Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Ina. It is Kentucky INA's morning news
Speaker 1: here on news Radio eight forty whas Coffee in company
Speaker 1: with you. I'm Nick Coffee, the company manage on on
Speaker 1: alongside today. And the big story, in fact, the two
Speaker 1: biggest stories, at least from my perspective right now as
Speaker 1: we are up and running here on a Tuesday, is
Speaker 1: two mass shootings that took place yesterday here in America,
Speaker 1: which unfortunately is no longer really much of a surprise
Speaker 1: because it happens way more than it ever should, because
Speaker 1: it should never happened, but it happens fairly often.
Speaker 2: Dare I say?
Speaker 1: And this one, of course, Midtown Manhattan. It was about
Speaker 1: six thirty pm. It sounds like there's a forty four
Speaker 1: story office tower that has a lot of different businesses,
Speaker 1: including the NFL and Blackstone. And we now know that
Speaker 1: the suspect here, who eventually killed himself is somebody that
Speaker 1: suffers from CTE. So he claims certainly that is going
Speaker 1: to be something that they they look into, and who knows, maybe.
Speaker 2: He's already being diagnosed with it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but just an awful situation. This guy
Speaker 1: showed up yesterday after driving I'm sorry. I showed up
Speaker 1: over the weekend after driving across the country from Vegas.
Speaker 1: It's a twenty seven year old Shane Tamura, who was
Speaker 1: a high school football player and again had been living
Speaker 1: in Vegas for quite some time, and showed up and
Speaker 1: started spraying bullets. According to the NMPD commissioner, And here's
Speaker 1: a little bit of what she had to say yesterday
Speaker 1: after this tragic situation.
Speaker 3: The building security camera footage shows the shooter enter the lobby,
Speaker 3: turn right and immediately opened fire on an NYPD officer.
Speaker 3: He then shoots a woman who took cover behind a
Speaker 3: pillar and proceeds through the lobby, spraying it with gunfire.
Speaker 3: He makes his way to the elevator bank, where he
Speaker 3: shoots a security guard who was taking cover behind the
Speaker 3: security desk.
Speaker 1: So one officer who was off duty but working private
Speaker 1: secure curity was killed, and then also a Blackstone executive
Speaker 1: was shot and killed in the lobby and an NFL
Speaker 1: employee was critically injured. And at least four people dead
Speaker 1: in total, with one critically wounded. And what we know
Speaker 1: about a motive is that he had a note in
Speaker 1: his pocket referencing that he had CT and blaming the NFL,
Speaker 1: so not a coincidence that he ended up at this
Speaker 1: building where the NFL has some of their corporate offices.
Speaker 1: But the note cited Terry Long, a former Steeler who
Speaker 1: died by suicide after suffering from ct and it expressed
Speaker 1: outrage towards the league. Quote football gave me CTE. You
Speaker 1: can't go against the NFL. They'll squash you. That was
Speaker 1: in the note, as well as a request for his
Speaker 1: brain to be studied, an apology to someone by the
Speaker 1: name of Rick. We usually end up finding out more
Speaker 1: about these individuals not long after these things happened. So look,
Speaker 1: there may be more information about this person that I'm
Speaker 1: just unaware of as of right now. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: sure there is. But yeah, that's what we know, at
Speaker 1: least what I know right now. And just it's a
Speaker 1: tragic situation all the way around, and it certainly is
Speaker 1: going to get CTE to be back in the conversations
Speaker 1: about football, at least for the time being. Now, maybe
Speaker 1: this guy is a lunatic and never had it and
Speaker 1: he's just off his rocker.
Speaker 2: Who knows, But we'll find out.
Speaker 1: We will find out, all right, I'm gonna find out
Speaker 1: when I asked this question, John, are you a roller
Speaker 1: coaster guy?
Speaker 4: I used to really be into roller coasters. I've been
Speaker 4: to Cedar Point a couple of different times. It's been
Speaker 4: a while since I've been on a roller coaster, but
Speaker 4: I do enjoy them.
