Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, and let's get it started. Let's get
Speaker 1: another week started. Another Monday. Here it is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: his morning news with Coffee and Company on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas Scott fitshared alongside. We've got John Alden
Speaker 1: back in the saddle with us, and of course John
Speaker 1: Shannon alongside. That means the crews here and we're ready
Speaker 1: to Uh, let's let's have a week, fellas.
Speaker 2: Let's do that.
Speaker 1: Let's get off to a good start.
Speaker 3: That was good.
Speaker 1: Yes, I thought the weekend overall. I mean I felt
Speaker 1: as if we were wrapping up Sunday. And now my
Speaker 1: Sundays wrap up pretty early because I'm I'm learning from you, Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm getting ready for the week a lot earlier than
Speaker 1: others do on a typical Sunday, just because our dates
Speaker 1: started a little bit earlier. But things were going really well.
Speaker 1: I think the rain, Mother Nature, she was good to us.
Speaker 1: There was some storms on Saturday, but I feel like
Speaker 1: it was brief and there were certain areas where I
Speaker 1: don't really think they got anything as far as any
Speaker 1: any bad rain. And then I thought it was gonna
Speaker 1: come Sunday, and then sure enough there was some rain
Speaker 1: later on yesterday, some storms last night around where we are,
Speaker 1: but nothing nothing crazy, but too awful. Stories to wrap
Speaker 1: up the weekend, starting with what took place in Lexington.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's no other way to say it other
Speaker 1: than just a tragedy.
Speaker 2: As there was a.
Speaker 1: Quiet shirt service that turned into essentially a deadly deadly
Speaker 1: scene where two people were killed and there was a
Speaker 1: law enforcement officer that also was shot, and that took
Speaker 1: place at the Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington. But
Speaker 1: it all started at eleven thirty yesterday in Lexington, where
Speaker 1: a Kentucky State trooper was shot after pulling over a
Speaker 1: suspect near the Bluegrass Airport and the suspect opened fire
Speaker 1: during that traffic stop, and then following the shooting, he
Speaker 1: ended up carjacking somebody and thankfully no injuries happened during
Speaker 1: that incident. But after committing a carjacking, he then went
Speaker 1: to this church and shot two people. It sounds as
Speaker 1: if there may be a connection between this suspect and
Speaker 1: that church, but they weren't necessarily commenting yesterday, so just again,
Speaker 1: not only a tragic story all the way around. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the kind of thing that will of course make
Speaker 1: national news. The things that I used to reference what
Speaker 1: is in the news to kind of get this day started.
Speaker 1: This is one of the big stories. So just a
Speaker 1: sad situation all the way around. And then what ended
Speaker 1: up being I suppose just of I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's if it was a hoax, if it was just
Speaker 1: somebody thought they saw something that they didn't, but a
Speaker 1: really unfortunate way to wrap up the basketball tournament that
Speaker 1: took place over the weekend at the Fairgrounds, which I
Speaker 1: don't know people realize this, but the run for the
Speaker 1: Roses basketball tournament. It's a girl's AAU basketball tournament that
Speaker 1: takes place in Louisville. I believe this is the second
Speaker 1: time they've had it here. But just to give you
Speaker 1: some perspective on how many people come to town for this.
Speaker 1: When there was the I guess false report of an
Speaker 1: active shooter an active aggressor, I think it was both
Speaker 1: that were reported, one at the basketball tournament, the other
Speaker 1: at Kentucky Kingdom, it ended up being nothing happened. They
Speaker 1: didn't find any they didn't arrest anybody, they didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't find any weapon, they didn't get any confirmation that's
Speaker 1: someone was actually that had a weapon. But forty thousand
Speaker 1: people were in the Kentucky exphysitions in the Exposition Center
Speaker 1: having to evacuate with people, you know, thinking there's somebody
Speaker 1: there with the gun. So again, it's good that that
Speaker 1: didn't happen, but I mean, it's just it's certainly, certainly
Speaker 1: that's what people are going to think of when they
Speaker 1: think of that tournament they came to in Louisville, that
Speaker 1: of course was I mean, hopefully the city was a
Speaker 1: good experience all the way around, but there's no doubt
Speaker 1: this is going to be what sticks with them. So again, overall,
Speaker 1: not a great day for us here in Kentucky yesterday.
