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Speaker 2: The beginning of October. October first, and we start rather auspiciously.
Speaker 2: Israel is right now under attack from Iran. Sirens have
Speaker 2: been sounding across the country. There have been at least
Speaker 2: one hundred missiles said to have been fired from Iran
Speaker 2: towards Israel. Iran said it launched dozens of missiles and
Speaker 2: it will attack again if Israel responds. An Israeli official
Speaker 2: has been saying that Iran will pay a heavy price
Speaker 2: for this latest barrage of missiles and rockets that have
Speaker 2: been fired into Israel. And there's been a terror attack
Speaker 2: in Jaffa as well. In the city of Jaffa, there
Speaker 2: has been reported eight people that have been killed in
Speaker 2: this shooting attack at a rail station in Jaffa.
Speaker 3: A couple guys got off of a train started shooting.
Speaker 2: The security forces where to put those two guys down quickly,
Speaker 2: but not before they shot and killed at least eight
Speaker 2: people and may have wounded several others.
Speaker 1: The search continues. Search and rescue ops in North Carolina
Speaker 1: where hundreds of people remain cut off by washed out roads,
Speaker 1: damaged cell phone towers. Storm has killed more than one
Speaker 1: hundred people. That is expected to rise substantially as these
Speaker 1: rescue teams are reaching the isolated towns and telecommunications are restored.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of mountainous counties around Asheville, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: where people are just they have got no food, they've
Speaker 1: got no running water, they've got no power, and they've
Speaker 1: got no roads to get out and no roads for
Speaker 1: people to get in. So they're airlifting these teams down
Speaker 1: into these devastated areas.
Speaker 2: Dock workers at ports from Maine all the way to
Speaker 2: Texas began walking picket lines early today, a strikeover wages
Speaker 2: and automation that could reignite inflation, of course, could cause
Speaker 2: shortages of goods if it goes on for more than
Speaker 2: a few weeks. This contract between the ports and about
Speaker 2: forty five thousand members of the International Longshoreman's Association expired
Speaker 2: at midnight. All of these topics and more, hopefully we'll
Speaker 2: be discussed tonight the vice presidential candidate's debate Ohio Senator jd.
Speaker 3: Vance.
Speaker 2: Of course, in Minnesota, Governor Tim Walls meeting in New
Speaker 2: York City. You'll be able to hear that debate live
Speaker 2: on KFI right here, starting at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: If you're in the valleys, you're in the mountain areas,
Speaker 1: it's going to be damn hot ninety degrees today. It's
Speaker 1: going to rise another five degrees Wednesday, finally beginning to
Speaker 1: cool on Thursday.
Speaker 2: All right, a couple of polls to discuss. The first
Speaker 2: one I think is the most is pretty interesting. Not
Speaker 2: the most, but a new poll shows that we voters
Speaker 2: in California have no idea who we want to succeed
Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom as the governor. Now, granted the term in
Speaker 2: office doesn't end until twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got some time. We got a whole other year.
Speaker 3: That means next year we'll be talking about this.
Speaker 1: Right, Why are they having debates already? Like why did
Speaker 1: they have that last week?
Speaker 3: Have no idea?
Speaker 1: That makes no sense to me. We're too far out.
Speaker 2: It also bothers me that even in a state like California,
Speaker 2: all four people on that stage were Democrats. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a Democratic gubernatorial debate. It was just a debate.
Speaker 1: Well, we know the writing is on the wall in California.
Speaker 1: You're just not going to get another Republican governor, not
Speaker 1: for a while.
Speaker 2: So, like you said, this poll is still a year ago,
Speaker 2: but it was conducted by a bunch of researchers from USC, CAL, State,
Speaker 2: Long Beach, CAL Poly Pomona and asked about seventeen hundred
Speaker 2: likely California voters to select their preferred candidate from a
Speaker 2: pack of politicians who I are either running or have
Speaker 2: been rumored to be considering a run for governor.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty six, Katie.
Speaker 1: Porter leads the way fourteen percent of support.
Speaker 3: Katie Poor.
Speaker 1: She tried to become senator, right right, So I guess
Speaker 1: that's name recognition. She did not to me inspire voter enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: but maybe I'm not her target.
Speaker 2: You well, I that's got to be name recognition. Although
Speaker 2: but some of these other names are are names that
Speaker 2: we we know.
Speaker 1: Five point three percent support for State Senator Brian Dally.
