Speaker 1: All right, let's get the six am hours started, shall we?
Speaker 1: Good morning? It is a Wednesday edition of Kentucky and
Speaker 1: This Morning News here on news Radio eight forty Whas
Speaker 1: Nick Coffee. That's me and you can take us with
Speaker 1: you wherever you go. Listen live on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Also listen live at whas dot com. So there was
Speaker 1: a lot of celebration going on yesterday, not only in
Speaker 1: Barchtown when it comes to those that were just happy
Speaker 1: to see the Christal Rogers family get justice, which they've
Speaker 1: been wanting for the last ten years. And obviously as
Speaker 1: far as finding out specifically what actually happened to her,
Speaker 1: will they get those answers? Ever, that remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: I would imagine an appeal could be could be in
Speaker 1: play here for Brooks Howck, but only time will tell.
Speaker 1: But certainly a big day as far as just seeing
Speaker 1: the jury decide to bring in a verdict of guilty
Speaker 1: for both Brooks Howck and Joseph Lawson and life sentences
Speaker 1: the recommendation when it comes to Brooks how Can. I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised, however, it was hard for me to not
Speaker 1: make it and I never wanted it to sound as
Speaker 1: if I was of the belief that these two weren't guilty,
Speaker 1: I wasn't there in the courtroom. I wasn't on the jury,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Maybe I'll never know what my
Speaker 1: decision would have been had I been there. I likely
Speaker 1: believe that it would have been me, agreeing with those
Speaker 1: that were on the jury that decided to convict these
Speaker 1: two of this crime. But there are countless cases, I'm
Speaker 1: sure where if you compare the actual evidence that was there,
Speaker 1: it was hard for a jury to convict. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went and looking at it last night and I
Speaker 1: ended up spending way too much time doing it. But
Speaker 1: if you go look at similar and there's ways you
Speaker 1: can do it again, AI is a powerful tool. But
Speaker 1: if you look at previous trials where the evidence going
Speaker 1: against the person that's on trial is very similar to
Speaker 1: what was at play here, I mean, I don't have
Speaker 1: a success rate as far as the prosecution in those
Speaker 1: previous trials, but there are many whether it was just
Speaker 1: not only do you have some that were found not guilty,
Speaker 1: some you couldn't even get the charges to stick. And
Speaker 1: again I don't say that in defense of them. It
Speaker 1: just there was more worry than I think I realized
Speaker 1: from the just the public that these two may get
Speaker 1: away with it, and it's nice to know that they're
Speaker 1: not going to get away with it. And there's others
Speaker 1: that were involved that will probably be worried moving forward
Speaker 1: if their days coming. As far as an indictment, because
Speaker 1: throughout the trial it was made pretty clear that both
Speaker 1: Nick Hawk, the brother of Brooks Howk, and his mother Rosemary,
Speaker 1: their mother, Rosemary, I should say, they're listed as unindicted
Speaker 1: co conspirators. So I could tell just by the reaction
Speaker 1: from and again not just people in that community, but
Speaker 1: just people who followed this for a while. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is what seemingly everybody wanted, because despite not being
Speaker 1: in the courtroom during this trial and being on the jury,
Speaker 1: I know I'm one of many that assumed these two
Speaker 1: were were guilty and needed to be needed to be
Speaker 1: held accountable. But when you look at the actual evidence
Speaker 1: that that was circumstantial, but still it's just impossible to
Speaker 1: think of, you know, if I'm in the shoes of
Speaker 1: somebody on this Jerry, and I'm hearing the defense, it's
Speaker 1: hard for me to even take them serious. As far
Speaker 1: as just some of the some of the explanations as
Speaker 1: to as to why you know the cell phone records right, like,
Speaker 1: prosecutors made it clear that the self the calls and
Speaker 1: tower pings showed that how was at his farm, not
Speaker 1: on business as he claimed during the evening of her disappearance.
