Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, Welcome in. It is Kentuckyana's morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on news Radio eight forty WHAS
Speaker 1: five six here on June nineteenth, A wet, wet morning,
Speaker 1: been a wet evening. It started last night. I know,
Speaker 1: we got some pretty big storms last night and on
Speaker 1: the way in this morning. For me, my commute takes
Speaker 1: me from the I get on I sixty five at
Speaker 1: the Snyder there right around I guess right before the
Speaker 1: outer loop between the Brooks exit. In the outer loop
Speaker 1: exit on sixty five, that's where I hit sixty five.
Speaker 1: And at that time, of course, this was probably about
Speaker 1: an hour ago, heavy heavy rain. It did get lighter
Speaker 1: as I moved in towards downtown. But yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: a stormy evening. Well, it was a stormy evening and
Speaker 1: we still have some rain going on in the area,
Speaker 1: so stay safe out there. I didn't see any accidents
Speaker 1: on my way in, but would not be shocked at
Speaker 1: all if we find out from our own Bobby Ellis
Speaker 1: that there has been some accident, maybe as of now,
Speaker 1: maybe moving forward this morning, so we'll get your update
Speaker 1: on traffic and weather coming up here in roughly three
Speaker 1: minutes time, and we've got a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: We will give you the latest, and it seems to
Speaker 1: be it's clearly a developing situation with what's going on
Speaker 1: when it comes to President Trump and what he wants
Speaker 1: to do. And when I say what he wants to do,
Speaker 1: I mean that what he wants to do. However, he's
Speaker 1: speaking for I guess, I mean, I guess he's only
Speaker 1: speaking for himself. But you know, what he decides to do,
Speaker 1: given the fact that he's the president of the United States,
Speaker 1: that certainly will impact a lot of us. Therefore, there
Speaker 1: are many like myself on the edge of our seats
Speaker 1: here to see where this thing goes. And you can
Speaker 1: certainly tell that he enjoys everyone being on the edge
Speaker 1: of their seats. So we'll touch on that coming up
Speaker 1: here in about ten minutes or so. And also Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neil's going to join us. And I like a little
Speaker 1: variety with my daily Rory O'Neill interactions, but man, we've
Speaker 1: been following the same couple of things really or the
Speaker 1: past week or so, and we'll continue to do that today. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll get your update on sports coming up with Scott
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald around five twenty five and obviously a lot to
Speaker 1: react to from the College World Series. Dan McDonald and
Speaker 1: the Louisville Cardinal baseball program, their season comes to an
Speaker 1: end a real bummer, But I think the timing of
Speaker 1: this deep run into the postseason was crucial and a
Speaker 1: real sign of what Dan McDonald is and I don't
Speaker 1: need to tell Louisville fans he's I mean, he's one
Speaker 1: of the best in the country when it comes to
Speaker 1: college baseball, and this was a big one, meaning just
Speaker 1: again the timing of it, and I hated to see
Speaker 1: it come to an end, especially after that rough start
Speaker 1: they had yesterday. But it'd be hard for me to
Speaker 1: feel as if this wasn't a big, big step forward
Speaker 1: after a few years of where it had slipped a
Speaker 1: little bit. And also when it comes to sports, we've
Speaker 1: got a win or go home situation for the Indiana
Speaker 1: Pacers tonight, my Pacers, and I don't like their chances,
Speaker 1: especially knowing that we may not see Halliburton and we'll
Speaker 1: get the latest on that and a lot more when
Speaker 1: it comes to sports. Now this of course, this is
Speaker 1: also in the world of sports, but it's not as
Speaker 1: if we're going to be breaking down any kind of
Speaker 1: you know, any kind of action. It's about money in sports.
