Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody. We made it to the end of
Speaker 1: the week. It is Kentucky and this morning News Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company with your hero News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. That's me the company man John all On
Speaker 1: alongside today. And when it comes to the explosion yesterday
Speaker 1: in Jeffersonville, there's still a lot that we don't know.
Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think we really know much of
Speaker 1: anything as far as the actual cause of that, and
Speaker 1: typically that's going to take some time. I mean, I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, but I would expect that even if
Speaker 1: there is maybe something seemingly obvious, maybe very obvious, there's
Speaker 1: still a process. I would imagine that you don't come
Speaker 1: out and give any kind of an official statement or
Speaker 1: release as far as what you know caused it with
Speaker 1: less than a twenty four hour and within less than
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, so there certainly will be there'll certainly
Speaker 1: be some investigation going I mean, there is, there's an
Speaker 1: investigation going on right now. However, to know that there
Speaker 1: was a house that exploded in twenty nineteen that actually
Speaker 1: back up to the house that exploded on Wednesday evening,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just going to be hard for a
Speaker 1: lot of people to assume that this is some type
Speaker 1: of coincidence because it was a gas leak that caused
Speaker 1: the explosion in twenty nineteen. It ended up killing a
Speaker 1: man by the name of Billy Phillips. His wife was injured. Also,
Speaker 1: a neighbor was injured in that situation. So Centerpoint Energy
Speaker 1: says no gas leaks have been found on their system,
Speaker 1: but they're still doing some surveys and looking into it
Speaker 1: as you could expect. But gas service in the meantime
Speaker 1: in that area has been shut off as a precaution,
Speaker 1: which makes total sense. And I mean if you live
Speaker 1: in that area and this has now happened twice, I
Speaker 1: mean I'd be scared to death. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know how you wouldn't be. So. Jeffersonville Police they did
Speaker 1: say that initial findings showed no evidence of malicious intent,
Speaker 1: but investigators they're urging the public not to speculate on
Speaker 1: the cause, warning that rumors could be could be harmful
Speaker 1: and even slanderous, as as they say here in their release.
Speaker 1: So I mean people are going to speculate, and I
Speaker 1: think honestly, when you encourage somebody not to speculate, it
Speaker 1: might it might interest them in doing exactly that speculating,
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's unusual to speculate about anything.
Speaker 1: I think speculation is a normal thing in a.
Speaker 2: Lot of ways.
Speaker 1: But it also, you know, don't jump to conclusions that
Speaker 1: this was caused by a gas leak, just like you know,
Speaker 1: just like the one that happened in twenty nineteen that
Speaker 1: took somebody's life. I mean, it's not even I don't
Speaker 1: even think it's speculation. It's just I think a safe
Speaker 1: assumption in the eyes of most that's that's what caused it.
Speaker 1: But again there's no there's no real proof just yet,
Speaker 1: but I will certainly be following to see what the
Speaker 1: outcome is here, because look, there's no there's nothing that's
Speaker 1: going to change what happened. And five people, thankfully or not,
Speaker 1: are not in life threatening situations. They've not these injuries
Speaker 1: are believed to be things they're going to recover from,
Speaker 1: but still just an awful and scary situation. And figuring
Speaker 1: out what in fact caused it, although I think a
Speaker 1: lot of us probably have a safe guess as to
Speaker 1: what it is, we will find out at some point.
Speaker 1: All right, So you've got an update coming your way
Speaker 1: here in just a moment of traffic and weather. But
Speaker 1: what I'd like to do for you is sort of
Speaker 1: set the table for the rest of the way. A
Speaker 1: couple of stories regarding LMPD officers that I want to
Speaker 1: get to. One of them is now a former officer,
Speaker 1: but two different stories. One of a former officer who
Speaker 1: is who has been he's been accused of violating policy
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen by the Inspector General. And of course
Speaker 1: this is an officer who also resigned recently because of violating.
Speaker 2: A protective order.
Speaker 1: And then there's another story about an officer who won't
Speaker 1: be charged for an accident that took place while on
Speaker 1: duty that unfortunately casts somebody their life, so we'll.
Speaker 2: Get into that.
