Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Tuesday to ye. Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us here on News Radio eight forty whas it is
Speaker 1: Kentucky and this morning news Coffee and Company NIT Coffee
Speaker 1: with you. The company manage on all on alongside, and unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the two big stories nationally are mass shootings that took
Speaker 1: place here yesterday in America, started in Nevada, in Reno,
Speaker 1: and then of course the one that is really the
Speaker 1: lead story right now as I look right in front
Speaker 1: of me here, we've got it on WKY and our
Speaker 1: monitor and they're still covering, of course, the mass shooting
Speaker 1: in Manhattan where a gunman killed four, including a police officer,
Speaker 1: and of course killed himself. Here's what we know about
Speaker 1: this situation, and again we'll give you the details on
Speaker 1: what we know as far as what happened in Reno,
Speaker 1: Nevada as well. But when it comes to this massacre,
Speaker 1: we know that the victim, I'm sorry, the suspect, I
Speaker 1: should say, has been identified as Shane at Timura. He's
Speaker 1: a former high school football player from southern California, and
Speaker 1: he arrived in New York City over the weekend and
Speaker 1: entered three forty five Park Avenue around six thirty last
Speaker 1: night with an AR fifteen, opened fire in the lobby
Speaker 1: and described as spraying bullets by l MPD's commissioner, and
Speaker 1: he wrote an elevator to the thirty third floor and
Speaker 1: ultimately shot himself in the chest. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to the victims here, we know again one of them
Speaker 1: is in fact a police officer, which again is just
Speaker 1: I mean, just absolutely tragic. A guy who was a
Speaker 1: police officer who was off duty but working I guess
Speaker 1: off the clock in some of some kind of a
Speaker 1: security role.
Speaker 2: So just a tragic situation.
Speaker 1: And in this individual, he left a note or I
Speaker 1: guess there was a note found in his pocket that
Speaker 1: described him. And let me make sure I've got it
Speaker 1: correct here. Yeah, he claimed the note says football gave
Speaker 1: me CTE. You can't go against the NFL, They'll squash you.
Speaker 1: So that was that was in his pocket when they
Speaker 1: found him dead, because he killed himself and he claims
Speaker 1: to have CTE. And the note cited Terry Long, who's
Speaker 1: a former Steeler who died by suicide after suffering from
Speaker 1: CTE years back. So again just unfortunately this is not
Speaker 1: so surprising that that these things are happening, and we'll
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll keep you updated as best we can.
Speaker 1: But as far as from here, I guess the important
Speaker 1: information that people want to know is is those that
Speaker 1: were shot that haven't been killed, what is the status
Speaker 1: as far as their their their condition? This? Uh, this,
Speaker 1: And by the way, when it comes to the football
Speaker 1: connection here, the NFL happens to be headquartered in this building.
Speaker 1: So he showed up and I mean it certainly seems
Speaker 1: as if he was wanting to show up and and
Speaker 1: and take out the NFL headquarters or something. I mean, again,
Speaker 1: that's not a coincidence as far as why he ended
Speaker 1: up being there and the fact that they found that
Speaker 1: note that mentioned him having CTE and him claiming that
Speaker 1: you can't go against the NFL. So there was an
Speaker 1: NFL employee that was critically injured and a Blackstone executive
Speaker 1: was shot and killed. As Blackstone as another company that
Speaker 1: has office space, I guess maybe some of their corporate
Speaker 1: offices are in this building at three forty five Park Avenue.
Speaker 1: So twenty seven years old drove from Las Vegas across
Speaker 1: the country to New York City, arrived over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and I would imagine this was his plan and he
Speaker 1: followed through with it, So just a really scary situation overall.
Speaker 1: But again, before that took place yesterday evening in New
Speaker 1: York City, across the country in Reno, there was another
Speaker 1: mass shooting where somebody opened fire at the Grand Sierra Casino,
Speaker 1: which I believe is one of the bigger casinos in Reno,
Speaker 1: and three people dead, three others injured. And we don't
Speaker 1: know the identity of this suspect just yet, at least
Speaker 1: I haven't seen. Maybe that's been maybe that maybe we
Speaker 1: have been given that info in the last couple of hours,
Speaker 1: but as of this morning, they still hadn't identified who
Speaker 1: this was. But it is an adult male and he
Speaker 1: was shot by police during the arrest and transported to
Speaker 1: a hospital. So no motive and no identity when it
Speaker 1: comes to that. And the Grand Sierra Resort is a
Speaker 1: major hotel, casino and entertainment venue in Reno that that,
Speaker 1: of course, you know, probably has a lot of people
Speaker 1: there that are tourists and of course probably some locals
Speaker 1: as well. But this took place yesterday in the valley
Speaker 1: area at that resort at about seven to twenty five am.
