WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:04.200 Billy Cunningham, the Great American and the. 2 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:06.440 Weather terri if the correct all health breaking. 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.439 Moves from the tris day in factors on the restimate 4 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:09.279 of what is happening. 5 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:11.439 But we're going to have live coverage all day as 6 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.759 much as we can about the roads, about the bridges, 7 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:17.559 about the thoroughfares, about the hospitals and more. Until then, 8 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:19.280 I want to check in with the seven or eight 9 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.760 counties that surround Hamilton County. The most important, of course 10 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:25.359 is Butler County and your good friend Richard K. Jones 11 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.800 and Sheriff once again, welcome on the snowy Monday afternoon 12 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:31.440 in the Tri State to the Bill Cunningham showing Sheriff, 13 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.439 what's the status of Butler County? Other emergencies declared? Is 14 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:37.920 at one, two or three? The highways, the bridges. How 15 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:40.119 are we looking? Give me a full report, Sheriff. 16 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:42.320 Here's what we got. 17 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.640 I started yesterday coming in checking the roads out around 18 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:50.759 four pm yesterday as the snow was just sprinkling a 19 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:55.119 little bit. The roads were passable. Few accidents. At six 20 00:00:55.240 --> 00:01:02.560 pm Butler County, we added dispatchers, we added our emergency 21 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:05.599 response teams, placed them out throughout the County had them 22 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:09.439 on alert. It can help people you don't know what happens. 23 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:18.000 We also opened our EOC and we had it operational. 24 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:24.799 We had everybody out. We declared a Level one snow 25 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.280 emergency in the beginning. Level one is just where you 26 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:30.799 can just don't go out unless you have to. A 27 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:35.560 Level two is absolutely don't go out unless you have two. 28 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.799 A Level three is it's against the law to go 29 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.799 out unless you're an emergency worker. We didn't decare declare 30 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.239 level two or a level three. We declared a level two. 31 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.599 Right now, it looks like we've got eight to nine 32 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:53.439 inches of snow, which is a lot, and people don't 33 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.400 have their snow legs on. You get snow legs when 34 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.439 you have snow. Last year we never had snow. This 35 00:01:58.560 --> 00:02:02.200 year we got snow first snow. People think they can 36 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.400 hit the brakes and then they slide and lose control. 37 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.159 We've had a few accidents. I just go foam with dispatch. 38 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:12.280 I visited the dispatch last night and our EOC and 39 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.479 right now we're maintaining. 40 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:17.520 Still don't go out unless you have to. 41 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.199 We still have I think maybe three inches of snow 42 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:24.000 depending who you listen to coming on top of this, 43 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:27.039 And I want to put some caution. 44 00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:29.960 Out to people. If you go out and shovel snow, 45 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:31.719 a lot of people do that. 46 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.159 They lose their they don't know how much they're shoveling, 47 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:37.199 they get out of breath, their heart rate gets up, 48 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.759 they die, or the life squads have to come out. 49 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:42.759 Happens every year. We have it every time all over 50 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:47.000 the United States. And if you have dogs or animals outside, 51 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:51.520 take care of them. Remember, and small dogs their legs 52 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:55.039 may only be two inches tall, and if they go outside, 53 00:02:55.840 --> 00:02:57.159 you got to shovel a little. 54 00:02:56.960 --> 00:02:57.599 Spot for them. 55 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:02.199 You got to take care of your animals. When I 56 00:03:02.240 --> 00:03:04.639 shovel snow, I got a shovel snow for. 57 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.280 A little dog that I got. Legs are about two inches. 58 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:10.439 It's a tough business. 59 00:03:10.479 --> 00:03:15.000 But right now everything's going well. It's still we're under 60 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.719 a level two. Don't go out unless you have to, 61 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:23.240 and just be careful with everything you do until when 62 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:25.879 you go outside you slift fall. But in Butler County 63 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:28.599 there will snow emergency level two. 64 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.039 I don't see I'm going to lift that anytime soon. 65 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:34.520 Bill, Well, what about the interstate seventy one seventy five? 66 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:39.479 Is that I think it's passable. But seventy one cutting 67 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.840 the Hill and Stuart Road is a semi that's blocking 68 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.800 all lanes of the travel. What's the condition of seventy 69 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:49.919 one seventy five in Butler County? 