Speaker 2: Now that is only interesting because he's a Republican, and
Speaker 2: the next few are Republicans. If you're going down this
Speaker 2: list in order, So Brian DOLLI, Republican from Bieber, tried
Speaker 2: to dethron Newsom back in twenty two.
Speaker 1: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is he's got four point
Speaker 1: seven percent Republican.
Speaker 2: I think if that I think if he ran, I think,
Speaker 2: if he honestly threw his hat into the ring, he.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't know enough about him.
Speaker 3: He has a better chance than anybody else at this point.
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton, he looks like something out of the Wild West,
Speaker 1: Chad Jock.
Speaker 2: Steve Hilton is a former Fox News host and has
Speaker 2: been a contributed for them for a long time. He
Speaker 2: actually served as a policy advisor to British Prime Minister
Speaker 2: David Cameron.
Speaker 1: Isn't he a British guy?
Speaker 3: He is?
Speaker 2: I assume he's a California not native, but he's a
Speaker 2: California resident now and may have gotten his American citizenship.
Speaker 2: But he has about four percent support from respondents. Then
Speaker 2: you go down into we're talking slow single digit numbers
Speaker 2: here California Attorney Rob Bonta, Democrat three point five percent,
Speaker 2: former Congressman State Attorney General Javier Pasera is currently the
Speaker 2: Secretary of Health and Human Services under three percent, and
Speaker 2: then rounding out the top ten choices from respondents, where
Speaker 2: businessman former La mayor Rick Mayor oral candidate I should
Speaker 2: say Rick Caruso, who again hasn't said he's running. Then
Speaker 2: you've got La Mayor Antonio Viragosa who is running, State
Speaker 2: Controller Betty Yee is running. Lieutenant Governor e Lenny Kunilacus
Speaker 2: is running. All four of those Democrats come in with
Speaker 2: less than two point seven percent. And you mentioned that
Speaker 2: that debate took place. Those four people on the stage.
Speaker 2: Former or I should say State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Speaker 2: Tony Thurmant was on that stage. He doesn't even get
Speaker 2: He doesn't even show up in the top ten, and
Speaker 2: he's running for governor. There is a possibility also that
Speaker 2: you're going to see Lafondsa Butler.
Speaker 3: She is, of course the one sitting. She is our
Speaker 3: senator right now.
Speaker 1: Chad Bianco is a staunch supporter of Trump. He has
Speaker 1: no chance in California.
Speaker 2: No, but I think his law and order message is
Speaker 2: something that resonates regardless of his support of Trump.
Speaker 1: I don't think that that is enough, too big.
Speaker 3: Of a hurdle.
Speaker 1: I think in California.
Speaker 2: You've got, like I said, Rob Bonta, Lafonda Butler is
Speaker 2: one of them, and then the potentials non heat Chen
Speaker 2: is a policy advisor. He ran who was a runner
Speaker 2: up for state controller in twenty twenty two. He's one
Speaker 2: of those guys who would also be a nice breath
Speaker 2: of fresh air if he were to get into a
Speaker 2: political office.
Speaker 1: The takeaway is that sixty one percent of voters say
Speaker 1: they don't know who they would vote for.
Speaker 3: Okay, plenty sixty one percent. We said a year.
Speaker 2: It's a year before the campaign even really starts. Because
Speaker 2: it's not until twenty six when the election turned.
Speaker 1: There could be a number of names that bubble up
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Speaker 1: And some good news in the La County DA's race
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: And a note I think we should we should address
Speaker 2: a note A note about that about that issue.
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, we should. I don't know about this note.
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Speaker 1: This was an anonymous official discussing this sense of matter.
Speaker 1: You've got to believe at some point we have to
Speaker 1: hear from the president, right, I would like two? Would
Speaker 1: you do? Mean? It would be nice if we had
Speaker 1: a president who could address the nation Israel and Jordan
Speaker 1: have closed their airspaces, flights being redirected to alternative airports
Speaker 1: outside of Israel. There are multiple waves of sirens currently,
Speaker 1: multiple explosions, including a huge boom heard from Tel Aviv.
Speaker 1: The explosions, at least twenty of them just moments ago.
Speaker 1: They say sound like heavy warheads exploding, very different from
Speaker 1: the more familiar sound of air defenses intercepting Palestinian rockets.
Speaker 3: The couple different reports now.
Speaker 2: The original report that I saw said that the IDF
Speaker 2: counted one hundred and two missiles or rockets that were
Speaker 2: sent from I'll call them missiles from Iran towards Israel.
