Speaker 1: All right, let's get the eight am hour started.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and it's Morning News with Coffee and
Speaker 1: Company on News Radio eight forty whas as you heard
Speaker 1: there in the News Update with John Shannon, we now
Speaker 1: know the identity of the of the suspect that took
Speaker 1: two lives yesterday at a church while service was going on.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't where it started. He initially was pulled
Speaker 1: over by law enforcement at about eleven thirty and then
Speaker 1: open fire on that officer, injuring the officer. Then he
Speaker 1: carjacked someone and then made his way to a church.
Speaker 1: So we now know who that person is and the
Speaker 1: identity is. I mean, I don't know how important it
Speaker 1: is to certain I mean it's clearly a piece of news.
Speaker 1: I'm not acting like nobody should care. But another reminder
Speaker 1: just how much we politicize everything, because there are so
Speaker 1: many that are just wired to let to just want
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, Can I blame this on the Democrats?
Speaker 1: Can I blame this on the Republicans for this happening?
Speaker 1: And it's not everyone that acts that way. And to
Speaker 1: remind myself more often that the loud, the extremists, they
Speaker 1: don't represent the majority. But then again, you hear from
Speaker 1: them a lot because I know people who I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily agree with at all politically, but I'm friends with them,
Speaker 1: and I don't look at them as bad people, and
Speaker 1: whenever something awful happens, I don't think, well, can I
Speaker 1: blame this on their political side, like that's just I
Speaker 1: still think that's very unusual. But maybe I'm the one
Speaker 1: that's wrong. But again, just a tragic situation, a national
Speaker 1: story that of course is right here in our home state,
Speaker 1: and just a tragic situation all the way around. Also
Speaker 1: a scare yesterday at the fairgrounds, as there was a
Speaker 1: thread of an active aggressor at both Kentucky Kingdom and
Speaker 1: also at the Run for the Roses basketball tournament, where
Speaker 1: forty thousand people were on hand, as it's the biggest
Speaker 1: girls basketball tournament in the world, brings a lot of
Speaker 1: people here to Louisville, and of course gives a lot
Speaker 1: of dollars to our businesses, and I would hope that
Speaker 1: what took place yesterday doesn't change anything for that event
Speaker 1: moving forward. I don't anticipate that it will, and I
Speaker 1: don't see why it would, but certainly it's just a
Speaker 1: bummer knowing that it could have been a weekend where
Speaker 1: the energy and by the way, the weekend was great
Speaker 1: as far as just the energy, you could tell there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people in town. It just felt like
Speaker 1: we had some big events going on, not only with
Speaker 1: the the ISCO Championship at the Hrsborne Country Club as mentioned,
Speaker 1: you have this golf, this basketball tournament that's been going
Speaker 1: on for many years and seems to get bigger every year,
Speaker 1: some soccer action. So it felt like a big weekend
Speaker 1: with some good energy to where you just feel as if,
Speaker 1: you know, Louisville was kind of the place to be
Speaker 1: for a lot of folks. And I would hate if
Speaker 1: you were experiencing Louisville for the first time and you
Speaker 1: liked it and then you were there yesterday when there
Speaker 1: was chaos, because there's probably people who assumed that there was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how again, I'm if you
Speaker 1: put yourself in the shoes of somebody there, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine anybody would take that lightly as if that it
Speaker 1: wasn't real. I mean, I don't know. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you are someone that reacted as if, yeah, it's probably
Speaker 1: just a a false alarm. I don't need to. I
Speaker 1: don't need to take cover. But I'll just let you
Speaker 1: know what am I gonna do. I'm just gonna let
Speaker 1: this thing play out. I mean, you would have been right,
Speaker 1: but you also were probably somebody that doesn't pay attention
Speaker 1: to see how often these kind of things do happen. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I wish we could go back to it being super
Speaker 1: shocking and super you know, just rare, but it's not
Speaker 1: when you have people who I mean again, when you
Speaker 1: look at what took place in Lexington. I mean, heck,
Speaker 1: I had even thought of this. I wouldn't be shocked.
