Speaker 1: The first two US deaths related to cyclospora, which has
Speaker 1: set a panic about lett us happen in the US.
Speaker 1: In Michigan, sopranos actor Vince past Story, known for playing
Speaker 1: mobsters and real tough guys, dead at the age of eighty.
Speaker 1: I'm Kate Delaney. But right at the top, we swing
Speaker 1: into the rundown here on America tonight. We start first
Speaker 1: with Iran, because we talked for so long about wow,
Speaker 1: back at the table, no more attacks. So after calling
Speaker 1: off a fresh round of strikes against Iran, US President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said on Monday that the two sides are yep,
Speaker 1: talking again. We're trying to wind down the war. So
Speaker 1: these talks are pretty critical this week, and that would
Speaker 1: be a month's long conflict. And reviving stalled cargo traffic
Speaker 1: through the Straight of Warmouse.
Speaker 2: Is the end goal. We all know.
Speaker 1: It's the water, very crucial, where a fifth of all
Speaker 1: traded oil and natural gas passes it through that and
Speaker 1: was going along smoothly before the war.
Speaker 2: So there was a big time push.
Speaker 1: For these strikes, these strikes, these strikes, But now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden there is a diplomatic reprieve. The President
Speaker 1: had said the negotiation did say rather the negotiations would
Speaker 1: be the last chance for Iran to forge a deal
Speaker 1: to reopen the straight and address concerns about the nuclear program.
Speaker 1: So again, we'll see if this goes anywhere or not,
Speaker 1: but it is the latest developments that we have in
Speaker 1: the Middle East, particularly when it comes to what started
Speaker 1: back in February. Meanwhile, closer to home and on the
Speaker 1: West Coast, thousands are fleeing Washington State, sad to see
Speaker 1: all the homes and neighborhoods destroyed and spoke and this
Speaker 1: man going through what was left of his home said
Speaker 1: he probably won't return.
Speaker 3: I don't think I'm going to rebuild here because I
Speaker 3: don't ever want to have to relive a fire coming
Speaker 3: up this hill again.
Speaker 1: So many firefighters are there on the scene, over four
Speaker 1: thousand to try to help and put it out. But
Speaker 1: it's not even at this point, you know, ten percent contained.
Speaker 1: We're talking about almost eight thousand acres burned and over
Speaker 1: seven hundred structures just flattened. You look at these neighborhoods
Speaker 1: that were in beautiful areas that are left with very little,
Speaker 1: and you see people that are there with rakes trying
Speaker 1: to find anything that's left of their life. Frankly, maybe
Speaker 1: they'll find a picture somewhere in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll find some kind of family heirloom, just anything
Speaker 1: that connects them to what use to be.
Speaker 2: So you had people.
Speaker 1: That could at least return to these devastated neighborhoods in
Speaker 1: the eastern part too of Washington State to find that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: everything's been leveled by the wildfire. You got yards and
Speaker 1: yards that are charged in debris. In some cases, you
Speaker 1: have just the chimneys that are left standing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: In the end, the good news.
Speaker 1: Is that we're not talking about how many people have died.
Speaker 1: You know. We're seeing the blackened cars and the boats
Speaker 1: that are twisted by the heat and melted plastic, but
Speaker 1: we're not talking about that. However, there were initially a
Speaker 1: lot of calls of missing people, like close to three hundred,
Speaker 1: but the Spokane County Sheriff's office say they did clear
Speaker 1: almost all of them but fourteen at this hour. So
Speaker 1: there is some good news when it comes to that.
Speaker 1: Max Miller, the congressman from Ohio, is under attack for
Speaker 1: allegations that he has abused his child and had abused
Speaker 1: his ex wife. In fact, Republican Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio,
Speaker 1: who Max Miller is his ex son in law, says
Speaker 1: that that's happened. So there is a push for Max
Speaker 1: Miller to drop out of the race, especially with the
Speaker 1: midterms coming up. Amid these abuse allegations, Miller decided to
Speaker 1: tell his story on x Here's what he said.