70 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:51.319 It's drive with caution. 71 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:55.800 Sometimes they'll have the drifting snow, the blowing snow. You 72 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.759 might have one lane open, stay in that lane, Go slow, 73 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.960 don't go fast, don't get angry, don't try to get 74 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:06.159 around somebody. And if you go out, put some clothes 75 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:08.199 in there. You don't know what's going to happen. Make 76 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:11.759 sure your phone is charged, warm clothes, and so you 77 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.479 can get somebody to come get you. The best thing 78 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.439 is to not go out unless you have to, because 79 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.839 when you're getting an accident and the emergency people have 80 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:22.639 to come out, they risk their lives get out. So 81 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.800 right now the roads are passable in Butler County, and 82 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:31.040 Greg Wilkins, the engineer, doing a great job with his 83 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.680 trucks getting up ahead of this. And in the cities 84 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:40.959 they've done a great job. Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, west Chester. 85 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:42.319 They're all doing a good job. 86 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.160 These people have been up twenty four hours hitting the 87 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:48.439 snow and it's still coming in most of the time. 88 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.079 Like on Raine four, there's one lane open on either side. 89 00:04:52.199 --> 00:04:54.959 Just drive the one lane when you turn, be careful. 90 00:04:55.160 --> 00:05:00.000 But right now, watching the snow, it's still flaking down. 91 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:04.120 It looks like we've had eight to nine inches someplace, 92 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.240 maybe be more some or less, and we've still got 93 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:07.759 more coming. 94 00:05:07.800 --> 00:05:11.160 My friend and sheriff. I'm looking at the forecast. The 95 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.160 low overnight's going to be nine degrees. I would imagine 96 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.439 everything on the roadway is going to freeze. It's going 97 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:22.360 to be solid ice. And looking forward to Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 98 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.680 the low temperatures are single digits or below, and so 99 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.959 the snow and the ice there now are are going 100 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.720 to be there. I'm looking ahead ten days next Wednesday 101 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.600 of next week, the low temperature is six and the 102 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.040 high temperature is twenty six. So these conditions will be 103 00:05:38.040 --> 00:05:41.879 present for the next two weeks anyway. And so what 104 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:44.800 if you're an employer, there are something most employees have 105 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:47.720 shut down, most of them aren't opening up. Would you 106 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:50.680 encourage businesses in Butler County not to open? 107 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.680 That's up to them, But listen, your employees have to 108 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.279 make it to work. I have employees that work at 109 00:05:58.279 --> 00:06:02.160 the Sheriff's office, the civil employees, and we had to 110 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.439 pick some of them up to come in. We had 111 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.639 a massive swearing in ceremony today where we I swore 112 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.319 all of my employees in, roughly five hundred employees and 113 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.319 they come to work. It's a massive project. You're going 114 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.759 to swear them each in and in groups, and then 115 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:21.439 the paperwork that has to be done anytime there's a 116 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.519 new share for a new office holder. So what I 117 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:29.279 would encourage people to do is a use caution and 118 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.199 if you can shut down for a little while, it's 119 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.639 not going to kill anything. But I'm not I don't 120 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.160 run your business. And a Level two they can still 121 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:42.079 come in, but I would recommend that they very very 122 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:47.120 patiently and have caution having people come in. It's really 123 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.959 not worth it to make an extra dollar. I understand 124 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.399 the American way, but use caution. 125 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:56.600 And Level three means if you're out on the roads, 126 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.160 you'll be arrested. You don't see a level three being 127 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.800 declared unless something different occurs. 128 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.279 I don't see a level three at this time. We're 129 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:11.879 still monitoring throughout the county, the traffic, the roads, the 130 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:13.720 weather conditions, I've talked to. 131 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:15.680 I talked to Preble. 132 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:18.519 County Sheriff last night and we were in communication. 133 00:07:19.040 --> 00:07:20.399 We talked to the road crews. 