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The Infomaniacs: September 11th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. There
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  Speaker 1: are several local events today honoring the 25th anniversary of 9-11.
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  Speaker 1: This morning at 9 a.m., the Hagler Auditorium at the
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  Speaker 1: Bush School will host a program covering the legacy of
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  Speaker 1: the red bandana, followed by firsthand accounts from Colonel Mike Riley,
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  Speaker 1: who was at the Pentagon, Dr. Nathan Harness, who is
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  Speaker 1: on the 61st floor of Tower 2, and Dean John Sherman,
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  Speaker 1: who was in the White House Situation Room. Mayor Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Gutierrez will speak at the dedication of two benches at
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  Speaker 1: the Bryan City Cemetery Annex at 10 a.m. The major
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  Speaker 1: community ceremony will take place at 5.30 this evening at
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  Speaker 1: Veterans Park. State Representative Paul Dyson will speak on the
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  Speaker 1: War on Terror side at the park, which features a
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  Speaker 1: beam from the World Trade Center. The ceremony includes the
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  Speaker 1: 5-5-5 bell ringing, wreath laying, a 21-gun salute, and silver taps.
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  Speaker 1: A full list of events taking place throughout the weekend
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  Speaker 1: is available at WTAW.com. Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke during
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  Speaker 1: the GOP convention in Dallas, speaking out against his opponent
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  Speaker 1: in the race for U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy is really obsessed with transitions. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to transition your kids. He wants to transition Texas off
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  Speaker 2: of oil and gas. How about we transition him and
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  Speaker 2: his crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Ideas right out of Texas? The Tallarico team issued a
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  Speaker 1: press release promoting that more than 20 current and former
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  Speaker 1: Republican leaders are also endorsing Tallarico. That list includes Shane Phelps,
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  Speaker 1: a local defense attorney who served as the deputy AG
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  Speaker 1: for Texas from 1999 to 2001 and was an assistant
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  Speaker 1: DA in Brazos County from 2001 to 2011. It also
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  Speaker 1: includes Brian Pro Tem Mayor James Edge. He says, as
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  Speaker 1: a Republican, I believe in faith, family, the rule of law,
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  Speaker 1: and holding public officials accountable when they betray the public trust.
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  Speaker 1: I will support plenty of Republicans this November, but I
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  Speaker 1: cannot vote for Ken Paxton. Tallarico has demonstrated that he
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  Speaker 1: is willing to listen, work across party lines, and put
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  Speaker 1: Texas and our country first. As a lifelong conservative Republican,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud to support him this November. The College Station
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  Speaker 1: Fire Department is opening Fire Station 7 at 2981 Greens
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  Speaker 1: Prairie Road this morning. Tours start at 10 a.m. and
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  Speaker 1: the grand opening starts at 11. Air taxi testing will
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  Speaker 1: soon be happening in Texas skies. TxDOT announced today that
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  Speaker 1: they're launching the first phase of Project Nexus. It's a
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  Speaker 1: multi-phase testing program focused on safely preparing next-generation aircraft for
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  Speaker 1: future use in Texas skies. The nationwide projects involve leading
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  Speaker 1: aircraft manufacturers, operators, and state partners, and include a range
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  Speaker 1: of concepts, including urban air taxi services, regional passenger transportation,
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  Speaker 1: cargo and logistics networks, emergency medical response operations, autonomous flight technologies,
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  Speaker 1: offshore and energy sector transportation. The first phase will test
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  Speaker 1: with traditional aircraft such as helicopters and fixed-wing planes. The
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  Speaker 1: next phase will involve testing for medical and cargo logistics,
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  Speaker 1: like critical medical supplies or organs between rural facilities and
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  Speaker 1: urban medical centers in Austin and San Antonio. The final
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  Speaker 1: phase involves passengers in air taxi flights across the Texas Triangle, Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio, and Houston. The phases are expected to roll
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  Speaker 1: out over the next three years, so this could all
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  Speaker 1: be a reality by 2030. More news ahead at 7.30
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: The September 11th attacks stunned our nation, and yet we
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  Speaker 5: found it so easy with the passing of time and
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  Speaker 5: our rapid rebound and recovery to slip back into old
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  Speaker 5: habits and divisive attitudes. Today, let us remember the lessons
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  Speaker 5: of 25 years ago and strive together to keep America united, strong,
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  Speaker 7: phone calls. Either are encouraged. 979-695-1620. Adam texts in chills
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  Speaker 7: and tears listening to the 9-11 clips in that news broadcast.
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  Speaker 7: Brought it all back hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 7: I know. It is a interesting day. It is a
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  Speaker 7: difficult day for a lot of people. And by a
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  Speaker 7: lot of people, I mean, pretty much everyone that was
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  Speaker 7: alive and conscious back in 2001, which now was 25
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  Speaker 7: years ago. The fact that it's 25 years ago definitely
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  Speaker 7: adds more. Holy cow. Let's think back to a lot
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  Speaker 7: of things that were going on in that time. We
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  Speaker 7: talked about some of the how different life was. It
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  Speaker 7: just because it was a different world. Twenty five years
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  Speaker 7: is a long time. There's a lot of articles about, OK,
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  Speaker 7: if you have kids, how do you talk to your
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  Speaker 7: kids about this? And I could go into that. But
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  Speaker 7: I'm somewhat of the opinion that it's almost impossible to
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  Speaker 7: convey to people that weren't alive or can remember what
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  Speaker 7: it was like to be alive in the fall of
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  Speaker 7: 2001 exactly how it hits for people that were.
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  Speaker 1: No, and I don't think you could ever convey it
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  Speaker 1: to the point that somebody who did not live through
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  Speaker 1: it– There's no kid that you're going to talk to
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  Speaker 1: about it that's going to have the same level of
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  Speaker 1: understanding of what happened as those of us who lived
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  Speaker 1: through it. However, there are great ways that you can
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  Speaker 1: do this. I know in my own circumstance, age appropriate,
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  Speaker 1: started talking to them about what was going on. And
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  Speaker 1: then as they aged, I made sure and shared things, videos, stories, testimonies,
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  Speaker 1: audio from the planes, those things as my children grew up.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that they have as good an understanding
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  Speaker 1: as what they can have.