Speaker 5: I have never abused our daughter. Before I go through
Speaker 5: the facts with you today, understand one thing. Every one
Speaker 5: of these allegations traces back to a single source, my
Speaker 5: former wife. I filed for divorce in August of twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four. That October, she had under oath that I
Speaker 5: had never harmed our daughter. Every accusation has come since,
Speaker 5: so ask yourself what is continuing to change?
Speaker 6: Not the facts.
Speaker 5: There's never been evidence of any kind.
Speaker 2: What changed.
Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, were the stakes. The first report came
Speaker 5: thirteen days after our shared parenting plan was entered. The
Speaker 5: next one came in February of twenty twenty six, in
Speaker 5: the heat of our custody fight, days before a court
Speaker 5: granted me a protection order against her. Her most extreme
Speaker 5: accusations are the ones that had to deal with child abuse,
Speaker 5: and they frame me as an abuser timed and every
Speaker 5: time again to our custody dispute in politics. And not
Speaker 5: one of these allegations has ever been substantiated by any
Speaker 5: court or any agency.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he goes on to talk about much more
Speaker 1: the same thing. There again is still the push for
Speaker 1: him to drop out so far that is definitely definitely
Speaker 1: not happening at this point speaking of dropping out or
Speaker 1: staying in. Republican holdouts say they're going to back Todd
Speaker 1: blanche for Attorney General after he rescinded Trump's anti weaponization fund.
Speaker 1: If you remember what that fund was about, that was
Speaker 1: going to help support nine those that were involved in
Speaker 1: what happened on the Hill and others of the one
Speaker 1: point eight billion fund. But after saying that he would
Speaker 1: rescind that fund, Tom Tillis of North Carolina and John
Speaker 1: Corny into Texas, who threatened to block his nomination over
Speaker 1: that agreement, have decided that they're going to move forward
Speaker 1: in good faith. And part of the argument was, you know,
Speaker 1: this fund was created as an agreement to settle a
Speaker 1: lawsuit from the President against the IRS.
Speaker 2: That was you know part of it too.
Speaker 1: And then also the people who claimed they were victims
Speaker 1: of weaponization by the federal government, including those involved with
Speaker 1: the January sixth, twenty twenty one US Capital riot. So
Speaker 1: because that document was released that limits the addendum to
Speaker 1: that agreement that offers the president members of his family
Speaker 1: immunity from tax investigations, then that has meant that their blessing,
Speaker 1: so to speak, is going in his direction. Well, no
Speaker 1: anyway either way, because the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote
Speaker 1: on Tuesday on his nomination, meaning he could be confirmed
Speaker 1: before the Chamber leaves for a five week recess, and
Speaker 1: then he would be the attorney general roll of the
Speaker 1: United States. But right now that still hangs in the balance.
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: And wait, there's more cyber attacks on water and wastewater infrastructure.
Speaker 2: Pretty serious threat.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that, but before we go there,
Speaker 1: this was a huge story and has been a huge
Speaker 1: story if you remember the Reflecting Pond and the twists
Speaker 1: and turns, and they continue as of Monday. Janine Piro,
Speaker 1: who is the Attorney General in d c Well her
Speaker 1: Justice Department, submitted a cord filing Friday moving to dismiss
Speaker 1: vandalism charges against sixty seven year old Olympian former Olympian
Speaker 1: David Hearn, saying the Interior Department incorrectly attributed damage to
Speaker 1: the pools lining to vandalism and that evidence showed contractor
Speaker 1: error and a botched installation were to blame. Needless to say,
Speaker 1: the president was not happy with her, and I.
Speaker 4: Was just a pointed with Janey Birou, really disappointed with
Speaker 4: janeit Bierro. She folded like an umbrella, and people get
Speaker 4: away with things. It's a disgrace. But these monuments look
Speaker 4: better than they did when they were originally built, not
Speaker 4: just a little fix up. We made them the way
Speaker 4: they were plus and everyone's so proud. The biggest one
Speaker 4: of the bigger jobs was not really the biggest, limit enough,
Speaker 4: but one of the biggest was the reflecting pool, and
Speaker 4: we did a great job. So now I'm not saying
Speaker 4: I was one hundred percent thrilled with the contractor, but
Speaker 4: the contractor was rushing. We wanted to get it open
Speaker 4: for July fourth, and we got it done. But in addition,
Speaker 4: there was vandalism, and we weren't necessarily thrilled with the contractor,
Speaker 4: but they did a job and they were fixing any problems.