Speaker 1: If there's people that were at this event at the
Speaker 1: fairground yesterday that maybe haven't been keeping up with what
Speaker 1: went on in Lexington other than just the headlines, and
Speaker 1: maybe they're thinking that somehow that's connected. I mean, you
Speaker 1: never know, but yeah, just a scary situation all the
Speaker 1: way around. So they are going to resume that tournament today,
Speaker 1: which I'm very happy that they're doing that, But there
Speaker 1: are some teams that have decided to just go ahead
Speaker 1: and and and call it and not participate moving forward,
Speaker 1: and some coaches that were there recruiting at the college
Speaker 1: level at least one of them went on social media
Speaker 1: to say that they they're they're happy that everything is okay,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna they refuse to normalize the experience. I
Speaker 1: think that's one coach I saw that put that out there,
Speaker 1: and I understand what he means by that. So again, good,
Speaker 1: it's good that nothing nothing happened, nobody was hurt, but
Speaker 1: one just an unfortunate situation all the way around. And
Speaker 1: I don't think maybe I'm wrong here, I don't think
Speaker 1: people realize when you go through that experience, Yes, you're
Speaker 1: fine and at the end of the day, nothing like
Speaker 1: your kids are safe, nobody was harmed, but that kind
Speaker 1: of a scare in that situation can leave such a
Speaker 1: such a I mean, it's trauma, quite literally, because it's
Speaker 1: just a level of fear and helplessness that I hope
Speaker 1: people never experience. But whenever you you know, you hear
Speaker 1: of a gunshot going off when you're somewhere, or you
Speaker 1: there's a report of something like that happening, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think anybody knows how they'll react
Speaker 1: until they're in that situation, and certainly not everyone reacts
Speaker 1: the same to every situation. But I can tell you
Speaker 1: I was. I was near where somebody got two people
Speaker 1: got shot and killed, not that long ago, about three
Speaker 1: years ago, And I mean, it's just something I don't
Speaker 1: think you can, you know, and I hope you never
Speaker 1: have to experience it. But for me, you know, it's trauma.
Speaker 1: And obviously you also try to balance the the other side,
Speaker 1: which is, wow, how lucky am I because nothing happened
Speaker 1: to me. I'm safe, my kids are safe, my family's safe,
Speaker 1: and two people lost their lives and oh that's tragic,
Speaker 1: but man, I'm so lucky, Thank you so much God,
Speaker 1: and then like that. But that's not normal. That's not
Speaker 1: a normal experience for a lot of people when it
Speaker 1: comes to experiencing something like that. So yesterday, again no
Speaker 1: guns found, no legitimate shots were fired, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like there wasn't even an active aggressor. It was just
Speaker 1: a false alarm. But having that moment of not knowing,
Speaker 1: and especially if your kid's out there playing and everybody's
Speaker 1: running every which way, nobody knows where everybody is, that's
Speaker 1: a scary experience. They can have a traumatic impact on you.
Speaker 1: So again it's good that nothing ended up happening, but
Speaker 1: still just unfortunate all the way around. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about what Andy Bisheer said yesterday, because he did
Speaker 1: an interview with Meet the Press and was asked about
Speaker 1: a lot of things, including a potential run at president.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a lot more, but first
Speaker 1: let's get an update on traffic from Bobby Ellis, and
Speaker 1: we'll get you caught up on Matt Melosovich's forecast from WLKY.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky and it's Morning News with Coffee and
Speaker 1: Company on News Radio eight forty whas Kentucky Governor Andy
Speaker 1: Bisheer appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: and it was probably one of his most I feel
Speaker 1: like direct national interviews where he wasn't I mean, it
Speaker 1: just seemed as if it was a lengthier conversation on
Speaker 1: the national platform than we're used to with Andy Bysheer.
Speaker 1: But as you could expect, he shared his thoughts which
Speaker 1: he's not at all been shy about when it comes
Speaker 1: to the big beautiful Bill, and he's been critical of
Speaker 1: what it's going to do for those here in Kentucky.