Speaker 1: Also, YouTube youtwoe, of course a very popular platform, and
Speaker 1: they are now going to utilize AI to help try
Speaker 1: to determine your age. And when it comes to age,
Speaker 1: they also might soon start checking your IDs, meaning you
Speaker 1: may have to show and an identification upload a picture
Speaker 1: of it in order to I guess be able to
Speaker 1: watch certain things, which to me that just sounds like
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: a hassle. But also I can see why that may
Speaker 1: be needed, because I mean, YouTube's got a lot of
Speaker 1: content on there, and clearly it's not anything graphic to
Speaker 1: the extent of you know, like pornography or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But I mean I say this here and there, and
Speaker 1: it's just because I'd never really thought about it until
Speaker 1: my kids got a little bit older.
Speaker 2: But when you just give them the.
Speaker 1: Tablet and they end up on YouTube, you know, they
Speaker 1: could stumble upon anything and just be exposed to something
Speaker 1: that you know could could could be bad for them
Speaker 1: in the long run. And that just didn't exist whenever,
Speaker 1: I mean us finding something to watch as far as
Speaker 1: content that we weren't supposed to, you know, that was
Speaker 1: like standing up past. I mean, I remember, this is
Speaker 1: embarrassing to say, but it's just the truth. I remember
Speaker 1: Howard Stearn's radio show used to be on TV on
Speaker 1: E the Entertainment Channel, and like I remember watching it
Speaker 1: because like it was entertaining, but like also I knew
Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be watching that at my age,
Speaker 1: and I would always be worried, like is my mom
Speaker 1: going to come in here and see that I'm watching
Speaker 1: this and tell me.
Speaker 2: Hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: So you know now with the Internet, with the digital
Speaker 1: world and tablet's devices, all that stuff. Phones even I mean,
Speaker 1: they could accidentally stumble upon something that you would not
Speaker 1: want them to see.
Speaker 2: So I get it.
Speaker 1: But it also I think would be a real issue
Speaker 1: as far as just the overall interaction and engagement that
Speaker 1: YouTube the platform gets, because certain people will realize I
Speaker 1: can get what I need elsewhere other than just YouTube,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go there. So anyways, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in a lot more. Don't forget Mayor Greenberg going
Speaker 1: to join us at eight o'clock this morning, so stick
Speaker 1: around for that and stick around for us. We're with
Speaker 1: you for the next roughly three hours here on news
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Speaker 1: here on a Friday morning at is Kentucky in this
Speaker 1: morning news on news Radio forty whas Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. That's me the company man John on alongside.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We've got the full team here. So we now know
Speaker 1: that an an LMPD officer is not going to be
Speaker 1: facing criminal charges and a fatal crash that took place
Speaker 1: this was earlier this year, and again criminal charges are
Speaker 1: not going to be filed despite dash cam evidence that
Speaker 1: shows this officer was speeding and did not have her
Speaker 1: lights on or sirens activated. And the officer is Alissa Bagel,
Speaker 1: I believe that's how you say her name. But a
Speaker 1: grand jury declined to indict this officer on second degree
Speaker 1: manslaughter charges, issuing a no true bill, meaning they found
Speaker 1: insufvision evidence to actually.
Speaker 2: Pursue these charges.
Speaker 1: So this crash was again fatal, and it took place
Speaker 1: at the beginning of April April second. It was at
Speaker 1: Fern Valley and Jeanine Drive, and she was responding to
Speaker 1: assist EMS, but was driving without the emergency or emergency
Speaker 1: lights or sirens on and reportedly was weaving through traffic
Speaker 1: at a high speed, which again she was in pursuit
Speaker 1: to help EMS, and she again just did not have
Speaker 1: her sirens on or her lights.
Speaker 2: So just imagine.
Speaker 1: An officer, and we've all seen it, where an officer
Speaker 1: is responding to a situation at a high rate of
Speaker 1: speed and everybody's getting out of the way. Well one
Speaker 1: of those, in fact, the biggest indicator for you to
Speaker 1: know to get out of the way are those two things,
Speaker 1: the sirens and the lights, and when they're not activated,
Speaker 1: and you know, visually, yeah, you can see that's a
Speaker 1: cop You would be you'd be less surprised to see
Speaker 1: a cop car driving like that than any other car.
Speaker 1: But then you'd also have a level of surprise. Why
Speaker 1: don't they have their lights on? Why don't they have
Speaker 1: the sirens on? And look, sometimes that can just be
Speaker 1: a mistake. Humans make mistakes. It's unfortunate this mistake costs
Speaker 1: somebody of their life because sixty one year old Charles
Speaker 1: brisco would I guess he was turning onto Fern Valley
Speaker 1: when his vehicle was struck by the officer's cruiser and
Speaker 1: he died on the scene. This officer's been on an administrative
Speaker 1: leave while LMPD continues their own internal investigation. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just an awful situation all the way around.