Speaker 4: But then it got carried away because the judge was
Speaker 4: extremely unfriendly to Janine, and frankly, I think she choked
Speaker 4: because the judge was really vicious.
Speaker 1: All right, So the bottom line is the judge said, nope,
Speaker 1: not enough evidence there, so that was the ruling. Hearn
Speaker 1: is not being prosecuted for that, and it again was
Speaker 1: blamed on contractor error. And moving forward, there still is
Speaker 1: more work to be done there, and you know, ultimately
Speaker 1: in the past there had been problems with this. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it on the show. Why is it so hard?
Speaker 1: It's because of so many things around it and the
Speaker 1: piping in the you know, the reflecting pond, the Lincoln
Speaker 1: Reflecting Pond, which is really a beautiful thing between the monuments,
Speaker 1: but it's very, very very tough to renovate and keep clean.
Speaker 1: So the idea of doing it was a good one,
Speaker 1: but not so easy, so flawed work.
Speaker 2: And you hear the presidents say, of course.
Speaker 1: They wanted it done, so it's the rush job on that,
Speaker 1: and that that was a big, big thing. I think
Speaker 1: that that happened there for sure. All right. Moved from
Speaker 1: that to what are of a different sort, water and
Speaker 1: cyber attacks. There's like seven different states now that are
Speaker 1: claiming they've had problems. Cyber attacks on water and wastewater
Speaker 1: infrastructure growing and serious, big time threats, with recent incidents
Speaker 1: showing that even small utilities can be targeted by sophisticated
Speaker 1: and you know, potentially state sponsored actors. There's some accusations
Speaker 1: about Iran being involved in this. So over thirty municipal
Speaker 1: water systems in Minnesota were hit in a coordinated attack,
Speaker 1: with similar incidents reported in those other states.
Speaker 2: I mentioned.
Speaker 1: Hackers remotely accessed operational technology systems. They changed passwords and
Speaker 1: network settings and caused operational disruptions such as pressure loss
Speaker 1: and flooding, which could allow untreated groundwater into distribution pipes.
Speaker 1: Some of the utilities had to switch to manual operations
Speaker 1: and issue boil water notices, not as many as you
Speaker 1: would think, so luckily there were some backups there, but
Speaker 1: federal agencies, including the FBI and the EPA weren't of
Speaker 1: ongoing to ongoing Iranian linked threats targeting Internet connected utility controls.
Speaker 1: So they're getting in there, and that is to me,
Speaker 1: that is a very very frightening thing. So the Plymouth,
Speaker 1: Minnesota town City Public's work Director Works Director Michael Thompson
Speaker 1: said this how they did shut it down, but they
Speaker 1: did have concerns.
Speaker 10: About it when an event like this comes up, where
Speaker 10: we can run in manual operations just to ensure the
Speaker 10: quality and quantity of water.
Speaker 11: It is not affected, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because that's the key thing, right, you don't want the
Speaker 1: bad water. But it is high stakes consequences, I would say.
Speaker 1: But with increasing automation and then these bad actors, it
Speaker 1: means cybersecurity has to be a top priority, right, has
Speaker 1: to has to There have to be layers of it,
Speaker 1: There have to be proactive defenses. If anything, this is
Speaker 1: a massive warning flag over all of that for all
Speaker 1: of us, no matter where it is that.
Speaker 2: We live.
Speaker 1: So often you take that for granted, right until something happens.