Speaker 1: I mean just claiming that. I don't know the specifics,
Speaker 1: but just the defense was, well, you know it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a Wi Fi paying and not a cell tower paying. Well,
Speaker 1: and again, you got to be consistent if you're gonna lie,
Speaker 1: and clearly his his lies didn't didn't hold up because
Speaker 1: you know, he said some things as far as just
Speaker 1: what took place the day of the disappearance the day after,
Speaker 1: and that ended up just not being true. And again
Speaker 1: that doesn't prove anything, but it certainly makes you look very,
Speaker 1: very suspicious. And then there was a lot of testimony
Speaker 1: throughout the trial as far as just what people heard
Speaker 1: being discussed among rather it be the Lossons or the
Speaker 1: Hawk family, but not as much. Maybe I'm wrong, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember there being a whole lot of testimony
Speaker 1: that included things overheard by the Hawk brothers. It was
Speaker 1: the mother and of course the Lawsons who ended up
Speaker 1: being conspirators in this whole thing, and certainly they're going
Speaker 1: down with Halck as well. So again a pretty quick decision. Nobody,
Speaker 1: no murder, weapon, no DNA, but the jury after nine
Speaker 1: days and then just four hours of deliberation, they found
Speaker 1: they found enough in their mind to say guilty. And
Speaker 1: as you heard in our recent newscast from John Shannon,
Speaker 1: this is and over. I guess there's no way to
Speaker 1: know as far as what's coming next, but I think
Speaker 1: with this conviction they probably feel pretty good about moving
Speaker 1: forward or at least heading in the right direction to
Speaker 1: bring charges to others. All right, we've got an update
Speaker 1: of traffic and whether coming your way. Bobby Ellis, we'll tell
Speaker 1: us what's the latest on traffic. And I didn't see it.
Speaker 1: It just popped off the screen here in front of me,
Speaker 1: but WKY looked as if they had a live look
Speaker 1: at some real traffic. So Bobby Ellis will give us
Speaker 1: the latest on that. We'll take a look at Matt
Speaker 1: Melosovitch as forecast from WKY, and didn't take long for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump to question why people seem to be worried
Speaker 1: about this Epstein fella. So we'll get to that and
Speaker 1: more right here on Kentucky and This Morning News News
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas So, yesterday, President Trump defended the
Speaker 1: recent decision by the DOJ to just say, well, nothing
Speaker 1: to see here, it's over. No more documents would be released,
Speaker 1: and the Epstein investigation, we're washing our hands of it.
Speaker 1: In fact, he wasn't asked the question. It was Attorney
Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi that was asked, but Trump interjected and
Speaker 1: the question was asked yesterday, and I just send your
Speaker 1: are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been
Speaker 1: talked about for years. You're asking we have Texas, we
Speaker 1: have this, we have all of the things, and are
Speaker 1: people still talking about this guy? That's great? That is unbelievable. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not totally shocked to see that he
Speaker 1: was in support here, because if he wasn't, it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have played out the way that it did. Right, Let's
Speaker 1: be real, and I think this is way more complex
Speaker 1: and messy than anybody realizes as far as just what
Speaker 1: the outcome would be if, in fact, they just released
Speaker 1: documents that we don't even really know if they exist.
Speaker 1: Which that's a whole other layer to this is who
Speaker 1: would keep a ledger, Like, what kind of I mean,
Speaker 1: pardon my French, what kind of dumb ass would would
Speaker 1: document I mean, are people as much as you think
Speaker 1: it's delusion to assume that there's nothing to see here
Speaker 1: and this, you know, two people that were you know,
Speaker 1: charged and sent to prison for a sex trafficking ring.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're supposed to just believe that that they
Speaker 1: traffic no one and there weren't victims because apparently there
Speaker 1: was nobody that was involved in it on the on
Speaker 1: the side of you know, taking advantage of these victims.
Speaker 1: And again that's just it's insulting our intelligence to have
Speaker 1: anybody believe that. It's also, though, I think, an insult
Speaker 1: to intelligence to think that somebody involved in this would
Speaker 1: literally just have a little notebook where where they're taking
Speaker 1: notes and recording all this awful stuff that clearly they
Speaker 1: used all their power, influence and influence to try to
Speaker 1: keep a big secret. So what I have found to
Speaker 1: be really fascinating, and probably more so than anything just
Speaker 1: because it's very very rare for this to happen, but
Speaker 1: we are united Americans seem to be on the same
Speaker 1: page with this as far as regardless of your political affiliation,
Speaker 1: you don't believe that this was handled the right way
Speaker 1: and that we deserve to know more about what went on, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't care if you're a Republican Democrat whatever.