Speaker 1: And in a statement, LMP did acknowledge that the officer
Speaker 1: was speeding and did not you know, they confirmed what
Speaker 1: what was what was alleged, which is that there were
Speaker 1: no active emergency you know, lights and sirens and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And uh again they cited that the ongoing nature of
Speaker 1: that investigation, uh as the reason why they have with
Speaker 1: with with they've were they're still withholding more as far
Speaker 1: as just I guess comments maybe there's you know, clearly
Speaker 1: they're doing their investigation on there, and as far as
Speaker 1: why those things were not were not turned on, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that is truly a understandable situation.
Speaker 1: It's it's tragic that an officer made a mistake while
Speaker 1: on the job that that mistake ended up costing somebody
Speaker 1: their life. But clearly knowing, I think the intent was
Speaker 1: to get somewhere, to try to try to help somebody,
Speaker 1: because that's what they do, that's what they sign up for.
Speaker 1: This isn't this is a law enforcement officer, So just
Speaker 1: to you know, tragic situation all the way around, and
Speaker 1: you know, I feel for everybody involved here, not only
Speaker 1: obviously the family of Charles Brisco, but this officer. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is I mean, clearly just doing your job. And again,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll find out why the lights weren't on and
Speaker 1: the sirens weren't activated, but it's likely just a mistake.
Speaker 1: And look, people make mistakes that end up involving criminal
Speaker 1: charges that cost them their lives. However, this is somebody
Speaker 1: that is out here risking their life. So it's a
Speaker 1: it's a tough situation all the way around. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got another traffic update coming your way. Bobby Ellis
Speaker 1: will tell us how the roadways are looking on a
Speaker 1: Friday morning. Also Matt Melosovich with the latest on the forecast,
Speaker 1: and scottig Jerald's back with us for.
Speaker 2: Another sports update.
Speaker 1: As we roll along here, it is Kentucky and this
Speaker 1: morning News Coffee and Company with you on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. That's right, A fresh servi is coming
Speaker 1: your way here on news Radio eight forty whas. It
Speaker 1: is Kentucky and his Morning News Coffee and Company. I'm
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. Thank you very much, John Shannon, We've got
Speaker 1: John Allen alongside, and Scott Fitzgerald just exited studio. Is
Speaker 1: this studio A it is right, okay, just making sure
Speaker 1: the showcase studio there we go. Yeah, We've got this
Speaker 1: is This is when I really feel like I've elevated
Speaker 1: in this world of broadcasting, because this is the first
Speaker 1: time ever that I've been been able to do a
Speaker 1: live show every day and have a window. And thankfully,
Speaker 1: because it's very early in the morning and we are
Speaker 1: here at four Street Live, there's not much distractions to
Speaker 1: look at.
Speaker 2: I always worried about.
Speaker 1: I'd like to have some because really everywhere I've been
Speaker 1: it's been a cave essentially, which is probably good as
Speaker 1: far as distractions, But when it comes to having a window,
Speaker 1: like if we were in I think it's WGN. They
Speaker 1: may not have it set up anymore. But in downtown Chicago,
Speaker 1: I can't think of the name Michigan Avenue I believe,
Speaker 1: which of course is the heart of downtown Chicago, at
Speaker 1: least in my eyes, they have their setup like on
Speaker 1: the corner of Michigan in one of those streets, and
Speaker 1: like the foot traffic in Chicago, of all places is
Speaker 1: it's one of the biggest cities.
Speaker 2: In the world.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would be able to do
Speaker 1: a show without just getting distracted by, you know, everybody,
Speaker 1: not even people trying to distract me, but it would
Speaker 1: just be easy to just kind of get lost looking
Speaker 1: out that window and taking in the amount of people
Speaker 1: and who knows what you see down there. So again,
Speaker 1: I'm happy to have the window, but also probably a
Speaker 1: good thing that there's not any distractions here for me.