134 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:23.120 We try to make it safe for everybody as safe 135 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.879 as we can. And I want everybody to be assured 136 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:31.600 that your sheriff's office is on this and we're out there. Well, hey, 137 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:34.199 we're out there at night, we're out there during the day. 138 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:37.759 We're out in the rain, tornadoes, hurricanes, and we're on 139 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:42.600 the road. And my emergency response teams they're actually trained 140 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.639 for this, and they're already out anyway. They have several jobs. 141 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:50.120 They're patrolled deputies, they're correction officers, and they're already at work, 142 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:53.519 and when something bad enough happens, we can activate them 143 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:55.920 and send them out to do what they have to do. 144 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:58.680 They've been deployed all over the country. And then when 145 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:01.240 it comes to you have it like this here, we're 146 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:02.639 prepared for that bill. 147 00:08:02.639 --> 00:08:05.240 Right because of your work in the South and elsewhere. Well, 148 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.480 you know, we're not used to this. I can recall 149 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:09.319 back in the good old days, it really weren't that 150 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.839 good anyway. These winter temperatures were kind of normal. This 151 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:14.839 is what happened all the time. And I think the 152 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:18.120 last several years we've had one snowstorm of great significance. 153 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:20.399 I can't recall the last time we had ice and 154 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.800 freezing rain and ten inches or twelve inches of snow 155 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.160 and impassable conditions. It's been a long time, and people 156 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:28.600 don't know how to drive in this kind of weather 157 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.480 if they've done it in a while. And but we'll 158 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:34.080 see what happened. Sheriff, great job. I'm glad you're there. 159 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.639 And today was the day that you had to come 160 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.720 to work. You will anyway, but today's the day you've 161 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:42.600 got to swear all the new deputies under your leadership in. 162 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.919 I know the I Supreme Court's got a big investiture tomorrow, 163 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:49.000 and I anticipate I'm supposed to be the MC. I'm 164 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:52.279 gonna check which Chief Justice Sharon Kennedy later on from 165 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:55.559 Butler County, whether that thing's going on. But Sheriff, thanks 166 00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:57.919 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Stay safe and 167 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.440 thanks for checking in. I appreciate it very much. 168 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.039 Hey, I'll be in touch with you. 169 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:08.039 Just everybody just drive cautiously and be careful. And again, 170 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:10.120 Sheriff's sauces got your back. 171 00:09:10.200 --> 00:09:13.240 Man, Sheriff, Richard K. Jones, You're the best. Thanks again 172 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:15.440 for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Thank you, Sheriff. 173 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.600 Let's continue with more. We also have weather updates constantly 174 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.200 from Channel nine and also Chuck Ingram is here with 175 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.080 the traffic and more. It's your home of the Bengals 176 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.120 are looking for three or four new coaches on news 177 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:28.240 radio seven hundred. 178 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:29.120 You ought of it. 179 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:33.320 By Billy Cunningham, the great American. 180 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.480 This is the snow emergencies continue and after Richard K. Jones, 181 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.799 David Young, then leaders of Hamlin the county coming up, 182 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:42.879 and also the Zach Taylor news conference live at twelve 183 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.000 forty five today and Dave Young and the Commissioner of 184 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.960 Warren County. Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Dave, 185 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.600 we normally talk about great events like the tennis tournament 186 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.240 and the construction of Right now there's a weather emergency happening. 187 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:57.559 What is the status now of Warren County? 188 00:09:59.320 --> 00:09:59.720 Afternoon? 189 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.240 Will I think Warren County is in the same boat 190 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.279 as pretty much everybody in southwest Ohio that it looks beautiful. 191 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.159 It's great for the kids to get out and play with, 192 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.639 but stay off the roads. This is not a good 193 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.320 situation to be out driving. That's why our brand new 194 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:18.440 sheriff Berry Riley just declared a Level two snow emergency, 195 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.799 basically saying don't get on the roads if you don't 196 00:10:20.840 --> 00:10:24.200 have to. It's got to be an absolute emergency. So 197 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:26.879 I think that's really good advice of just stay off 198 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:31.720 the roads, work from home, don't get out, and take 199 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:34.120 it easy, and then get out with your kids potentially 200 00:10:34.159 --> 00:10:34.960 and enjoy the weather. 