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  Speaker 7: As far as you can, as close as you can
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  Speaker 7: get it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: But there's still some, and one of the things about
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  Speaker 7: that is that if you came in post, like let's
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  Speaker 7: say you were born in the 2000s, or you just
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  Speaker 7: don't remember, whatever. If you came of age after that,
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  Speaker 7: there's not a point of reference for two things. Thing
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  Speaker 7: number one, how life was prior to 9-11 as an American,
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  Speaker 7: which was profoundly different in a million different ways. And
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  Speaker 7: number two, we didn't have the benefits of looking back
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  Speaker 7: in history and you were living through and watching it unfold. Now,
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  Speaker 7: I'll give you an example of that. If you remember
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  Speaker 7: being anywhere on September 11, 2001, there was a great
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  Speaker 7: deal of unknown that was not just on that day,
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  Speaker 7: but permeated for a year of not knowing a few
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  Speaker 7: different things, not knowing if the attacks were over, not
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  Speaker 7: knowing why exactly this happened, not knowing... a whole litany
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  Speaker 7: of things. And that lack of knowledge is really what
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  Speaker 7: informed a lot of the policy decisions and everything that
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  Speaker 7: came after 9-11. And I think that a lot of
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  Speaker 7: the generations today, the younger generations, look back on it
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  Speaker 7: and be like, well, that was dumb. That didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 7: Why did America do this? I don't think you can
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  Speaker 7: necessarily understand the perspective of going through that and trying you.
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  Speaker 1: Had to be in the time he had to be
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  Speaker 1: at the time he had to be in the shoes
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  Speaker 1: at the time.
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  Speaker 7: And uh you know these are these are are very
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  Speaker 7: big hurdles to overcome if you're trying to convey why
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  Speaker 7: it is every september 11th that this hits almost the
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  Speaker 7: exact same way for a large portion of the population
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  Speaker 7: What we are asking from you today, because my assumption
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  Speaker 7: is most of the people that listen to this particular
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  Speaker 7: show were in fact around on September 11th, is to
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  Speaker 7: help us participate in a little bit of history documentation
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  Speaker 7: this morning. And what we're looking for is the stories
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  Speaker 7: you have of where you were on September 11th, 2001.
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  Speaker 7: Where were you when this went down? What were your emotions?
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  Speaker 7: What were your thoughts? What were you feeling? What are
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  Speaker 7: your recollections? Text is a great way to send these in,
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  Speaker 7: but if you want to call it in, love.
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  Speaker 1: To hear from some of you guys. Also, if you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to record a voice-to-text, or a voice text, rather.
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  Speaker 1: We get those all the time from you guys. You
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  Speaker 1: can do that, and we will present those to Jeanette,
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  Speaker 1: who's putting something together for her show this afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. And again, just looking to learn a little bit
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  Speaker 7: about your personal history when it comes to September 11th,
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  Speaker 7: 25 years ago today. So we're asking for your stories.
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  Speaker 10: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 7: Very simple. Where were you? Where were you when it
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  Speaker 7: went down? Then, what were your emotions? What do you recall?
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  Speaker 7: Joseph texts in that his is somewhat unique. He grew
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  Speaker 7: up in Lakewood, New Jersey, right in the middle of
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  Speaker 7: the three plane crash locations. My town, Lakewood, was found
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  Speaker 7: to be on Bin Laden's potential target list due to
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  Speaker 7: his large Jewish population. My dad, a volunteer firefighter, was
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  Speaker 7: on standby at the fire department for a few days
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  Speaker 7: after the attack because of the threat, which is wild.
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  Speaker 7: There are a few people that I'm always it's always
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  Speaker 7: amazing to me because I get always everyone has a
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  Speaker 7: very defined story that that becomes very personal when it
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  Speaker 7: comes to this, no matter where you were. For instance,
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  Speaker 7: Monica was living in Honolulu at the time. She was
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  Speaker 7: getting ready for work while her husband fed our baby
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  Speaker 7: in front of the TV. He called me to quickly
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  Speaker 7: come to the TV due to the time difference. By
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  Speaker 7: the time we woke up for work, all four planes
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  Speaker 7: had crashed. It was clear it was a terrorist attack.
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  Speaker 7: I went to work. which happened to be a school
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  Speaker 7: near the military base. A lot of children were absent
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  Speaker 7: that day. They knew it meant their mother and father
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  Speaker 7: would be deployed soon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Because, obviously, we knew where this was headed at the time. Again,
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  Speaker 7: if you have a story, 979-695-1620, you can text us.
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  Speaker 7: You can call us. We'd love to hear it in
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  Speaker 7: your words. You can even send us a voice note
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  Speaker 7: if that's easier. Jennifer, I was at my desk at
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  Speaker 7: law enforcement training for TEEX. My boss called me. He
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  Speaker 7: was in Virginia. visiting NHTSA, and said, I'm in trouble.
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  Speaker 7: I said, okay, I don't think I can help, to
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  Speaker 7: which he replied, turn on the news. That division routinely
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  Speaker 7: did that assessment training for different jurisdictions, went to our
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  Speaker 7: other building, and the guys had the TV on. It
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  Speaker 7: was surreal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, TEEX Law Enforcement Division and many others take part
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  Speaker 1: in disaster planning and law enforcement training across the country.
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  Speaker 1: And I know they've done Since 9-11, I know they've
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  Speaker 1: done a significant amount with Port Authority, New York, New Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: all those entities up there.