Speaker 3: No, it's sad when you see that, and I saw
Speaker 3: those reports, I saw the mayor statement. It was the
Speaker 3: first I saw that, and the mayor was quick to
Speaker 3: grab on to that, And to your point, Nick, it's
Speaker 3: just sad that that that's what we have to deal
Speaker 3: with now and that's where we're at, and of course
Speaker 3: everything surrounding the tragic story in Lexington, and it just
Speaker 3: shows you how valuable life is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hate it. This has become so routine
Speaker 1: for me, but it's just it's it's just I guess
Speaker 1: being hones for whatever that's worth. I hate when these
Speaker 1: kind of stories happen, and I no longer have really
Speaker 1: that much shock value. I think when it hits close
Speaker 1: to home, meeting in here in Kentucky, obviously that that
Speaker 1: that's a little bit more of it's going to hit
Speaker 1: your radar for a little bit longer amount of time,
Speaker 1: just because you feel some level of like, wow, that's
Speaker 1: not far from me that have that. It's crazy that
Speaker 1: stuff happens in general, but man, to have it happen
Speaker 1: not far from where you are and in your home state,
Speaker 1: it's it's one that you'll remember more. But like, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: somebody going I mean again we don't know the name
Speaker 1: of the of the suspect yet. It sounds like they're
Speaker 1: going to release that probably today, but somebody going and
Speaker 1: shooting up a church and and maybe it was suicide
Speaker 1: by cop, not sure, but two people dead and one
Speaker 1: of the officers is of course recovering from the shooting.
Speaker 1: And again that that used to be something that was
Speaker 1: like how could this happen? Which which is still I
Speaker 1: think a justified response from a lot of people, but
Speaker 1: I just no longer have a whole lot of surprise
Speaker 1: because it happened in once as a tragic situation, but
Speaker 1: these are things that just clearly happened. I mean, one
Speaker 1: time is too many. But it's not a rarity as
Speaker 1: much as it as it used to be.
Speaker 3: It seems like, I'm glad you said that because I
Speaker 3: saw what I was scrolling through. Sad part is I
Speaker 3: just read the headlining kept scrolling. Yes, yeah, and I'll
Speaker 3: admit it I did. It's I hate being that way.
Speaker 1: It's human nature because again, when something is no is
Speaker 1: not such a rarity, and you know it no longer
Speaker 1: gives you that same level of wow and just just
Speaker 1: sad all the way around. But of course we'll keep
Speaker 1: you updated on both those stories. I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: what we end up finding out, if anything else, as
Speaker 1: far as what led to the threat yesterday, because again
Speaker 1: it sounds like it was it was nothing, which again
Speaker 1: that's good, but certainly a lot of resources utilized yesterday
Speaker 1: from law enforcement and a lot of fear from people
Speaker 1: that were there, not knowing where to go and what
Speaker 1: was going on, because again the officers are doing what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do, but just an unfortunate situation all
Speaker 1: the way around. All right, let's get an update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather. Matvelosavistion will give us the forecast. All
Speaker 1: so we'll take a look at what's going on on
Speaker 1: the roadways here as we get the five am hour started,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep this thing rolling along. Happy Monday, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: And it's Kentucky and His Morning News with Coffee and
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Speaker 1: sure is Monday. It is five seventeen here on a
Speaker 1: Monday morning, Kentucky and his Morning News with Coffee and Company.
Speaker 1: We'll have a sports update coming up here at five
Speaker 1: twenty five with Scott Fitzgerald and also we will have
Speaker 1: John Shannon's first newscast coming up at five thirty and
Speaker 1: then Rory O'Neil set to join us at five forty five.
Speaker 1: And with Rory, we got to talk about Trump and
Speaker 1: the MAGA base, because I wouldn't be foolish enough to
Speaker 1: claim that he's he's losing he's losing support, because I mean,
Speaker 1: there are many people who've just decided to make Donald
Speaker 1: Trump their personality. That's what they that's just how they
Speaker 1: identify and look that's okay, live your life, do you.
Speaker 1: I don't say that passing any judgment, but there are
Speaker 1: clearly some that I think are are critical of him.
Speaker 1: Maybe I say, for the first time ever, that's impossible
Speaker 1: for me to know for certain. However, the handling of
Speaker 1: the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and also maybe the spending cuts,
Speaker 1: those are things that at least some are expressing that
Speaker 1: they may be underwhelmed. But Rory will give us the
Speaker 1: latest as far as you know, at least checking the pulse.