201 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.120 You know, your yard I seventy one in Hamilton County 202 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:40.039 has been in bad shape. I look at some of 203 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.360 the cameras right now at a turtle space up and 204 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.200 down the cut in the hill, whether it's in Covington 205 00:10:47.279 --> 00:10:49.960 or whether it's in Kenwood, and what is the status 206 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:52.279 of I seventy one or seventy five in Warren. 207 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.679 County exactly the same. 208 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.320 I mean, most of the state routes, the local roads 209 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:03.759 are passable. But yet it's not a good situation. You know, 210 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:07.840 you've got higher winds, snow is blowing. Luckily we don't 211 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.279 have the icy conditions yet, but the roads are slick. 212 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.360 I mean, it's just, you know, it's common sense right now, 213 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:17.000 if you don't have to be out don't be out. 214 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:19.039 It's not like we're going to come in and say, 215 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.919 oh wait. You know, they're doing a great job, because 216 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.759 they are doing a great job of trying to clear 217 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.840 the roads. But with the rate of snowfall that's happening 218 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.200 right now, even as I look out the window, you know, 219 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:33.960 half an hour later, an hour later, after you shovel 220 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.480 something or plow something, all of a sudden, it's looking 221 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:37.480 like you haven't touched it. 222 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:40.840 So that's the impetus of south the roads. 223 00:11:41.039 --> 00:11:43.080 And tonight's going to be a low of nine degrees, 224 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.960 it's going to be the windshill around zero, whatever's out there. 225 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:48.759 And I look forward, Dave Young, for the next ten 226 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:53.559 to twelve days, there are lows below zero and nothing's 227 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:55.720 going to change the next ten to twelve days, which 228 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.519 is quite unusual. We've not had weather like this since 229 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:02.919 the late nineteen seventies, and as a consequence, many communities 230 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:05.840 are not prepared, having not lived through it. But as 231 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.080 far as the preparation factor in Warren County, as far 232 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.960 as the snow plows, etc. How many you're out approximately. 233 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.799 What about the state of Ohio, they're doing the interstate 234 00:12:15.879 --> 00:12:18.879 highways to state systems and do you have enough equipment 235 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:20.279 to get the job done. 236 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.639 We do have enough equipment. While our county engineer, Kurt 237 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:26.720 Weber and new county engineer that's been with the office 238 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.840 for a long time, we go through each summer and 239 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:34.279 procure tons and tons of salt and then they add 240 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:37.080 the additives to it, the beat stuff that works down 241 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.879 to a certain you know, because I think it salt 242 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:43.480 works above like fifteen degrees or something like that. Then 243 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.879 you add you have an additive that can lower that temperature. 244 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.120 So the engineers are on it. But again, no matter 245 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.759 what they do, when you have a high rate of snowfall, 246 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:57.759 it catches up to them almost as soon as you 247 00:12:57.799 --> 00:13:00.720 do it. Which again the message of the day is, 248 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.120 don't go out if you don't have to. There's nothing 249 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.759 special that's going on inside of Warren County. Our crews 250 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.159 are working as hard as possible. I know they're tired. 251 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.279 Everybody's tired that has been up literally all night trying to. 252 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:15.159 Make the roads as passable as possible. 253 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:19.679 But please don't put our emergency responders, you know, the 254 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.440 fire departments, and you know our county sheriffs, the local police. 255 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.039 Let's not put those those folks in jeopardy by being 256 00:13:28.080 --> 00:13:30.799 out and saying, Oh, I'm my car can handle it. 257 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.039 Oh I got four wheel drive, I'm front wheel drive. 258 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.799 No big deal, And all of a sudden you slide 259 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:38.919 off into a ditch and your whole day is ruined 260 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:40.919 and you're paying deductibles on your insurance. 261 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:42.799 It's just not a good situation. 262 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.360 Unless you absolutely have to do it. Don't leave your driveway. 263 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:48.399 And for those who may not be aware, Level one 264 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.960 means be alert. Level two emergency means do not leave 265 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:56.879 your home unless it is required travel. Level three is 266 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.440 if you're on the road, you'll be arrested. And so 267 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.840 among them those three, Warren County is at level two 268 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:05.480 and many do not see it getting to a level three. 