WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:09.000 Bill Cunningham, the Great America, and welcome to this war. 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.480 It's Friday afternoon of the tri State. The Bengals tee 3 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.080 it up about nine am on Sunday morning, kick off 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.000 about eight fifteen, eight twenty pm, big game against the 5 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:20.359 New York Football Giants. To say, it's a crisis if 6 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:22.320 they lose. It would be a crisis if they lose, 7 00:00:22.399 --> 00:00:24.879 because this is a team picked by Mowager to win 8 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:27.440 the Super Bowl and beyond. But instead of that, they're 9 00:00:27.440 --> 00:00:29.399 one in four. And there's no team in the NFL 10 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:31.679 that is a worse record than the Bengals. There's a 11 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:33.679 few one in four teams and the Bengals are one 12 00:00:33.679 --> 00:00:36.679 of them. So this could begin the renaissances. Rocky boym 13 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:38.640 And said the other day that when he was with 14 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:40.560 the Colts, they open up one in four won the 15 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.799 next ten in a row. Certainly the Bengals have the 16 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:45.520 capability of doing that and more. But until then the 17 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.840 last few days have been somewhat remarkable when it comes 18 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.759 to weather and when it comes to hurricanes, when it 19 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:54.640 comes to Ian or Helene, or when it comes to Milton, 20 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.840 and there's been lots of coverage even this morning watching 21 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:01.119 News Nation and watching many other channels, it's the dominant 22 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:03.079 story in the country and that as far as what's 23 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:05.319 happening and how it happened, how to stop it from 24 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.319 happening again, what are the impacts? And one thing I 25 00:01:07.439 --> 00:01:11.040 found very informative is I watched the Mayor of Sarasota 26 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:13.760 this morning on News Nation and he talked about the 27 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:16.840 fact that there's not been a hurricane to hit Sarasota 28 00:01:16.840 --> 00:01:20.959 since nineteen sixty, which was during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. 29 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:24.480 So this isn't exactly a regular event in Sarasota. Joining 30 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:27.040 you and I now is Brian Innton. Brian Anton has 31 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:29.120 a correspondent's been on the scene with News Nation the 32 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.120 last several days. And Brian Anton, Welcome again to the 33 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.719 Bill Cunningham Show. And Brian this afternoon. Can you tell 34 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:38.400 us what's happening now? I know you're in Tampa, Sarasota. 35 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:39.879 How's the recovery going? 36 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.840 Yeah, I appreciate you having me, Bill. It's moving along. 37 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:44.760 You know, Florida. 38 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.840 I'm from Florida. I'm a Floridian. We're really good at 39 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:51.319 responding to hurricanes. And I was just on the Highway 40 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:53.840 between Tampa and Sarasota. I mean, it's like the cavalry 41 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:56.799 is coming in, all the linemen and the search and 42 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:01.519 rescue teams and the construction crews. So it's well underway. 43 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.079 There's still, you know, a lot of people without power, 44 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.959 but that's improving greatly the power right. Restoration cruis are out, 45 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.199 you know. I was in North Tampa near the University 46 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.000 of South Florida yesterday where I mean there's just the 47 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.960 whole neighborhood there is underwater and it's slowly starting to recede. 48 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.840 They were doing rescues out there yesterday. Shout out to 49 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.759 the Hillsboro County Sheriff's office. They did an amazing job. 50 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.639 They saved like one hundred seniors from this senior living home. 51 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.159 There were no deaths. But it's gonna be a clean up. 52 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:33.520 I mean, you know, when you get four or five 53 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:35.560 feet of water in your house, you think about it. 54 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:38.240 You got to throw everything away, all the dry wall 55 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.719 has to go. So it's gonna be quite a clean 56 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.039 up process for all these folks in this part of 57 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:44.400 the state. 58 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:46.479 And some of the best video you have is I've 59 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.680 seen dumpsters on top of roofs I've seen large alligators 60 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:54.000 chewing on the tires of cars. I've seen little boys 61 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:57.639 plucked out of deep water by rescue workers. It's an 62 00:02:57.639 --> 00:03:00.560 all hands on deck. Has been one or two incidence 63 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:03.280 that you've seen that you're gonna remember for a long time. 64 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.439 Yeah, you know, you mentioned I was in the neighborhood 65 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:10.000 where they got the fourteen year old. He was like 66 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:13.000 hanging on to a piece of wood that was again 67 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:16.159 the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office. They rescued him yesterday. I 68 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.719 won't forget that. It's interesting, you know. The only time 69 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:22.919 I've covered a lot of these storms and you get 70 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:23.639 in storm mode. 71 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.159 The only time I felt a little like that. 72 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:27.080 Little ping of emotion, like I was almost gonna get 73 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.639 a little tiary again, was just seeing all the search 74 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.120 and rescue crews driving in right after the storm ended. 