Speaker 1: It's like when occasionally the water is not there, you know,
Speaker 1: when you get up and you're like, whoa, what happened
Speaker 1: to the water, And the little trickle of brown comes out,
Speaker 1: and then you start to call your neighbors and find
Speaker 1: out what's going on. Was the water shut off? Did
Speaker 1: something happen? Imagine if you're dealing with all of that,
Speaker 1: all right, it was in and out. That was the
Speaker 1: tar and that happened over the weekend on Saturday, three dead,
Speaker 1: seven injured. One man responded by drawing his weapon and
Speaker 1: going after the shooter. Several others reacted. Here was the
Speaker 1: sheriff in Idaho talking about in Twin Falls talking about
Speaker 1: how those brave people really help save so many others.
Speaker 6: These people are true heroes in our community, and their
Speaker 6: actions diverted the shooter and no doubt saved many lives.
Speaker 1: Yeah see, And here's the thing too. Now at this point,
Speaker 1: I mean just so.
Speaker 2: Awful.
Speaker 1: Right, You're just going on a Saturday in the afternoon
Speaker 1: to get a burger from this chain that you're excited
Speaker 1: about because people have been talking about it forever, and
Speaker 1: then it's only been up for a week in Twin Falls,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you got this twenty four
Speaker 1: year old Chad Williams who ultimately shot and killed himself,
Speaker 1: but he starts to shoot.
Speaker 2: At the cars.
Speaker 1: It was a mass shooting at a fast food restaurant
Speaker 1: leaving people dead. Wow, I mean a driver charging his
Speaker 1: electric taxi, a former law enforcement officer who tried to intervene.
Speaker 2: When all of that was going on.
Speaker 1: And so now the question becomes what about Williams and
Speaker 1: what about what happened and how crazy that was where
Speaker 1: people scattered and we're trying to make sense of what
Speaker 1: was going on. Listen to this one woman's description.
Speaker 5: It was just mass chaos.
Speaker 10: The attention was everybody running from in and out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they still can't determine what that was about.
Speaker 1: It was a busy shopping plaza, and details about the
Speaker 1: twenty four year old's life still a little bit unknown
Speaker 1: at this point. There was a search of court records
Speaker 1: of course in Idaho and Arizona, where he used to live,
Speaker 1: didn't show any criminal cases that match up with him.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean anything at this point. And once again,
Speaker 1: you know, you look for people who knew him, and
Speaker 1: what do they say, Oh, it seemed like a nice guy.
Speaker 1: He's pretty chill guy and never worried about him and
Speaker 1: none of that. You know, people that lived near him.
Speaker 1: One guy who lived across the hall from him in
Speaker 1: a college, the College of Southern Idaho and a dorm said, yeah,
Speaker 1: it seemed pretty nice. Nobody, nobody was worried at all.
Speaker 1: And they're shocked and sick to their stomach about it. So,
Speaker 1: and like I said, you had the big thing was
Speaker 1: during the attack and off duty state trooper and then
Speaker 1: the civilian firing on him that diverted him from the restaurants.
Speaker 1: So they definitely, I think, really saved people. There was
Speaker 1: a vigil that's planned for Tuesday night at the Twin
Speaker 1: Falls City Park while all of this is unpacked and people.
Speaker 2: Tried to.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you come to grips with that?
Speaker 1: But they try to figure out maybe what the motive
Speaker 1: is that kind of thing. And I mean, it's too
Speaker 1: late now for those that were killed. But again, luckily
Speaker 1: with the quick thinking of others, we could have been
Speaker 1: talking about a much higher number.
Speaker 2: That is boy, that is for sure.
Speaker 1: Hey coming up on the show, just so you know,
Speaker 1: we've got Bank of America giving us the last push
Speaker 1: for the summer ways that you can save money with
Speaker 1: your credit cards.
Speaker 2: So what are you doing? What are you doing there?
Speaker 1: And then also that you got your thoughts with the
Speaker 1: mail bag and the pre market belt was actually a
Speaker 1: pretty good day on the street and with oil. And
Speaker 1: that's because right now there's more of that conversation when
Speaker 1: it comes to Iran over diplomacy, wrapping this thing up,
Speaker 1: and whenever the news is what positive that means in
Speaker 1: the world's largest crap table on the markets probably going
Speaker 1: to see a better reaction.
