Speaker 1: Let's get the six am hour started here on a
Speaker 1: wet Wednesday morning. Happy hump day, Kentuckyana. It is Kentuckyanah's
Speaker 1: Morning News with Coffee and Company on News Radio eight
Speaker 1: forty whas Nick Coffee, that's me. You just heard John Shannon.
Speaker 1: We'll have Scott Fitzgerald back for another sports update in
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes. And of course John Alden the company
Speaker 1: made himself. He's alongside and John, you know this about me?
Speaker 1: You know me well, we've known each other for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. But the audience here, listeners there, they're
Speaker 1: probably learning about me a little bit along the way.
Speaker 1: And I haven't talked a whole lot about it. I
Speaker 1: know it's come up at least a couple of times
Speaker 1: since I've been in this position taken over for Tony Cruz.
Speaker 1: But I am the father of two children, and my daughter, Maya,
Speaker 1: she is nine years old, and she is she has
Speaker 1: autism and she is intellectually disabled. So think of a
Speaker 1: nine year old who on an intellectual level is closer
Speaker 1: to three. And I knew eventually there'd be stories that
Speaker 1: would come up to where I'd have to kind of
Speaker 1: navigate best I can without you know, just got to
Speaker 1: do my job, but also not let sort of my
Speaker 1: situation change how this stuff maybe should be discussed. But
Speaker 1: I'll just be me and be honest and be transparent
Speaker 1: as best I can. So yesterday's news of I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just a tragic situation all the way around, where
Speaker 1: a five year old boy goes missing and again an
Speaker 1: ian alert was issued. And for those who don't know
Speaker 1: what a n EAN alert is, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: what are the chances that a year after that became
Speaker 1: a thing. I mean, it's just insane. The one year
Speaker 1: anniversary of the ian alert system is when is when
Speaker 1: it was used. And then of course they later found
Speaker 1: this young boy deceased. So yeah, it started Tuesday morning
Speaker 1: where everybody I'm sure got the alert on their phone,
Speaker 1: and not that long after they found this young boy.
Speaker 1: This young boy Silas from Hart County, Kentucky. He passed away.
Speaker 1: So at ten fifteen they confirmed that he'd been found dead.
Speaker 1: This the area where he's from is in Hart County, Kentucky.
Speaker 1: Cub Run is the community and it's not too far
Speaker 1: from Mammoth Cave. But the system is modeled after the
Speaker 1: Amber Alert and it's tailored to quickly locate missing individuals
Speaker 1: with cognitive or developmental disability so that that I am
Speaker 1: the father of somebody who is who? And so when
Speaker 1: I learned of this Ian alert being in place, I mean,
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, Okay, this is great, this makes
Speaker 1: total sense because there are and my daughter maybe visual
Speaker 1: and I don't and I don't care at all because
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: many people without any interaction would know that she is
Speaker 1: intellectually disabled just because you know, you don't know. So
Speaker 1: I think having a specific alert in place for those
Speaker 1: I mean that, I think that's I mean, I love it.
Speaker 1: I think it's great. And I'm somebody that is sensitive
Speaker 1: to one the R word just because of you know
Speaker 1: it just the thought, you know, just the thought of
Speaker 1: as a parent, your kid being teased and being called
Speaker 1: that it just it it kills me. So I'm also
Speaker 1: sensitive to those that were probably complaining about and again
Speaker 1: I get it, like I don't hold it against people.
Speaker 1: If you know, I'm not trying to make anybody feel bad.
Speaker 1: If you were annoyed by that loud alarm yesterday and
Speaker 1: you just felt like, why are they doing this? You know,
Speaker 1: kind I turn this off, like I get it, like
Speaker 1: you're just you know, you're you're caught up in your
Speaker 1: own world and you're not and you know I understand,
Speaker 1: but also will never not use the platform I have
Speaker 1: here to to share that that it, you know, because
Speaker 1: I think more than anything, it's not about the world
Speaker 1: being insensitive and being jerked. It's just if they knew
Speaker 1: and if you if they were exposed to people who
Speaker 1: do have children of their special needs, then maybe they
Speaker 1: would have a little bit more awareness and maybe they
Speaker 1: would make their children more aware of people being different
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So I just, you know, just a sad
Speaker 1: situation all the way around, heartbreaking for this this young
Speaker 1: five year old boy to be found to be found dead.