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  Speaker 7: Amy, I was a sophomore in high school, and we
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  Speaker 7: were in the locker room after drill team practice. One
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  Speaker 7: of our team managers came in and told us that
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  Speaker 7: we were under attack and that planes hit the World
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  Speaker 7: Trade Center. I remember feeling scared. I didn't know where
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  Speaker 7: or if we were going to get hit somewhere else. Again,
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  Speaker 7: back to the uncertainty thing, which was powerful at the time.
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  Speaker 7: I remember watching it all day in every class, especially history.
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  Speaker 7: We were all crying because we didn't know what was
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  Speaker 7: going on or why.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The uncertainty that you talk about, I recall that feeling deeply.
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  Speaker 1: I recall looking out the windows in my neighborhood, seeing
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  Speaker 1: cars that I didn't recognize, maybe parked for an extended
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  Speaker 1: period of time because we did not know.
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  Speaker 7: You don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We had no concept about immediately afterwards in the aftermath.
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  Speaker 1: You had no idea what the scope possibly could be.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You just thought to yourself, if they could do this,
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  Speaker 1: what else could they do?
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  Speaker 7: What else is possible? And that was how you felt.
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  Speaker 7: People talk about, well, you know, the great thing. To
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  Speaker 7: commemorate 9-11, we should be how we were on 9-12.
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  Speaker 7: The reason we were the way we were as far
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  Speaker 7: as the national unity was because we were all feeling
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  Speaker 7: the exact same thing. And it was complete uncertainty. And
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  Speaker 7: a complete recalibration of what life meant and what could happen.
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  Speaker 7: And that was not something that existed prior to that.
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  Speaker 7: It just was not on the list of options that
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  Speaker 7: could occur in your mind in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 7: I was doing a radio show because I'm always doing
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  Speaker 7: a radio show. I was 20 years old. I was
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  Speaker 7: hosting a morning show. And again, we talked about this earlier.
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  Speaker 7: You cannot explain to people that are young today what
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  Speaker 7: media was like 25 years ago when you had TV
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  Speaker 7: and you had radio, and that's what everyone listened to.
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  Speaker 1: For immediacy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, for immediacy.
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  Speaker 1: You would wait for a newspaper the next day.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but you would turn on something, and then you
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  Speaker 7: would park yourself in front of it, and then you
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  Speaker 7: would watch. There wasn't social media. There wasn't podcasts. There
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  Speaker 7: wasn't any of that stuff. It was just what you
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  Speaker 7: could get in that moment. And I remember it happening, obviously.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't think I turned on the TV because
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  Speaker 7: my boss came down and said, hey, check this out.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think I turned on the TV until right
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  Speaker 7: before the second plane hit. But I remember being on
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  Speaker 7: the air for the rest of the day because we
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  Speaker 7: were just taking calls. And every call was essentially the same.
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  Speaker 7: And it was just confusion. What's going on? Why is
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  Speaker 7: this happening? Who did it? How did this happen? Is there,
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  Speaker 7: you know, people needing connection? People need they needed to
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  Speaker 7: talk to somebody having a discussion that lasted eight hours
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  Speaker 7: on a tiny little rock radio station in the middle
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  Speaker 7: of Texas. Right. And then after that, yeah, you go
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  Speaker 7: home and I just remember like not seeing planes. Because
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  Speaker 7: I was living, you know, I was living here, but
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  Speaker 7: I was living just a little way from Easterwood. You
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  Speaker 7: would always just, you know, perpetually, there'd be little planes
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  Speaker 7: going overhead, helicopters, whatever. You just don't see it. All
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  Speaker 7: of a sudden, the sky's clear. It's quiet. It was unsettling. Like,
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  Speaker 7: you just stand on your porch and like, what is this?
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  Speaker 7: It was a, you know, once again, to try to
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  Speaker 7: convey that to people that weren't there is very, very
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  Speaker 7: difficult because it's just, you know, it's truly a you-had-to-be-there moment.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it was fortunate or unfortunate that
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  Speaker 1: I was between jobs, so I was not broadcasting at
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  Speaker 1: that point in time when 9-11 happened. I'm not sure
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: how I would have handled it on air.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: It was.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it was... I don't... There was no tape of it.
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: You didn't have a recording of it, because I've thought
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: to myself in the past, man, I wonder what it
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: sounded like when I was doing this.
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  Speaker 14: And.
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  Speaker 7: You just didn't think to record anything. You just kind
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: of punched up.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: At that point in time, in order to record our shows,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you actually had an air check machine and you put
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a cassette in it. I mean, that's how long ago
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: that was.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Scott DeLucia was on the air. Have you heard his story?
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: I'll play it for you guys in case you have
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: not heard it. This is how it went down on WT.
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: This isn't the audio, but Scott's recollection of how that
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: morning went for him.
• 19:27
  Speaker 15: Twenty-five years ago, Tom Turbeville walked into the studio... And
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: he said, there's something going on about a plane crashing
• 19:37
  Speaker 15: in New York City, and I'll keep you posted.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: And then he left the studio.
• 19:41
  Speaker 15: And right after that, I got on the phone with
• 19:44
  Speaker 15: our congressman at the time, who was Kevin Brady. We
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: were doing regular visits with our members of Congress at
• 19:49
  Speaker 15: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Time.
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  Speaker 5: We'd started talking a little bit.
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  Speaker 15: And after we had been about five or six minutes
• 19:54
  Speaker 15: into it, he paused for a minute. I thought he
• 19:56
  Speaker 15: kind of lost his train of thought. I moved on
• 20:00
  Speaker 15: to another question. And he began to answer that. And
• 20:03
  Speaker 15: he said, I'm sorry, Scott, I have.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: To go now.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: And he hung up.
• 20:06
  Speaker 15: And that was because the Capitol offices were being evacuated
• 20:10
  Speaker 15: because he had just found out that that first plane
• 20:13
  Speaker 15: and then the second plane had crashed into the Twin Towers.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: And we only had to fill out to the top
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: of the hour.
