Speaker 1: Good morning, Kentucky, Anda, Happy hump Day. We've got a
Speaker 1: wet Wednesday as the scattered showers continue, so be careful,
Speaker 1: maybe try to hustle a little bit as you get
Speaker 1: out the door because your may hit some delays with traffic.
Speaker 1: But we'll get the latest on that with Bobby Ellis
Speaker 1: coming up here at about four minutes or so. But
Speaker 1: again it is Kentucky Anna's Morning News with coffee and
Speaker 1: company here on news Radio eight forty whas Nick Coffee,
Speaker 1: that's me John all on alongside, and we've got measles
Speaker 1: here in Louisville. At least one local case has been
Speaker 1: confirmed that of course has been in the news this
Speaker 1: morning with John Shannon and yesterday Mayor Greenberg discussed and
Speaker 1: I'll when I hear the measles, I just I just
Speaker 1: assumed that it was like some you know, and I'll
Speaker 1: admit this is probably something that makes me sound ignorant,
Speaker 1: and I'm probably I probably sounded ignorant along the way
Speaker 1: for the first couple hours so far today, So hand
Speaker 1: up if that's if that's that's what you think. But
Speaker 1: when when I just assumed that, like the measles was
Speaker 1: something that like didn't exist anymore, and clearly I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Now it didn't exist for at least a little while,
Speaker 1: and then of course now it's back. But this case
Speaker 1: involves a child who recently traveled internationally to an area
Speaker 1: and that is where it came from. Louisville Metro Health
Speaker 1: conducting contact tracing and of course asking certain individuals to isolate.
Speaker 1: And this brings the total number of cases in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five in Kentucky to thirteen. But Louisville's case is
Speaker 1: not connected to any of those others, so in the
Speaker 1: last twenty years, Kentucky had only eight cases, which again
Speaker 1: that'll tell you how rare this actually is. Now, the
Speaker 1: vaccination status of the child who currently has the measles
Speaker 1: is unknown, but according to the CDC, most measle cases
Speaker 1: nationwide and twenty twenty five have involved unvaccinated individuals or
Speaker 1: those with only one dose of the vaccine. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to the measles again, highly contagious as far
Speaker 1: as yeah, I mean, up to ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: people that are close to those who are not immune
Speaker 1: get infected from this, so yikes. And I guess the
Speaker 1: immunization process is really dependent upon your age, so I
Speaker 1: was born. I was born in nineteen eighty eight, so
Speaker 1: the MMR vaccine became the standard in the late seventies.
Speaker 1: By the late eighties, most children received two doses, one
Speaker 1: in early childhood and one before starting school. But measles,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that I mean, maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people probably don't even know exactly
Speaker 1: really what it is, because again, it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: when I think of it, I honestly think of the
Speaker 1: vaccine when I was a kid, Like that's just knowing
Speaker 1: that how important it was, knowing that you had to
Speaker 1: have it and whatnot. So for those who literally have
Speaker 1: no clue as far as like what type of symptoms are,
Speaker 1: You've got high fever, cough, running nose, red watery eyes.
Speaker 1: After a few days, a red, blotchy rash can develop.
Speaker 1: So yikes, hopefully this individual, this child can get can
Speaker 1: get can get well soon. There are certain diseases, conditions,
Speaker 1: illnesses that just sound awful, and I'll give you example
Speaker 1: of one. I didn't know what this was until I
Speaker 1: was diagnosed with it, and I didn't even really have
Speaker 1: a clue what it was when the doctor told me
Speaker 1: that he thinks I have this, And I knew that
Speaker 1: it was a thing. I'd heard of it, but I
Speaker 1: had no clue what it was. And I went from
Speaker 1: the range here for me was Okay, is this something
Speaker 1: that I need to be somewhat worried about? Or am
Speaker 1: I going to die? When I was told that I
Speaker 1: had gout, I just remember thinking, oh, man, that sounds awful,
Speaker 1: because that's a gross word. Gout just sounds And I
Speaker 1: remember when I would tell people, yeah, I have gout,
Speaker 1: there were others that weren't quite familiar with what it was.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's actually arthritis where you've got build
Speaker 1: up in your joints and your uric acid levels or
Speaker 1: not or not main the way that they should be,
Speaker 1: and you just get your joints like your feet, your hands,
Speaker 1: your knees, your toes, they can become that you have
Speaker 1: bad flare ups. But I only learned that because I
Speaker 1: had it, and now I take medicine and I'm good.