Speaker 1: They're not releasing a whole lot of information. There's no
Speaker 1: foul play that is expected. As you heard in the
Speaker 1: news update there. KSP has said that in the statement
Speaker 1: that we grieve with this family in the community. That
Speaker 1: was their quote. So this is new again one year
Speaker 1: to the day that this became a system that was
Speaker 1: in place, it was used and obviously a terrible ending,
Speaker 1: but I think it makes it makes a whole lot
Speaker 1: of sense to have this in place, and it was
Speaker 1: named after a young boy named Ian who was a
Speaker 1: nine year old with autism who drowned in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two after running away. So, and everybody's situation is different,
Speaker 1: and I've learned that over the years. So there's so
Speaker 1: many different ways and levels of autism. So everybody's different. However,
Speaker 1: being around a lot of other special needs kids, whether
Speaker 1: it be the Miracle League baseball league that my daughter
Speaker 1: plays in, or her class at school, there are kids
Speaker 1: that just can end up, you know, off and in
Speaker 1: and again, we don't know exactly what happened with this
Speaker 1: young man Silas, but you know, I think putting this
Speaker 1: alart in place to let everybodyway, hey, there's there's there's
Speaker 1: a child out there that that from a from a
Speaker 1: cognitive standpoint, Uh they they you know, let's give you
Speaker 1: an example. If we're not monitoring my if we're not
Speaker 1: keeping an eye on our daughter in certain situations, I
Speaker 1: don't you know, it's rare for her to just kind
Speaker 1: of wonder off. But she wouldn't have the capacity mentally
Speaker 1: to like understand, Okay, there's there's a car coming, I
Speaker 1: need to move just things like that. So you know,
Speaker 1: the more things we do to advocate for special needs children,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm all for. And the more we can educate
Speaker 1: people as to why these things are in place, uh is,
Speaker 1: I mean, it can only help. But yeah, just I
Speaker 1: just one are the chances that a year after this
Speaker 1: is in place, that it's used and just a tragic outcome.
Speaker 1: So thoughts and prayers with not only the family of
Speaker 1: this of this young boy, but also just that community.
Speaker 1: Just sad situation all the way around. But again, if
Speaker 1: you're somebody that was annoyed by those those alerts that
Speaker 1: go off, also the amber alerts that go off, like
Speaker 1: I get it, I understand, but if you just for
Speaker 1: like a millisecond, stop and think about sort of I'm
Speaker 1: not even asking you to put yourself in the shoes
Speaker 1: of those people, but just if you consider why that
Speaker 1: is in place, I think you'd be a real be
Speaker 1: a real scumbag to think that like that that's not
Speaker 1: worth having. It is worth having and it could help
Speaker 1: save lives. And obviously that didn't happen yesterday, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't change the fact that this is something that is
Speaker 1: needed and I'm happy that it exists. But yeah, just awful,
Speaker 1: awful situation. Heartbreaking in Heart County. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: an update on traffag and weather. Also what I want
Speaker 1: to talk about on the other side, I did some research,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, folks, I prepare for this show,
Speaker 1: and I found a really good breakdown of where Louisville
Speaker 1: compares with other cities in different things as far as
Speaker 1: demographic average income, that kind of stuff. And I think
Speaker 1: some of these findings were surprising to me. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: be surprising. We'll get to that and a lot more again,
Speaker 1: traving weather updates come in your way. Another update of
Speaker 1: sports on the way in about fifteen minutes or so
Speaker 1: right here on New's Radio eight forty whas. So, there's
Speaker 1: new evidence that has come from unsealed court documents following
Speaker 1: the Crystal Rogers murder trial, of course, that led to
Speaker 1: her former boyfriend Brooks Howt and his accomplice being convicted
Speaker 1: found guilty. And I think it's really just a no
Speaker 1: brainer if you have followed this and heard some of
Speaker 1: the things that were said right after the guilty verdict
Speaker 1: last week, that this is likely not over and if
Speaker 1: law enforcement, if they've got if, if they've got anything to
Speaker 1: say about it, they'll probably they're not gonna leave this alone.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be more. I mean, the reason that Brooks
Speaker 1: Hawk's brother Nick and his mother Rosemary Hawk were listed
Speaker 1: as co conspirator unindicted co conspirators is because there's clearly
Speaker 1: some evidence they have that suggest that they were involved,
Speaker 1: now enough to actually bring formal charges. That kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that remains to be seen, but it certainly wouldn't
Speaker 1: shock me. And if you are Rosemary Hawk or Nick Hawk,
Speaker 1: I imagine you probably are pretty you've probably been worried
Speaker 1: for years about that. But what we now know after
Speaker 1: the core documents have been unsealed, it's again it's just
Speaker 1: more so focusing on mother and brother. They weren't just bystandards,
Speaker 1: they were again co conspirators allegedly in the plot to
Speaker 1: take this woman's life. So in some of this stuff,
Speaker 1: I feel like is what we could have already knew.