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  Speaker 15: By then, the network took over and we had pretty
• 20:21
  Speaker 15: much nonstop coverage after that. But one of the things
• 20:24
  Speaker 15: I do also remember is it was such a calamitous
• 20:29
  Speaker 15: situation that local officials, state officials didn't know exactly what
• 20:34
  Speaker 15: they needed to do to harden areas maybe in Bryan
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: College Station. And there was certainly a group at Texas
• 20:41
  Speaker 15: A & M who considered the Bush Library to be
• 20:44
  Speaker 15: potential targets, because at that time we didn't know if
• 20:46
  Speaker 15: this wasn't the beginning of possibly strikes that would happen
• 20:49
  Speaker 15: all over the United States.
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: And again, you did not.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Did not know.
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: No.
• 20:53
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  Speaker 7: Back after this.
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  Speaker 5: The September 11th attacks stunned our nation, and yet we
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  Speaker 5: found it so easy with the passing of time and
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  Speaker 5: our rapid rebound and recovery to slip back into old
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  Speaker 5: habits and divisive attitudes. Today, let us remember the lessons
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  Speaker 5: of 25 years ago and strive together to keep America united.
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  Speaker 1: Station City Council met Thursday night. They approved funding in
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the amount of $ 25 million for the Carter Creek Wastewater
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Treatment Plant's enhanced filtration project. They also approved a citywide
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: flood hazard assessment. And Councilman Yancey asked City Engineer Carol
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Cotter if redrawing FEMA floodplain maps could have a negative
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: impact to homeowners.
• 23:13
  Speaker 18: How might it affect people's properties if at the conclusion
• 23:16
  Speaker 18: of that FEMA process, a portion of somebody's lot is
• 23:20
  Speaker 18: in a floodplain where it had not been before?
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Affect their insurance, maybe?
• 23:25
  Speaker 20: It could affect their insurance, but typically if you have
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  Speaker 20: a property where a floodplain has not been identified before
• 23:34
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• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Several residents signed up to speak at the meeting. The
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: two topics were impervious cover and flock cameras. Residents in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the neighborhood around Park Place and Dexter say they have
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: seen a sharp rise in street flooding and rapid street flooding,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: as well as water approaching foundations where it used to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: not be a problem. We also see that the floodwaters
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: are rising higher and higher.
• 24:12
  Speaker 14: They're getting not just an inch deep over the street,
• 24:15
  Speaker 14: but they're getting six inches deep over the street.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Councilwoman McElhaney asked that the issue of impervious cover be
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: looked into and addressed in an upcoming meeting. A man
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: speaking out against flock cameras cites a recent Overton Insights
• 24:28
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• 24:31
  Speaker 14: 63% of likely Texas voters oppose local government's use of
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: automatic license plate reader cameras, such as flock cameras, at
• 24:39
  Speaker 14: public intersections, and only 28% support them.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: A discussion on flock cameras and their data is scheduled
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to take place at the next council meeting. There are
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: several events today honoring the 25th anniversary of 9-11. You
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: can visit the lawn of Texas A & M Administration
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Building and Bush Library Presidential Pond to view the 2,977
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: flags placed to honor the lives lost that day. At
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., there will be free screenings
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of the heroism and resiliency of 9-11, from tragedy to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: triumph at the Bush Library. It's first come, first served.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: The major community ceremony will take place at 5.30 this
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: evening at Veterans Park. State Representative Paul Dyson will speak
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: at the War on Terror site at the park, which
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: features a beam from the World Trade Center. The ceremony
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: includes the 5.55 bell ringing, a wreath laying, a 21-gun salute,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and silver taps. Tomorrow is the A & M Red, White,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and Blue game that will celebrate America's 250 and honor 9-11.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Attendees are asked to wear blue in the lower bowl,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: red in the upper bowl, and white in the middle.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Proceeds from the Standing for America shirts will go towards
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: renovation of the MSC's Hall of Honor to include A
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: & M' s ninth Medal of Honor recipient, Matt Williams. On Sunday,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: MSC Opus will have a production of Behind the Lines,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: a 9-11 story. Firefighter Bill Spade, the sole survivor from
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: FDNY Rescue Company 5, and combat veteran James Poling, who
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: had three tours in Afghanistan... relive their experiences. It combines
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: their firsthand stories with live music and theatrical elements. A
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: full list of events taking place throughout the weekend is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: available at WTAW.com. Visit College Station was honored with two
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Destination Excellence Awards at the 2026 Destinations Texas Annual Conference.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Recognizing the organization's leisure marketing campaign, and its promotion of
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  Speaker 1: the Savannah Bananas, Argentina vs. Honduras, and the USA Track
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and Field Lone Star Grand Prix at Cushing Stadium. While
• 27:03
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• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Museum in Arlington, where he signed legislation honoring the country's finest.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: He praised the military recipients as the bravest heroes and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: incredible patriots. He signed the Woody Williams National Medal of
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  Speaker 17: By the way, our capital two years ago is one
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• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Trump signed the legislation prior to delivering the closing remarks
• 27:34
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  Speaker 7: stories about where you were. On September 11th, 2001, now
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: that we are 25 years later, we talk about how
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: difficult it is to convey to people who were not alive,
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: which now someone texted me a stat that 101 million Americans,
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: somewhere in that neighborhood, were not alive during 2001. So
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: at this point, we have about a third of our country,
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: if not more, that have no real point of reference
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: other than what we tell them and what they consume
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: about what made that day what it was, and one
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: of the great ways to do that is, again, like
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: we were talking about, just your stories. So if you
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  Speaker 7: have one, 979-695-1620, where were you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: So I was in Austin. The radio company that I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: had been working for decided to close down that division,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and that was June 30th, that summer, the day before
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: my birthday, the day before my 31st birthday. I got
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  Speaker 1: a nine-month lump sum severance check, which was unheard of.