Speaker 2: So the reaction was pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's the good that's the good news there.
Speaker 2: That's the best I can say. Right I watched that like.
Speaker 1: A hawk to see where oil is and to give
Speaker 1: us a better sense of all right, maybe this is
Speaker 1: going to be a pretty decent week, you know. So
Speaker 1: US stocks did rally near a record with the falling
Speaker 1: oil prices, and so some of the worries about inflation
Speaker 1: were doused, at least temporarily.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Look, the SMP jumped one point five percent. Pretty good.
Speaker 1: All right, stay with us, sheik and Narula joins. So
Speaker 1: she's been on before. She's fabulous. She's the head of
Speaker 1: rewards at Bank of America. And guess what we're talking about.
Speaker 1: This is something I've been having conversations about. In fact,
Speaker 1: I mentioned something on the air the other day about this.
Speaker 1: Nearly half of Americans are using rewards to fund summer travel.
Speaker 1: Are you doing that? She could? Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: coming on.
Speaker 12: Absolutely, it's my pleasure, Kate.
Speaker 1: So what trends are you seeing this year when it
Speaker 1: comes to how people are planning those summer travel, making
Speaker 1: those travel plans, and spending.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so this summer we're seeing Americans are saying yes
Speaker 12: to travel. Our survey found that seventy seven percent of
Speaker 12: Americans are planning to travel this summer. So what that
Speaker 12: tells you is that despite many Americans cutting back on
Speaker 12: their spending, travel has actually become a regular part of
Speaker 12: that of their budgets, and that's something people are planning around.
Speaker 12: And of course there's a lot of excitement major events
Speaker 12: and experiences like the series FIFA World Cup. Not only
Speaker 12: are people saying they'll travel, but they're also planning to
Speaker 12: head out of the country. So while domestic travel remains
Speaker 12: the most popular choice, we're seeing interest in international travel
Speaker 12: has increased year over year. And then what we're seeing
Speaker 12: is Americans are chasing values and experiences while on a trip.
Speaker 12: So the dominant philosophy in twenty twenty six is make
Speaker 12: it worth it. So while they want to stay within
Speaker 12: their budget, when they choose to splurge, it is on
Speaker 12: things that they'll remember, like dining, activities and experiences. So
Speaker 12: those are some of the travel trends from the summer.
Speaker 1: What are the best travel savings hacks that you can
Speaker 1: tell us about for the summer.
Speaker 12: It all starts with setting a very clear budget before
Speaker 12: you book anything, so you know what your boundaries are
Speaker 12: and within that then you can prioritize what matters most
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Speaker 12: The second thing is flexibility is always your friends, So
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Speaker 12: The same flexibility applies to how you travel, so shorter,
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Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: Are there notable differences across generations and how people are
Speaker 1: using rewards and managing their summer travel spending? Invention something
Speaker 1: even there?
Speaker 12: Yeah, so gen Zs, there's some very pronounced differences we're
Speaker 12: seeing with them. We know nine in ten gen Zs
Speaker 12: are planning a trip, which is significantly higher than millennials
Speaker 12: than an average traveler. But what's interesting is how each
Speaker 12: generation makes those trips count. So while gen z is
Speaker 12: known for event driven travel, it's actually millennials who are
Speaker 12: perfecting the art of travel stacking. So that's when they
Speaker 12: try to fit multiple experiences in a trip. So they
Speaker 12: might be going for a live event, but then they'll
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Speaker 12: truly standing out is how they're choosing to pay for travel.
Speaker 12: Rewards has become a fundamental part of their travel budget.
Speaker 12: They are embracing it. Eighty percent of gen Zs are
Speaker 12: planning to use rewards to fund their travel, compared to
Speaker 12: sixty percent of millennials. So for gen Zs, rewards are
Speaker 12: a core budgeting tool for their travel needs.
Speaker 2: So what type of.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a.