75 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.960 You know, they stage all over the state, and you 76 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.240 got you know, people that they want to do this, 77 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.520 They want to do this work. They come from all over. 78 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:44.919 It's just so amazing what they do. People don't realize it, 79 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.400 you know, because there's no power, it's hot, it's a 80 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.520 terrible condition to work in, but they come from all 81 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:53.680 over to help, and I think I'll always I'll always 82 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:54.240 remember that. 83 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.879 And the other the other issue which you don't think 84 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:00.000 about are the critters. I see people walking and maybe 85 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.159 an ankle deep water or mud or maybe a waste 86 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:07.560 deep talk about the critters that you might encounter in 87 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:09.840 Florida that you don't have like in North Carolina. 88 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.960 Yeah, I mean, look, we got the gators everywhere here. 89 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.960 Bill Florida is just one big swamp. They say. Everybody 90 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:18.040 of water already has a gator in it. And when 91 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:20.639 the water comes up like this, this neighborhood that I 92 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:25.360 was just in where it's now just all underwater, the 93 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:27.399 gators are there. There was video of a gator in 94 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.920 someone's house. The house was flooded. They left the door 95 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.639 open and there was a gator inside. All the snakes 96 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.839 come out. Everything is disturbed. You know, all the things 97 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:38.839 that live underground here, the snakes and crabs in the holes, 98 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:41.600 they all come out because it gets flooded. So you 99 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:43.720 really do have to be careful of that. I mean, 100 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.480 you know, I had these stick boots on when I 101 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:49.160 was walking in the flood water. But even then you 102 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.199 have to look where you walk, and that's a whole 103 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:54.399 nother sort of part of it. You try not to 104 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:56.439 think about it too much, but the gaters are definitely 105 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:57.360 amongst us. 106 00:04:57.720 --> 00:04:59.959 You know, when you live in Cincinnati or northern Kentuck, 107 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.480 you live in Boone County, you live in Dayton, Ohio, 108 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:04.959 you don't think much about gators. And I've often told 109 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:08.319 some that that's the up in the up and the down. 110 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.519 The mountains and the valleys of life are available in 111 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.879 Florida that unavailable other parts of the country. Kentucky had 112 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:18.279 terrible incidents with tornadoes and flooding. It's awful, and the 113 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:22.279 tornado is unpredictable, and maybe flooding is not really predictable, 114 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.000 but hurricanes are. And when you think about the fatigue factor, 115 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.920 I've seen many talk in Florida about the fatigue factor 116 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:33.279 that is this is I had on several times the 117 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:37.839 mayor of Fort Myers Beach, a good man, and I'm 118 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:41.399 thinking about what he's gone through the last three or 119 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.040 four years, and it's truly unbelievable, the fatigue factor of 120 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.240 what one goes through. And in Florida that you don't 121 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.720 have the fatigue factor. And since you're a Floridian, can 122 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:55.560 you address the issue of why would I don't know, 123 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:58.480 twenty five million people live in Florida. When it seems 124 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.519 this is a regular event, why would that happen? 125 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.439 Yeah, it's such a good question. You know, Fort Myers 126 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.399 Beach by the Way has been slammed, and you're right. 127 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:07.360 The mayor is a great guy, and it's a beautiful 128 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.480 area there, but they've been hit hard the last couple 129 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:12.319 of years. I was thinking about that today. It's interesting 130 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.319 you asked me that, Bill, because people have asked me 131 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.720 that too. Gosh, you have to worry the whole chunk 132 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.720 of the year about these storms coming. Who would we 133 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.199 even want to live there anymore? And then they come 134 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:26.160 and they have the station. I just love it here. 135 00:06:26.399 --> 00:06:28.759 I mean, you know, you've got eight months of the 136 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.800 year that's beautiful. Everybody's jealous of you. It's cold and 137 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.279 snowing everywhere else in the country and we're here and 138 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:36.680 it's seventy five degrees every day in blue sky. Is 139 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.519 a big chunk of the year. So this is the payoffs, 140 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.240 and you know, there's a bonding that happens with these storms. 