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  Speaker 1: It was a beautiful thing.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: That never happens anymore. Good Lord.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: So I spent my summer remodeling the house and looking
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: for work. Dot-com crash time. I couldn't even get on it.
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  Speaker 1: Best Buy.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So I was unemployed at the time. I woke up
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: early that morning. I typically did, even then. I was
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  Speaker 1: drinking coffee, and I was watching one of the morning
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: news programs, like Good Morning America or something like that.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: And they had it live. They had the New York
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: skyline in the background. And you saw it live, the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: first plane hit. And I remember my thoughts thinking, you know, how? How?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And it immediately went to that has to be intentional.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: There's too many safeguards in place for that to have
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: been an accident. I was completely freaked out and horrified
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: at that point in time. When the second plane hit,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: it wasn't like it doubled the horror. It was exponentially.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You knew we were under attack. You knew something was
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: dreadfully wrong. And you knew that the unknown was very scary.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I picked up the phone and I called my mom
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to make sure that they were watching TV. And unbeknownst
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to me, I said, well, where's dad? And she said,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: he's on his way to the president's ranch in Crawford.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: He had been there previously one time before, been invited
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: out by the president. He and one of his colleagues
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: were had traveled around the ranch with the president driving
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: his pickup truck, the first lady, Condoleezza Rice, and some
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Secret Service people. If you think back then, the big
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: thing was stem cell research.
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 13: Right?
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Stem cells were the big controversy.
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  Speaker 25: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And my dad was pointing out that some of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: knots on the oak trees were caused by a small insect.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And the president joked, think we can use them for
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: stem cell research? Just a funny guy.
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: That's a quality zinger.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Quality zinger. So he had been invited back to follow
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: up on some of the stuff. They were presenting the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: plant life of the ranch, essentially.
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: And that was the morning that he had been invited back.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So I called him on his bag phone that he had.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: 25 years ago.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: Different time.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: And I said, Dad, I don't think they're going to
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: let you onto the place. He had no idea what
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: was going on. I tried to explain it to him.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: But you can't. You can't explain it. And he said, well,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep going.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: You don't.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: You don't skip an appointment like this.
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: So he went, and he was on the property for
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a little over an hour when Secret Service came and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: asked him to wrap it up and leave because they
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: were transporting whichever Bush daughter was in Austin at UT
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: at the time. They were transporting her out to the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: ranch for safekeeping. So he left the ranch and came home.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: I remember just sitting in my recliner in front of
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the TV at that point in time, and I was single,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: no children. I had no job. So I sat there
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: well into the night watching, eating on occasion, and peering
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: out the window, noticing that there were no planes, noticing
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that there was no traffic in my neighborhood, and being,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, paranoid, looking at cars in the
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: neighborhood and wondering, you know, has that car been there
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: for a while?
• 35:07
  Speaker 22: Right.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And then contemplating whether or not I needed to call
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: dispatch and say, Hey, you might want to tell you,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, just literally you were incredibly paranoid.
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: I don't, I don't think that was uncommon. I, I,
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: I remembered, I remember similar things.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't threat. I didn't have, uh, I didn't have
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: work friends and colleagues at that point in time to
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: talk to. We were all scattered again. I was, I
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: was unemployed. Um, so yeah, that was, that was one
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of the tougher things too, was I didn't have a
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: lot of people to commiserate with it, you know? Um, But, yeah,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: it was it was weeks and weeks of wondering and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and horror, just simple horror at the things that we saw,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: especially at the World Trade Centers of people choosing the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: way they were going to die.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: And the other thing about that was because, like, especially
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: in your situation, if you're sitting because I was similar,
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: like you just you just stayed in front of a TV, right,
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: stayed in front of a TV. always had a TV
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: going for a long time after that. And you just
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: kept seeing.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: That was really when the 24-hour news cycle really ramped up.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, CNN just... That was the thing. That's what
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: was on.
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: I remember there was a real discussion months ago. It
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: was like, hey, when do we... When is it appropriate
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: to stop just showing this essentially on a loop? When
• 36:29
  Speaker 7: do we have to do other things? And it was
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: a very... very real conversation because you could not get
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: away from any part of the horror of what that was.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I think my experience is post 9-11, getting to know
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: some of the people who deployed there with Texas Task
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Force One, hearing their stories firsthand, getting to know Andrew Card,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: who was at the president's ear at the kindergarten classroom
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and gave him the news. I think those things Helped
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: kind of shape a little bit more my feelings about
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the situation. But again, that was that was 10, 15
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: years later.
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: And even like everyone has a story about where they were.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Some of the range of these things, like I still
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: have a hard time wrapping my head around the guys
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: that were first responders like Teeks that. had to deal
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: with it's again what you were talking about this about
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: the beam you can go out and you can see
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: a beam.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: From the beam that's the beam that's uh out there
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: at veterans park yeah uh before they they got the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: site ready for it we we we hosted it at
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: teaks yeah so on a daily basis i got to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to see that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: The size the size of it and the scale of
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: it it's a massive piece of metal and then you
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: think what if that if that was exponentially multiply.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah that's the in talking with and getting to uh
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to help document some of the stories of the people
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that responded there to a t all of them talked about.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: The scale insane and and just just i guys to
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: this day i've heard from i've heard a lot of
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: their stories over the years and i still cannot wrap
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: my head around actually being in that environment and uh
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: dealing with it for months and months and months every
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: single day is your job uh back to your stories
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: simon was a young machinist mate second class. He was
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: asleep aboard the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in Japan.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: He was awakened by someone yelling that the Pentagon got attacked.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Jumped out of my rack and ran to the nearest
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: television set to see the second airplane hit the tower.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: I remember feeling so helpless because it was halfway across
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: the world. My family were back home where the attacks
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: were taking place. Needless to say, everyone knew it was
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: time to get ready to go and bring the pain
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: to whoever did it. Our fleet was one of the
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: first to be deployed. Hard to believe that this has
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: been 25 years. It is still a hard day for me.