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Speaker 1: All right, all good advice because if you're going to
Speaker 1: use credit cards, she's right know what it is that
Speaker 1: you're getting in return, since usually there's some kind of
Speaker 1: program that's attached to it. So look for those points,
Speaker 1: those points, those points. Imagine you put a bottle in
Speaker 1: the water with a message in it and let it
Speaker 1: float away, and then it turned up fifty three years later. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Alison Spencer didn't have to imagine that. In August of
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, during a family vacation in Ocean City,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, it is a mic drop moment. Nine year
Speaker 1: old Lorie Blair Brown and her sixteen year old sister
Speaker 1: Alis and Spencer were sent to the beach with a challenge.
Speaker 1: Rite a message in a bottle cast it into the ocean.
Speaker 1: So they did just that. Fifty three years later in
Speaker 1: June of this this past June this year, John Cotterman
Speaker 1: was in the wetlands in Upper Township, New Jersey.
Speaker 2: And he found the bottle and he pulled out the message.
Speaker 1: It was well written for a sixteen year old, and
Speaker 1: it was help. We were in shark infested waters. It
Speaker 1: was like a funny little thing, and he put it
Speaker 1: on Facebook. Eight hours later found the person that it
Speaker 1: belonged to, this Alison Spencer. She said she felt it
Speaker 1: was pretty miraculous because it was a reminder of her
Speaker 1: sister's humor. Her sister had died back in twenty seventeen
Speaker 1: from cancer, so here this kind of reminded her of
Speaker 1: a really fun thing as a kid.
Speaker 2: What a great story.
Speaker 1: And this story is an example of how a weird
Speaker 1: childhood prank resurfaces what five plus decades later, and it
Speaker 1: bridges the past and the president. It's like the past
Speaker 1: and the president. It comes full circle. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You know, that's on message in a bottle. That's just
Speaker 1: was going through my head when I heard about that story.
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Speaker 1: you celebrating a birthday? If you are, happy, Happy birthday
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Speaker 2: Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: Wow, Tom Brady is forty nine years old. You know,
Speaker 1: I knew he was kind of in that ballpark, but
Speaker 1: forty nine years old, we all know his story he
Speaker 1: spent twenty seasons with the New England Patriots and that
Speaker 1: what a dynasty. That was. His final three seasons he
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Speaker 1: Brady at this point and they know his story. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he was the oldest Super Bowl MVP at the age
Speaker 1: of forty three, and who's the oldest quarterback selected at
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Speaker 2: Hmmm, it's a good thing. Yeah, it is a good thing.
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Speaker 1: five seems like one hundred years ago, and that was
Speaker 1: that whole stock trading thing.
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Speaker 1: And you know, at the age of eighty one, just
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Speaker 1: You can do that two twenty four to seven Kate
Speaker 1: at katealaneyradio dot com. Just click on contact and let
Speaker 1: it fly like Colin did. He says, Hey, Kate, I
Speaker 1: know you're a big fan of the Sopranos. I've heard
Speaker 1: some of the funny drops you've used over the years
Speaker 1: on your show, and you've talked about before some of
Speaker 1: the characters, the people that you have interviewed in real life,
Speaker 1: including Edie Falco, which is pretty cool. Sad to hear
Speaker 1: about Vincent Pastori dying at the age of eighty. Boy,
Speaker 1: who could forget some of his memorable lines from those
Speaker 1: early years in The Sopranos.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know what.
Speaker 1: I recently is a couple months ago, I went back
Speaker 1: and I watched the I watched maybe it was the
Speaker 1: second season. It was it was the second season of Sopranos,
Speaker 1: which is when he was swimming with the fishes. Eventually
Speaker 1: because he turned informant and it just ripped up Tony's soprano.
Speaker 2: But just the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like that iconic moment where they were
Speaker 1: on the boat and he knows he's going to get
Speaker 1: it and then you know, they throw him in the water,
Speaker 1: wrap him up, shoot him and it was just a
Speaker 1: wild It's just a wild scene. But anyway, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: confirmed that he was found. The people hadn't heard from him.