141 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:46.639 You know, even in the last. 142 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.680 Couple of days, I realized it again. People are just 143 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:52.160 so nice here. After a hurricane, everybody comes together as 144 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:54.959 a Floridian. Nobody, you know, you watch the national news, 145 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.279 everybody's talking about politics right now and global warming and 146 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.240 this and that. Nobody's talking about that. In Florida. They're 147 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.879 all just helping each other out right now and giving 148 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.759 each other hot coffee and given each other generator and 149 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:09.759 making sure their neighbors are okay. And in a way, 150 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:13.560 after a storm, people on the outside are thinking like, oh, 151 00:07:13.560 --> 00:07:15.120 you'd want to get out of there. For me, it 152 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:17.360 makes me think about how much I want to stay 153 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.920 like it. Just I like Floridians. I like it here Florida. 154 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:23.079 Do you ever hear that term Florida man? Bill Like, 155 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.600 I'm a Florida man, and I guess I'm just proud 156 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:26.879 of it. 157 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:27.199 You know. 158 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:30.720 Mother nature can be awful, but human beings can be 159 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.519 so good. And when these events happen, it's like the 160 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.480 best of humanity in the worst of mother nature meat 161 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:41.000 and the human always wins in a sense over mother 162 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.519 nature until the next storm and the next storm, and 163 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:45.319 then it's, oh my god, here we go again. There's 164 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.839 two more hurricanes out in the Atlantic now. I am 165 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:51.959 told by Tony Bender and others don't worry about it. 166 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:54.160 That's gonna go north, gonna go east. But to have 167 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.959 a hurricane form quickly in the western Gulf of Mexico 168 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:02.680 and then they had to east at that rapid race 169 00:08:02.720 --> 00:08:05.720 and to become a category five hit at category three. 170 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.519 I think this sand has talked about the other day 171 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:12.000 is that that's not happened. It's very unusual. Every sixty 172 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.319 five years it happened. But when it happens, boom about 173 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:17.959 a boom bat a ban bata bang like you with 174 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.519 with Ian Helene and Milton, and there were two other storms. 175 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.240 When I talked to Mayor Dan Alers of Fort Myers 176 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:26.560 s Beach yesterday, I talked to him also on Monday. Uh, 177 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.680 he talked When I talked to him on Monday before 178 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:32.440 the crises really hit, I said, what's going to happen? 179 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:34.720 He said, well, we're probably going to have five to 180 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:38.159 eight feet of storm surge that's going to envelop go 181 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:41.320 over the top of the whole island for several hours, 182 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:44.559 and then after that it's going to recede and we're 183 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.840 going to rebuild. So I talked to him yesterday and uh, 184 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.720 and he was wonderful. He couldn't have been better about well, 185 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:54.799 you know, everything is basically destroyed, every building is affected. 186 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:57.600 We have we start to rebuild. It got up at about 187 00:08:57.519 --> 00:08:59.840 three o'clock in the morning after the storm passed, and 188 00:08:59.879 --> 00:09:01.759 I I got here with my with my crew from 189 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.879 the city of Fort Myers Speach. We got to work. 190 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:05.440 So the first thing we got to do. We have 191 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:08.639 one to two feet of mud and sand everywhere. There's 192 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.240 no road that's passable. And so the first thing we 193 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.039 got to do is get bulldozers and start getting this 194 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.759 scrape scrape the roads, and then we we kind of 195 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.679 get the utilities going. He said, within a week or two, 196 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:24.080 we're gonna be functional again. Isn't that almost the attitude 197 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:27.200 of the Alamo, in which Okay, we're Americans, but we're 198 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.159 gonna get And I thought most people would have to 199 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:31.799 go through that, they would say I'm done, I've had it, 200 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.919 not gonna do it. But that's that's not the Florida attitude. 201 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:39.000 No, it's not, especially if you live on those barrier islands. 