Speaker 1: And this is something that if you are in your
Speaker 1: own bubble and you just know that, hey, September's here,
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn on the TV on Saturdays and
Speaker 1: start watching my college football program that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people are like that. But there's
Speaker 1: never been in my lifetime a bigger shift in college
Speaker 1: athletics than what we've seen in the last few years
Speaker 1: with the transfer portal and nil, but now with twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars at minimum moving forward being a bill that
Speaker 1: these universities have to cover, that's I think that's the
Speaker 1: biggest change here as far as just the overall sustainability
Speaker 1: of college athletics and u of L. We did find
Speaker 1: out yesterday it was Eric Crawford of WDRB who had
Speaker 1: a great breakdown as far as the financial situation at
Speaker 1: u of L. And they're no different than many others
Speaker 1: that are clearly going to have to make some big
Speaker 1: adjustments because I don't care who you are, twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars now being a payment you have to make annually
Speaker 1: that you didn't used to have to make is going
Speaker 1: to require you to have to make some real adjustments,
Speaker 1: real sacrifices, and that could certainly impact the non revenue sports.
Speaker 1: And I'm not at all surprised to see that they're
Speaker 1: taking on a line of credit the University of Louisville
Speaker 1: because they need help paying bills. And it sounds alarming, certainly,
Speaker 1: but I'm not surprised, and I don't really think it's
Speaker 1: anybody's fault. I think that's just the nature of where
Speaker 1: we are. Also, maybe by now the winners know that
Speaker 1: they've won. But there's a Louisville native, well they were
Speaker 1: in louisvill maybe they're not a little native, but that
Speaker 1: won the lottery. They've got the Lucky for Life ticket
Speaker 1: twenty five k a year. So like maybe right now
Speaker 1: you just realize, oh, I bought one of those. And
Speaker 1: if you just realize that, you need to look at
Speaker 1: your ticket and you just realized you won. I'm entitled
Speaker 1: to something because I'm the reason you thought to look for.
Speaker 1: I think I deserve at least something. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if if we can maybe working with some
Speaker 1: kind of an arrangement, but anyways, we are. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have some fun today. It's nasty, it's wet outside, but
Speaker 1: that's okay. We'll keep you company and we've got your
Speaker 1: first update of traffic and weather coming up here, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about what we can gather from President Trump's
Speaker 1: comments yesterday. It is Kentucky and it's Morning News on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas. It is five sixteen here
Speaker 1: at Kentucky and his Morning News with Nick Coffee on
Speaker 1: News Radio eight forty whas. Sorry for butchering the weather.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't get it right as the show starts,
Speaker 1: because you know, the fine meteorologists that our partners over
Speaker 1: WK why they've got they got a lot going on,
Speaker 1: especially when you've got some rainy weather and it is
Speaker 1: also a holiday today. So I just assumed, hey, I'll
Speaker 1: go and look where I look every day and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be there, and then boom, it wasn't. So now
Speaker 1: I've got a reminder that I should make sure and
Speaker 1: check that before we start the show. But we do
Speaker 1: have scattered showers and storms that are expected this morning
Speaker 1: as the day's getting started. Can it continue in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: Some storms could produce heavy rain with highs in the
Speaker 1: upper sixties. It's to low seventies, and then of course
Speaker 1: as we move forward, that heat wave is coming, the
Speaker 1: first real heat wave of the year, and I don't
Speaker 1: know about you guys, but I'm not looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: The humidity gross and it's just getting started, like we
Speaker 1: really haven't actually hit summer yet, which is kind of
Speaker 1: scary for me because I don't love the humidity that
Speaker 1: we get around here, especially now that I've developed an
Speaker 1: issue with allergies that is getting better. But anyhow, your
Speaker 1: there's your delayed weather updates, so apologies there on my end,
Speaker 1: all right, so real quick, we'll talk to Rory and