Speaker 1: But Rosemary Hawk, Brook's mother, she showed Zero's cell phone
Speaker 1: activity from June sixteenth to August fourth, so the timeframe
Speaker 1: when Rogers disappeared. Prosecutors of course say that's because she
Speaker 1: was using a different phone, a burner phone, which apparently
Speaker 1: law enforcement was never able to recover. So again not proof,
Speaker 1: but highly suspicious. No cell phone activity from your actual phone,
Speaker 1: and you had a burner and nobody knows where it is.
Speaker 1: And of course the behavior from Nick Hawk turning his
Speaker 1: phone off for over twenty four hours around the time
Speaker 1: Rogers vanished and didn't come home that night. His girlfriend,
Speaker 1: of course, she testified that that was unusual and very
Speaker 1: out of character for him to just not be reachable
Speaker 1: and not have his phone. But he also called Brooks
Speaker 1: during that police interviews, as you know, and was urging
Speaker 1: him to stop talking. And I mean, that's, honestly, that's
Speaker 1: evidence of obstruction more than anything. But yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: despite them still being free as of right now, I
Speaker 1: bet they're nervous and I would be too if I
Speaker 1: was them. All Right, we got an update of tracking
Speaker 1: and weather coming your way. I'm sure there's some stoppages
Speaker 1: out there. In fact, I just saw what looked to
Speaker 1: be a traffic jam on our screen in front of
Speaker 1: us here from the Woky Morning News, and I didn't
Speaker 1: see where it was, but I'm sure Bobby Ellisa get
Speaker 1: you updated. Also, we'll get an update on the forecast.
Speaker 1: In sports, we'll talk some sports coming up with Scot
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, John Shannon. It is six thirty five
Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday morning, a wet Wednesday. To get started,
Speaker 1: I said this at the beginning of our show when
Speaker 1: we got started at five am, that those of you
Speaker 1: that don't set your alarm clock as early as we do,
Speaker 1: you probably had an alarm clock go off anyway with
Speaker 1: the thunder. I don't know, and I'm sure it's different everywhere,
Speaker 1: and I feel like, for whatever reason, recently there's been
Speaker 1: more examples of you could be within a few miles
Speaker 1: of someone here in Louisville and they could have much
Speaker 1: different conditions outside than you have. But anyhow, the wet
Speaker 1: roadways has caused some traffic this morning, so just be
Speaker 1: advised and we'll get another update on that traffic coming
Speaker 1: up here in about four minutes or so. But again,
Speaker 1: it's nasty to get the day started, all right. So
Speaker 1: we found out another update on what happened at the
Speaker 1: Exposition Center on Sunday with Kentucky Kingdom and the Exposition
Speaker 1: Center where the basketball tournament was going on, having reports
Speaker 1: of an active aggressor law enforcement showing up to of
Speaker 1: course deal with that the way that they that they do. Clearly,
Speaker 1: there was real fear with everyone, and it's great to
Speaker 1: know that there was no danger. Nobody had a gun,
Speaker 1: and really nothing actually happened other than panic and chaos
Speaker 1: spreading like wildfire. And I believe that that's more than anything,
Speaker 1: just a product of we now know of it that
Speaker 1: that happens. I mean, it happens seemingly more often than
Speaker 1: it ever has as far as just those type of
Speaker 1: things where somebody shows up with a gun and start
Speaker 1: shooting people. So what we heard yesterday was that a
Speaker 1: ceiling tile fell from the from the seal from the
Speaker 1: ceiling onto a metal chair, and at the same time
Speaker 1: that happened, there was a woman with a medical emergency,
Speaker 1: and those two things happening that combo essentially led to
Speaker 1: people just panicking, and again it spread like wildfire as
Speaker 1: far as just everybody assuming the worst, because you can
Speaker 1: never take those things lightly and that's a scary situation.