Speaker 1: He warned of a fallout at the Toyota plant in Georgetown,
Speaker 1: mentioned that two hundred thousand Kentuckians could lose healthcare, twenty
Speaker 1: thousand healthcare workers could be laid off off, talked about
Speaker 1: the potential chances of closure, hospitals closing. He didn't go
Speaker 1: as far as and I don't know if if Andy
Speaker 1: is one that did it, but it was a little
Speaker 1: insane when the when the Big Beautiful Bill did passed
Speaker 1: to where you just automatically killed off However many people,
Speaker 1: well there goes They're all dead. And it was just
Speaker 1: quite literally the most over exaggerated thing. And even if
Speaker 1: like that does end up happening, you have no way
Speaker 1: of predicting the amount of people who will lose their
Speaker 1: lives really over anything. But it's sensationalizing it and it's
Speaker 1: a great example of the left doing what the right does,
Speaker 1: which the right does a lot with the left does
Speaker 1: and they point fingers and when in the reality is
Speaker 1: they all they do a lot of the same stuff.
Speaker 1: They just do. So his comments on the Big Beautiful
Speaker 1: Bill and what Trump's going to potentially do for the economy,
Speaker 1: good or bad, not at all surprised to hear what
Speaker 1: he had to say, but he did say something that
Speaker 1: I think is is I mean is true, is that
Speaker 1: when it comes to these natural disasters that have and
Speaker 1: like flooding, tornadoes, those kind of things. I mean, these
Speaker 1: should not be politicized. But everything, of course is politicized
Speaker 1: in the current climate, and I don't really see any
Speaker 1: time soon when that changes. But I just I'm glad
Speaker 1: to know that I don't instantly think of, Okay, look
Speaker 1: at this scumbag. Is he is he a lefty? Or
Speaker 1: is he? You know?
Speaker 3: Is he?
Speaker 1: Is he maga? I mean again not to say that
Speaker 1: that information like is something we shouldn't know about or
Speaker 1: care about, but that being the first thing you want
Speaker 1: to know lets me know that you're a little more
Speaker 1: into that stuff than I am. And look, that's not
Speaker 1: judgment on my end. Maybe you're better off than me.
Speaker 1: I'm just being honest with you. But when asked about
Speaker 1: running for president, he didn't give any real He didn't
Speaker 1: give any real direct answer. He didn't rule it out,
Speaker 1: he didn't really answer it, to be honest with here's
Speaker 1: the quote. I will not leave a broken country to
Speaker 1: my kids or to anyone else. If I believe that
Speaker 1: I can heal the country, then I'll take a look
Speaker 1: at it. He emphasized a message of unity read versus
Speaker 1: Blue more about jobs being good for all Americans and
Speaker 1: that I think that does resonate with a lot of people,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I again, can I tell you
Speaker 1: what I think that means. I don't think it's I
Speaker 1: think it means yes, but not right now. That's what
Speaker 1: I think, meaning like, yes, he's gonna do it, but
Speaker 1: now it's not the time to get there just yet. Yes,
Speaker 1: the way I interpret that for some reason, and it's
Speaker 1: just my gut, and my gut's not great. My gut
Speaker 1: just tells me that he will not run. But I'm
Speaker 1: basing that literally off of nothing other than just rapid decision.
Speaker 1: Having to make a guess because if he does end
Speaker 1: up running, I won't say that I'm going to be shocked,
Speaker 1: and I don't you know, I'm not. I could see
Speaker 1: him being you know, he he is somebody that as
Speaker 1: much as you know, this may this may bother some
Speaker 1: people who just are so anti anything Democrat. I mean,
Speaker 1: he unless something's changing. It might have changed because of
Speaker 1: his recent comments. I don't know, but you know, he
Speaker 1: for a while has been pretty favorable compared to others
Speaker 1: in his party when it comes to just the overall
Speaker 1: general opinion. And I know there are people right now
Speaker 1: think what does guy talking about? I hate that guy,
Speaker 1: and you know you're entitled to your opinion, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like, just given the last five six years,
Speaker 1: I could see him being a better option on that
Speaker 1: side than others. But again, he's not commenting just yet
Speaker 1: as far as if he's gonna do it or not.
