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Highlights for Curtis and Larry · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, as we get closer to the weekend, apparently we
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  Speaker 1: get closer to a more accurate forecast, and everybody is
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  Speaker 1: still talking about this Nor'easter, so let's bring in WOR
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  Speaker 1: meteorologist Ray Stajic to get the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Ray, it looks a little more clear now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, certainly a Nor'easter, I think that's a
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  Speaker 3: factor pretty close to it, and then impacts, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: is where You know, the big questions come in. Is it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, strong winds, 40-plus where we get into tropical
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  Speaker 3: storm force winds? Probably not New York City and the
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  Speaker 3: five boroughs west and north of that. But there'll be
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  Speaker 3: a cutoff probably even around the Nassau and Suffolk County
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  Speaker 3: line where we may see winds, especially as you get
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  Speaker 3: out further toward the east, exceed 40, 50 miles per
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  Speaker 3: hour at some of the gusts. certainly a greater risk
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  Speaker 3: for damaging winds, which could bring down some trees, power lines.
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  Speaker 3: There could be some power outages. Now, I do mention
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  Speaker 3: that even for us here in New York City because
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  Speaker 3: we're still leafed out. I mean, we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: winds that could gust maybe 35-plus miles per hour. And
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  Speaker 3: with the trees being leafed out, there's a better opportunity
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  Speaker 3: for maybe some branches to break, maybe some small trees
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  Speaker 3: to come down. So there could be some problems with
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  Speaker 3: some spotty power outages. So that's the wind piece of it.
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  Speaker 3: And then you've got the rain piece. The heaviest rain, again,
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  Speaker 3: will be east. Flooding from rain coming out of the
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  Speaker 3: sky I don't think is going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 3: There could be totals that could get up to a
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  Speaker 3: half inch, maybe up to an inch, but again, higher
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  Speaker 3: totals east. It's really all about the flooding coming from
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  Speaker 3: the water that's on the ground, meaning the Atlantic. That's
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  Speaker 3: all coming in. The coastal flood advisories and watches and
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  Speaker 3: statements are already out, especially during high tides, too. South-facing
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  Speaker 3: shores of Long Island, maybe New York Harbor, Going to
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  Speaker 3: see a water rise. Minor to moderate flooding is expected. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: with all that, Larry, we're looking at, you know, we're still, what,
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  Speaker 3: two days out? And things could change, track further toward
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  Speaker 3: the west. Could bring bigger impacts in here to the city.
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  Speaker 3: Off to the east could bring less impacts. But right now,
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  Speaker 3: I think there'll be some impacts. The question will be,
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  Speaker 3: will they be greater than we're thinking right now, or
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  Speaker 3: will they be less than we're thinking right now? There's
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  Speaker 3: still some of the fine details that, as we now
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  Speaker 3: cast probably from this point forward, basically updating with every
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  Speaker 3: major model run later this morning and then again tonight
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  Speaker 3: every about 12 hours or so. We'll have a little
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  Speaker 3: better picture about what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Now, hold on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm looking at all of your brethren and your sisters
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  Speaker 5: in solidarity on the boob tube. And they're pumping fear, fright, hysteria. And,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they're hyping it. It's the lead story. You
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  Speaker 5: would think it's Superstorm Sandy round two.
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  Speaker 4: This nor'easter floods again. fill up the sandbags now.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they are really pumping it as a potential crisis.
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  Speaker 5: You're sort of like, you got a cup of coffee
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  Speaker 5: in your hand.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, hey, mention, mention, poco, poco, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, that's just not my gig. You know
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  Speaker 6: what I mean? It's kind of like, here's the information, right?
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  Speaker 3: And there'll be coastal flooding, and for some, moderate flooding
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  Speaker 3: is still going to bring water into places that don't
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  Speaker 3: really want to have water, but You know, looking at
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  Speaker 3: a Sandy, no, it's not going to be a Sandy.
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  Speaker 6: So let's get that out of the picture. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to be, you know, something that becomes
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  Speaker 3: further toward the West could be worse. But I really
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  Speaker 3: don't think we're going to be looking at, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the right word is catastrophic, but
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  Speaker 3: it's certainly going to have impacts. The question is going
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  Speaker 3: to be, you know, where will they be right now?
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be from probably the greatest impacts, coastal flooding. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there's a little hype around it because
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  Speaker 3: just because of the slow movement of the storm and
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  Speaker 3: because of the persistent onshore flow that's already occurring. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're already seeing the water rise along the Atlantic beaches,
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  Speaker 3: especially down further South and around Chesapeake Bay at one
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  Speaker 3: to two feet. So that persistent kind of push in
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  Speaker 3: with a gradient wind with a high pressure to the
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  Speaker 3: North and then developing low certainly will cause problems. But Sandy, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't want to discount that there won't be
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  Speaker 3: some impacts for some, especially from the flooding piece of it.
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  Speaker 1: So I can give you the answer to this mystery
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  Speaker 1: on why it's being hyped. I emailed a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine that's a meteorologist down in Philadelphia, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: so are you hyping the storm? What were the ratings
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  Speaker 1: last night? All he texted back was up 80%.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean, listen, that's what we do. That's
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  Speaker 6: a piece of it, and I just....
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: And especially still, you know, me, I'm like three day Ray.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, you get to it outside of three days.