Speaker 1: There's no way to know how everyone actually feels. But
Speaker 1: I did have a moment over the weekend where in
Speaker 1: these moments have happened many times over a stretch of
Speaker 1: really I guess probably about ten years now roughly, and
Speaker 1: it's just this can't be real, right, But then you realize, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where we are. But on Saturday, when I was
Speaker 1: finishing up my son at a basketball game, it was
Speaker 1: early in the morning, I had some aer inst run.
Speaker 1: Then I had my nephew's birthday parties. So I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, I'm busy, which was good. I'm
Speaker 1: staying busy on a Saturday morning and hadn't really been
Speaker 1: checking in on what was going on as far as news,
Speaker 1: and then I see that the attention of of our
Speaker 1: president was on, uh, the citizenship of one Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 1: And I mean, clearly that's a public few that we've
Speaker 1: known about for quite some time, Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 1: But I mean, just to see that that it again,
Speaker 1: It'd be foolish of me to claim that was like
Speaker 1: the main priority as far as the president of this country,
Speaker 1: But clearly it was a big enough priority for him
Speaker 1: to want it out there for everybody in the world
Speaker 1: to know that he's he's basically threatening to strip Rosie
Speaker 1: o'donnald's US citizenship. And this is in no way to
Speaker 1: defend anything about Rosie o'dnnell. It's just it's I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, like one thing about Trump that that
Speaker 1: continues to fascinate me is it wouldn't be it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be fair to say lack of awareness. But I guess
Speaker 1: if somebody did say that, I wouldn't really challenge them.
Speaker 1: It's just that the punched it don't punch down right
Speaker 1: like Trump doesn't really seem to have any I think
Speaker 1: it's two things he doesn't seem to care. Maybe he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the ability to just ignore something, but like
Speaker 1: he's something. There are times when where I feel like
Speaker 1: our president is like somebody that's a celebrity with a
Speaker 1: billion followers that is getting into the weeds with trolls,
Speaker 1: right and just in engaging them. And I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: saying that's what Rosie O'donnald is, but I mean, she's
Speaker 1: obviously made it clear how she feels about things, and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many people really care what she thinks.
Speaker 1: I mean, no offense to her, she's in outed her opinion,
Speaker 1: but I don't know many people who are out here thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, that's who we need to listen to. That's
Speaker 1: somebody who's got it all together. I mean, she's not
Speaker 1: even in our country anymore. But she clearly gets enough
Speaker 1: attention from Trump to where he wants it to be
Speaker 1: known that he's considering removing her citizenship. So on Saturday,
Speaker 1: he floated the idea of provoking her citizenship quote because
Speaker 1: of the fact that Rosio Donald's not in the best
Speaker 1: interest of our great country, I'm giving serious consideration to
Speaker 1: taking away her citizenship. She is the threat to humanity
Speaker 1: and should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if
Speaker 1: they want her. God bless America.
Speaker 2: Just is that real?
Speaker 1: Like I think of Rosie o'donnald, I think of when
Speaker 1: I was a kid in the early nineties.
Speaker 2: What was that movie?
Speaker 1: She was in the Baseball movie? She in a legal
Speaker 1: of their owner and I dreamed that. Anyways, there's one
Speaker 1: of the many stories from over the weekend we'll be
Speaker 1: reacting to this morning. Let's get a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and get to the first sports update from
Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald, but first let's get to another update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather. Right here. It's Kentucky, Ana. It's Morning
Speaker 1: News with Coffee and Company on news radio a forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John Shannon. It is Kentucky and
Speaker 1: his Morning News with Coffee and Company on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas, Nick Coffee. That's me John all on
Speaker 1: alongside today. So the run for the Roses Tournament will
Speaker 1: resume today. And that is it's the largest girls basketball
Speaker 1: tournament in the world. I don't know if that is
Speaker 1: the case, but that's what it is. That's how they
Speaker 1: market it and brand it. And when you consider forty
Speaker 1: thousand people being at the Exposition Center yesterday here in Louisville. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: for a real scare, that could be life changing for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I don't say that to exaggerate
Speaker 1: or to be dramatic, but if you are doing something
Speaker 1: that you probably consider something you enjoy watching or watching
Speaker 1: basketball at a tournament where you maybe have family playing,
Speaker 1: maybe your child, your grandchild, or maybe you're coaching, or
Speaker 1: maybe you're playing anybody anybody there to then see panic
Speaker 1: because there's been a report of an active shooter or
Speaker 1: an active aggressor. I mean that can that can be
Speaker 1: a feeling of fear and hopelessness that that will stick
Speaker 1: with you forever. So you know, it's it's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: again it is a big, big event, and I hate
Speaker 1: this that it's a good thing that overall there was
Speaker 1: nobody that was injured, meaning it was I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say it was a false alarm or
Speaker 1: if it was a hoax, I don't know. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: find out as far as what led to the response
Speaker 1: being what it is. And I'm in no way being
Speaker 1: critical because you can't take any of that lightly this
Speaker 1: day and age, and it sounds as if, according to
Speaker 1: Mayor Greenberg, that those that were there ready to to
Speaker 1: take action and do whatever is needed. From the law
Speaker 1: enforcement side, they did their part, and also those that
Speaker 1: were there as part of the staff at the Kentucky
Speaker 1: Exposition Center. So are the fairgrounds, I should say. But nonetheless,
Speaker 1: again it's good news that nothing happened and nobody was hurt.