Speaker 1: But you may be right, John, maybe he's planning on it,
Speaker 1: but he's just he's gonna wait for the right time.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a update on traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: We'll get with Bobby Ellis and see how the roads
Speaker 1: are looking out here in Kentucky and in and he
Speaker 1: get the week started. Also, we'll take another look at
Speaker 1: Matt Molosavich's forecast of WKY and then another sports update
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitzgerald. All that's coming up right here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight to forty WHS. It is a forty
Speaker 1: five here Kentucky ANDAs morning News Coffee and Company on
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Speaker 1: Tony and Dwight coming up in about fifteen minutes. They're
Speaker 1: coming to you live today from Jefferson Animal hospital as
Speaker 1: they're celebrating forty five years. Congrats to my friends over
Speaker 1: there at Jefferson Animal Hospital. So we have some breaking
Speaker 1: news as far as what led to the false alarm yesterday.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how people are going to react
Speaker 1: to this, but it is good information to have. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to the chaotic situation at the Exposition
Speaker 1: Center yesterday in Kentucky Kingdom, where you had thousands upon
Speaker 1: thousands of people, coaches, players, families all there attending the
Speaker 1: Run for the Roses basketball tournament, and of course people
Speaker 1: also at Kentucky Kingdom, we now know that it was
Speaker 1: all a false alarm and the cause, according to the
Speaker 1: tournament officials and the Run for Roses X account, is
Speaker 1: the initial evacuation was sparked by a mechanical issue that
Speaker 1: triggered the fire alarm system inside the Expo Center. No
Speaker 1: one pulled the alarm. There was no active threat at
Speaker 1: any time, So I guess that's good news. And for
Speaker 1: those of you that have been asking, hey, what is
Speaker 1: an active aggressor what is that? Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: didn't think to really explain it, but I just think
Speaker 1: it means somebody who maybe and from what I can
Speaker 1: tell law enforcement uses active aggressor as a way to
Speaker 1: describe a person who's actively engaged in causing or attempting
Speaker 1: to cause serious bodily harm or death. But the reason
Speaker 1: it sounds like they emphasize that is because it doesn't
Speaker 1: assume there's a gun involved. That's why there's the neutral
Speaker 1: wording there. So there was nobody there. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how fire alarm led to people assuming well
Speaker 1: that means that somebody here has a gun. But all
Speaker 1: it would take this day and age, is one person
Speaker 1: to make a comment like that, and nobody's taken that
Speaker 1: as a joke, and they shouldn't anymore. So again, you know,
Speaker 1: I hate that it was kind of all for nothing
Speaker 1: because that's an impactful experience for a lot of people
Speaker 1: there that they'll probably never forget. And it certainly had
Speaker 1: an impact on the tournament, and it's not a good
Speaker 1: look all the way around. But it happened, and I
Speaker 1: think from what I can tell, it sounds like Mary
Speaker 1: Greenberg's pretty pretty happy with the way everybody handled the situation.
Speaker 1: And yeah, just an unfortunate event that don't know how
Speaker 1: it happened, but certainly nothing there was no no legitimate
Speaker 1: threat at any point, which again is good news, but
Speaker 1: the bad side as well. Okay, it certainly had an
Speaker 1: impact on a lot of people in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: All right, uh, Tony, you're with us, Yes, how does
Speaker 1: the fire alarm cause that? You're still give us answers
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 3: It's not the fire alarm.
Speaker 2: There was let me tell you people, there was enough people.
Speaker 2: If something happens where you are, it takes a lot
Speaker 2: for you to pick up the phone and dial the
Speaker 2: police and say something's happening.
Speaker 3: Okay, And they had those.
Speaker 1: Phone calls to be a snowball effect.
Speaker 2: Yes, but think about what it takes for someone to
Speaker 2: pull their phone out of their pocket and go nine
Speaker 2: one one.
Speaker 3: Okay. It takes a lot for that. Here's my opinion.
Speaker 1: It's good point.
Speaker 2: I have no I have no information that says says
Speaker 2: it was. It was not the fire alarm, but there
Speaker 2: was plenty of phone calls that said something else.
Speaker 3: Happened, shots fired, whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I think something happened, all right, that's what
Speaker 2: I think obviously.
Speaker 1: So that something could just be someone assuming that in
Speaker 1: yelling it and then it just turning into what it
Speaker 1: turned into.
Speaker 2: No, sure, Yeah, the yell fire in a crowded meater. Yes,
Speaker 2: causes panic, I get it.
Speaker 1: Or somebody threatened somebody with a gun and they don't
Speaker 1: know who it was. I mean, I guess there's really
Speaker 1: no way to know for sure.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, but I don't care.