Speaker 1: Neil about this coming up at five point forty five.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to yesterday's Yesterday's update, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that were said in regards
Speaker 1: to the current situation with Iran and Israel and what
Speaker 1: President Trump's going to do. But when he was asked
Speaker 1: about blasting Iron's nuclear sites, he gives you the Trump
Speaker 1: smirk and says, nobody knows what I'm going to do,
Speaker 1: And you can tell he genuinely is is I think
Speaker 1: enjoying that And he's keeping us guessing and we will
Speaker 1: we shall see. Now that was said earlier in the day,
Speaker 1: and then from then we we learned that he does
Speaker 1: have this according to the Wall Street Journal, that he
Speaker 1: has signed off on plans to hit Iron's nuclear sites
Speaker 1: and he let people know, but he's yet to give
Speaker 1: I guess the green light to make it happen. I
Speaker 1: guess he's waiting to see if Iran is it Iran
Speaker 1: or Iron helped me out here, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran. Man,
Speaker 1: you have been holding that in to correct me, and
Speaker 1: I want you to know you can always correct me,
Speaker 1: because here I am out here saying it. Probably there's
Speaker 1: nothing worse than like if you say it, if you
Speaker 1: say it incorrectly, but you say it incorrectly incorrectly consistently,
Speaker 1: you can maybe just get away with like maybe you
Speaker 1: know it's a it's an accent or something. But when
Speaker 1: you say it wrong and you do it differently each time,
Speaker 1: it's a real obvious thing that you don't really know
Speaker 1: how the hell to say it. Which again that was
Speaker 1: me right there, So again Iran.
Speaker 2: Iran, Iran, you can put it to bed.
Speaker 1: There we go, all right, there we go. Now I
Speaker 1: know it is it is Iran. So anyhow he's yet
Speaker 1: to give all, you know, give the final green light
Speaker 1: for that to happen, but he's at least signed off
Speaker 1: on the attack plans if the attack does in fact happen.
Speaker 1: So also we we we according to Trump, there there's
Speaker 1: I guess some begging going on from Iran when it
Speaker 1: comes to the wanting to have some talks about this
Speaker 1: whole situation, and the vibe from from President Trump seems
Speaker 1: to be a little bit too late, fellas. And I
Speaker 1: think he enjoys knowing that they waited past the deadline.
Speaker 1: I guess that he gave them and he's he's he's
Speaker 1: got him, he's got him sweating. I suppose at this
Speaker 1: point now this is I guess, reassuring that he's not
Speaker 1: itching for a long term war. That's good, right, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for seemingly wanting to avoid World War three.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate that. So again we'll get the latest freneury O'Neil.
Speaker 1: We've got sports coming your way with Scott Fitzgerald and uh,
Speaker 1: we've actually got a real update of weather coming your
Speaker 1: way from the professionals. Also a check on traffic because
Speaker 1: you know, you got to be careful out there. We
Speaker 1: got some wet, wet roads after a lot of rain
Speaker 1: overnight and already so far this morning. It is Kentucky
Speaker 1: and It's Morning News on News Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: it is five thirty five here Kentucky and it's Morning
Speaker 1: News with Nick Coffee on News Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: I was kind of joking when I said this at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show, kind of not but there
Speaker 1: is somebody out there that may not realize that they have.
Speaker 1: They've won themselves a lot of money. So the Kroger
Speaker 1: location on the Grange Road here in Louisville, they have
Speaker 1: a Lucky for Life ticket that was sold that is
Speaker 1: worth twenty five thousand dollars a year for life. So
Speaker 1: that's not multiple millions of dollars that you get just upfront,
Speaker 1: but that's I mean that could not only is an
Speaker 1: extra twenty five k a year. I mean, that's something
Speaker 1: I think everybody could benefit from. Certainly some more than others,
Speaker 1: but still that could maybe get you in a position
Speaker 1: to where you could change careers, right, take a less
Speaker 1: stressful job that takes less out of you, and you
Speaker 1: have a better quality of life. And the salary difference
Speaker 1: between those two jobs potentially wouldn't be an issue because
Speaker 1: you now have twenty five K a year for life.
Speaker 1: So if you have the winning ticket and you're realizing
Speaker 1: it now because you say, oh, I bought one of those?