Speaker 1: It does seem as if there's a lot of noise
Speaker 1: coming from all directions, all sides, both sides of the aisle,
Speaker 1: and everywhere else. As far as just saying, come on,
Speaker 1: like you think we're stupid here, So just because you
Speaker 1: are somebody that was on that you had, there's document
Speaker 1: did Look, we don't even need these lists that may
Speaker 1: not exist or anything like that, or any files that
Speaker 1: may not exist, because clearly there are people that were
Speaker 1: tied to Jeffrey Epstein and some I think you might
Speaker 1: believe would be involved in the awful things that Epstein
Speaker 1: was involved in over the years. But then there's others
Speaker 1: that you might believe it. But like, it may not
Speaker 1: be fair to just put that out there. So I
Speaker 1: think the decision to just turn over, like if in
Speaker 1: fact there are things that exist, meaning a list and
Speaker 1: just other file files, turning that over that could lead
Speaker 1: to I mean, it could ruin lives of people who
Speaker 1: don't deserve that, and that's something that you can't just
Speaker 1: do without thinking of potential consequence. But again, that's my
Speaker 1: big takeaway, is that we're so divided in really every
Speaker 1: aspect of life, seemingly this day and age. But everyone
Speaker 1: seems to say, and I'm sure others are more consumed
Speaker 1: by it than most, but move on. Nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: That's an insult to our intelligence, even if we don't
Speaker 1: have much, it's an insult to what little we may have.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's get an update on the trappig and
Speaker 1: weather out there in Kentucky in and also we'll get
Speaker 1: another update on sports with Scott Fitzgerald right here on
Speaker 1: news radio eight forty WHS. Thank you very much, John Shannon.
Speaker 1: It is Kentucky in its morning news here at six
Speaker 1: thirty six Nick Coffee. That's me John, all on alongside.
Speaker 1: And if you are getting your day started, and you are,
Speaker 1: let me make sure I get this correct because we've
Speaker 1: got some big time traffic that is out there this morning.
Speaker 1: It started about an hour ago as an accident on
Speaker 1: the Waterson eastbound just past Breckenridge Lane blocked the three
Speaker 1: left lanes, which we're talking in the five am hour.
Speaker 1: It looks as if it's a parking lot there, so
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much progress has been made, but
Speaker 1: as of the last in the last ten minutes, it
Speaker 1: looks as if those lanes are still are still blocked.
Speaker 1: So in fact, is this the same area? This says
Speaker 1: this was a crash on I sixty four eastbound the
Speaker 1: ramp to Hurstbourne Parkway, which is blocking all lanes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if you are, if you're on sixty four eastbound, if
Speaker 1: you're a sixty four east Waterson eastbound that area, be
Speaker 1: prepared because it looks like there's some real delays going on.
Speaker 1: So not sure what you can do about it if
Speaker 1: you're just now finding out and you haven't given yourself
Speaker 1: extra time, but just be advised. Alright again, it is
Speaker 1: six thirty seven here Kentucky in this morning news news
Speaker 1: Radio eight forty whas. I am sure I'm not the
Speaker 1: only one who has signed up for a trial of
Speaker 1: something thinking, oh, I'll just utilize the free week that
Speaker 1: I get and then i'll come back and cancel and
Speaker 1: it won't cost me anything. I've done that many times
Speaker 1: and been wrong, meaning I procrastinate, forget about it, and
Speaker 1: I end up paying for something that I really don't need.
Speaker 1: And this is clearly a thing because one there's companies
Speaker 1: now that are that are I don't even I don't
Speaker 1: know how successful they are as far as gaining customers,
Speaker 1: but it's become somewhat of a competitive industry where you
Speaker 1: have people sign up for your service just like they
Speaker 1: do all the other ones, and the service is in fact,
Speaker 1: to cancel your subscriptions to things that you don't need.