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: I stay away. I try to stay away from the TV.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: I do not want to see those images. Yeah, it's hard.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I mean, even the even the audio that has been
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: playing on our show today during the national news. I mean,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: people have texted in being affected about that.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, very hard to very hard to relive.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Terry texts in, 25 years ago. Sounds like a long
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: time until you relate it to this event, and it
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: comes back crystal clear.
• 39:19
  Speaker 16: Oh, yeah.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Terry woke up and turned on the TV, as he
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: always did that day, and saw news of the plane,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and it had struck the building. No alarm on my side.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Just thought of a horrific error. on the pilot and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: terrorist attack was far from my thoughts i even told
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a few family members that it wasn't an attack right
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: i arrived at work early and i was walking down
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: the hall at about 7 45 saw tv turned on
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and saw the second strike at that time is when
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: i knew these were not accidents but instead planned attacks
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: The rest of that day was a dull, numb feeling
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: of what is next.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Similar to Terry, I know you said you immediately, like, hey,
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: there's no way this would occur. Because, again, fairness, yeah,
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: there's no way that would happen.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: So many safeguards in place.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: I was also, like Terry, until the second plane hit,
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: when they were telling me, hey, look, there's a plane.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: I was like, wow, that's a horrible accident. That's crazy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: But it was the second plane where that happened.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Completely shifted for a.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: Lot of people. Ann was on her way to have
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: her nails done, listening to her favorite oldies radio station
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: in Austin. And they broke in with the news of
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: the first plane. I remember thinking, oh dear, how sad.
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: The pilot must have had a heart attack.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Those poor people.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: By the time I got to the salon, there was
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: dead silence. TVs were on. Everyone was fixated on the news.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: No one spoke. I remember feeling guilty about being in
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: a nail salon when the country was in chaos. My
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: nail tech did my nails through tears and she was
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: not alone. I went home, turned on the TV and
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: lived on the sofa for days. Now I think about
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: 9-11 every time I get my nails done. It sounds shallow,
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: but I am never comfortable in a crowd, especially at
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: Veterans Park. I go anyway because I will not let
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: the evil terrorism keep me from commemorating it. Yeah, absolutely.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: A couple of notes here. Obviously, there are going to
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: be moments of silence today to commemorate, and those will
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: be coming at 7.46 a.m.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Here, just a couple of minutes.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: 8.03 a.m. for the second plane, 8.37 for the Pentagon, 9.03
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: for the Flight 93 crash. And, geez, you just forget
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: how short of a window this was in.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple hours.
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: Just a couple of hours. Like it was a beginning
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: in two hours and it was done.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: And the focus was on the towers and then the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: reports of the Pentagon.
• 41:41
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: And then the reports that there could still be a
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: plane out there, that there was a plane out there
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: that they could not make contact with, and that was
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Flight 93.
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: To give you guys an opportunity to reflect and commemorate
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: in your own way, we're going to play a montage of,
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: A lot of different things from that time. And again,
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: reflect however you see fit and appropriate. Go to an
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: event if you have the opportunity to today. There are several.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: We talk about them in news. Go to an event
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: this weekend. There are a lot of them.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: All of them are listed at WTAW.com.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: We'll be back in a bit.
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act
• 42:26
  Speaker 11: of war against our country.
• 42:28
  Speaker 23: I know that my father, he wouldn't have just left
• 42:32
  Speaker 23: everyone behind him.
• 42:33
  Speaker 14: He would have looked for his workers.
• 42:35
  Speaker 16: He would have helped people.
• 42:36
  Speaker 11: Each of us will remember what happened that day and
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: to whom it happened. We'll remember the moment the news came,
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: where we were, and what we were doing.
• 42:45
  Speaker 26: I can't find anybody from five rescues and seven squads.
• 42:48
  Speaker 22: We got a building collapsed with officers possibly trapped in
• 42:51
  Speaker 22: the train station.
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: Some will remember an image of a fire or a
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face.
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: And a voice gone forever.
• 43:00
  Speaker 14: He absolutely saved my life.
• 43:02
  Speaker 23: And he had training as a firefighter.
• 43:05
  Speaker 22: The idea of him coming back up and saving me
• 43:08
  Speaker 22: is like just totally incredible.
• 43:10
  Speaker 23: What a hero.
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: And I will carry this.
• 43:12
  Speaker 11: It is the police shield of a man named George
• 43:14
  Speaker 11: Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to
• 43:17
  Speaker 11: save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene,
• 43:21
  Speaker 11: as a proud memorial to her son.
• 43:23
  Speaker 26: We lost people that have given over 40 years.
• 43:26
  Speaker 12: They should have been here already.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: The rig is not back.
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: They're not back.
• 43:30
  Speaker 25: They should have been back.
• 43:31
  Speaker 11: It is my reminder of lives that ended and a
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: task that does not end. For too long, the world
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: has just shrugged its shoulders at terrorism.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: But we now know.
• 43:41
  Speaker 13: That none of us as Americans can avoid that terrorism
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: unless we take strong action against it.
• 43:47
  Speaker 24: We got one and.
• 43:48
  Speaker 27: A half of 13 joints unaccounted for.
• 43:50
  Speaker 22: We got six-row train, seven-row train, and a north tower.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: We got reports of officers We.
• 43:56
  Speaker 16: Saw it in New York City today. Firemen, policemen, volunteers,
• 44:01
  Speaker 16: men and women from all over America and other countries
• 44:05
  Speaker 16: were there together working to recover from this horrible, horrible incident.
• 44:09
  Speaker 27: We have suffered great loss.
• 44:11
  Speaker 9: And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission.
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: And our moment.
• 44:25
  Speaker 22: Shock was days ago, and trembling and.
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: Fear was two days ago, and now.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: I'm angered, and I want to get back in there and.
• 44:34
  Speaker 14: Try to save.