Speaker 1: Did he say the croker on the Grange Road in Louisville,
Speaker 1: That's where I got mine? And you see that you
Speaker 1: had by the way it was, it was June seventeenth
Speaker 1: and the drawing had numbers four, seven, twenty eight, thirty six,
Speaker 1: forty six with a lucky ball of two. So if
Speaker 1: that's you and you just realized that you have twenty
Speaker 1: five k for life, I didn't get least at least
Speaker 1: five to ten percent of that annually should be should
Speaker 1: go to me because I'm the one who made you
Speaker 1: aware that you you've you've now you know, you've changed
Speaker 1: your life in some some type of way. I mean,
Speaker 1: twenty five K year is not an insane amount of money,
Speaker 1: but there's a you know who wouldn't want that, who
Speaker 1: wouldn't benefit from that at least in some way. So
Speaker 1: you can you can milk twenty five k annually for
Speaker 1: at least twenty years, totaling five hundred thousand dollars, or
Speaker 1: you can grab a three hundred and ninety thousand dollars
Speaker 1: cash lump sum payment. So what would you do there, John, if.
Speaker 2: You help some one hundred percent? And not because I
Speaker 2: would spend it all in one place, but because I'm
Speaker 2: a saver, immediately put that the bank take it as needed.
Speaker 2: And I think, I mean, if I had three hundred thousand,
Speaker 2: whatever it was, nine there, three hundred ninety thousand, I'd
Speaker 2: be feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would probably do the same. But I
Speaker 1: will say, in most instances, whenever this question comes up
Speaker 1: after there's a lottery winner, what would you do? Would
Speaker 1: you take the lump sum or would you let it
Speaker 1: play out over many years where you get paid. I
Speaker 1: more often would take the give it to me every year,
Speaker 1: because that way, I just know that consistently this is
Speaker 1: coming in. And I don't know what I would do
Speaker 1: if I ever win the lottery. In fact, I know
Speaker 1: I'll never win the lottery because I never play lottery.
Speaker 1: I never buy a lottery ticket at all. And this
Speaker 1: I'm sure was not easy to hit. And it's not
Speaker 1: as if we're talking, you know, the mega millions, But
Speaker 1: for some reason, whenever there's not as much money on
Speaker 1: the lot up for grabs. It makes me feel as
Speaker 1: if it would be a little bit more easy to win,
Speaker 1: and it has me thinking maybe I should start buying
Speaker 1: lottery tickets. But I've never done it before. And they
Speaker 1: do say, the only way you know somebody's gonna win
Speaker 1: might as well be you, and the only way you
Speaker 1: can win is if you actually do play. But the
Speaker 1: chances of me put it this way, if I started
Speaker 1: spending let's just say, instead of making the weekly donation
Speaker 1: of you know, fifty bucks to FanDuel sports book, Draftking
Speaker 1: sports book, whatever it may be, instead of giving them money,
Speaker 1: let's just say I went to forty dollars a week.
Speaker 1: And I'm not even saying that's my that's the amount
Speaker 1: of money I spend. I'm just giving you, you know,
Speaker 1: an example. But let's just say I limited, briefly the
Speaker 1: amount of money that I that I bet on sports,
Speaker 1: and I started buying lottery tickets, and I did it
Speaker 1: for the next fifty years. If I live that long,
Speaker 1: there's a much greater chance that I donated all that
Speaker 1: money without any winnings than there is me actually winning
Speaker 1: money that could change my life.
Speaker 2: Now, it's a charitable man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. I'm very charitable. I'm donating oftentimes to
Speaker 1: all the sports books out there that'll take my money,
Speaker 1: and all of them will, and I'll also maybe start
Speaker 1: donating to the lottery too. So again, I know that
Speaker 1: the probability of winning is not great, and that's putting
Speaker 1: it lightly, but there is there is some truth to it. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't be mad and jealous if somebody
Speaker 1: else won and I didn't when you know I didn't play.