Speaker 1: But when the doctor told me I had gout, I mean,
Speaker 1: for a brief moment, I thought of am I going
Speaker 1: to die? Do I need to call my loved ones
Speaker 1: and tell them goodbye? And then his lack of concern
Speaker 1: let me know that it really wasn't that big of
Speaker 1: a deal. But I remember telling people, yeah, I got
Speaker 1: got they back up, like if I breathe on them,
Speaker 1: you know something bad was going to happen. So it's
Speaker 1: not I mean, it's something I'll have to deal with
Speaker 1: probably for the rest of my life if I don't
Speaker 1: maintain my health. But yeah, it's a gross word, and
Speaker 1: I don't enjoy having it by any means. But it's
Speaker 1: not all that serious, and it's actually way more common.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's no way to prove this. If
Speaker 1: gout didn't sound like such a gross word, there'll be
Speaker 1: more people out there acknowledging that they do have gout.
Speaker 1: But you know that if those out there don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, they're just they might think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you've got the plague something. Anyways, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: an update on traving weather again. Bobby Ellis will get
Speaker 1: you squared away as far as areas that are going
Speaker 1: to have some delays this morning because of this wet,
Speaker 1: wet rain that we've got. And also what I want
Speaker 1: to take a look at on the other side is
Speaker 1: another comparison for Louisville. I've been looking at just different
Speaker 1: things where Louisville compares to other cities in and some
Speaker 1: of these comparisons as far as who are most alike,
Speaker 1: may surprise you. And then also we got to talk
Speaker 1: about the documents being unsealed in the Crystal Rogers murder trial.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you are the mother and brother of
Speaker 1: Brooks Howc, I mean, you can be surprised if you
Speaker 1: get a knock at your door or maybe your attorney
Speaker 1: lets you know they're coming for you. Stick with us
Speaker 1: right here at Katucky and Is Morning News with Coffee
Speaker 1: and Company News Radio eight forty whs. It didn't take
Speaker 1: long for a lot of folks to shift attention to
Speaker 1: the others that are believed to be responsible in some
Speaker 1: former fashion for the murder of Crystal Rogers. Obviously great
Speaker 1: news as far as the the you know, the justice
Speaker 1: the Rogers family was able to get with Brooks Howk
Speaker 1: being found guilty and the recommended sentence being life. But again,
Speaker 1: not long after that, I wouldn't say attention shifted automatically
Speaker 1: to who's next, But I know a lot of those
Speaker 1: that just kind of set back and watched this thing
Speaker 1: from afar and kept up with that trial it's quite
Speaker 1: clear that it wasn't just these two that had involvement
Speaker 1: in some way with what happened to her. And if
Speaker 1: you are the mother of Brooks Hawk, Rosemary Hawk, or
Speaker 1: you were the brother of Brooks Hawk, Nick Hawk, you
Speaker 1: got to be worried. I mean, throughout the trial it
Speaker 1: was quite clear that there were some things that did
Speaker 1: not look good, didn't look good for you as far
Speaker 1: as testimony, the evidence that was there, and now we
Speaker 1: are getting more information because there's unsealed court documents that
Speaker 1: really pain and even darker picture as far as who
Speaker 1: else was involved in some way. We talked a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier about how there was zero cell phone activity
Speaker 1: from June sixteenth to August fourteenth, August fourth so that's
Speaker 1: a huge timeframe of the disappearance of Rogers, and prosecutors
Speaker 1: say that the mother, Rosemary Howck, she was using a
Speaker 1: different phone, a burner phone that nobody ever recovered, and
Speaker 1: again that just looks highly suspicious. You just you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't have any cell phone activity at all for
Speaker 1: that amount of time because you were probably just trying
Speaker 1: to stay off the radar. You bought a burner phone allegedly,
Speaker 1: and again law enforcement never found that phone that was
Speaker 1: being used instead of the one that I mean, the
Speaker 1: just went dark, and again that's not proof, but again
Speaker 1: let's be real here. And then also the disappearance of
Speaker 1: Nick Howck whenever whenever the night that she disappeared, and
Speaker 1: his girlfriend testified that that's not new information, but his
Speaker 1: girlfriend did testify that that's unusual for him. And by
Speaker 1: the way, it's his former girlfriend that said that him
Speaker 1: being just unreachable for twenty four hours is just not
Speaker 1: like him at all. And he didn't have much of
Speaker 1: an explanation for that other than he just didn't want
Speaker 1: to be annoyed by his girlfriend at the time because
Speaker 1: they were, they'd probably be fighting. I think that's essentially
Speaker 1: what his defense was. Now. Also the plot here, Rosemary
Speaker 1: the mother reportedly asked Danny Singleton, who was Brooks' employee,
Speaker 1: if he knew someone who could get rid of Crystal Rogers,
Speaker 1: and a witness told the grand jury that she seemed
Speaker 1: to quote take pleasure end quote in Crystal's disappearance, and
Speaker 1: that again there's so many things that just like I
Speaker 1: don't remember who it was, it might have been the
Speaker 1: new girlfriend of Brooks house at the time, but when
Speaker 1: you are walking around town ripping down posters that show
Speaker 1: missing woman, you know, like, what do you? I mean,
Speaker 1: how how brave? That's just that's dumb. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of other things that it is, but it's just stupid
Speaker 1: to think that that won't make you look suspicious. I mean.