Speaker 1: Man, I can't tell you the last time I was
Speaker 1: on a roller coaster. And it's not because I'm scared,
Speaker 1: because I am, which, by the way, I am scared
Speaker 1: of roller coaster scared to death of them. But also
Speaker 1: I haven't been to like a theme park in a
Speaker 1: long long time, and growing up, I was scared, and
Speaker 1: I don't really know what I was scared of. Now
Speaker 1: that I know a little more about myself and I
Speaker 1: can have some self reflection just knowing how I am,
Speaker 1: I'm not at all surprised that roller coasters were a
Speaker 1: thing that scared me. And it's not that I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get hurt and then I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna there's going to be some kind of malfunction
Speaker 1: and I'm going to die. It's just the you know,
Speaker 1: the lead up to it is what would be not
Speaker 1: because if I ever ride a roller coaster, which I
Speaker 1: have wrote some my wife did a good job of
Speaker 1: really pressuring me, but also kind of like, what are
Speaker 1: you scared of?
Speaker 2: What are you worried about?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fine, and even if you don't like it,
Speaker 1: it'll be over pretty quickly. So I ended up riding
Speaker 1: some roller coasters with her at King's Island years ago,
Speaker 1: like might have been right around after the time we
Speaker 1: got married. But I haven't been on a roller coaster
Speaker 1: in years. But I would say I'm someone that is
Speaker 1: probably more scared of them than most adults. But there
Speaker 1: is a new roller coaster at Cedar Point. Have you
Speaker 1: heard about it. I've heard about it is It's called
Speaker 1: Siren's Curse. Siren's Curse, so it is their newest roller
Speaker 1: coaster at Cedar Point, and it's the first tilt coaster
Speaker 1: in the United States, and it's making headlines but not
Speaker 1: because of the thrilling experience, but because of the nightmare
Speaker 1: experience because riders keep getting stuck mid ride, and it
Speaker 1: happened over the weekend, and there's some footage of these
Speaker 1: people having to walk down the stage and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how high up in the air they are. But
Speaker 1: this ride, Sirens Curse, it tilts riders ninety degrees before
Speaker 1: sending them down a steep drop. So four times in
Speaker 1: the last month the ride has been stopped mid tilt,
Speaker 1: leaving passengers stranded. So the Cedar Points spokesmen compared it
Speaker 1: to a car's check engine light, calling it a safety measure,
Speaker 1: not a malfunction, and they insist that the ride is
Speaker 1: working as intended. It's just a malfunction with the with
Speaker 1: the you know, a check engine light coming on and
Speaker 1: it not working. I guess that's the comparison they're making.
Speaker 1: I actually believe them, But that would make me even
Speaker 1: more scared of because if I was if I was
Speaker 1: stuck on a coaster upside down, mid tilt, whatever, if
Speaker 1: it was thirty seconds, it would probably feel like three
Speaker 1: hours to me, and I would lose my mind. But again,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Cedar Point seems awesome. I've never been, though.
Speaker 4: There's a ton of roller coaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah there. You like King's Island, Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time since I've been in kingsis
Speaker 4: What about Kentucky Kingdom? Same deal? Long time?
Speaker 1: Want me to tell you sort of like and i've
Speaker 1: and i've i've i've I've been on roller coasters that
Speaker 1: are a little bit more adventurous and thrilling, if you will,
Speaker 1: then this one. But growing up, I didn't go past
Speaker 1: the roller skates.
Speaker 2: Do you know who the roller skates are?
Speaker 4: Life of the ex Post Center.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see him right there. It's one of the
Speaker 1: few coasters you can see right there. And yeah, that
Speaker 1: was That was as dangerous as I got when I
Speaker 1: was a kid. Whenever I started going with a season
Speaker 1: pass when I was a teenager with all my friends,
Speaker 1: we were in middle school. It's a big thing for
Speaker 1: a couple of summers when I was growing up, and
Speaker 1: I would always have to use the bathroom whenever everybody
Speaker 1: had to go ride the roller coaster. And then finally
Speaker 1: I realized, yeah, they know I'm scared, but it worked out. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: I mean I maybe now, Like I think, if my
Speaker 1: kid wanted to ride and he was scared, my son,
Speaker 1: I would probably have the courage to do it, and
Speaker 1: I would just try my best not to let him
Speaker 1: see how scared I was.