Speaker 1: So again who knows what the motive is here, and
Speaker 1: I'm still getting used to that being clearly a talking point,
Speaker 1: and it is. It's it's for I mean, it's for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons.
Speaker 2: It's news.
Speaker 1: But there was there was a while there where I
Speaker 1: was discussing motives for certain things, as if like that
Speaker 1: was going to end up being a justification for some
Speaker 1: of these awful things that people do.
Speaker 2: But as to what led to this, who knows.
Speaker 1: We're talking gambling, we're talking to casino and I mean,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure we'll get to We'll get more information
Speaker 1: as this develops. But yeah, two mass shootings taking place
Speaker 1: yesterday here in America. That is your lead story really
Speaker 1: across the country. And it's unfortunate. It's tragic to be frank,
Speaker 1: But I'd be a liar if I said I had
Speaker 1: any real shock and surprise when these things are in
Speaker 1: the news, which is unfortunate. All right, let's get an
Speaker 1: update on traffic and weather. We've got a hot one
Speaker 1: in store for today. Matt Melosovich. W okay, why we'll
Speaker 1: give us the details. We'll get a check on the
Speaker 1: roadways with Bobby Ellis, and we'll keep this thing rolling
Speaker 1: along right here on Kentucky. And it's Morning News Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company, News Radio eight forty whas. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's morning news here on News Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas Coffee and Company.
Speaker 2: That's us.
Speaker 1: I'm Nick Coffee. He is John Alden, and we've got
Speaker 1: another sport to be coming your way in about eight
Speaker 1: minutes or so with the one on Only Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: John Shannon.
Speaker 2: He love it in the news update for you at
Speaker 2: seven thirty.
Speaker 1: And if you are somebody that is traveling across the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Bridge each and every day, I'm sure that there's
Speaker 1: been good days and there's been many bad days where
Speaker 1: you sit in traffic because of a wreck or just
Speaker 1: rush hour, or maybe because there is construction going on.
Speaker 1: And currently there's some real construction going on, as it
Speaker 1: looks as if the rest of twenty twenty five you're
Speaker 1: going to have three lanes closed. So yesterday they were
Speaker 1: putting up some barriers that I guess led to some
Speaker 1: added issues with the traffic. But now, yeah, the fourth
Speaker 1: lane was closed temporarily where they put up those barrier walls,
Speaker 1: But now moving forward, I guess those barrier walls are
Speaker 1: there to indicate that that whole side is going to
Speaker 1: be closed out for quite some time as they work
Speaker 1: on those those other three lanes to get those expansion
Speaker 1: joints put in.
Speaker 2: So just be prepared. I'm sure you're.
Speaker 1: If you're if that's part of your daily commute, I'm
Speaker 1: sure that you were. You were already well aware of.
Speaker 2: That, all right.
Speaker 1: So this was something I found to be interesting when
Speaker 1: it comes to just those who consume college sports content
Speaker 1: on television. And I think we know when it comes
Speaker 1: to which sport is is is more dominant than others
Speaker 1: when it comes to just the viewership. But there is
Speaker 1: a let me make sure I've got it pulled up here.
Speaker 1: So Nielsen they put they they they provided some some
Speaker 1: data and information that I think is just interesting and
Speaker 1: it tells you the percentage of those who responded to
Speaker 1: their I guess most recent poll as far as what
Speaker 1: they're watching, how they're what they're watching within college sports,
Speaker 1: meaning if you're watching, like for those of you that
Speaker 1: that got one of these, and I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: it's any of you listening, but twenty seven point seven
Speaker 1: percent of people who watch TV regularly said that they
Speaker 1: that that includes college football. Twenty one point one percent
Speaker 1: of those that responded, said, they watch college basketball. So
Speaker 1: that surprises me a little bit because I just would
Speaker 1: have expected college football to be a bigger number. But
Speaker 1: I'm also pleasantly surprised to see that college basketball is
Speaker 1: not that far behind the NFL, is king, But we're
Speaker 1: talking just college sports here. So what I have here
Speaker 1: is a nice breakdown that tells you, when it comes
Speaker 1: to those that are watching college football and college basketball,
Speaker 1: which conference they're watching. So this is going to surprise
Speaker 1: some folks and it may spark some outrage from the SEC.