Speaker 1: And then also there were there was hidden audio that
Speaker 1: that was there in the record. Yes, so they found
Speaker 1: a recorder that captured Brooks telling his sister Ronda to
Speaker 1: bring a red according to her grand jury testimonies, so
Speaker 1: that the brother could hear it, suggesting, of course the
Speaker 1: family were they were coordinating. And again that's not proof.
Speaker 1: But again there's just if the jury was able to
Speaker 1: find Brooks out guilty of what they found him guilty
Speaker 1: of last week. I don't know what the actual charges
Speaker 1: that'll be brought to these two, if in fact that
Speaker 1: ends up happening, but I mean, if there was enough
Speaker 1: evidence to get what we got last week, I think
Speaker 1: there's enough evidence with these two for a conspiracy charge.
Speaker 1: But we shall see. All right, We've got another update
Speaker 1: of trafficking and weather coming your way. Again. Pay attention
Speaker 1: to the traffic update because we've got some wet roadways
Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday, So Bobby ellilso get a squared
Speaker 1: away there and then we'll have another update on the weather,
Speaker 1: and of course Scott will be here with sports on
Speaker 1: news radio eight forty whs. Thank you very much, John Shannon.
Speaker 1: That's how you deliver the news right there. Well done,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for joining us. Guys and gals, I
Speaker 1: should say it is Kentucky had his morning news with
Speaker 1: Coffee and Company here on news Radio eight forty whas
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. That's me, hope you that. If not, now
Speaker 1: you do the company man John Alden alongside. And if
Speaker 1: you are someone that was annoyed yesterday when you got
Speaker 1: that very loud notification on your phone, I get it.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it even scared you, So I understand. But
Speaker 1: I will use the platform here as the father of
Speaker 1: a of a special needs kid to just let you
Speaker 1: know that those this specific situation in place, meaning the
Speaker 1: IAN alert is appreciated by the special needs community and
Speaker 1: certainly necessary. Again, the ian alert similar to the Amber
Speaker 1: alert as far as just your phone going off regardless
Speaker 1: of what you're doing, regardless of where you are, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not I wouldn't even shock me as if you
Speaker 1: don't even have service, there's an ability to somehow get
Speaker 1: it to your device. And clearly everybody, if you're around
Speaker 1: people who all have a phone, it's loud. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, I was listening to one of our stations
Speaker 1: here within the iHeart Louisville world when it went off,
Speaker 1: and I you know, if your phone was on silent vibrate,
Speaker 1: it's still going to go off. So that's how serious
Speaker 1: it is. But the tragic situation in Hart County is
Speaker 1: just heartbreaking. For lack of a better word, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure there is a better word to describe it,
Speaker 1: just awful. A five year old boy was found dead
Speaker 1: after he ended up walking away from his home in
Speaker 1: Heart County, Kentucky, which of course that's what alerted the
Speaker 1: IAN alert to go off. Five year old and again
Speaker 1: he left his house around eight am and they found
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when he was when he was found,
Speaker 1: but the IAN alert was activated at nine thirty and
Speaker 1: about ten fifteen KSP confirmed that he was found dead,
Speaker 1: so no foul play expected, and the timing here is wild.