202 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:42.200 I mean, you know that you are vulnerable, so you've 203 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:46.279 got plans in place, and again you just you have 204 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:47.799 to cut through some of the red tape. I was 205 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:50.960 listening to DeSantis this morning. You know, they got all 206 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:53.440 the bridges open right away that the storm passed through 207 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:56.639 overnight and by the morning they were opening up all 208 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.440 the major bridges because they had the bridge inspects ready 209 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:02.279 to go. You know, they weren't going to start at 210 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.440 nine am the next morning and be able to just 211 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.039 chill and come on over and do the whole bureaucratic thing. 212 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.360 You know, they had them staged in hotels and ready 213 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:13.080 to get out immediately when the storm passed and go 214 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.200 inspect the bridges. Where do you know how it is 215 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:17.919 with some states. You know they'd be out there seven 216 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:20.200 hours later and make it. You know, they they'd all 217 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.440 have to there'd be all this red tape to jump through. 218 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:23.679 Just like with the dumps. 219 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:25.960 They kept the dumps open twenty four hours ahead of 220 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:27.879 the storm because there was still all this debris all 221 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.759 over the place from Hurricane Helen. People had to get 222 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.240 rid of that debris or it was going to fly 223 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:35.240 around and fly into their houses. So they said, you 224 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.639 know what, we're keeping the dumps open twenty four hours. 225 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:40.559 And the dumps that were still closed that were locked. 226 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.240 I don't know if you heard about this SHP floor 227 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:47.039 to highway patrol. They chained their cars to the gates 228 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:49.240 and they busted open the gates to one of these 229 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:53.480 dumps so that people could keep dumping their debris, because 230 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:57.039 you can't have bureaucracy when you've got a major hurricane 231 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.879 coming I mean, or they're just going to have more problems. 232 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.519 Well, when you look at this from around the country, 233 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:06.960 those watching listening in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and I've 234 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.679 heard so many people say that is stupid, why would 235 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:11.519 you live there? But then on the other side of 236 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:14.159 the coin, you get the benefits of living there, and 237 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.840 the attitude is, well, that's fine, let's move on because 238 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.000 those barrier islands have been there for centuries. Florida's been 239 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:23.399 there for five thousand years. It's not going anywhere, and 240 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.879 the Floridian says, okay, let's go play golf. In fact, 241 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:29.559 a couple friends of mine from where I belong to 242 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:32.440 a club in Naples, Florida. They're going to play golf 243 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:36.200 today on the back nine cart path only, cart path only. 244 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:39.159 I said that. He said, that's a major problem. I said, well, no, 245 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.120 wait a minute, and it's like, okay, let's move on 246 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:44.960 with life. And they will not let weather defeat them. 247 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.919 And I think it began with Governor Jeb Bush. He 248 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.519 was in power for eight years now the Santas. He 249 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:54.480 institutionalized what's happened with hurricanes, and it's like, okay, now 250 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:56.080 we know what to do. Let's do it. And if 251 00:11:56.120 --> 00:11:59.080 you're if you are hit by a series of tornadoes, 252 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:01.279 you don't have things stayed, ready to go, you don't 253 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.240 have meals ready to eat, you don't have utilities. Ronda 254 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.840 Santas has thirty thousand utility trucks. I didn't think there 255 00:12:07.879 --> 00:12:09.960 was that many left in the world. And so the 256 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:14.600 Calvary came and today hit is Friday afternoon. I would 257 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.720 think by most of Florida by Monday or Tuesday. Will 258 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:18.639 it be back to normal? 259 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:22.399 Yeah, I mean it will be, especially in the places 260 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.480 that aren't. You know, there's certain areas where no matter what, 261 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.759 no matter how many power trucks you have, they've got 262 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.720 to get the water down. The infrastructure is destroyed. But yeah, 263 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:32.600 most of them listen, they'll get the power on fast. 264 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.279 And you mentioned Jeb Bush. You know the building codes. 