Speaker 2: Now the Jerusalem Post is reporting that it may be
Speaker 2: several hundred, as many as five hundred missiles that were
Speaker 2: sent from Iran towards Israel. There was also a terrorist
Speaker 2: attack in Jaffa, the city of Jaffa. Eight people killed,
Speaker 2: nine others wounded. In this shooting, two people opened fire
Speaker 2: toward the light rail station in the city. They were
Speaker 2: eventually shot dead, one by a passer by the other
Speaker 2: by a security guard who were in the area, adding
Speaker 2: that they're still looking for other potential gunman.
Speaker 3: Four of the victims said to be seriously wounded.
Speaker 2: But again, the death toll right now eight killed, nine
Speaker 2: others wounded in that terror attack in Jaffa. As all
Speaker 2: this stuff developing right in front.
Speaker 1: Of us, there's a Washington Post reporter Claire Parker reporting
Speaker 1: from Jerusalem a hotel, and specifically, she says guests are
Speaker 1: hunkered down in a stairway. They're passing around water bottles,
Speaker 1: waves of sirens, obviously signaling the threat of a missile strike.
Speaker 1: She says, the fear is palpable in this stairway, one
Speaker 1: older man drinking straight from a bottle of whiskey, others
Speaker 1: trying to calm down a young woman who's hysterical.
Speaker 3: There is also some new movement along the northern border
Speaker 3: between Israel and Lebanon. Israel has launched a ground incursion there,
Speaker 3: which they have They still describe it as limited and focused,
Speaker 3: but there's concerns about this that this could turn into
Speaker 3: a full scale invasion of Lebanon while these dozens, if
Speaker 3: not hundreds of rockets come from Iran towards Israel. So again,
Speaker 3: no comment yet from the White House other than to
Speaker 3: say that the President and Vice President are monitoring this attack.
Speaker 3: Iranian officials said that they would be ready for any
Speaker 3: sort of attack from Israel towards Iran that would be
Speaker 3: retaliation for these latest missiles that have been fired.
Speaker 1: So those images are.
Speaker 3: Powerful legit.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, disclaimer here before we get to this poll
Speaker 1: that shows Nathan Hawkman well up over George Gascone, which
Speaker 1: it would be nice, usc Pole, you've been here ring
Speaker 1: George Gascon on our station. We have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with that. To be clear, I would never give him
Speaker 1: any time.
Speaker 3: The story is that he was in the building. You
Speaker 3: remember that.
Speaker 2: And if you've seen if you saw John Cobelt's Instagram
Speaker 2: story about or the real about him trying to get
Speaker 2: George Gascon to come onto his show. There's a reason
Speaker 2: why he doesn't come on anywhere on this station is
Speaker 2: because he knows he does not have a soft place
Speaker 2: to land. But the company has done They did an
Speaker 2: interview with him, our company.
Speaker 1: And an interview is putting it strongly, that's a general
Speaker 1: question and didn't push back right.
Speaker 2: It's a generous word. So that's why you hear his
Speaker 2: voice on our air. But that's not any sort of
Speaker 2: indication that we have opened our doors. We have anything.
Speaker 1: My door is closed and locked and locked again, and
Speaker 1: locked some more and then some more.
Speaker 3: Even that little chain lock and that little flippy lock
Speaker 3: that's on the side of.
Speaker 1: The hotel room post outside, I've got simply safe. Every
Speaker 1: security company can think of.
Speaker 3: Outside that and you could see when he's coming.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, attack dogs, tack dogs, pit bulls that weren't
Speaker 1: raised correctly. Anyway, This USC poll finds that Hawkman's got
Speaker 1: a twenty four percent lead over George Gascon. However, there
Speaker 1: are a number of undecided and this is where I
Speaker 1: get worried about La County. People who don't pay attention,
Speaker 1: don't even know what a DA does. Go to the ballot,
Speaker 1: they see his name, they decide to vote for a
Speaker 1: Gascon over a guy named Hawkman, and they see he's
Speaker 1: the sitting DA. Oh, he must be doing a good job.
Speaker 2: Check plus, I would say, though, because of the coverage.
Speaker 3: Just think of what's happened in the last one.
Speaker 1: A lot of people attention to the coverage.
Speaker 3: Stuff like smash and grab robberies I think cut through.
Speaker 1: But do they connect that to the DA. I mean
Speaker 1: twenty people really, that's probably true.
Speaker 3: There may be there may be some disconnect there, but anyway,
Speaker 3: it's good news. I suppose that.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a casual voter in my twenties, I
Speaker 1: didn't know what the DA did. I mean, early twenties,
Speaker 1: before I was a reporter, was kind of like, okay,
Speaker 1: what does it you say?