Speaker 1: But I just I hate knowing. And this is going
Speaker 1: to sound silly because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: when you consider what happened in Lexington, I mean this
Speaker 1: is considered great news that despite the fear and knowing
Speaker 1: that those kind of things do happen, because look, what
Speaker 1: just happened in your own state at the same time
Speaker 1: or the same day, nearly the same time. But Louisville
Speaker 1: bringing in this many people for this event and having
Speaker 1: this probably be what they take from it, at least
Speaker 1: maybe the first thing that comes to mind for them,
Speaker 1: and maybe that won't be you never know, but if certain,
Speaker 1: if in fact, you do hear from people that claim, yeah,
Speaker 1: when I think of the trip to Louisville for this
Speaker 1: big event, the city was awesome, and then you know
Speaker 1: that happened, and hopefully they won't hold that against this,
Speaker 1: Hopefully they won't just think that that type of action
Speaker 1: represents Louisville or anything like that. But you really, you know,
Speaker 1: you really, you can't control it.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a bummer because I hope that those
Speaker 1: that were here don't think negatively of this city. But
Speaker 1: if they do, I mean, I can't say that I
Speaker 1: would be I'd be surprised. So when you look at
Speaker 1: just the overall, and I don't know how, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's any way to know this for certain,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to just the amount of money
Speaker 1: that can be brought in by that many people here
Speaker 1: in this city, I'll give you an example. I had somebody,
Speaker 1: one of my friends, coming in town to visit family.
Speaker 1: He doesn't live here anymore, and he was just telling
Speaker 1: me how impossible it was to get a decent hotel
Speaker 1: really kind of anywhere in Louisville that wasn't charge, you know,
Speaker 1: the price wasn't wasn't jacked up. And part of it
Speaker 1: is because of this they knew there were this many
Speaker 1: people coming to town. I mean, I went also Friday,
Speaker 1: I was out on an errands and I made it
Speaker 1: out to the outlet shops there in Shelby County, And
Speaker 1: I tell you what I mean, I feel like every
Speaker 1: store I went into and everywhere I looked, there were
Speaker 1: groups of fifteen to twenty people that were with a
Speaker 1: certain AAU basketball club that we're here because of this.
Speaker 1: So I mean there were a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the city, and by all accounts, I mean, everything went
Speaker 1: smoothly other than just whatever led to somebody alerting authorities
Speaker 1: that there was an active aggressor. It started at the
Speaker 1: basketball tournament, and then of course there was the same
Speaker 1: same thing alleged essentially at Kentucky Kingdom. They later found
Speaker 1: out that it was a false alarm, and again sounds
Speaker 1: like everybody handled it as best you can. But I
Speaker 1: felt like this was in fact over the weekend, I
Speaker 1: was thinking, you know what, this is gonna be something
Speaker 1: I enjoy really talking about because I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: enough people realize how awesome it is that we have
Speaker 1: this event. Again. This is a tournament that is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest in the world. In fact, they say
Speaker 1: it's the biggest girls basketball tournament in the world. So
Speaker 1: it will resume today, which is good. But there are
Speaker 1: some there are some teams that have decided not to continue,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's because of the threat
Speaker 1: or if because maybe the schedule, of course has been
Speaker 1: altered due to them having to shut things down early yesterday.