Speaker 1: So yesterday and Appeals Court blocked the FTC's click to
Speaker 1: cancel rule, which again keeps subscription cancelations a complete pain
Speaker 1: in the ass for America. And I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: if you're one of these companies that makes it as
Speaker 1: difficult as possible, I mean, in a way, you're I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be real, you're like, you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're you're just hoping that it'll become such a pain
Speaker 1: that people will unsuccessfully try to cancel, meaning they won't
Speaker 1: be able to figure it out, or they just won't
Speaker 1: go through all the time, because it's it's a hassle.
Speaker 1: And for a lot of people, I don't know, four
Speaker 1: ninety nine a month or something like that, maybe even
Speaker 1: I don't know, nineteen ninety nine a month, that's not
Speaker 1: an insane amount of money in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: But if you've got enough people that are just paying
Speaker 1: that because they forgot about it, and they're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine a month, five to ninety nine a month,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, that's not really a big deal. I
Speaker 1: can afford that it's no issue. Well, if you're that company,
Speaker 1: like your profits, imagine imagine the percentage of the money
Speaker 1: that you make that is coming from people that quite
Speaker 1: literally forgot they ever signed up for your service. So
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's I wish the click to cancel
Speaker 1: rule would not have been blocked, but it has been
Speaker 1: blocked because apparently the eighth the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals,
Speaker 1: they ruled that the FTC skipped a requirement, skipped a
Speaker 1: required economic impact analysis for the rules affecting over one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. So it's been put on hold and
Speaker 1: we'll see what plays out. But again, i'm if you
Speaker 1: are somebody that is putting together a subscription based service,
Speaker 1: whatever service it is that you provide, and you are
Speaker 1: not making it very difficult to unsubscribe, good for you
Speaker 1: because you're not trying to take advantage of people. Now again,
Speaker 1: if you actually, I mean, it'd be impossible for them
Speaker 1: to be able if you don't sign a contract, they
Speaker 1: can't make it impossible for you to unsubscribe and move
Speaker 1: on from it. But clearly there are people who I
Speaker 1: would imagine part of their job for these for these
Speaker 1: companies is to put together like usually you want to
Speaker 1: put together processes that make things very simple for your
Speaker 1: customers because that's a way in which you can have
Speaker 1: a high rate of satisfaction when it comes to your customers.
Speaker 1: But for business, for the bottom line, you make it
Speaker 1: a complete pain in the ass, and that's you're probably
Speaker 1: looked at as if you're doing a good job by
Speaker 1: your employer. But it has been, uh, it has been
Speaker 1: put on pause for the time being. And I'm a
Speaker 1: procrastinator and just in general, it's one of the many
Speaker 1: flaws I have, believe it or not, I'm not perfect, guys,
Speaker 1: But John Alden, I can see you being somebody that
Speaker 1: you know every monthly payment you make for any subscription
Speaker 1: you have right I do. And because you're responsible unlike me,
Speaker 1: when you brought this story up, I immediately thought of
Speaker 1: a panic attack about apples. So Apple TV was a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass to get rid of when it
Speaker 1: comes to subscriptions now, and that's the only one that
Speaker 1: really comes to mind for me. But yeah, this is
Speaker 1: definitely an issue. It's wild how great they are and
Speaker 1: how in a matter of seconds they could take your
Speaker 1: money but in order to stop being able you know
Speaker 1: the other end of it, man, it's just a you know,
Speaker 1: there's like doing your tax, yes, and it's insulting tact
Speaker 1: as if like that's not intentionally an issue for people
Speaker 1: because they just hold on to hope that you'll forget
Speaker 1: about it and not worry about it or just be
Speaker 1: defeated in the overall problem. All right, we've got another
Speaker 1: update of traffic and whether coming your way, Bobby Ellis.