Speaker 3: You did a lawyer.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: The breaking news alert that you would get now is
Speaker 2: that Iran has launched a massive attack on Israel. According
Speaker 2: to the Israeli Defense Forces, some five hundred rockets may
Speaker 2: have been launched onto Israel by Iran. It is just
Speaker 2: about just after eight o'clock in Israel right now.
Speaker 1: Messages have been sent to cell phones warning Israelis in
Speaker 1: certain are areas to enter protected space to seek shelter
Speaker 1: if they hear sirens, which are ringing out pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 1: The missile attack a retaliation for different assassinations carried out
Speaker 1: by Israel. According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the
Speaker 1: operation will continue if Israel does not stop.
Speaker 2: The National Security Minister in Israel said that he had
Speaker 2: mobilized thirteen thousand emergency standby squads to immediately be deployed
Speaker 2: all over the state of Israel. There's a direct hit,
Speaker 2: apparently to a building in the northern part of Tel Aviv.
Speaker 2: They confirm that three people have been wounded by some
Speaker 2: missile hits in Tel Aviv. But they haven't gotten into
Speaker 2: much more specific details about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Israel's Emergency Medical Service says it has received just
Speaker 1: two reports of light injuries from shrapnel during the rocket
Speaker 1: fire that paramedics have been dispatched to search sites of
Speaker 1: these reported strikes. The Pentagon now weighing in, saying that
Speaker 1: they were tracking the reports of these missile strikes. They
Speaker 1: said they did not immediately have verified information to share
Speaker 1: about what and where was targeted.
Speaker 2: A Ben Gurion Airport announced all landings and takeoffs halted.
Speaker 2: Of course, all trains stopped, so planes that were blessed you,
Speaker 2: planes that were in the air for a landing have
Speaker 2: had to make a U turn. Jordan and Iraq have
Speaker 2: also closed their airspace. And as we've been saying, Iran
Speaker 2: and their revolutionary regard said that this attack is in
Speaker 2: response to the assassination of Hasan Nosrala, the leader of Hesbelah,
Speaker 2: and that if Israel responds, it will experience a strong
Speaker 2: blow in the northern part of Israel, closer to Lebanon.
Speaker 2: Not only are their missiles coming in from Iran, but
Speaker 2: there are apparently rockets being fired over the border by Hesblah.
Speaker 2: This is a reporter for Sky News there in the
Speaker 2: northern part of Israel.
Speaker 6: We actually there was a rocket that we could kit
Speaker 6: that stee behind us. Again, this would have been most
Speaker 6: likely a Hesbola rocket fired, and that was the concern too,
Speaker 6: whether this could be maybe a coordinated strike the with
Speaker 6: Israel's air defenses occupied with the ballistic missile sphealistic and
Speaker 6: then maybe Hesbola taking advantage of that and launching strikes.
Speaker 6: So far, we've only had to run for cover run
Speaker 6: us with that rocket, but clearly we are alert for
Speaker 6: what could happen, and we all feel like I was saying,
Speaker 6: heard gunfire, machine gun fire in the distance over there.
Speaker 6: That's Lebanon in that direction behind me.
Speaker 3: Love it, love it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's damn hot out there. We'll continue to stay
Speaker 1: on top of everything going on with Israel and Husbala
Speaker 1: and Iran and our involvement as well. But did want
Speaker 1: to mention this that fire risks this week across the
Speaker 1: state are up. Power shutoffs may happen. We've had some
Speaker 1: as we were to yesterday and Blake Trolley. Additional wildfire
Speaker 1: evacuations here in southern California. Heat advisories issued throughout the state.
Speaker 1: San Diego through reading ten to twenty degrees above average
Speaker 1: for this time of year. Now. They say that fire
Speaker 1: season in California does typically stretch through October or November.
Speaker 1: It is still abnormal for the season this kind of
Speaker 1: heat right now, so the landscapes are getting dried out,
Speaker 1: the humidity levels are dropping, and that is a recipe
Speaker 1: for a disaster when it comes to fire risk.
Speaker 2: The fire risk is great enough wind wise, heat wise
Speaker 2: that there is at least one area that's being considered
Speaker 2: for a public safety power shutoff, and that would be
Speaker 2: up in Santa Barbara County. Those people that are under
Speaker 2: Edison's tutelage there in Santa Barbara County have gotten messages
Speaker 2: about thirty two hundred people there. We also mentioned that
Speaker 2: farther north northern California, there's about eleven thousand people who
Speaker 2: currently do not have power because PG and E cut
Speaker 2: the power to them concerned that a wind was going
Speaker 2: to knock power lines into trees and cause some significant fires.