Speaker 2: I mean if in today's world, look at the response
Speaker 2: from LMPD, it was warranted. They had a hundred police cars,
Speaker 2: fire trucks, ems. They were ready for trouble if trouble
Speaker 2: was coming to them, and they were going to take
Speaker 2: care of the people that were in this. And let's
Speaker 2: talk about how important that basketball tournament is to Louisville.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I mean that that is one of, if not the
Speaker 2: biggest in the world basketball tournaments for girls, for women,
Speaker 2: because they don't get these opportunities. You know when doing
Speaker 2: sports that there's a ton of these boys tournaments where
Speaker 2: college coaches because you see the pictures of Cal sitting
Speaker 2: next to Rick Boy Williams sitting next to so and so, so,
Speaker 2: you see all that. Well, the girls don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of those tournaments, and this is an opportunity. Think
Speaker 2: about the environment of having ninety six basketball courts back
Speaker 2: to back in the south wing and the excitement and
Speaker 2: energy of basketball and having all of the Jeff Walls
Speaker 2: of the world sitting there together watching teams play.
Speaker 3: It's exciting.
Speaker 2: It's needed for women's sports, and we cannot do any
Speaker 2: I hope this hasn't damaged that.
Speaker 1: I hope so too, and I would think that if
Speaker 1: in fact, it is just you know, because again, the
Speaker 1: tournament itself, the event, they use their social media platforms too.
Speaker 1: They're the first ones. I mean, that's that's who WKY
Speaker 1: is citing. As far as what caused it, and that
Speaker 1: would be again, it's unfortunate, but maybe it could be
Speaker 1: a look, okay, well, hey, that's unfortunate that it happened.
Speaker 1: But man, the response team was there, they were ready,
Speaker 1: and they were clearly making it a priority to keep
Speaker 1: people safe as best as possible. But yes, Tony, that
Speaker 1: brings in forty five point six million estimated income for
Speaker 1: our for tourism here. I mean that's I knew of
Speaker 1: the event. I didn't realize quite how big it was.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to cities that just really make
Speaker 1: an event their own, it sounds like this in recent
Speaker 1: years has really become something that you know, people when
Speaker 1: they think of Louisville and they have any connection with
Speaker 1: with grassroots girls basketball that they think of this event,
Speaker 1: so hopefully it doesn't impact it moving forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's one of the events Louisville Sports Commission helped
Speaker 2: get here. And again when that agency was put together,
Speaker 2: we all went, oh, great, it's another idea for policy.
Speaker 3: But they have outperformed what they spend.
Speaker 2: It's actual, it's an actual government initiative that brings in
Speaker 2: way more money then we spend on them. So again,
Speaker 2: Louislle Sports Commission brought that thing years ago, teaming with
Speaker 2: the folks that do that tournament. And think about the
Speaker 2: eighteen hundred teams. I heard it was thirty three thousand teams.
Speaker 1: I mean there were forty thousand people there at the
Speaker 1: end yesterday when this happened.
Speaker 2: Is Yeah, it's insane. People don't understand how cool of
Speaker 2: an event that is. I've had friends that had their
Speaker 2: daughters play in that event and they said, you don't
Speaker 2: know the excitement and the feeling you have when you're there.
Speaker 3: It's just so cool.
Speaker 2: For women in basketball, I don't want to narrow it
Speaker 2: down to just women's sports, but it's important to say,
Speaker 2: but for basketball in general, it's huge and when you
Speaker 2: make it to the center court, just like in Wimbledon,
Speaker 2: there are center courts.
Speaker 3: That are the big games.
Speaker 1: It's a big deal, no doubt about it. And when
Speaker 1: you think of big events that bring tourism dollars here,
Speaker 1: obviously everything that comes with the Derby. You've got Bourbon
Speaker 1: and Beyond, Louder than Life, those music festivals, just different
Speaker 1: conventions that take place here. But I will admit, hand up,
Speaker 1: I didn't quite realize just how big this tournament is.
Speaker 1: So again, props to whoever has been involved in making
Speaker 1: this thing what it is, and hopefully yesterday's issue doesn't
Speaker 1: impact them moving forward. We are out of time here,
Speaker 1: but Tony and Dwight are coming up next as they
Speaker 1: come to you live from the Jefferson Animal Hospital here
Speaker 1: on News Radio eight forty. Whis