Speaker 1: But the reason I mentioned Scott is because we were
Speaker 1: talking about the fitness test and making a return in
Speaker 1: schools and whatnot, and he'd mentioned yesterday that, you know,
Speaker 1: he was never able to accomplish it because he was
Speaker 1: a chubby little kid at that time, and I oftentimes,
Speaker 1: in fact, i'd forgotten completely Scott Fitzgerald lost one hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: And I used to see Scott pretty regularly, I mean
Speaker 1: every day really, whenever I was doing Mornings on set
Speaker 1: ninety and he was he was still here in the
Speaker 1: Mornings with with Tony Cruz. But at that time, you know,
Speaker 1: I started at seven, they started at five, and I
Speaker 1: usually just stayed in studio. He stayed in studio, so
Speaker 1: I may run into him before the show and chat briefly,
Speaker 1: but I didn't see him a whole lot. And then
Speaker 1: once COVID happened, I mean I never saw Scott. I
Speaker 1: think I saw him and we would work derby together,
Speaker 1: and uh, it just it led me to now that
Speaker 1: I see him every day. I see this man who looks,
Speaker 1: you know, healthy as can be, and he's lost a
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, and I like, that's that's insane to lose
Speaker 1: one hundred pounds. And then I mean, and it's insane
Speaker 1: in a really, really good way, I guess it's the
Speaker 1: same for you, John, Like did you? Because I feel
Speaker 1: like anybody who if you if you saw somebody consistently
Speaker 1: every day for many, many, many years and over time
Speaker 1: they dropped one hundred pounds, I feel like it would
Speaker 1: take a long time for you to get used to
Speaker 1: looking at someone that is quite frankly unrecognizable.
Speaker 2: It was crazy. I never knew Scott before that makes
Speaker 2: seen pounds, so it'd be weird to see what he
Speaker 2: looked like before.
Speaker 1: Then, I tell you what that reminds me of just
Speaker 1: what the COVID era, if you will, the pandemic that
Speaker 1: completely threw me off with every bit of perception of time,
Speaker 1: because I now think of things like before.
Speaker 2: COVID, pre and post COVID. Yeah, like pre.
Speaker 1: COVID, like twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen. I now think, yes,
Speaker 1: a few years back. No, it was seven eight years back,
Speaker 1: depending upon how long we're going. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can just chalk that up as COVID made
Speaker 1: time kind of stand still and really just throw us
Speaker 1: off as far as just everything. It was something that
Speaker 1: you know you will only experience once in one hundred years,
Speaker 1: and we experienced it, and it was it was wild
Speaker 1: and it sucked in every way, and looking back on it,
Speaker 1: let's be real, even if some people don't want to
Speaker 1: admit it, some of what was done was ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I mean it just was.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, it makes total sense that you
Speaker 1: would have never worked with Scott because I mean, you
Speaker 1: didn't become a full time employee here until.
Speaker 2: Until twenty twenty one. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 1: Anyhow, Yeah, I just I don't give him props enough
Speaker 1: for that, because you know, that's a big accomplishment and
Speaker 1: it speaks to just an ability to to dedicate yourself
Speaker 1: to something and stick with it. Because most people who
Speaker 1: who in fact lose a lot of weight, eventually they'll
Speaker 1: they'll ease up and put some weight back on, or
Speaker 1: maybe they'll put all of it back on. Because it's
Speaker 1: and I'm not, I'm no expert by any means. I've
Speaker 1: I've made some some some jumps and some uh some
Speaker 1: improvement here and there, and then I put weight back on.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not, I'm not obese by any means.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm I'm pretty much where I want to
Speaker 1: be as far as weight. But I do know that
Speaker 1: it's it's if you're gonna try to really stick with it.
Speaker 1: It's a lifestyle change. It's not a fad diet. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not you know, I'll just I'll just do that,
Speaker 1: make this minor change and everything will be better. No,
Speaker 1: you have to make a lifestyle change. And he was
Speaker 1: able to do that, and he's been able to stick
Speaker 1: with it, and uh, I just I I admire that
Speaker 1: because losing one hundred pounds and doing it just by
Speaker 1: being self disciplined and holding yourself accountable, it's pretty bad ass,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. So congratulations to Scott.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: He hasn't lost any weight recently, but I totally forgot
Speaker 1: that this guy used to be one hundred pounds heavier,
Speaker 1: and you know now he's not so good for him
Speaker 1: now it makes me want to be more self disciplined
Speaker 1: and watch what I eat.
Speaker 2: So thank you, Scott.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got a quick time out coming your way,
Speaker 1: but you'll get caught up on how the roadways are
Speaker 1: looking this morning. Bobby Ellis will get us updated on that.