Speaker 1: Shasta County as well has about north of nine thousand
Speaker 1: people with shut off. They expect that to be restored
Speaker 1: by noon though, because the winds are supposed to die
Speaker 1: down there. They said that the new acres that have
Speaker 1: been burned through. When you look at the Line fire,
Speaker 1: the Bridge fire, all of that burning into the mountains
Speaker 1: that California has crossed a grim milestone. One million acres
Speaker 1: burned this year, something that hasn't happened for three years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been lucky, it's the right word. We've been
Speaker 2: relatively lucky over the course of the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that line fire, and it's not growing ridiculously fast.
Speaker 2: It is close to forty three and a half thousand acres.
Speaker 2: The problem is, because it's been growing at all, the
Speaker 2: containment percentage has gone down. It was eighty three percent,
Speaker 2: like you mentioned, but it's down to seventy six percent
Speaker 2: today containment according to CalFire and the latest update they
Speaker 2: had because the fire itself continues to grow, so they
Speaker 2: keeping an eye on.
Speaker 1: That coming up. And next, that ghost ship, the ghost
Speaker 1: ship found off California, the ghost ship of the Pacific.
Speaker 1: I love a ghost ship makes me think of Captain
Speaker 1: Jack Sparrow. It's also and on my side of the bed.
Speaker 3: What do you like Jack Sparrow that much?
Speaker 1: No, I just I connected the two.
Speaker 3: Oh you mean that he's saw on my side of
Speaker 3: the bed. Yeah, was human fecal matter.
Speaker 1: I mean, any excuse to play that, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to take myself up on it.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gary and Shannon on demand from KFI
Speaker 4: AM six forty.
Speaker 2: Big deal today, of course, is that Iran apparently has
Speaker 2: struck at Israel.
Speaker 3: We have been following the story over the last hour
Speaker 3: or so.
Speaker 2: The Israeli Defense Force says there have been many interceptions
Speaker 2: that the Iron Dome anti missile and anti rocket system
Speaker 2: was able to intercept many of the incoming warheads, but
Speaker 2: some they said landed in central Israel. The different reporters
Speaker 2: that are unseen there have said they reported dozens of
Speaker 2: missiles over Tel Aviv, over Jerusalem, over Haifa, according to
Speaker 2: the Israeli airport authorities there.
Speaker 3: Ben Gurion International.
Speaker 2: The Israeli military believes that the attack is over and
Speaker 2: they have reopened airspace.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they say that the threat is over.
Speaker 2: Iran of course, calls this a retaliatory missile strike in
Speaker 2: response to the Israeli attack on Hesbela's headquarters that ended
Speaker 2: up killing Hassan Hasrala. And there was also whether it
Speaker 2: was coordinated on purpose or not. There was a terrorist
Speaker 2: attack in Jaffa, where a couple gunman got off of
Speaker 2: a train and shot and killed at least eight people
Speaker 2: and several others were injured.
Speaker 1: The Iranian Mission to the United Nations has said that
Speaker 1: Tehran's response has been duly carried out. Here's a statement.
Speaker 1: Iran's legal, rational and legitimate response to the terrorist attacks
Speaker 1: of the Zionist regime has been duly carried out. This
Speaker 1: is in response to the assassinations. The recent assassinations. The
Speaker 1: mission said that if Israel should dare to respond or
Speaker 1: commit further acts, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue.
Speaker 3: So we are inching closer to World War three, it seems.
Speaker 2: In response, our Defense Department has bolstered the number of
Speaker 2: Air Force F fifteen's, F sixteens and eight tens that
Speaker 2: were going to be deployed to the Middle East. We
Speaker 2: also have a bunch of F twenty twos in the region,
Speaker 2: tens of thousands, if not a couple hundred thousand men
Speaker 2: and women in different capacities there. So they said it's
Speaker 2: significant because the F fifteen's and sixteens played a major
Speaker 2: role in shooting down a bunch of Iranian drones when
Speaker 2: Tehran mounted a missilin drone attack against Israel way back
Speaker 2: in April. Just a quick note, this will be brought
Speaker 2: up tonight during the vice presidential candidates debatos Ohio Senator
Speaker 2: jd Vance, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls meeting in New York
Speaker 2: City tonight, and we are going to air that live
Speaker 2: here on KFI starting at six o'clock.