Speaker 1: One year ago is when the IAN alert system actually
Speaker 1: became a thing, and it was named after a young
Speaker 1: man named Ian who was nine years old with autism,
Speaker 1: who drowned in twenty twenty two after running away. And
Speaker 1: then the system, of course, it's similar to the Amber alert,
Speaker 1: and it's tailored to quickly locate missing individuals with cognitive
Speaker 1: or developmental disabilities. So it's certainly necessary. And I know
Speaker 1: there are many that just think, oh, come on, are
Speaker 1: they putting another one? There's another type of alert that's
Speaker 1: just going to annoy me. And I get it, like
Speaker 1: you know, especially if you're not expecting it, and maybe
Speaker 1: you don't even look at what it says. You just
Speaker 1: put your phone back in your pocket. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it. But from my perspective again, my daughter
Speaker 1: she is she is autistic, she is intellectually disabled. So
Speaker 1: if in fact she was to end up in a
Speaker 1: situation where she was she was missing and it's because
Speaker 1: of her of her disability, I mean I would, I would.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do. I mean I would.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine sort of the state of mind
Speaker 1: I would be in. But this type of situation, this
Speaker 1: type of system in place, can only help, really, And
Speaker 1: I think one thing I've learned in my time as
Speaker 1: her dad is that everybody with certain everybody's different. Nobody,
Speaker 1: even if you have the same diagnosis as far as
Speaker 1: autism or an intellectual disability, that can still look a
Speaker 1: lot different. So just just awful. But again, I'll always
Speaker 1: use my platform here to advocate for the special needs
Speaker 1: community and special needs kids. And I don't think that
Speaker 1: if you know, this is something that I've said before,
Speaker 1: probably not on this show, but you know, people who
Speaker 1: use the R word and or people who just you know,
Speaker 1: are annoyed and wish that they're and complain that these
Speaker 1: alerts are in place, like the e in alert. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're doing it from a place of
Speaker 1: being an awful person. It's probably just because of just
Speaker 1: you know, you don't think about those things. And I
Speaker 1: get why you don't think about those things, but if
Speaker 1: you the more people are made aware of other situations
Speaker 1: like special needs people and special needs children, it could
Speaker 1: go a long way. I mean, maybe you are somebody
Speaker 1: who says, Okay, Nick, I don't care. I still think
Speaker 1: it's you know, stupid and they shouldn't have my phone
Speaker 1: go off because I don't care. I mean, again, I
Speaker 1: can't change that. But I also think when it comes
Speaker 1: to like the R word. That's I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think that people ever really mean it in a bad
Speaker 1: way when it's used. It just became a word that
Speaker 1: for a while was used socially to just talk about
Speaker 1: somebody doing something silly or stupid. So like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't ridicule or go off on people who still
Speaker 1: use it in conversation. And it's not a not a
Speaker 1: super common thing, but it's also not insanely rare. That's that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm around someone that still will will use
Speaker 1: it in that context. And again, I don't think they're
Speaker 1: coming from a bad place. I just try to, you know,
Speaker 1: let them know, Hey, that can be very harmful, that
Speaker 1: can be hurtful. And maybe one of those people that
Speaker 1: over the years have had that conversation with realize, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to remove that from the vocabulary when it
Speaker 1: comes to discussing certain things. And you know, and if
Speaker 1: they don't, you know, at least I tried, right. I
Speaker 1: just think of the thought of of of my my
Speaker 1: daughter being teased for anything just gives me insane anxiety,
Speaker 1: and it's something I try not to think about. But
Speaker 1: I'm also aware of what the world is like, but
Speaker 1: just that word specifically, it would just it killed me.