Speaker 1: We've got weather coming your way with Matt Melosovich, and
Speaker 1: we've got a warning which I'm glad I saw this
Speaker 1: morning today as I'm about to catch a flight tomorrow
Speaker 1: to go to Florida for vacation. But the TSA has
Speaker 1: a new warning about what you should not be doing
Speaker 1: at airports. We'll talk about that next. Right here on
Speaker 1: there's Radio Way forty whas. TSA has issued cybersecurity warnings
Speaker 1: for those traveling this summer. And this is one of
Speaker 1: those things that I would have never really even thought about,
Speaker 1: but totally makes sense. And it's consecutive's morning news here
Speaker 1: on news Radio Ate forty whas Nick Coffee with you.
Speaker 1: And this issue is about public Wi Fi public USB
Speaker 1: charging stations, So there are a few different risks here.
Speaker 1: One is juice jacking. They are warning travelers not to
Speaker 1: plug phones directly into public USB ports at airports, hotels,
Speaker 1: or cafes because there's a risk that those ports could
Speaker 1: end up with your device getting some malicious I guess
Speaker 1: malicious malware if that's the thing. I don't think I
Speaker 1: made that word up, But anyways, they could put something
Speaker 1: on those on your devices that could secretly access and
Speaker 1: steal your data and information. So they did say that
Speaker 1: these are rare, but they do recommend you bring your
Speaker 1: own charging brick or portable battery and just not use
Speaker 1: those public ports. I guess there's been I mean, gosh,
Speaker 1: just the thought of how they could, you know, meeting
Speaker 1: the hackers, the scammers, how they could do this. I mean,
Speaker 1: there could be like a criminal underworld of people traveling
Speaker 1: to airports and plugging something into those devices and little
Speaker 1: do we know what they're plugging in is making that
Speaker 1: an infectious port. So yeah, instead of using and by
Speaker 1: the way, they don't give you any juice anyway, Like
Speaker 1: I better off, just like you, if you're using your
Speaker 1: phone and you have it plugged into a public port
Speaker 1: at an airport, I feel like your battery is still
Speaker 1: gonna drain. I guess it's better than you know, using
Speaker 1: it without any juice, which I've become Like I get
Speaker 1: so irritated when I have my phone plugged into something
Speaker 1: and it's so clearly not much of a much of
Speaker 1: a charge. I mean, like if you plug your if
Speaker 1: you plug your phone into the USB port at that's
Speaker 1: in your hotel room, connected to your your lamp in
Speaker 1: between the beds or next to the bed, I mean
Speaker 1: it can sit there and be I've had this happen.
Speaker 1: Let's say my phone's on like thirty percent. I got
Speaker 1: it plugged in overnight on that USB. I wake up
Speaker 1: six seven hours later, it's gone from like twenty five
Speaker 1: to thirty percent to sixty percent. Like it just doesn't
Speaker 1: do much of anything. So always plug it into the wall.
Speaker 1: They won't tell you that, but that's where you're actually
Speaker 1: going to get some real, real juice. But anyways, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can buy a charging brick at the airport through
Speaker 1: there for like what fifty bucks. I'm exaggerating, but anything
Speaker 1: at an airport is just robbery. Also, they say do
Speaker 1: not use free airport Wi Fi, especially if you're shopping
Speaker 1: online or entertaining any kind of sensitive info, which often
Speaker 1: people are used are are pulling up sensitive info on
Speaker 1: their devices because a lot of people have their information
Speaker 1: and even their airline ticket on their on their phone.
Speaker 1: So high risk locations are airports, hotels, rideshare hubs, cafes,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to the United States, LA, New
Speaker 1: York City, Portland, Miami, and Seattle are the I guess
Speaker 1: the hotspots for you plugging your phone in or using
Speaker 1: public Wi Fi and it being a.
Speaker 2: Real regret after the fact.
Speaker 1: Also, that's one of those things where I bet if
Speaker 1: people when people get their information compromised and it ends
Speaker 1: up in identity theft and all that. Would you even
Speaker 1: be able to trace it to it happening here? You
Speaker 1: never know, but this is what I wouldn't have expected.
Speaker 1: But it makes total sense, so be advised. All right,
Speaker 1: we've got another sports update coming your way with Scott Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: but first let's get to an update on the roadways.
Speaker 1: Bobby Ellis will getus caught up on how traffic's looking
Speaker 1: this morning, and Matt Melosavitch will tell us what we're
Speaker 1: in for as far as the Friday forecast
Speaker 2: Right here on News Radio eight forty whas