Speaker 1: You're not a lottery guy either, right, I can't.
Speaker 2: Imagine played it maybe three or four times?
Speaker 1: Is it whenever it gets to be like the super bridge,
Speaker 1: whenever it's it's stupid to play it, then yes, exactly
Speaker 1: the time that And again I could be wrong here.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever actually purchased a lottery ticket
Speaker 1: on my own. My wife will play, and she doesn't
Speaker 1: do it often, but yeah, she'll wait until it's it's
Speaker 1: the mega millions we're talking, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: biggest winnings you'll see in the lottery, which of course
Speaker 1: makes it that's the worst time to play.
Speaker 2: Because if the thought is the logic behind is that, oh,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be so many people who buy ticket. Somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna win it this time around, it might as well
Speaker 2: be me, kind of like you said, And.
Speaker 1: If it is a minor spind I guess there's really
Speaker 1: no harm because potentially, you know, you could change your
Speaker 1: life and everybody else's life if you are the winner.
Speaker 1: But my wife is adorable in a lot of ways
Speaker 1: because she she'll have that lottery ticket in her hand,
Speaker 1: fresh fresh from the store, and by the time she
Speaker 1: gets home, she's already told me what we're spending all
Speaker 1: the money on, and she she just believe, you know,
Speaker 1: she's she's got some optimism. And I guess in a
Speaker 1: way that's entertaining, right, just like betting on sports, right,
Speaker 1: she's donating the lottery and enjoying the experience that comes
Speaker 1: with that until she finds out she didn't win. And
Speaker 1: you know, I donate money to sportsbooks because I, you know,
Speaker 1: like to think that I'm good at that, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not terrible, But in the end, it's it's certainly entertaining.
Speaker 1: I would I live with the donations I make because
Speaker 1: it does add an element to the sports experience that
Speaker 1: I really enjoy. All Right, we've got Rory O'Neil coming
Speaker 1: your way in about four minutes. But first let's get
Speaker 1: an update on weather and traffic right here at news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty Whas five forty six here Kentucky, and
Speaker 1: it's morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. Nick
Speaker 1: coffee with you. It's no time to bring in Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neill of NBC News, and we are certainly going to
Speaker 1: get the latest on what President Trump is planning when
Speaker 1: it comes to Iran and Israel. But I did want
Speaker 1: to start Rory with the Trump Gold Card. More than
Speaker 1: seventy thousand people have expressed interest in the five million
Speaker 1: dollar Trump Gold Card, which of course provides a path
Speaker 1: US citizenship for wealthy foreigners. What can you tell us
Speaker 1: about how this works and who is in fact applying here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the site came online to register for it just
Speaker 3: a few days ago, and already we're hearing from Secretary
Speaker 3: Lutnik that there's big interest. Nearly seventy thousand people have
Speaker 3: signed up for this visa program. The Commerce Secretary says
Speaker 3: they put this website up last week Trump card dot gov.
Speaker 3: The applicants register their interest in the visa, provides some
Speaker 3: basic contact information. Now, maybe it's a lot of people
Speaker 3: just trying to test the system to see what's going on.
Speaker 3: But seventy thousand people, five million bucks a pop. That
Speaker 3: be a significant revenue stream.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it. And do you know if there
Speaker 1: was any I guess you wouldn't know. I'm not you
Speaker 1: can't read the minds of people. But I didn't know
Speaker 1: if there was an expectation as far as what the
Speaker 1: initial interest would be, because again I wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: able to guess. But I feel like, to your point,
Speaker 1: seventy thousand people, I mean a five million dollars, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We also heard President Trump saying that in many cases,
Speaker 3: it could be corporations that pay for their employees to
Speaker 3: become citizens. So he gave the scenario, imagine someone at
Speaker 3: Apple or Google they want to bring in as some
Speaker 3: new corporate vice president, but they're living in a different country.