Speaker 1: Two people that would never run to and ask what
Speaker 1: do you think I mean? One could argue, neither one
Speaker 1: has any business answering a question like that.
Speaker 3: About any international affairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just sad, terrifying, all right. Well, on August first,
Speaker 1: there was a ship that dropped its usual cargo into
Speaker 1: a patch of ocean about seventy miles northwest of San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Three orange robots, each more than twenty feet long and
Speaker 1: shaped like torpedo. For a day, these aquatic drones prouded
Speaker 1: the waters, scanning nearly fifty square miles of ocean floor
Speaker 1: and some thirty five hundred feet beneath the surface, and
Speaker 1: apparition popped up on the robot's powerful sonar. It was
Speaker 1: down in that darkness that the drones saw a ghost.
Speaker 3: This was the USS Stewart.
Speaker 2: It's a ship that is now resting on the Cordell
Speaker 2: Bank National Marine Sanctuary, the only US and Navy destroyer
Speaker 2: to be captured by Japanese forces during World War Two.
Speaker 1: Three days after the drones spotted this, another set of
Speaker 1: underwater robots were able to capture pictures of the historic wreck.
Speaker 1: Of course, decades of marine growth, a lot of critters
Speaker 1: in there, but they say, the three hundred and fourteen
Speaker 1: foot long destroyer is almost perfectly intact and bright on
Speaker 1: the seafloor.
Speaker 2: This is a strange Okay, it's a strange story. So
Speaker 2: nineteen forty two, the Japanese capture this ship and they
Speaker 2: sink it and they abandon it off of the coast
Speaker 2: of Java. They then raised it used it to escort
Speaker 2: their naval convoys. Allied pilots reported what looked like one
Speaker 2: of their own ships way behind enemy lines, and they
Speaker 2: couldn't explain what was going on.
Speaker 3: In a farewell to the ship.
Speaker 2: After it was recovered, the US Navy recommissioned it, towed
Speaker 2: it here to California, and then basically dropped it in
Speaker 2: the water, buried the vessel at sea in a hail
Speaker 2: of target practice gunfire.
Speaker 3: In May of nineteen forty forty six.
Speaker 2: It withstood two entire hours of being shot at by
Speaker 2: the rest of the American Navy.
Speaker 3: Finally it sank down below.
Speaker 1: Russ Matthews, as the president of the nonprofit Air Seatage Foundation,
Speaker 1: member of the discovery team. He says, the whole history
Speaker 1: of the ship was exceptionally well documented. The only piece
Speaker 1: of the story we didn't have is what does it
Speaker 1: look today. He spent years off and on trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what the last known coordinates of this thing were,
Speaker 1: and an initial lead from a colleague turned up a
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six US Navy communicate that narrowed the search
Speaker 1: to what is now the Cordell Bank Sanctuary that you
Speaker 1: referred to. But no vessels that sailed through that sanctuary
Speaker 1: chanced upon the vessel, and they couldn't secure the funding
Speaker 1: to go out there themselves. But then in April this
Speaker 1: year they got the cash. The cash, They got the cash.
Speaker 1: This is the same company that was able to a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago rediscover the Endurance that sank during
Speaker 1: a nineteen fifteen expedition by Ernest Shackleton, good old Ernest Shackleton.
Speaker 2: They said one of the more interesting aspects of this
Speaker 2: fact this ship is that it was sitting upright on
Speaker 2: the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 3: I mean that picture.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a creepy picture because you can see
Speaker 2: the shadow of the superstructure on top of it.
Speaker 3: That's very cool.
Speaker 2: Hey, coming up a little bit later, we're going to
Speaker 2: be going to Washington News Nations corresponding. Kelly Meyer is
Speaker 2: going to join us, and we're going to talk more
Speaker 2: about the toe to toe matchup tonight between JD.
Speaker 3: Vance and Tim Walls.
Speaker 2: We do have a True Crime Tuesday coming up at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the last hour of the show, and
Speaker 2: Tasty Tuesday. Nil Savage is going to join us in
Speaker 2: just a couple of minutes, as well as we get
Speaker 2: into some food news. In the meantime, we are going
Speaker 2: to continue to update you all what's going on in Israel.
Speaker 2: They do say that the threat of the Iranian attack
Speaker 2: is over.
Speaker 1: The Iranians have said it's over.
Speaker 2: Everybody says it's over, which means it's over over. It's
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