Speaker 4: What if he called you a scaredy cat? Oh, he
Speaker 4: I'm sure he would would that, Like, help you go
Speaker 4: with him instead. Would that be enough to push you
Speaker 4: over the edge to go? I would like to believe
Speaker 4: that it would, John, But I don't know. I guess
Speaker 4: I won't know until.
Speaker 2: I get there.
Speaker 1: But he's scared. He's fearless man. He's scared of nothing.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll be there before too long. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to another update on traffick and weather. Also
Speaker 1: brooks Howck as he awaits sentencing. He is back in
Speaker 1: the news. We'll talk about it next right here on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas. All right, we're just a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes away from your next update on traffic
Speaker 1: and weather. And I would say one of the most
Speaker 1: talked about things throughout this summer was the trial for
Speaker 1: brooks how because he was found guilty along with a
Speaker 1: couple of co conspirators. And that was a big day
Speaker 1: here in Kentucky, certainly a big day in Bargetown. And
Speaker 1: now we await the sentencing for brooks Howck. But as
Speaker 1: he is waiting in jail, he is trying to get
Speaker 1: rid of.
Speaker 2: All of his assets.
Speaker 1: So a judge is granted a temporary injunction preventing brooks
Speaker 1: Howck from selling or transferring any of his assets as
Speaker 1: her family is currently pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit. So
Speaker 1: this order was granted on the twenty fifth, that was
Speaker 1: last week as they fouled emotion citing concerns that he
Speaker 1: was trying to liquidate assets to avoid potential civil judgment.
Speaker 1: So I did not realize just how much I guess
Speaker 1: the Hawk family was worth. I mean, I knew just
Speaker 1: by following along this entire story for a decade that
Speaker 1: they had you know, that they had businesses, and they
Speaker 1: had a lot of properties. But Hawk reportally owns three
Speaker 1: companies in eighty three properties in Nelson County valued at
Speaker 1: eight point five million dollars. So the legal move here
Speaker 1: is tied to a twenty twenty three long wrongful death
Speaker 1: lawsuit that the family has filed. And I'm no lawyer,
Speaker 1: but I would say that his guilty verdict can only
Speaker 1: help them in this specific lawsuit as they tried to
Speaker 1: get some type of monetary, you know, payment from what
Speaker 1: they've gone through. And of course, now that the trial
Speaker 1: has concluded that it was at the hands of the
Speaker 1: individual brooks out. But yeah, eighty three properties and three
Speaker 1: companies and valued at roughly eight point five million dollars.
Speaker 2: I mean, did he think that.
Speaker 1: They weren't listening to his phone calls, because prosecutors say
Speaker 1: he made several jailhouse calls from the Warren County Detention
Speaker 1: Center discussing how to offload these assets.
Speaker 2: He told his.
Speaker 1: Sister Ronda, quote, They're going to take everything I've got.
Speaker 1: He also talked to his mother Rosemary and his brother
Speaker 1: Nick and was coordinating just different discussions about how they
Speaker 1: can sell some of these properties. And I guess maybe
Speaker 1: who would be interested in set properties? So yeah, the
Speaker 1: next step here is a potential civil judgment, which we
Speaker 1: shall see. It looks as if I believe in October
Speaker 1: is maybe when we'll we'll get more of an update.
Speaker 2: On this situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is going to remain in place. The injunction
Speaker 1: is until an evidentiary hearing, which is set for October
Speaker 1: the eighth. And I know I'm not the only one
Speaker 1: hoping that the Rogers family is successful in this lawsuit,
Speaker 1: given everything they've gone through. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: a quick update on the traffic out there. Bobby Ellis
Speaker 1: will get us caught up. We'll also take a look
Speaker 1: at the forecast from a Melosovich spoiler alert, It's going to.