Speaker 1: Maybe from a schedule standpoint, that's also a factor. But
Speaker 1: it is going to resume Monday, but there'll be some
Speaker 1: teams that won't be there, so it's a bummer and
Speaker 1: I hope they don't hold it against us, but again
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, I don't who to blame if somebody,
Speaker 1: if somebody in fact was just pulling a prank. I mean,
Speaker 1: you would hope that we'd be able to find out
Speaker 1: who that is and they can be held accountable. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that's what happened or not. But it's also
Speaker 1: one of those things that can you be surprised if
Speaker 1: if you have to take I mean, you can't take
Speaker 1: any you can never take anything lightly when it comes
Speaker 1: to somebody reporting that they may think there's an active
Speaker 1: aggressor or whatnot. And it's always good news that whenever
Speaker 1: you have that moment of fear, then you realize that's
Speaker 1: not the case. But you've got to wonder, Okay, could
Speaker 1: could this have been avoidable and it's you know, we'll
Speaker 1: never know. But again it resumes today and hopefully they
Speaker 1: finished strong. All right, let's get to a quick update
Speaker 1: on traffic and weather. Mett Melosavitch will give us the
Speaker 1: latest on the forecast, and we'll see what's going on
Speaker 1: out here, and they can Kentucky Ana Roads as we
Speaker 1: get the morning started from Bobby Ellis and then Rory O'Neil.
Speaker 1: He'll join us at five forty five, and I'm curious
Speaker 1: to get his thoughts as far as the Trump supporters
Speaker 1: maybe being a little not underwhelmed, but maybe just expecting
Speaker 1: more from the Epstein investigation and maybe expecting more when
Speaker 1: it comes to spending cuts. But we'll talk to Rory
Speaker 1: on the other side of Kentucky. And it's Morning News
Speaker 1: right here on News Radio eight forty whas it is
Speaker 1: Kentucky and is Morning News with Coffee and Company here
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee.
Speaker 2: That's me.
Speaker 1: Let's bring him in. He's Roy O'Neil of NBC News. Rory,
Speaker 1: it'd be foolish of me to say that that President
Speaker 1: Trump is losing support, because there are some that again
Speaker 1: they my comments, nobody else I think they make Trump
Speaker 1: their whole personality, which, again, it's a free country, they
Speaker 1: can certainly do that. But it does seem as if
Speaker 1: there are at least some out there that are not
Speaker 1: afraid to express that they've been a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit displeased maybe with how he's handled a couple
Speaker 1: of things recently, including the Epstein investigation, maybe the maybe
Speaker 1: the amount of spending cuts that's taking place up to
Speaker 1: this point. What can you tell us as far as
Speaker 1: maybe the temperature for those that, of course are supporters
Speaker 1: of Trump and identify in the MAGA crowd.
Speaker 2: Well, look, they are still on the Trump train, right.
Speaker 2: But we heard a lot of this from the MAGA
Speaker 2: wing at the Turning Point USA conference that took place
Speaker 2: this weekend in Tampa. Many of them the young students,
Speaker 2: the college students, the early voters, I guess in their careers.
Speaker 2: But the look, they're not happy with the decision to
Speaker 2: shut down the Epstein investigation. They're not happy with some
Speaker 2: of the carve outs in the immigration reform by letting
Speaker 2: people who maybe in the country illegally continue to work
Speaker 2: for agriculture or hospitality industries. They don't like the fact
Speaker 2: that even last night the President said they're going to
Speaker 2: start sending more weapons to Ukraine, or that the Big
Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill has three trillion dollars in new debt. They thought, wait,
Speaker 2: I thought we'd get spending cuts. So look, while they're
Speaker 2: still on board with President Trump, are saying, hey, you
Speaker 2: know what this is, we were promised something else.
Speaker 1: And also when you look at the Epstein situation, to
Speaker 1: to insinuate that maybe they were created by Barack Obama
Speaker 1: and then say that nobody nobody cares about the Epstein files,
Speaker 1: it seemed as if that one meeting saying nobody cares
Speaker 1: it was a real sign of him maybe not really
Speaker 1: being able to read the room a little bit. Maybe
Speaker 1: there are some people that don't care, and maybe there
Speaker 1: are some people that now don't care because he said that.