Speaker 1: But five point five percent say that when they watch
Speaker 1: college football they want to watch they seek out Big
Speaker 1: Ten football. Four point eight percent say SEC. Now, what
Speaker 1: that tells you is something that I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: easy to determine that the Big Ten the reason why
Speaker 1: they have I mean, I think currently they have a
Speaker 1: more lucrative mediae ights deal then the SEC does. Now
Speaker 1: that'll change. They'll go back and forth. When one gets
Speaker 1: a new one, then the other one will be up
Speaker 1: not long after that. But the Big Ten has such
Speaker 1: humongous fan bases and such big alumni bases, and with
Speaker 1: nearly all their schools, it seems to where there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of them. Therefore you can get those big,
Speaker 1: big TV deals. And obviously you have a lot of
Speaker 1: people who watch and tune in to watch. On the
Speaker 1: college basketball side, three percent watch the Big Ten, two
Speaker 1: point seven percent ACC two point three percent SEC.
Speaker 2: So not a big shock there.
Speaker 1: But man, the Big twelve talk about just not having
Speaker 1: a huge alumni base and just not having not being
Speaker 1: in areas that have a ton of people. They are
Speaker 1: dead last by a long shot in both football and basketball.
Speaker 1: So I just thought that was interesting. And again the
Speaker 1: Big Ten they've got me. Just think about the states
Speaker 1: that the look at that, the Indiana fan base, the
Speaker 1: Illinois fan base, the Michigan fan base, Ohio state, a
Speaker 1: lot of people. All Right, we've got another update of
Speaker 1: trafficking weather coming your way. Also we'll get a other
Speaker 1: sports update with Scott right here on news radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas. Thank you very much, John Shannon, it is
Speaker 1: Kentucky and this morning news coffee and company with you
Speaker 1: here on news radio eight forty whas. Nick Coffee, that's
Speaker 1: me the company man, John Alden. He's back from vacation
Speaker 1: and we're so happy to have him back.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 1: Are you have you ever seen the vehicles that drive
Speaker 1: around really everywhere with a camera attached to the top
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 2: The Google. Yeah, the Google Yes, Yeah, I've seen a
Speaker 2: few times.
Speaker 1: So I've seen him as well. Really really fascinating. And
Speaker 1: I have Google Maps on my phone, but I don't
Speaker 1: I don't typically use it, but I occasionally just get
Speaker 1: lost in Google Maps because those vehicles do exactly what
Speaker 1: you think they do. They just walk around and get
Speaker 1: views of every street they can. And if you go
Speaker 1: to Google Maps, and you like, if you just put
Speaker 1: in an address in Google and the first thing that
Speaker 1: you see is just a street view of whatever address
Speaker 1: you put in, and you can click on it, and
Speaker 1: then you can actually go back if you go to
Speaker 1: the bottom I'm only talking about from your phone, but
Speaker 1: if you go to the bottom right, it'll say show
Speaker 1: older dates, and then you can look at many years
Speaker 1: back a shot of this address in twenty fourteen and
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. And I've done that a couple of times
Speaker 1: with places that I haven't been to in a long time.