Speaker 2: Be very hot, so be prepared for that.
Speaker 1: Also, we'll get another update on sports, and then Roriyo
Speaker 1: and Nale of NBC News set to join us at
Speaker 1: eight thirty right here on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: all right, final segment for us here at Kentucky had
Speaker 1: this morning news coffee and company with you on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas coming up a few minutes, we'll
Speaker 1: hand it off to Tony and Dwight. Tony's with me
Speaker 1: here in studio John Shannon as well. The big story
Speaker 1: here nationally and it's it's i mean, not.
Speaker 2: As your choice of leads.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two mass shootings, that's really what you pick from here,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. But the situation in New York City yesterday,
Speaker 1: this young man twenty seven years old, Shane Temura. He
Speaker 1: is a high school football player and was living in
Speaker 1: Vegas for a while. Drove across the country this past
Speaker 1: weekend to New York City apparently waiting to do what
Speaker 1: he did, which is show up to this building where
Speaker 1: the NFL had some offices, also some other businesses had offices,
Speaker 1: and what was discovered is that in his after he
Speaker 1: shot himself after killing a few other people and injuring another.
Speaker 1: There was a note in his pocket that said it
Speaker 1: cited Terry Long, who is a former Steeler who died
Speaker 1: by suicide after suffering from CTE. And in the note
Speaker 1: he also expressed rage towards the NFL. Here's a quote
Speaker 1: football gave me CTE. You can't go against the NFL.
Speaker 1: They'll squash you. And then he also in the note,
Speaker 1: requested his brain be studied and then apologized to someone
Speaker 1: named Rick. So my question, Tony, is the NFL. Clearly,
Speaker 1: I mean they're shaken up. They've got an employee that
Speaker 1: was critically injured in this situation, so I don't expect
Speaker 1: them to be out in front addressing the issue that
Speaker 1: is CTE. But this is going to have ct continue
Speaker 1: to be and it never really went away, but this
Speaker 1: will get it back in the New Cyclist as if
Speaker 1: this is ct that led to this person doing this,
Speaker 1: what do we do about it? And clearly there's no
Speaker 1: perfect solution.
Speaker 5: Well, can you get this done, the message done without
Speaker 5: shooting other people? Of course, why can't you just go
Speaker 5: to the front door of the NFL and kill yourself.
Speaker 5: That's fine if you're into that spot, But why are
Speaker 5: you taking other people with you?
Speaker 1: They may determine that he doesn't even have CT Chris
Speaker 1: never did.
Speaker 5: We don't know that. But why do you have to
Speaker 5: take other people out with you? This is crazy? Then
Speaker 5: this is yet another example of the endless conversations we
Speaker 5: have that the NFL is untouchable. Nothing touches them. A
Speaker 5: couple of years ago, when it was proven that they
Speaker 5: were judging black brains not on the level of white brains,
Speaker 5: and it was documented, I thought that would be an
Speaker 5: end of story, that this would be how many lawsuits
Speaker 5: are going to follow? What kind of thing?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 5: I mean, crickets. I couldn't believe that.
Speaker 2: I thought that would be a lead story for weeks.
Speaker 5: It was nothing.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 5: And then my own brain breaks because I'm like, how
Speaker 5: do how do smart people like doctors do something as
Speaker 5: awful as that? And then the movie comes out with
Speaker 5: Will Smith. It's what was concussion? Whatever the name of
Speaker 5: the movie was. He made the movie about the concussion
Speaker 5: and whatever. The first doctor that said, hey, this is
Speaker 5: a problem. After that, guess what, Yes, you're correct, it's
Speaker 5: called concussion. They there was a that movie affected grade
Speaker 5: school and like there was we had numbers problem. We
Speaker 5: had to combine a bunch of schools to get one team.