269 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:09.000 And I would anticipate Sheriff Riley, who took over from 270 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:12.279 a long time sheriff in Warren County, is his men 271 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.639 are out there and women are out there every hour 272 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:17.519 of every day reporting back to him what is happening 273 00:14:17.519 --> 00:14:20.120 in Warren County. And right now it's a level two, 274 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.120 unlikely to go to a level three unless something else occurs. 275 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.279 And this is one time the weatherman got it right. 276 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.919 So this is the fifty percent of the time they 277 00:14:28.919 --> 00:14:32.399 got it right. This time correct, they'd be in the 278 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:34.919 Weatherland Hall of Fame. They all predicted it today. 279 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:37.559 But yeah, our Sheriff's department has a policy of not 280 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:42.480 declaring level one snow inergent emergencies. We think our residents 281 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:45.399 have enough common sense to understand that. So and it's 282 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:50.000 incredibly rare and literally, Sheriff Riley just took office one 283 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:52.879 of his first axes declaring a level two snow emergency, 284 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:55.919 which I think is appropriate. Again, this is not good. 285 00:14:56.039 --> 00:14:58.399 This is not healthy to be out on the roads, 286 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.240 and it puts emergency responders at risk when you go 287 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.600 out and be aggressive. Oh it's fine, I've got a 288 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:07.879 four wheel drive. It's no big deal. It is a 289 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:08.399 big deal. 290 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.279 Do not go out on the roads. 291 00:15:10.759 --> 00:15:11.360 All right, Sjah. 292 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:14.879 This is Sheriff Riley and also a commissioner David Young 293 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:18.039 getting ready for the big Cincinnati Tennis Open this summer. 294 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:21.159 And Dave Young, thanks for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 295 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:23.879 You'll be paying attention at twelve forty five today when 296 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.440 Zach Taylor has a live news conference. We're going to 297 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.720 cover live about what's happening with Bengaledoon and once again, 298 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.840 Commissioner David Young, You're a great American and thanks for 299 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:34.320 coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 300 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:34.879 Thank you, Dave. 301 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:37.039 God bless you, Willie. 302 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.080 God bless America. Let's continue with more, or let's set 303 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.559 up the rest of today's show. Twelve forty five will 304 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.399 be Zach Taylor. At twelve thirty six, we have a 305 00:15:44.480 --> 00:15:47.120 seven of a five or six minute report from Chuck 306 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:50.399 Ingram about the road status after one o'clock today is 307 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:53.200 Moe Hager about the roads, but also about what's happening 308 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:55.720 with the Bengals and more. It appears that there are 309 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.039 several coaches for the Bengals gone, including lou Anarumo and 310 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.679 offensive line coach Frank Pollock and linebacker coach James Betcher 311 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:07.879 and defensive line coach Marion Hobby. We're gonna have more 312 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.240 on that in the news conference at twelve forty five 313 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:14.960 today at Rome of the Bengals News Radio seven hundred WLW, 314 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:18.519 Billy and the Great America. Let's continue now with Chuck G. Ingram, 315 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:22.320 the Grand Emperor of traffic and the tri State like that. 316 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.679 What time did you come in this morning? If at all? 317 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:27.759 I was here at four thirty am. Eastern time. 318 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.200 That's right. 319 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.840 Been here ever since, been here ever since. Tell me 320 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.480 now the conditions, Give me a live update. What's happening. 321 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.039 I saw a little bit of an improvement on northbound 322 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:40.080 seventy one. They were having all kinds of problems with 323 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:43.120 this last belt of or band of snow that came through. 324 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.679 So one semi started things off, broke down in the 325 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:48.720 center lane. Another one tried to go to the right, 326 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.679 couldn't quite get by, the other one tried to go 327 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:56.120 to the left. That's it, anyone, anyone? Three semis across 328 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:56.919 three lanes. 329 00:16:56.639 --> 00:17:01.399 Of traffic north or southbound seventy one Nobound by Stuart Road, 330 00:17:01.440 --> 00:17:03.480 by the cut in the hill. Yes, and as we 331 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:05.400 speak now, I'm looking right there. 