Speaker 1: They found him in his home in the Bronx and
Speaker 1: he was just, you know, unresponsive. So natural causes is
Speaker 1: what they're saying. That's what they suspected. And you know, again,
Speaker 1: he was in a lot of different things, but playing
Speaker 1: Salvatore bumpin Sero on The Sopranos was probably really the
Speaker 1: one that so many people know about, know about him
Speaker 1: and know him from because he was larger than life
Speaker 1: in that like he was like sort of one of
Speaker 1: those you have the main character, but the main character
Speaker 1: had somebody who was right there with him, and I
Speaker 1: think he was. He was one of those guys that
Speaker 1: was right there with him. All Right, we moved to
Speaker 1: this one from Joseph who is listening to US News
Speaker 1: Talk eight three to o WCCO in Minneapolis. All this
Speaker 1: talk about water and the cyber attacks and breaking in,
Speaker 1: finding out passwords, changing things. I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: world we live in right now. With everything pretty much
Speaker 1: AI and so many systems that are computerized, there is
Speaker 1: ultimately the need for the human element. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that's missing when it comes to public water works,
Speaker 1: but it is a big warning as to backups and
Speaker 1: backups and other ways to really really be on top
Speaker 1: of any kind of security when it comes to computerize anything.
Speaker 2: And this is just.
Speaker 1: Another big, big example of it, because who wants to
Speaker 1: wake up and find out that the water is completely
Speaker 1: messed because it's been hacked into by another country. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the umbrella term messed. It's messed, but yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely I mean, look, we saw that with worried about
Speaker 1: the electric grid, worried about when we see this with
Speaker 1: companies when they pay ransoms because they it's been taken over,
Speaker 1: their system has been taken over. And yeah, absolutely, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things to be really concerned about and
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 2: And I think that's it.
Speaker 1: You pull that away from how important water is, water,
Speaker 1: anything critical, infant structure, any of that. Right, All right,
Speaker 1: so let's move along to another one. This one is
Speaker 1: from Bradley who's listening to US News Talk ten AM,
Speaker 1: ninety four point five FM and one four point something
Speaker 1: on four point something FM, and that is in Tampa. No,
Speaker 1: it's one O four point one anyway, Brad says, hey, Kate,
Speaker 1: I have been listening to you the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But you know this thing with the shooter in and out,
Speaker 1: and this then brings to mind when people start to
Speaker 1: talk about guns. Here you have this good samaritan, a
Speaker 1: private citizen who was a good shot, knew what he
Speaker 1: was doing tow his way around a gun, who saw
Speaker 1: the suspect aiming a rifle at passing cars, and then
Speaker 1: he gets out and confronts them. Thank goodness, Right, because
Speaker 1: he was methodically going through those cars, according to the
Speaker 1: people that were there, and when the guy who had
Speaker 1: the gun and knew what he was doing got out
Speaker 1: and decided to chase after him, that changed things because
Speaker 1: now he has somebody that's after him, and who knows
Speaker 1: how many people that were in the cars that were
Speaker 1: stuck on top of each other at the in and
Speaker 1: out burger were saved as a result of that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I totally agree.
Speaker 8: You know what the I was.
Speaker 1: Reading the story about him too, Jordan Salinis, and he
Speaker 1: talked about it. He said he saw him being very calm.
Speaker 1: He said, that's what he noticed, and that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, when shots were fired in his direction, then
Speaker 1: it was then he wasn't comfortable.
Speaker 2: Then he started to move and things change.