Speaker 1: So anyways, very sad news out of Hart County yesterday. Again,
Speaker 1: no foul play is expected, and obviously thoughts and prayers
Speaker 1: to everyone affected in that community, not just the family,
Speaker 1: but of course, I mean, I'm sure there's many others
Speaker 1: that were close to this young man, as someone who
Speaker 1: again has has a daughters that's in a special needs
Speaker 1: class that she has the same teacher every year. She
Speaker 1: spends the majority of her day in the same class.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of special needs kids can touch your heart in a
Speaker 1: way to where you get close to them, you connect
Speaker 1: with them, and I'm sure there's many that were that
Speaker 1: were in the situation here with this young man. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get an update of trafficking weather. Also, we'll take
Speaker 1: another look here at which cities are most similar to
Speaker 1: Louisville when it comes to certain certain data. And Louisville
Speaker 1: is weird because Louisville's population, I mean, when you pull
Speaker 1: in the Louisville metro, that's what makes us a bigger
Speaker 1: city than a lot. But certainly we're not as big
Speaker 1: as you know, Nashville, Indianapolis and whatnot. So again we'll
Speaker 1: talk about a couple of those things, because I think
Speaker 1: there's some cities where similar to that may surprise you. Again,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that after we get an update on
Speaker 1: news I'm sorry, not news, but tracking weather right here
Speaker 1: on news radio eight to forty whas So, this morning,
Speaker 1: I've been looking at different cities that are comparable to
Speaker 1: Louisville in different factors. And we talked earlier about how
Speaker 1: the cost of living. The most similar city to Louisville
Speaker 1: is Oklahoma City. Now with population, it's tricky because with Louisville,
Speaker 1: it is the Louisville metro so of course that includes
Speaker 1: just Jefferson County, and as of twenty twenty three, the
Speaker 1: estimate was one point three nine million is the population
Speaker 1: here in Louisville. And when it comes to that number,
Speaker 1: specifically cities that are the most comparable as far as
Speaker 1: population metro population, you've got the Raleigh, North Carolina area,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City once again. And also this is an area
Speaker 1: that I would have never I only know this because
Speaker 1: of my time in sports, but Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina,
Speaker 1: that metro area there, it is bigger as far as
Speaker 1: population than Louisville. And maybe I'm the only one that
Speaker 1: would have never believed that, just because there's not a
Speaker 1: whole lot that I know about that area. I mean,
Speaker 1: in fact, you could have told me that it was
Speaker 1: one fourth of the size of Louisville, and I probably
Speaker 1: would have believed you. And honestly, another factor that has
Speaker 1: helped me kind of understand just the amount of people
Speaker 1: that are in certain cities across our country is television markets.
Speaker 1: Right just in what we do, you know, you see
Speaker 1: the number, and that's that gives you, That gives you
Speaker 1: the audience that you can reach. As far as the
Speaker 1: amount of people that are there, like Hartford, Connecticut, I
Speaker 1: believe is similar to Louisville, and although it's not mentioned
Speaker 1: here in this breakdown, maybe similar in TV market, but
Speaker 1: not similar in as far as just the overall amount
Speaker 1: of people. But also Tulsa, Oklahoma is similar and as
Speaker 1: far as the closest as far as just the number, Richmond,
Speaker 1: Virginia one point three six million and Louisville one point
Speaker 1: three to nine million. Again that is as of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Now, also what I think is interesting is
Speaker 1: the growth not necessarily just the amount of the amount
Speaker 1: of people. But as far as just like clearly you
Speaker 1: can be you can have the same level of growth,
Speaker 1: but the actual total population be insanely different. And I
Speaker 1: remember this in the nineties, Nashville and Louisville used to
Speaker 1: be used to be the same tier of cities. I mean,
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety the metro population in Louisville and Nashville
Speaker 1: were about the same one million, The economy was relatively similar,
Speaker 1: the culture was different but had its own thing. Obviously,
Speaker 1: for Louisville it's been the same thing. Bourbon derby, college basketball,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, country music and college football, grand
Speaker 1: Ole opry. That's for Nashville. But the Nashville takeoff is
Speaker 1: I mean, it's certainly not gone unnoticed, but it is wild.
Speaker 1: In two thousand, the cities were still somewhat similar, but
Speaker 1: Nashville had grown quite a bit. And then as of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Louisville is at one point three nine million
Speaker 1: in that range and Nashville is at one point nine
Speaker 1: million as far as just metro population. And again, so
Speaker 1: the growth since two thousand, you're looking at fifty six
Speaker 1: percent growth from Nashville. In Nashville which again, that's big anywhere.
Speaker 1: And I remember going to Nashville as a kid thinking
Speaker 1: that that was a very similar city as far as
Speaker 1: the size and whatnot, and now now not so much.
Speaker 1: And I hate to tie everything to sports, but I mean,
Speaker 1: I think having an NFL team like Nashville does with
Speaker 1: the Titans and even the team they have in the
Speaker 1: NHL like that, that's only going to help grow your city.
Speaker 1: Although Nashville, I mean, I don't know what led to it.
Speaker 1: Nashville is a great place, but it just became one
Speaker 1: of the places to be as far as nightlife and tourism.
Speaker 1: And again, Nashville's cool, but it's almost become like nothing
Speaker 1: at all what made Nashville appealing when I was younger.
Speaker 1: Nashville and Austin, Texas, just those are places that have
Speaker 1: exploded as far as just people want to live there,
Speaker 1: people want to go there. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: a quick time out. We will get an update on
Speaker 1: traffic and weather. We'll also get another update on sports.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky INA's Morning News with Coffee and Company
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