Speaker 1: But it seems to me it just from my perspective,
Speaker 1: it seemed as if maybe that was one of the
Speaker 1: one of the recent times where he said something and
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't quite get that that maybe he was
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't have the field that he thought he did.
Speaker 2: Well. We also saw in that truth Social post, right,
Speaker 2: this is what's going out with my boys and in
Speaker 2: some cases gals, I mean so it's even even the
Speaker 2: president is hearing from his own supporters saying that they
Speaker 2: don't like this, you know, because there's been there's been
Speaker 2: this outcry that you know, Pam Bondi should be fired
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be, that which seems unlikely, or
Speaker 2: that Dan Bonginou number two minute, the FBI might resign
Speaker 2: because of what the administration decided to do with the
Speaker 2: Epstein investigation. So even President Trump is acknowledging that there
Speaker 2: are some rumblings underneath. And by the way, let's be clear,
Speaker 2: the liberal media they are all in on this, right
Speaker 2: all the first time they've seen fractures, so they're going
Speaker 2: to really shine a spotlight on some of these disagreements
Speaker 2: within the party. I mean, this stuff happens, you know,
Speaker 2: over time, by the way, with any political party, left
Speaker 2: or right. But it is interesting that they all seem
Speaker 2: to be coming together. And this is something we haven't
Speaker 2: really seen before with which what had been a very
Speaker 2: unified movement.
Speaker 1: That is that was my exact takeaway. And it certainly
Speaker 1: seems as if the left, it's like there's sharks in
Speaker 1: the water thinking, wait a second, there's going to be
Speaker 1: some that are going to be maybe critical even a
Speaker 1: little bit about what he does and what he decides
Speaker 1: to do. So I had the same observation. Royan Neil,
Speaker 1: NBC News is our guest joining us here on News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas we have at least one airline
Speaker 1: that is now planning to turn ticket pricing over to
Speaker 1: AI by the end of twenty twenty five. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that would be good for those that work
Speaker 1: in the airline industry in that in that capacity, but
Speaker 1: obviously when it comes to travelers, they want to know
Speaker 1: is this something that could be good or bad for them?
Speaker 2: Not good for the traveler, good for the airline's bottom line. Essentially.
Speaker 2: You know, Delta has launched this program. A few months ago.
Speaker 2: It was about one percent of their tickets were being
Speaker 2: priced by AI. By the end of the year, they
Speaker 2: want twenty percent of their tickets to be priced by AI.
Speaker 2: What AI can do is look at all of your history.
Speaker 2: It knows everything about you, right, so it can see
Speaker 2: what you bought things in the past with the airline,
Speaker 2: or you know, do you normally book far in advance
Speaker 2: or is it a short timeframe. What the AI can
Speaker 2: do is find out the maximum price you're willing to
Speaker 2: pay for a ticket and then price it at that,
Speaker 2: So gone are the chances of picking up a bargain. Instead,
Speaker 2: every time you try to buy a flight, it's going
Speaker 2: to try to maximize what they charge you for that flight.
Speaker 1: With airlines, the airline experience, at least in my opinion,
Speaker 1: it's a very helpless situation a lot of times. And
Speaker 1: if you can find a way to feel like you
Speaker 1: might have perfect timing, been able to save a few
Speaker 1: bucks on your ticket, you know, it's the little things
Speaker 1: that count to where you know you have. It's a
Speaker 1: helpless situation, but you're trying your best to you know,
Speaker 1: make the most of it. But now that they can
Speaker 1: rely on AI, it sounds like, yeah, the days of
Speaker 1: finding those cheap deals is gonna be much more difficult.
Speaker 2: Well, right now, every time we find a deal, suddenly
Speaker 2: there's a bag fee, a seat fee, of hot fee,
Speaker 2: fee fee fee, fee feeing.
Speaker 1: It's no deal anymore, no doubt about it. Rory has
Speaker 1: always thank you for the time, enjoyed the ester today.
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon, my friend Factic. All right, that's Rory
Speaker 1: and need of NBC News. Good stuff there. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: it comes to the airlines, there's nothing that I could
Speaker 1: be charged for throughout that entire experience that will shock
Speaker 1: me this day and age, Oh you wore close today,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a eighteen dollars Yeah, fabric fee.
Speaker 1: I mean, the fees are endless. All right, Let's get
Speaker 1: an update on traffick and weather from my Melosovich with
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Speaker 1: traffic so this morning in Kentucky, Ana. And then we've
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