Speaker 1: And then it became kind of a tree. It became
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was viral, but it became a
Speaker 1: trendy thing for people to to like go back and
Speaker 1: look at what some like areas that no longer really exist,
Speaker 1: right like because a neighbor. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of houses in certain cities that just you know, they
Speaker 1: become abandoned and they end up getting taken down because
Speaker 1: they're condemned, and it's just it's almost like a weird
Speaker 1: way to go back in time a little bit. So anyways,
Speaker 1: I've also noticed whenever you are because you could actually
Speaker 1: move within the app. So like if I put in
Speaker 1: our address here four Street Live and I clicked on
Speaker 1: street View, I just I can you an arrow and
Speaker 1: click it five times and it'll put me one block
Speaker 1: up and then I'm looking at you know, sixth Street
Speaker 1: maybe or fifth Street. And sometimes I do that just
Speaker 1: to kind of see what it shows. And you can
Speaker 1: see people that are out and about whenever they're out filming,
Speaker 1: and more often than not, i'd say about nine out
Speaker 1: of ten times, if you see somebody, they're they're blurred out,
Speaker 1: like you can't see them. There's like a censor kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But then there's sometimes where you can't get
Speaker 1: a good look at him because it's far away and
Speaker 1: it's not a great shot. But they're not censored. Well,
Speaker 1: somebody has managed to turn turn them being uncensored on
Speaker 1: the Google on the Google Map to where they've made
Speaker 1: They've made some money. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have seen this story. This is fascinating to me,
Speaker 1: but there's a guy in Argentina. He is from a
Speaker 1: small town in Argentina.
Speaker 2: He ended up.
Speaker 1: Suing Google because the Google street View captures him naked.
Speaker 1: And I mean, somehow I guess that slipped through the
Speaker 1: cracks for Google, because I'm sure they're supposed to censor everybody,
Speaker 1: but especially if somebody is naked. But yes, Google ended
Speaker 1: up having to pay this man damages because you could
Speaker 1: see him in his yard naked. So it happened in
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen when a Google street View car captured a
Speaker 1: naked man in his backyard in this small town. The man,
Speaker 1: who was a police officer, was behind the six and
Speaker 1: a half foot wall when the image showing his bare
Speaker 1: backside was snapped. His home's address was clearly visible and
Speaker 1: later shown on TV in Argentina and spread across spread
Speaker 1: spread a cross social media, and he argued this exposed
Speaker 1: him to workplace, ridicule and embarrassment in his neighborhood. A
Speaker 1: lower court had previously dismissed the case, saying he should
Speaker 1: have known better than to be outside naked, which it's
Speaker 1: not a bad point, but Google also argued the wall
Speaker 1: wasn't high enough to block the camera's view. However, an
Speaker 1: appeals corps disagreed, calling it a blatant asian of privacy,
Speaker 1: and he was ordered or that Google was ordered.
Speaker 2: To pay him.
Speaker 1: Any clue what compensation this man received in USD.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, yes, I'm gonna see like fifty.
Speaker 1: I would have guessed more than that because we're talking
Speaker 1: about Google, but he got twelve thousand and five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars USD. And I just I feel like, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna sue Google, of all people, you got to go
Speaker 1: for more than that. Right, So again, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: you probably should never be outside nude, but if you
Speaker 1: are and you end up, you know, near one of
Speaker 1: those vehicles, well I guess now they gotta be careful,
Speaker 1: But I don't know, think about the entire world that
Speaker 1: they cover, like they're gonna they're gonna slip through the cracks.
Speaker 1: You could probably scheme your way into maybe profiting from this, right,
Speaker 1: Like just plan it out and hope that you go
Speaker 1: unnoticed and then sue him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: I Like, if you the thing of a place that
Speaker 1: you like, if you are some buddy that grew up
Speaker 1: in another state and you haven't been to the street
Speaker 1: you grew up on in however many years, put it
Speaker 1: in and go to the street view of Google, and
Speaker 1: I bet it'll be a nostalgic experience for you, because
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it in forever, like it'll. I mean,
Speaker 1: it may be sad because it may not look like
Speaker 1: it used to. In fact, I'm sure it probably doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it used to if we're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: forty fifty years ago. But I've done that at times,
Speaker 1: just remembered random places that I hadn't been to in
Speaker 1: a long time that I have a memory of, and
Speaker 1: you can go back and you can see what it
Speaker 1: looks like today, you can see what it looked like
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and just interesting. Technology is a powerful thing.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get an update on travag and weather.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis will get us caught up on the roadways
Speaker 1: out here as we get Tuesday started. It's Kentucky in
Speaker 1: it's Morning News with Coffee and Company on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. I don't know if this is accurate.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because I'm paying a little more attention
Speaker 1: to it, but it does seem like we've got a
Speaker 1: lot more construction and road work going on than we
Speaker 1: typically do. But just keep in mind there's going to
Speaker 1: be some closures continuing tonight if you are out and
Speaker 1: about in the east End. So if you drive through
Speaker 1: sixty four and the Brownsboro Road Bridge or the brown
Speaker 1: Brew Road interchange, Uh, there's gonna be some closures here.