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face,
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: but this country will define our times, not be defined
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: by them.
• 44:43
  Speaker 24: My brother works in the 91st floor, and he's unaccounted
• 44:45
  Speaker 24: for at this time.
• 44:46
  Speaker 10: There was no people to be seen. Even adults couldn't
• 44:50
  Speaker 10: find people.
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: As long as the United States of America is determined
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: and strong... This will not be an age of terror.
• 44:56
  Speaker 12: I drove down the West Side Highway and there were
• 44:58
  Speaker 12: people cheering and it just, I think it rose everybody,
• 45:01
  Speaker 12: it elevated everybody's spirits at that time. And there's some
• 45:04
  Speaker 12: fine people down there, the finest people I've ever seen
• 45:06
  Speaker 12: trying to help.
• 45:17
  Speaker 22: Where were you when the world stopped turning on that
• 45:22
  Speaker 22: September day? Were you in.
• 45:26
  Speaker 28: The yard with your wife.
• 45:28
  Speaker 22: And children or working on some stage in L.A.? Did
• 45:33
  Speaker 22: you stand there in shock at the sight of that
• 45:37
  Speaker 22: black smoke rising against that blue sky?
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: Did you shout out in anger.
• 45:44
  Speaker 22: And fear for your neighbor or did you just sit
• 45:47
  Speaker 22: down and cry? Did you weep for the children who
• 45:54
  Speaker 22: lost their dear loved.
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: Ones and pray for the ones who don't know?
• 46:00
  Speaker 28: Did you rejoice for.
• 46:01
  Speaker 22: The people who walked from the rubble and sob for
• 46:05
  Speaker 22: the ones left below? Did you burst out with pride
• 46:11
  Speaker 22: for the red, white, and blue and the heroes who
• 46:14
  Speaker 22: died just doing what they do?
• 46:17
  Speaker 28: Did you look up to heaven.
• 46:19
  Speaker 22: For some kind of answer And look at yourself and
• 46:24
  Speaker 22: what really matters.
• 46:28
  Speaker 26: I'm just a singer of simple songs.
• 46:31
  Speaker 28: I'm not a real political man.
• 46:35
  Speaker 22: I watch CNN, but I'm not sure I can tell
• 46:40
  Speaker 22: you the difference in Iraq and Iran. But I know
• 46:45
  Speaker 22: Jesus and I talk to God And I remember this
• 46:49
  Speaker 22: from when I was young Faith, hope, and love are
• 46:55
  Speaker 22: some good things He gave us And the greatest is
• 46:59
  Speaker 22: love Wherever you in the world stop turning On that
• 47:08
  Speaker 22: September day Teaching a class full of innocent children Or
• 47:16
  Speaker 22: driving down.
• 47:17
  Speaker 28: Some cold interstate Did you feel guilty cause you're a
• 47:23
  Speaker 28: survivor In a crowded room did you feel alone Did
• 47:28
  Speaker 28: you call up your mother and tell.
• 47:31
  Speaker 14: Her you loved her Did you dust off.
• 47:33
  Speaker 22: That Bible at home Did you open your eyes and
• 47:41
  Speaker 22: hope it never happened?
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: Close your eyes and not go to sleep?
• 47:47
  Speaker 22: Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages?
• 47:51
  Speaker 22: Speak to some stranger on the street? Did you lay
• 47:56
  Speaker 22: down at night and think of tomorrow? Go out and
• 48:01
  Speaker 22: buy you a gun? Did you turn off that violent
• 48:06
  Speaker 22: old movie you're watching? And turn on our blue Siri
• 48:10
  Speaker 22: runs Did you go to a church And hold hands
• 48:15
  Speaker 22: with some strangers Stand in line and give your own
• 48:19
  Speaker 22: blood Did you just stay home And cling tight to
• 48:24
  Speaker 22: your family Thank God you had somebody to.
• 48:27
  Speaker 26: Love I'm just a singer of simple songs I'm not
• 48:35
  Speaker 26: a real political man I watch CNN but.
• 48:41
  Speaker 22: I'm not sure I can tell you The difference in
• 48:45
  Speaker 22: our rock and our end.
• 48:48
  Speaker 26: But I know Jesus and I've talked to God And I.
• 48:52
  Speaker 29: Remember this from when I was young.
• 48:56
  Speaker 22: Faith, hope, and love are some good things he gave us.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: And the greatest is love.
• 49:05
  Speaker 29: I'm just a singer of simple songs.
• 49:08
  Speaker 22: I'm not a real political man.
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: I watch CNN, but I'm not.
• 49:15
  Speaker 22: Sure I can tell you the difference in our rock.
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: And our race.
• 49:21
  Speaker 22: But I know Jesus and I.
• 49:24
  Speaker 28: Talk to God and I.
• 49:25
  Speaker 29: Remember this from when I was young faith hope and
• 49:31
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• 49:35
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  Speaker 21: Good morning, I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update
• 51:54
  Speaker 21: on 1620-945-WTAW. Tomorrow, the A & M football team hosts
• 51:59
  Speaker 21: their second game of the 2026 season, and this is
• 52:02
  Speaker 21: the second time in program history that A & M
• 52:05
  Speaker 21: will play against Arizona State. This is the first Big
• 52:08
  Speaker 21: 12 opponent that will play in Kyle Field since the
• 52:11
  Speaker 21: Aggies left the conference in 2011. Head coach Mike Elko
• 52:15
  Speaker 21: spoke about the top three players in each group that
• 52:17
  Speaker 21: made the biggest impact on the Missouri State game as
• 52:20
  Speaker 21: well as on the O-line.
• 52:22
  Speaker 25: On scout team, on defense, it was Tylan Wilson. Safety,
• 52:25
  Speaker 25: I thought he did a really, really good job last
• 52:27
  Speaker 25: week running around and making a bunch of plays. Offensively,
• 52:30
  Speaker 25: it was Avery Morcho at right tackle, did a really
• 52:33
  Speaker 25: good job on the O-line. And then Luke Braden was
• 52:35
  Speaker 25: our special team scout team player of the week. In
• 52:38
  Speaker 25: the game, our offensive lineman of the game was Tyree Adams.