265 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:40.240 He was instrumental in standardizing the building codes across the 266 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.279 entire state and starting during the Jeb Bush years, if 267 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:46.960 you built anything in Florida, it's so strong. It's like 268 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:50.960 you build the houses now here like bunkers. So when 269 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:56.639 you see any new construction jeb Bush and on, it's 270 00:12:57.399 --> 00:13:00.120 the houses are pretty much untouched. Even Category four or 271 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.320 Category five. The roofs don't blow off. The issue is 272 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.440 still the water. You can't stop the water from getting in. 273 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.360 But yeah, I mean, people are prepared here for the 274 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:11.919 most part. I mean, look, if you just lost your house, 275 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.200 you might not be as optimistic as I sound right now, 276 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:20.519 but you know, hopefully you had insurance. And again, Floridians 277 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.879 just kind of endure and people who make a choice 278 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:24.919 to live in Florida. 279 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:25.000 And move here. 280 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.799 I'm from here, I was born here, but I'm rare. 281 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:29.519 I mean most, that's so rare. Most people have moved 282 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.360 here because they make the choice to live here. They 283 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.159 like the culture, and you know, they the hurricanes kind 284 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:35.559 of come. 285 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:36.200 With it a little bit. 286 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:36.480 Now. 287 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:41.440 Mayor Dan Allers is from Minnesota, and when Minnesota or 288 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:44.440 Cincinnati has a say it was a foot of storm predicted, 289 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:47.679 people come together. They shop to go to Kroger, they 290 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:49.759 get everything prepared, they get milk, they get their bread, 291 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:52.759 they hunger down. There's a coming together because there's an 292 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:55.320 outside crisis in which we have to come together. That 293 00:13:55.440 --> 00:13:57.960 happens in Florida all the time. Now, lastly, there was 294 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:00.759 a question about global warming, asked Ron, and I might 295 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.600 play it later on again. He had a fabulous answer. 296 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:06.879 Can you going to summarize because the national media often 297 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.759 wants to, you know, there has to be certain pigeon 298 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.559 holding of certain events to fit in the category. And 299 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:17.159 of course the category is global warming, and Republicans especially 300 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:20.159 get global warming questions all the time. And probably the 301 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.519 atmosphere and the environment is warming a degree or two 302 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.840 over the last one hundred and fifty years. But can 303 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.600 you kind of summarize Ron de Santas's answer when some 304 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:32.080 reporters said, mister gavin Or, mister gammin or, mister Gamonor 305 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.279 went back global warming and he kind of gave an 306 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:35.600 answer that was unbelievable. 307 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:38.639 Yeah, yeah, and you got to play it later because 308 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:40.279 it was good, and I won't do a justice, but 309 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:43.639 he basically said he went back and he was able 310 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.519 to write on the spot to recount all of the 311 00:14:45.559 --> 00:14:49.440 major hurricanes that happened, you know, one hundred plus years 312 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.879 ago that impacted Floord, including like the strongest hurricane ever 313 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:55.960 I think was almost one hundred years ago, And he 314 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.440 had the dates and everything in his answer, but he 315 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:01.360 basically was just making the point like, look, we've been 316 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.600 dealing with storms forever here, and in fact, these aren't 317 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.600 even as strong as the ones that came long before 318 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:10.960 global warming was even a concern. And regardless of how 319 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.840 you feel about global warming, look, I mean there's all 320 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.000 sorts of stuff on both sides, and all sorts of scientists, 321 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:18.919 But I guess I just never understand why these questions 322 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:22.960 come up right during the crisis, Like, you know, people 323 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.440 are literally still being pulled out of houses and we 324 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:28.840 don't know who's dead and who's alive, and you've always 325 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:32.519 got this one reporter that wants to talk about global warming, 326 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.519 and I don't know, I mean, it just always seems 327 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.919 like isn't there a better time to do that? You know, 328 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:40.600 It's just I don't know, like, isn't there something more 329 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:43.000 important to ask the governor right in this moment when 330 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:45.960 you know, have so many people don't have power, And 331 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:48.799 it's just always kind of it's it's never a loon. 332 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:51.519 It's always it's always someone from some other place or 333 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.159 someone with some agenda that I feel like doesn't really 334 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.279 care about what's actually happening in Florida. 