Speaker 1: Let's see, looks like starting last night through early Friday morning,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some bridge demolition work on that Brownsboro
Speaker 1: the Eastern bridge, and also some ramp closures from eastbound
Speaker 1: I two sixty four waters An Expressway to northbound I
Speaker 1: seventy one. It's gonna be completely closed multiple nights this week.
Speaker 1: So in the evening usually not as many people out
Speaker 1: in about, but I'm sure there are some of you
Speaker 1: that will be out and maybe you'll be in that area.
Speaker 1: So just keep in mind there's gonna be some delays
Speaker 1: and some closures, so just be prepared. Looks like eight
Speaker 1: pm to six am is when the majority of the
Speaker 1: work is gonna be done, and it's gonna be It
Speaker 1: was last night and h and tonight and then yeah,
Speaker 1: so it looks like I two sixty four West traffic's
Speaker 1: going to be detoured at Exit twenty two. That's that's
Speaker 1: last night and tonight and then tomorrow Wednesday, And third
Speaker 1: you got I two sixty four East traffics is going
Speaker 1: to be detwitttered Xit twenty two and rejoining on the
Speaker 1: other side. So this is part of a big project.
Speaker 1: We're talking one hundred and thirty million dollar project that
Speaker 1: is to.
Speaker 2: Improve the roadways over there.
Speaker 1: So just be prepared also if you are looking to
Speaker 1: if you're looking to, I guess, get some feedback and
Speaker 1: share your thoughts on what's going on with JCPS. They've
Speaker 1: got their parents and parents and teachers were tonight is
Speaker 1: at Fairdale. I'm not sure where it was last night,
Speaker 1: but they're having another forum where you can they're calling
Speaker 1: it the Community Conversation Series where you can you can
Speaker 1: bring up some concerns, ask some questions and just get
Speaker 1: information as schools about to start here in nine days.
Speaker 1: So last night they had their first one again There'll
Speaker 1: be another one tonight at Fardell High School at five
Speaker 1: point thirty to seven o'clock. Is when when when that one?
Speaker 1: When that will take place tonight? But the concerns raised
Speaker 1: last night, a student assigned staffing, shortag just legislative relationships
Speaker 1: and educational equity, those were things that were brought up
Speaker 1: last night. So again I'm pulling for the new superintendent,
Speaker 1: doctor Yearwood. I mean, he knew what he signed up
Speaker 1: for when he pursued this opportunity, and of course he
Speaker 1: got the job.
Speaker 2: But I just there's a part.
Speaker 1: Of me that just feels like, no matter how good
Speaker 1: this guy could end up being in that position, he's
Speaker 1: just got a lot of working against him because of
Speaker 1: what that entire situation is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: As much as I say that, you know there are
Speaker 1: people here that still I mean, like there's so much
Speaker 1: I feel like, just negative noise about JCPS, and I
Speaker 1: do understand why that happens, but like that doesn't represent
Speaker 1: the entirety of the Jefferson County Public School System and
Speaker 1: all of the people that do work there and do
Speaker 1: their best to make it a good school system. And
Speaker 1: as I talked about earlier, we've never needed teachers seemingly
Speaker 1: more than we do right now. And clearly there are
Speaker 1: people who do it because they love it, but that's
Speaker 1: not now, I think what it used to be. And
Speaker 1: there's shortages everywhere, and there are people who leave the
Speaker 1: industry to do something else. And I don't have the
Speaker 1: perfect solution on how to fix that. I'd be the
Speaker 1: last guy to tell you how to fix it, but
Speaker 1: I hope they figure something out because teachers are very,
Speaker 1: very important. I don't think anybody would disagree with that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get another update on traffic and weather,
Speaker 1: and of course we'll also get another sports update coming
Speaker 1: your way here in about four minutes. We'll love it
Speaker 1: on another news update with John Shannon coming up around
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. As we roll along here, it is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and it's morning news, coffee and company right here on
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