• 52:42
  Speaker 25: I thought he graded out really, really well, both in
• 52:45
  Speaker 25: the pass game and in the run game. I thought
• 52:47
  Speaker 25: he played really, really physical. Had the one holding penalty,
• 52:50
  Speaker 25: which I thought was an aggressive penalty at least. Obviously,
• 52:53
  Speaker 25: we don't want those, but at least it was, in
• 52:55
  Speaker 25: my opinion, an aggressive penalty.
• 52:57
  Speaker 21: Coach Elko also mentioned the other players that made impacts
• 53:01
  Speaker 21: on the Week 1 game.
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: On all sides of the ball.
• 53:03
  Speaker 25: Defensive alignment of the week was TJ Searcy, a guy
• 53:06
  Speaker 25: who was just really stout and firm in the run
• 53:10
  Speaker 25: game and some of the things they were trying to
• 53:11
  Speaker 25: do early on. Our players of the week on offense,
• 53:15
  Speaker 25: it was Marcel Reed, 21 for 30, 253 all-purpose yards,
• 53:20
  Speaker 25: two touchdowns, no turnovers. Thought it was a really, really
• 53:23
  Speaker 25: good start for him for the season. Defensively, it was
• 53:26
  Speaker 25: Ryan Henderson, one of the most productive games from a
• 53:30
  Speaker 25: snap count standpoint. I think he played four total snaps,
• 53:32
  Speaker 25: had a fourth down stop, and a sack fumble. So
• 53:36
  Speaker 25: that's really impressive. We obviously planned on playing him more,
• 53:39
  Speaker 25: but we didn't have very many defensive snaps in the game.
• 53:42
  Speaker 25: And then on special teams, it was Mario Craver. He
• 53:45
  Speaker 25: did a really, really nice job. Wound up only averaging
• 53:48
  Speaker 25: nine yards a return, but one of those because he
• 53:49
  Speaker 25: grabbed one, saved us, and stepped out of bounds. So
• 53:51
  Speaker 25: he really had two returns for about 29 yards, which
• 53:55
  Speaker 25: was really good, creating some hidden field position for us.
• 53:58
  Speaker 21: In tomorrow's game, these are some of the players to
• 54:00
  Speaker 21: watch on the field in Week 2. Kickoff for the
• 54:04
  Speaker 21: A & M vs. Arizona State game is set for
• 54:06
  Speaker 21: 11 o'clock in the morning at Kyle Field. The Aggie
• 54:10
  Speaker 21: soccer team opens up SEC conference play tonight in Kentucky
• 54:13
  Speaker 21: against the Wildcats. Head coach Bobby Shuttleworth shared thoughts ahead
• 54:17
  Speaker 21: of opening conference play and on how his young team
• 54:20
  Speaker 21: is growing each week.
• 54:21
  Speaker 10: I feel like the team has made some big steps forward.
• 54:23
  Speaker 10: I think we're still very much a work in progress
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: and trying to develop and progress every day. I think
• 54:29
  Speaker 10: it's obviously an important week for us leading into the
• 54:31
  Speaker 10: start of SEC play, but I feel like we had
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: a good performance on Sunday and was a good step
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: forward and full attention to Kentucky. Like I said, I
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: think it's still a work in progress and I think
• 54:43
  Speaker 10: that we've again showed signs of being a really good
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: team and doing a lot of really good things. And
• 54:48
  Speaker 10: then times where, you know, we're not putting ourselves in
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  Speaker 10: good positions and we're not putting ourselves on the front
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  Speaker 10: foot to be successful. So I think we just got
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  Speaker 10: to find consistency in those things and continue to try
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  Speaker 10: to solve the game at a high rate to put
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  Speaker 10: ourselves in those positions to be successful.
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  Speaker 21: First kick for tomorrow's game is set for 630. The
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  Speaker 21: A & M Volleyball team returns to Reed Arena tonight
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  Speaker 21: to take on the No. 6-ranked Wisconsin. Tonight's matchup marks
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  Speaker 21: the 11th meeting between the Aggies and Wisconsin with the
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  Speaker 21: Badgers holding an 8-2 advantage in the all-time series. First
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  Speaker 21: serve is set for 7 o'clock. In high school football,
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  Speaker 21: the Bryan Vikings hit the road tonight to take on
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  Speaker 21: the Waco Lions with kickoff set for 7 o'clock. A
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  Speaker 21: & M Consolidated is also on the road tonight headed
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  Speaker 21: to Pflugerville-Conley to take on the Cougars at 7. College
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  Speaker 21: Station is hosting the Shoemaker Gray Wolves with a 7
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  Speaker 21: o'clock kickoff. Rudder is headed to Jacksonville to take on
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  Speaker 21: the Indians with a 7.30 kick. Navasota is on the
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  Speaker 21: road tonight with a 7.30 kickoff. Allen Academy is hosting
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  Speaker 21: Legacy Christian Academy with a 7.30 kickoff. Ann Caldwell is
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  Speaker 21: hosting Lexington tonight with a 7.30 kickoff. That's your morning
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  Speaker 7: be on the warmer side. It's going to feel a
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  Speaker 7: lot hotter than it is, only getting up to the mid-90s,
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  Speaker 7: and it feels like temperatures topping out around 105°F. 20%
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  Speaker 7: chance of rain, which will, good Lord, hopefully happen to
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  Speaker 7: cool us off or something. We'll see. Same thing tomorrow,
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  Speaker 7: down to the 70s tonight. But, yeah, that chance of
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  Speaker 7: rain will be in play for tomorrow, although it's an
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  Speaker 7: afternoon and evening chance of rain. So, thank goodness no
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