335 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:59.279 Brian Anton, thank you. And it's a perfect shut up 336 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:02.919 because the trade winds coming off Africa and they have 337 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:05.240 a long way to develop many times. Or in the 338 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.480 Gulf of Mexico, it's hot water, it's summertime. It's been warm, 339 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:12.799 and it's shallow. And here you have the Canadian plateaus, 340 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.799 and you have the Mexican plateaus, and you have the 341 00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:17.759 two bumpers between the Alleghanies and the Rockies. Those are 342 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:22.080 the tornadoes and the hurricanes have a perfect body of 343 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:24.840 water to form one hundreds of miles of open ocean 344 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.639 that's shallow and hot, and the winds begin to swirl. 345 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:29.840 Here we go, you pick up the heat from the ocean, 346 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.080 fantastic winds. They have to go somewhere. They pile into 347 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:35.679 the golf coast somewhere. It's just the way nature is. 348 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.200 It's kind of like nature's air conditioning. The reason that 349 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:42.240 exists is it distributes different temperatures throughout the globe. And 350 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.679 that's the purpose of a cyclone. The purpose of a 351 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:47.960 hurricane is to take warm from the south and drive 352 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.759 it up to the north to moderate temperatures. It's kind 353 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.360 of like God's air conditioning, and that's why it happens, 354 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.960 and it's part of nature. But Harry Anton, get my best. 355 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:00.360 All the folks at the News Nation, especially Sean Compton again, 356 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:02.840 thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And 357 00:17:03.159 --> 00:17:06.000 Brian Anton. You're a great American and you're a great Floridian. 358 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:07.880 Well I appreciate that. 359 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:09.799 Thank you, Bill. It's nice to talk with you. God 360 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:13.039 bless America. Let's continue with more if the line becomes available. 361 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:16.160 Five one, three, seven, four, nine, seven thousand. Bill Cunningham 362 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.720 getting ready for the Bengals on Sunday News Radio seven 363 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:27.319 hundred wulw HI Billy Cunningham, the Great American Big Weekend 364 00:17:27.400 --> 00:17:31.200 coming up, lots of high school sports and more. Plus 365 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:33.599 you have, of course the Bengals on Sunday. That should 366 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.039 be very interesting. As Rocky Boyman points out, with quite 367 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:41.039 a bit of experience, the Indianapolis Colts at one point 368 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.319 was one and four and it was during one of 369 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:45.799 the years he got to the AFC Championship Game. So 370 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:47.960 what occurred is that over the next ten games they 371 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.279 want ten and oh, can the Bengals go ten? And oh, absolutely, 372 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:55.160 well they go ten? And oh, I certainly hope. So 373 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:57.880 all we have is hope. As I walk around the 374 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:01.279 highways and byways, all I talk about his hope. We've 375 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:04.119 got to have hope. And so we'll see what happens. 376 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.279 Coverage starts about I don't know, nine o'clock on Sunday morning. 377 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:09.279 A kickoff I think is about eight to fifteen in 378 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:12.400 the evening, and after we have programming all day to 379 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.519 maybe bring home a win from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. 380 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:19.960 But until then, I spend time, as you know, every morning, 381 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.680 watching numerous and news shows and reading everything and I 382 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.400 can read. And an issue is percolating that if you 383 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:28.119 listen to me for a long time, you know the 384 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:30.920 two things that are likely to destroy the character of 385 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:35.279 this country is number one, unbridled grinding poverty coming into 386 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:38.559 America from the Third World that cannot be assimilated, do 387 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:40.759 not want to be assimilated. In other words, seven to 388 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.759 ten million illegals coming across the southern border in the 389 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.079 last four years. We can't sustain that, because that's the 390 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:50.160 tip of the iceberg. And maybe ten more years we 391 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.920 might have fifty or sixty million than one hundred million. 392 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.920 It never ends, and that has the ability to destroy 393 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.480 the country. We need more people in the country because 394 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:05.160 the average woman produces one point eight children, which means 395 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:07.880 we're on a death spiral one point eight for the 396 00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:11.480 two that's not a good number. So to have knowledgeable 397 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:16.720 knowing immigration is required in this country. And we're all 398 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:20.000 immigrants directly are in directly anyway, so I get that completely. 399 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:23.559 Who comes in is a major factor. The other issue 400 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:29.000 is unbridled federal government spending. It happened this morning with 401 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.599