1: to save lives and they assume that's what they're going
Speaker 1: to potentially do and then they're ambushed.
Speaker 4: Well right, I mean a big turnout was seeing just
Speaker 4: hours after the shootings when people were lining the streets
Speaker 4: when the bodies were taken back from the scene of
Speaker 4: the shooting back to a funeral home there in town.
Speaker 2: So we've seen a huge amount of support for this.
Speaker 4: But again, I think the community is still just absolutely
Speaker 4: in Corda Lane, not a particularly large city close to Spokane.
Speaker 2: But still we.
Speaker 4: Do suspect that we'll learn a lot more about the
Speaker 4: suspect because it is a relatively small town who.
Speaker 2: And the shooters certainly has some sort of roots there.
Speaker 1: Sure, Roy and Heil. THENBC News is our guest joining
Speaker 1: us here on news Radio eight forty whas So, Senators
Speaker 1: voted in a marathon session known as voter rama, featuring
Speaker 1: a series of amendments by Republicans and the minority Democrats.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the latest here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is an effort to get the big,
Speaker 4: beautiful bill passed, and believe it or not, the Senators
Speaker 4: have been working all night long. Just a short time
Speaker 4: ago they voted I think it was ninety nine to
Speaker 4: one for an amendment that strips from the bill that
Speaker 4: language that would have prevented states from filing or creating
Speaker 4: any laws that regulate AI for the next five to
Speaker 4: ten years. So that provision just got stripped out of
Speaker 4: the Senate version. Keep in mind, whatever the Senate passes,
Speaker 4: if it passes, and that's still a coin to us,
Speaker 4: it has to go back to the House and be
Speaker 4: passed there again as well. And remember it only passed
Speaker 4: the House with one vote to spare the last time.
Speaker 2: So there are still big concerns.
Speaker 4: About the added debt that's created with this legislation. Elon
Speaker 4: Musk has been posting frantically about it, it seems, trying
Speaker 4: to decry the Big Beautiful Bill, saying till his dying
Speaker 4: day he's going to primary anyone who votes for this thing,
Speaker 4: saying it's a big boon toggle that will set the
Speaker 4: country back not only financially but technologically speaking by defunding
Speaker 4: some important programs.
Speaker 2: He thinks.
Speaker 1: Yes, Elon Musk has made it quite clear what he
Speaker 1: thinks about the Big Beautiful Bill, and Rory, I'm having
Speaker 1: a tough time at times knowing what is real and
Speaker 1: what's not on the Internet. And if there's one person
Speaker 1: I trust that can help me with that, it is you, Rory.
Speaker 1: When it comes to this provision in the bill that
Speaker 1: would add taxes to solar energy, and yet no senators
Speaker 1: says they know anything about how it got on the bill.
Speaker 1: Is that real?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that happened this weekend, got in the language,
Speaker 4: got incertain. So look, there are plenty of Senators and
Speaker 4: members of the House as well who want to strip
Speaker 4: out some of those that call them Green New Deal
Speaker 4: incentives for solar and wind projects. But not only now
Speaker 4: are they stripping them out, they're going to tax companies
Speaker 4: that are using them, especially if they're the parts are
Speaker 4: made with imported goods from China. So what we've had though,
Speaker 4: is that major electric companies and other utilities have been
Speaker 4: investing in these things. They're still coming online, still being
Speaker 4: built now based on the money that was approved under
Speaker 4: the Biden administration. So the constructions underway and they're purchasing stuff,
Speaker 4: but now they're going to be taxed for it. So
Speaker 4: local utility payers, your local electric bill could be going
Speaker 4: up to pay a tax that the Senate now wants
Speaker 4: to impose on the solar panels. And we heard from
Speaker 4: the President over the weekend saying he wants to reinvigorate
Speaker 4: the coal industry. You know, some of that that's this
Speaker 4: is also what has Elon Muskup said. Yes, he's using
Speaker 4: his subsidies for his electric vehicles, that's for sure, but
Speaker 4: it's also this idea of wait, we're going back to
Speaker 4: cole You know, I thought we were trying to modernize
Speaker 4: the grid here.
Speaker 1: Rory, you are the best. And yeah, some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: I mean, nobody knowing how it got there is a
Speaker 1: head scratcher. But that's that's just the sign of the times.
Speaker 1: But again, thank you as always for your time. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the rest of your day. We'll talk soon, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thanks Nick.
Speaker 1: All right, that's Rory and Neil of NBC News. We've
Speaker 1: got an update of traving and weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: Also another update on sports and real quick when it
Speaker 1: comes to traffic. Not sure Bobby Hellis has this just yet,
Speaker 1: but I do see that there is an accident on
Speaker 1: I sixty four eastbound at Hurstbourne that is blocking the
Speaker 1: left lane, so use caution, be prepared again I sixty
Speaker 1: four eastbound a Hurstbourne. You've got the left lane blocked