332 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.720 Not so good. No, not good. Oh, that's a different one. 333 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:13.160 Once you're looking at it's northbound seventy one downtown. Not good. No, 334 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:16.559 that's the problem they were having at the Liberty Ramp 335 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:20.759 with an accident there stop you from later on. 336 00:17:20.839 --> 00:17:23.480 He drove up seventy one, he said, no problem, and 337 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.680 normally takes fifteen minutes. He said, I'm going to take 338 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:26.640 maybe eighteen minutes. 339 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:29.200 Do you believe it? No, No, I don't believe. I 340 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.920 don't believe it for a moment, shoots his mouth off 341 00:17:30.920 --> 00:17:33.359 on a regular basis, look at it right there, none 342 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.519 of us. They are starting to move just a little bit. 343 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:38.480 But the northbound seventy one near Stuart where I was 344 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:40.880 talking about the three semi side by side by side 345 00:17:41.079 --> 00:17:43.680 a while. No, actually they got right before I came 346 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:45.880 in to talk to you. They said, oh, Willie's going 347 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:47.759 to be on, I better clear this out over your 348 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.359 right now. Sheriff's office, Highway Patrol moved it off to 349 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:51.359 the right and the way you go. 350 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:52.519 That's exactly right. 351 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:54.680 But I'm not sure a lot of people are going 352 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.759 to be working to go home. But at rush hour 353 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:59.559 four to six, get out your crystal ball, chuck Ingram, 354 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:00.440 what will be going on? 355 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:04.160 If anything, I think it's going to be light enough 356 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.799 because a lot of people are staying home that it 357 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.400 may not be all that bad, especially if all of 358 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:14.480 our folks and friends at Channel nine are right from 359 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:16.720 the weather center there and say that it's going to 360 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.799 start to ease up a little bit around two or 361 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.680 three o'clock through downtown. But the low temperature tonight is 362 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.559 nine degrees. Well, there you go and swing the pendulum 363 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.559 back the other way to be ugly. Yeah, it is. 364 00:18:27.960 --> 00:18:30.400 That's going to be really nasty because you get to 365 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.400 a certain temperature and the salt doesn't work anything anymore. 366 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.400 And that's about where we are. Have you had a 367 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:36.839 morning like this in a long time? 368 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:39.799 Oh no, no, this is this has been. This is 369 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:44.440 your super Bowl yesterday's set of record since nineteen seventy seven. 370 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:46.799 We haven't had that much snow on a single day 371 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.680 since nineteen seventy seven, you know, when we walked across 372 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:51.880 the Ohio River and all that. 373 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:54.400 Kind of I had friends of mine that diad advice 374 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.640 dot on the shoreline. I was a coward and I 375 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:57.359 did not leave. 376 00:18:57.960 --> 00:19:00.480 I played hockey on the Little Miami almost every day 377 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.440 real in nineteen seventy eight. Yeah really yeah, because I 378 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:05.319 was raised out on the east Side, so I could. 379 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:09.000 You're tough. Oh well, I was probably pretty stupid, but 380 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:12.319 of course that's why you're working here this long. Well, ouch, 381 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:13.599 how many years have you been here? 382 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:13.839 Now? 383 00:19:13.880 --> 00:19:17.000 This is thirty three? Thirty three? Yeah, let's make it 384 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:18.960 a career. What do you say? I'd say we're done, 385 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.599 Jack Ingram, thank you very much, be good, willing, God 386 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.079 bless America. By the way, we've scheduled a twelve forty 387 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:27.279 five news conference with Zach Taylor. We're going to carry 388 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:31.359 live a news radio seven hundred you auto it broke 389 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:32.000 this morning. 390 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:36.400 In addition to the snow situation, head football coach Zach 391 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.720 Taylor scheduling a news conference at twelve forty five today. 392 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.799 And there's been a lot of reporting that defensive court 393 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:46.119 endor lou Anrumo has been let go. He's been in 394 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:49.319 his position since twenty nineteen, and he was head of 395 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:51.519 a defense that led the Bengals to the Super Bowl 396 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.039 in two AFC Championship games. But the last two years 397 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:58.079 they've struggled mightily. I think this year they're twenty fifth 398 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:01.319 or twenty sixth in the league far having an effective defense. 399 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:05.200 And it's clear that Taylor fell to change was necessary 400 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:07.920 and firing into Rumo. There was a lot of speculation 401 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.079