Speaker 1: So that's all that, as he described it, Bravado crumbled because, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was the guy with the gun where everybody else
Speaker 1: is sitting duck. Now he's got other people that are
Speaker 1: right on top of him, and then he later dies
Speaker 1: from a self in that whole moment, a self inflicted
Speaker 1: gun wound. So yeah, I think those actions drove the
Speaker 1: suspect from the scene and prevented what could have been
Speaker 1: more casualties.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you already had three people that died,
Speaker 1: seven others that were injured, and you have some of
Speaker 1: them that are too critical conditions so they're not even
Speaker 1: out of the woods yet. And yeah, it's a terrible
Speaker 1: you know, it's a terrible, terrible thing, a chaotic instance
Speaker 1: that nobody wants to face, including the police who arrive
Speaker 1: on the scene. They don't want to get those nine
Speaker 1: to one one calls where there's screams and gunfire in
Speaker 1: the background and it's an active shooter and then you
Speaker 1: say where is it? And it's at the in and
Speaker 1: out Burger that everybody's talking about in Idaho and the
Speaker 1: fact that you know, in Twin Falls they were excited
Speaker 1: about that, and then this is what happens, right, of course,
Speaker 1: I as move on to another one. This one is
Speaker 1: from Michael listening to us WG fourteen ninety am and Greenwich, Connecticut. Hey, Kate,
Speaker 1: so much focus and it should be on what's happening
Speaker 1: with our country and Iran? What about what's going on
Speaker 1: with Ukraine and Russia. Well, you know what one thing
Speaker 1: that's happening is there's been Russia's like launched three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty one missiles into Ukraine in July, and the
Speaker 1: damage has been enormous, you know, with all these different
Speaker 1: types of missiles that they're using, and the rate was
Speaker 1: like just over twelve per day something like that. They
Speaker 1: set all kinds of records for overall number of missiles
Speaker 1: launched into the country. And that's a big thing. That's
Speaker 1: happening nightly and sometimes in the daytime, but definitely a.
Speaker 2: Lot at night.
Speaker 1: So, uh, you know, the Ukraine and President Zelenski is
Speaker 1: saying that they're trying to do everything they can to
Speaker 1: intercept the Russian missiles, particularly the ballistic kind, because of
Speaker 1: the way they fly and the angles that they attack,
Speaker 1: it's difficult to uh, you know, it's difficult to shoot
Speaker 1: them down.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you asked that question.
Speaker 1: Because this is the war that will never end, too, right,
Speaker 1: how long has this been going on? Right when it
Speaker 1: first started, too, I can remember, the thought was, Okay,
Speaker 1: hopefully this isn't gonna be long. There was all kinds
Speaker 1: of opinions about jumping in and what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and you know, the Patriot is the Ukraine's most prompt
Speaker 1: you know, probably potent I should say weapon in that
Speaker 1: whole weird chess cat and mouse game with Russia, and
Speaker 1: they're constantly both sides adapting to figure out what the.
Speaker 2: Edge is over the other.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean after visiting the White House, was
Speaker 1: it just a week or so ago? Zelenski said Ukraine
Speaker 1: was seeking the delivery of another three hundred Patriot Interceptor
Speaker 1: missiles because they needed to bolster their defenses before the winners.
Speaker 1: So they're just planning them this that this is just
Speaker 1: going on. There's not a lot of conversation about, oh,
Speaker 1: there's there's a way out of this, that we're going
Speaker 1: to find this common ground we're going to figure No,
Speaker 1: there's not even conversation about that.
Speaker 2: Now at all.
Speaker 1: It's just about, you know, how do you live under
Speaker 1: this constant shelling and the explosions and the pain of
Speaker 1: all of this, and that's what it is. So yeah, great,
Speaker 1: great thing to bring up. Yeah, definitely, all right, Max
Speaker 1: listening to us in New Orleans w G S O
Speaker 1: nine ninety a M.
Speaker 2: Kate, So what about the markets.
Speaker 1: The market's really bounced back, So that's a good sign,
Speaker 1: I would say, when it comes to what we're seeing
Speaker 1: with the Ron come flicks every time that happens, oil
Speaker 1: goes in a much different direction, in.
Speaker 2: A better direction.
Speaker 1: It may mean that we'll get a reprieve at the pomp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oil is right now at eighty one dollars twenty two cents.
Speaker 1: The Dow futures, it's up twenty seven percent point twenty
Speaker 1: seven percent, SMP up point twenty three percent, Nasdaq futures
Speaker 1: up zero point thirty nine percent.
Speaker 2: Very very good to bring that up too as we
Speaker 2: watch the markets.
Speaker 1: Thanks to the Minnesota
Speaker 2: Two and all of you for listening to this hour.