Speaker 1: So now what we know is that it wasn't a
Speaker 1: ceiling tile that fell, and we may never find out
Speaker 1: what actually happened yesterday. Mary Greenberg did say that the
Speaker 1: information regarding a ceiling tile falling and creating a loud
Speaker 1: noise hitting a metal chair is just not accurate. That's
Speaker 1: not what actually happened. So right now we do you
Speaker 1: know that The Kentucky Venues later confirmed that our fire
Speaker 1: alarm did go off inside parts of the building that
Speaker 1: was triggered by a duct smoked sensor, but clarified that
Speaker 1: the system only alerts for smoke, not other emergencies. But again,
Speaker 1: people that are there don't know that, meaning if they
Speaker 1: hear a fire alarm going off and that's happening around
Speaker 1: the same time for some reason, there was somebody thinking
Speaker 1: that there was an active aggressor and maybe somebody had
Speaker 1: a gun. That's how it turns into you know, it
Speaker 1: goes from zero to one hundred quickly as far as
Speaker 1: just panic, but there's no clear cause and LMPD is
Speaker 1: acknowledged they may never pinpoint what caused the initial panic,
Speaker 1: but emphasized how quickly, again, fear of a shooting can
Speaker 1: spark that kind of chaos. On the talkback feature yesterday,
Speaker 1: there were people acknowledging that, wait, a second ceiling tile,
Speaker 1: there's no ceiling tiles to fall, and they were right,
Speaker 1: So just an unfortunate random situation more than anything. All right,
Speaker 1: before we get to our next update on traffic and weather,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this a moment ago. I've got a breakdown
Speaker 1: here that tells us what Louisville, who Louisville compares to
Speaker 1: as far as other cities when it comes to certain
Speaker 1: things like demographic, population, growth, industry. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: roll through a handful of these throughout the morning here,
Speaker 1: and we'll start with Louisville who they're most comparable with
Speaker 1: when it comes to cost of living. Wouldn't have guessed this,
Speaker 1: but good info. Oklahoma City very similar housing costs, groceries, transportation,
Speaker 1: and healthcare both are ten percent below the US average.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to the overall the overall cost
Speaker 1: of living, Louisville is about four point six percent cheaper
Speaker 1: than Oklahoma City when excluding rent costs. When it comes
Speaker 1: to the let's see, there's another data, another piece of
Speaker 1: data here that says Louisville is zero point six percent
Speaker 1: less expensive overall when it comes to housing. It says
Speaker 1: here that the Best Places, which is a platform that
Speaker 1: look this kind of stuff, when it comes to housing costs,
Speaker 1: they indicate that Louisvill's housing costs are a significant driver,
Speaker 1: about twenty three to twenty five percent higher than in
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. So when it comes to food and groceries,
Speaker 1: they're both very comparable as far as what the cost
Speaker 1: of that is. So I would never think of okac
Speaker 1: as a city that I would compare Louisville to. And
Speaker 1: again maybe that's the only comparison, meaning cost of living,
Speaker 1: but I don't really know. I guess if I've never
Speaker 1: been to a city, it's tough for me to say
Speaker 1: what I would compare if I've never been there, Its
Speaker 1: hard for me to say what I've compared to obviously
Speaker 1: because i'n't experienced it. But I think most people around
Speaker 1: here that group that have been born and raised in Louislle,
Speaker 1: and maybe you haven't visited a lot of other cities
Speaker 1: similar to Louisville. I mean, Cincinnati to me has always
Speaker 1: felt like a city that is that is very similar
Speaker 1: to us in a lot of ways. They're bigger than
Speaker 1: we are, and they clearly have pro sports teams, and
Speaker 1: you know, we obviously don't other than the Racing Louisville Club.
Speaker 1: But again, we'll get to some of these throughout the morning,
Speaker 1: because I think it may surprise you which cities are
Speaker 1: similar to Louisville in different you know, in different factors, lifestyle, culture,
Speaker 1: crime rate. So I've always heard Portland, Oregon is similar
Speaker 1: to Louisville, and I've never been to Portland, and I
Speaker 1: can tell you of the ten different factors here in
Speaker 1: this breakdown, Portland's not listed once. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong, but I kind of feel like right now,
Speaker 1: if we were being compared to Portland, I don't think
Speaker 1: that would be a compliment, but maybe they would say
Speaker 1: the same about us. I don't know, all right. What
Speaker 1: I do know is we've got an update of traffic
Speaker 1: coming your way with Bobby Ellis, who get us caught
Speaker 1: up on what the wet roadways are causing out there
Speaker 1: as far as traffic, Mamlosovich with the latest forecast, and
Speaker 1: again we'll keep it rolling right here on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whis. Maybe it's just me, but it seems
Speaker 1: as if at every step Trump and his team are
Speaker 1: fueling more suspicion rather than providing any real transparency to
Speaker 1: explain the Epstein's situation with there being no client list
Speaker 1: and indicating there's really no conspiracy. That's one aspect of it.