Speaker 5: But those numbers, guess what are all back? Everyone's playing football.
Speaker 1: Actually just saw that the other day that there was
Speaker 1: a real drop in participation with youth football and it's
Speaker 1: right back better than ever, which is certainly a good sign.
Speaker 1: And I hate saying this because there's no way to
Speaker 1: say this without people insinuating that I'm anti football and
Speaker 1: people love football so much in America, that's that's a
Speaker 1: sin to say that to a lot of people. But
Speaker 1: I just and it's a stupid hypothetical, but that's kind
Speaker 1: of what radio can be at times. If you introduced
Speaker 1: this sport for the first time ever today with these
Speaker 1: basically these dudes, they look like they're created in a laboratory,
Speaker 1: and you showed it to somebody and what it is.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let us play. No, they wouldn't let us play.
Speaker 1: It's gladiator sport. And everyone e correct, you covered it,
Speaker 1: You covered it. I covered it.
Speaker 5: What you find out when you pull the curtain back
Speaker 5: after game two, no one on the team is healthy.
Speaker 5: No one on the team is healthy. Everybody plays hurt
Speaker 5: for the entire season. So when they're like, hey, are
Speaker 5: you healthy, it's almost a funny question, like those players
Speaker 5: almost laugh, going, yeah, yeah, I'm healthy.
Speaker 6: That's so I told my son when he started football
Speaker 6: back in his freshman year in high school. I said,
Speaker 6: the only time you will not be nicked up is
Speaker 6: the day before your first practice for two days.
Speaker 5: It's not for everybody. And if you coach those younger
Speaker 5: years what you were about to do, because you will
Speaker 5: coach coach coffee. I like the the sound of it.
Speaker 5: You'll have a whistle, you'll have the bike shorts, you know,
Speaker 5: ready to go as well. You got to make a choice.
Speaker 5: There are advisor coaches and there are regular hat coaches.
Speaker 5: Like Bob Baty at Trinity. He was the only one
Speaker 5: they had advisor. All the rest of the coaches had hat.
Speaker 2: I could see him with a lank advisor.
Speaker 1: I can't go, No, you're not advisor. Advisor reminds me.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of of Scott Saderfield.
Speaker 2: I can't do that.
Speaker 4: Trucker hat coach. Your hat backwards coach.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, you might be hat backwards or trucker hat.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They on the football field. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: that a thing I.
Speaker 5: Coached on E Trinity, and I knew that these schools
Speaker 5: are a little different. John jammed his hand up and
Speaker 5: win his first football games, and uh, in the stands
Speaker 5: at those schools, they're all surgeons and doctors. So I
Speaker 5: come back off the sidelines of a timeout or whatever,
Speaker 5: and this guy is messing with John's hand. I go, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 5: who are you. You looked at me and he goes,
Speaker 5: I'm a hand surgeon and he was looking at it
Speaker 5: and goes, he should be fine, just sit down.
Speaker 1: We didn't have many We didn't have many hand surgeons
Speaker 1: in attendance at the Bullet County Youth Football League last year.
Speaker 2: For Moose's Flag Football League.
Speaker 5: Plenty of lawyers, plenty of lawyers to sue.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, coaching at this age is like babysitting.
Speaker 2: It's so much fun.
Speaker 5: But you know, at this at that age, it's you
Speaker 5: see the last day a lot of kids play football
Speaker 5: like you'll see a hit and then kid comes off
Speaker 5: and you'll go, that was his last play.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, and that's okay. Yeah, so he's just
Speaker 1: playing flag now. But the older teams play on the
Speaker 1: other field and you can just tell there's some kids
Speaker 1: that get right back up, and others are like, they
Speaker 1: can't wait to go home and tell their parents they
Speaker 1: don't want to play anymore.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's exactly right. Don't make your kid play football.
Speaker 6: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: It's not for everybody, well said, all right, that'll do
Speaker 1: it for us. Tony and Dwei are coming your way
Speaker 1: next right here on news Radio eight forty whas