Speaker 1: We'll give us the latest as it looks like we've
Speaker 1: got a couple of different traffic incidents out there, and
Speaker 1: also we'll get the latest from Matt Melosa, bitch of
Speaker 1: WOKY with the forecast today right here on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty WHS. I am looking at the television screen
Speaker 1: right now here Woky's Morning News. This is WHS this
Speaker 1: Morning News. But we've got our partners here on the
Speaker 1: screen and they are showing what appears to be a
Speaker 1: parking lot on Waterson eastbounds, So just be prepared if
Speaker 1: you're out. Don't know exactly what type of accident was
Speaker 1: that led to this, but just be mindful of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can let your employer know ahead of time
Speaker 1: you might be a little bit late. Not sure if
Speaker 1: that'll help you, But yeah, looks as if we've got
Speaker 1: some traffic issues. We'll get another update to see if
Speaker 1: there's improvement coming up here in about four minutes or
Speaker 1: so with Bobby Ellis. It is Kentucky and in it's morning
Speaker 1: news here on news Radio eight forty whas we'll get
Speaker 1: another update on sports coming up in about eight minutes
Speaker 1: with Scott Fitzgerald. So the WNBA has been a more
Speaker 1: popular product for one specific reason in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, and that is because of Caitlin Clark. And
Speaker 1: when I when I pick up a level of delusion
Speaker 1: that I think is just unbelievable, it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to not get consumed by it because I try to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: what am I Am? I the one that's crazy here.
Speaker 1: So right now, the WNBA, in the WNBA Players Association,
Speaker 1: they are locked in a contentious battle here with revenue
Speaker 1: sharing being the biggest sticking point when it comes to
Speaker 1: a new CBA with the WNBA, and I mean the
Speaker 1: latest from the union president of the WNBA, because the league,
Speaker 1: of course, had a counterproposal to what the the WNBA
Speaker 1: plaguere Association filed. They you know, here's a quote from
Speaker 1: somebody within the Plague Association. It's a slap in the face.
Speaker 1: And another player said it's a polar opposite of what
Speaker 1: their demands are. So what I what I just can't
Speaker 1: quite I can't quite figure out, is that if you
Speaker 1: want more than what you're getting, that's normal. That's that's
Speaker 1: I mean, who wouldn't want more benefits, more of a
Speaker 1: salary like That's just that's that's an obvious, that's a given.
Speaker 1: But the notion that they're being taken advantage of and
Speaker 1: they're not being treated fairly is what I just think
Speaker 1: is is wild. So I mean, let's just be real.
Speaker 1: I mean the WNBA, I mean, the demands here are bold,
Speaker 1: and they have I think shown a lot of delusion
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, because I just don't
Speaker 1: know how anybody could look you in the eye and
Speaker 1: tell you that the reason that the league has seen
Speaker 1: growth as far as viewership and even popularity is because
Speaker 1: of one player. That's nobody's fault. That's just the reality
Speaker 1: of it. Anybody claiming that it's not that is a
Speaker 1: delusional human being. And again, the WNBA players voting her
Speaker 1: the ninth best guard in the league. I mean if that,
Speaker 1: I mean that's lappable. So when you have really one
Speaker 1: single phenomenon being so solely instrumental in the viewership and
Speaker 1: financial growth of the league, if you're the WNBA, I
Speaker 1: mean you can't. I mean you can't go in and
Speaker 1: act as if this is sustainable because it'd be one
Speaker 1: thing if you had a bunch of different Caitlin Clark's
Speaker 1: in the mix, but she moves the needle like nobody
Speaker 1: I have ever seen in any specific sport. So, I
Speaker 1: mean it's one thing to want more again, but the
Speaker 1: push they want as far as you know, revenue sharing,
Speaker 1: it's it's laughable. I mean in the NBA, the NFL
Speaker 1: players get basically fifty percent of the revenue, and that's
Speaker 1: not I mean the WNBA. I mean, yeah, the wa
Speaker 1: is estimated nine point three player revenue share. It just
Speaker 1: reflects the reality that it's a league that has been
Speaker 1: propped up for decades by the NBA subsidizing it and
Speaker 1: other external investments. And I just this notion that there's
Speaker 1: money being made from the product, that it's a WNBA
Speaker 1: and the players are you are being left out and
Speaker 1: not getting a fair share. Like that's not Planet Earth,
Speaker 1: that's not reality. And the only hope that the league,
Speaker 1: I think, ever, is really profitable, unfortunately is And this
Speaker 1: isn't about supporting or not supporting women's basketball. These are
Speaker 1: just facts, and to me they're rather obvious. All Right,
Speaker 1: we got another update of traffic and weather coming your way.
Speaker 1: Makes you pay attention to Boby Ellis because it looks
Speaker 1: like we've got a messy morning here when it comes
Speaker 1: to traffic in certain areas. Stick around right here on
Speaker 1: New's ready to eight forty whas