Speaker 1: The other is just either trying to speak something into
Speaker 1: existence or just being completely out of touch and unable
Speaker 1: to read the room. Because Trump continuing to say that
Speaker 1: nobody cares, I mean, he's just clearly wrong. And I
Speaker 1: think even if you are somebody that doesn't care and
Speaker 1: you believe what has been presented to us as that's
Speaker 1: just the way it is, and that's what they determined
Speaker 1: and you don't question it at all, even if that
Speaker 1: is where you are, I think you would have to
Speaker 1: agree if you try to check the pulls of society
Speaker 1: as best we can, that there are clearly many that
Speaker 1: don't don't buy it. And I think if you're somebody
Speaker 1: that wants to be able to shoot down any conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories out there about this situation, I don't think you've
Speaker 1: been giving anything that gives you the ability to just say, okay,
Speaker 1: well all right, well that makes sense now, I mean,
Speaker 1: nothing really seems to make sense. And another factor is
Speaker 1: the video that was released last week, and I am
Speaker 1: I'm almost stunned by this because people who you know,
Speaker 1: are people that have positions that look at this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about those that are providing the video
Speaker 1: of Epstein and letting us know, Hey, here you go.
Speaker 1: This is proof that nothing happened. When I mean, are
Speaker 1: they unaware that or maybe they don't know, maybe they
Speaker 1: weren't involved. But the video was edited, and that is
Speaker 1: something that with metadata is actually pretty easy to determine.
Speaker 1: I mean you can now. I mean there are I
Speaker 1: think Wired dot Com is the first to put it
Speaker 1: out there, but there's missing minutes in the video that
Speaker 1: was shared according to the metadata and Adobe Premiere Pro,
Speaker 1: which is a very common video editor. It's actually the
Speaker 1: video editor that I use when I'm editing content, and
Speaker 1: it's used by a lot of people. It's probably there's
Speaker 1: a lot of different software is out there they can
Speaker 1: do that, but I mean, metadata will even tell you
Speaker 1: that what software that it was edited in. So they
Speaker 1: called it raw footage, the Justice Department did, but metadata
Speaker 1: proves that that's not the case because the video was
Speaker 1: stitched together using Adobe Premiere Pro software. It's two clips
Speaker 1: that were combined and one was nearly three minutes longer
Speaker 1: than what was published. So again there's just more fuel
Speaker 1: of Okay, what's going on here? This doesn't make sense?
Speaker 1: Like this screams cover up, And I'm not one to
Speaker 1: fake it and act like I'm losing sleep at night,
Speaker 1: but I'm becoming more fascinated. But just how deeper they
Speaker 1: keep going and making it look almost unbelievable that they're
Speaker 1: not covering something up, and not that I'm advocating for
Speaker 1: covering up and doing it better, because you shouldn't cover up.
Speaker 1: There's never anything wrong with providing transparency, and maybe they're
Speaker 1: trying to spin it that, oh, this is transparency. There's
Speaker 1: just nothing that happened. Well, there's a lot of inconsistencies
Speaker 1: with the way Trump and his crew are handling this
Speaker 1: now in the way they're discussing it compared to just
Speaker 1: mere months ago. So I mean it the video, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's proof that's not And what I mean is there's
Speaker 1: proof that it was edited. There's proof that it wasn't
Speaker 1: raw footage. And I mean, I guess people can still
Speaker 1: act like that's not the case, but it is. And
Speaker 1: I just if you'd have told me a few weeks
Speaker 1: ago that this would play out this way as far
Speaker 1: as them providing raw footage. The Justice Department called this
Speaker 1: footage raw and then it being proven that it was not,
Speaker 1: I would just, you know, my gut reaction would be okay,
Speaker 1: well they're going to have some explaining to do. Somebody's
Speaker 1: going to get fired. Clearly, this is like this was
Speaker 1: a huge deal, and it's just one of the many
Speaker 1: things that continue to make this look clearly as if
Speaker 1: there's something being covered up. And last I checked, who
Speaker 1: wants to be the guy or gal or the leader
Speaker 1: covering up for people who were involved in a child
Speaker 1: sex trafficking ring. I mean, this thing is is continue.
Speaker 1: I mean it's only going to get worse as far
Speaker 1: as just people demanding transparency and wanting to know what
Speaker 1: really happened, what are you covering up and who are
Speaker 1: you covering it up for? But as far as will
Speaker 1: we get any update, I don't know that remains to
Speaker 1: be seen. All Right, We've got an update of traving
Speaker 1: weather coming your way. Also, we'll get to sports with
Speaker 1: Scott in about four minutes right here on News Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty Whas