Speaker 3: Well let that look, you know, let the tech company
Speaker 3: pay the five million bucks for them as part of
Speaker 3: their compensation package to make that person an American citizen
Speaker 3: as they hired them to work here in the US.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's also got to be thinking that if
Speaker 1: you are an employer that could really give you an
Speaker 1: edge over competitors at finding certain employees if you're willing
Speaker 1: to to go down this path. So yeah, it could
Speaker 1: be a big revenue stream for sure. But Rory and
Speaker 1: Aalem NBC News is our guest joining us here on
Speaker 1: news Radio eight forty whas let's discuss the latest here
Speaker 1: with the Iran and Israel situation. It sounds like President
Speaker 1: Trump doesn't want to have us in a World War
Speaker 1: three type situation, which which is good news for a
Speaker 1: lot of folks. But as far as plans to attack,
Speaker 1: the plans are there, but he hasn't yet, I guess,
Speaker 1: given he's approved the plans but hasn't given the green
Speaker 1: light to do anything just yet. Is that still where
Speaker 1: we are right now? Rory? Right?
Speaker 3: He says he wants to get this down to the
Speaker 3: last minute, was the term he used yesterday, saying that
Speaker 3: war can change in an instant. So if he makes
Speaker 3: a decision to use military force, including that bunker buster
Speaker 3: that we've all talked about, he said that would be
Speaker 3: essentially a game day decision that he'd make at the
Speaker 3: last minute, because getting the US involved certainly would intensify
Speaker 3: this conflict. There are concerns that Iran could retaliate against
Speaker 3: American assets that are in the Middle East or take
Speaker 3: action that could restrict international trade in oil, and you know,
Speaker 3: suddenly we're all paying seven eight nine dollars a gallon
Speaker 3: for gas, and of course that could be significant as well.
Speaker 3: So and most military analysts, We'll tell you this isn't
Speaker 3: a case of dropping one big bomb on a site
Speaker 3: in a mountain and leaving that. There would have to
Speaker 3: be further entanglements with the US military, thing that President
Speaker 3: Trump and many of his supporters want to avoid.
Speaker 1: Trump claims that Iran is begging for a White House powow,
Speaker 1: and not to say that he may be stretching the
Speaker 1: truth or embellishing, because he'd never do that. But what
Speaker 1: is that? I mean, do we know if there's any
Speaker 1: I mean truth to that is? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think that would be a complete lie. But is there
Speaker 1: anything other than just hearing that He's indicated that they
Speaker 1: want to talk, but he's saying maybe too late, fellas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some back and forth. We know that there's
Speaker 3: some high level talks, either directly or indirectly with Iran
Speaker 3: about what their response to this is going to be Look,
Speaker 3: Israel is pretty much launching these attacks to bring about
Speaker 3: regime change. Yes, it's about diminishing Iran's ability to create
Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. But Israel has essentially had enough and
Speaker 3: they want new leaders in Iran, and they're trying to
Speaker 3: even encourage the population there to rise up and bring
Speaker 3: about a change in leadership. So, you know, let's see
Speaker 3: if the Trump administration can find an exit strategy. Perhaps,
Speaker 3: you know, and they might have to work with other
Speaker 3: international partners. But you know, I think that's one of
Speaker 3: the issues, is that no one really sees how this
Speaker 3: can come to a peaceful end.
Speaker 1: Rory is always thank you at the time. We'll continue
Speaker 1: to monitor the situation and I'm sure we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the same thing again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: All Right, thanks Nick, take care that is Rory.
Speaker 1: And NEILIBINBC News always appreciate his time. All right, let's
Speaker 1: do this. Let's get an update on traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: We'll also have another update on sports with the one
Speaker 1: and only Scott Fitzgerald John Shannon with another newscast coming
Speaker 1: up at six o'clock. That's the schedule for these next
Speaker 1: roughly eight minutes or so, so stick around, but stick
Speaker 1: with us. All throughout the morning. We'll take you up
Speaker 1: till nine o'clock right here on news Radio eight forty
Speaker 1: whas