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  Speaker 3: Forget it. I'm not touching it today. Next model run
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  Speaker 3: later this morning, tomorrow. I'm sure we'll talk tomorrow. They'll
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  Speaker 3: probably have a higher confidence forecast and we can be
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  Speaker 3: talking tomorrow. And at this time talking about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: anything from this thing's going further East and we'll have
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  Speaker 3: even less impacts to, and we're shifting a little further West.
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  Speaker 3: And again, we may see more significant impacts. There's plenty
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  Speaker 3: of time.
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  Speaker 5: You should have been dancing. You should have been on
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  Speaker 5: dancing with the stars. You have danced around this question
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  Speaker 5: now two days in a row.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Forget the shoreline. Forget the sandbags.
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  Speaker 5: We've got the three biggest festivals each year in New
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  Speaker 5: York city taking place this weekend. The last two days
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  Speaker 5: is San Gennaro packed. You got the third Avenue festival
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  Speaker 5: and Bay Ridge packed. You got the Atlantic annex, uh,
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  Speaker 5: from Barkley center to, uh, the East River along Atlantic Avenue, packed.
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  Speaker 4: That's Saturday, Sunday. Is it going to be a wipeout?
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  Speaker 4: Is it going to be raining? Come on, Ray. You
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  Speaker 4: got to cough up a little bit here.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it will be raining, and it will be fairly windy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, I mean, it ain't pretty when it's windy.
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  Speaker 3: When you've got gusts of 35 miles per hour and
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  Speaker 3: the rain's coming down, the rain could be blowing around.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to be pretty.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so poncho while I'm eating my sausage and peppers.
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  Speaker 1: Who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Is that Curtis or is that Larry Poncho?
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  Speaker 6: Poncho on lefty.
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  Speaker 5: Well, is the worst day Saturday or Sunday?
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  Speaker 4: So maybe they can get in a festival on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: What is worse?
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  Speaker 3: I think worse later Saturday into Saturday night, early Sunday.
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  Speaker 8: That's like the whole weekend right there.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, did you miss the part where I said slow moving?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I don't want to hear slow moving.
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  Speaker 6: You guys just hear what you want to hear.
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  Speaker 1: No, we haven't heard anything we want to hear yet.
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  Speaker 2: Not one thing we want to hear yet did we hear.
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  Speaker 2: You see, we like ratings.
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  Speaker 6: It's not going to be pretty.
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  Speaker 2: We like ratings. Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 9: Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: I stepped on the... It's not going to be pretty?
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  Speaker 2: How unpretty is it going to be?
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  Speaker 6: Do you want me to say I'm not going outdoors?
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't. Oh, I ruined it for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Because of flying objects?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Rain, wind. See? 35 mile per hour gust. Did we
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  Speaker 6: miss all this in this five, six minute conversation?
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  Speaker 2: I think I did.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going outside.
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  Speaker 2: Death and destruction?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 6: I won't go that far yet. Please don't. But I'll
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  Speaker 6: leave an opportunity and just a little window there for that.
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  Speaker 5: All right. What worried me a bit, you gave me
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  Speaker 5: a little caveat into your thinking.
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  Speaker 4: And if it goes west, remember what you said there?
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  Speaker 4: If it goes west.
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  Speaker 6: I did.
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  Speaker 5: Then that impacts me because, you know, Friday I'm heading
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  Speaker 5: up to Marshall, New York, to rescue the 16,000 beagles.
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  Speaker 5: People are on their way up there. That's like 18
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  Speaker 5: minutes south of Utica, New York.
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  Speaker 6: What's it going to be like there?
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  Speaker 4: To save the beagles.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Drive fast and you'll get out of it pretty quick.
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  Speaker 6: Save the beagles, you'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: He's pretty clear on that, Larry. Everything else, he's doing
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  Speaker 5: the tango, the cha-cha, everything else.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody cares in Utica. They don't care. You know, they're hardy,
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  Speaker 6: those upstaters. I'm one of the upstaters. Rain, wind, who cares?
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  Speaker 6: Ten feet of snow, no big deal.
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  Speaker 3: You need to bring some of that down into the
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  Speaker 3: city here and everybody's like, Throws a fit.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, a little rain, a little wind. Deal with it.
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  Speaker 6: Body power outage. Again, I'm not going outside.
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  Speaker 5: You're so laid back, Ray. Come see, come saw. Live
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  Speaker 5: and let live. Hey, it could change tomorrow. Don't worry
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  Speaker 5: about it.
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  Speaker 4: But he ain't going out.
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  Speaker 2: A little rain, a little wind.
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  Speaker 4: But notice, Larry, you pinned him down. You said, are
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  Speaker 4: you going out this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Because he doesn't want to get wet.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole thing. He doesn't want to get wet.
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  Speaker 1: And he apparently doesn't have a house along the shoreline.
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  Speaker 1: If he had a house along the shoreline, this would
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  Speaker 1: be a bigger deal. Yeah, because, I mean, the shore
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  Speaker 1: communities are talking about pulling cars. I mean, they don't
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  Speaker 1: want people to park, and they want to make sure.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the parking garages are saying, here, you can
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  Speaker 1: have free parking. Come put your car in our place.
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  Speaker 1: So they're taking this pretty seriously, unlike you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's not really how I want it to be painted.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like, well, the coastal areas, that's where
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  Speaker 3: the greatest impacts will be.
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  Speaker 6: And I just feel like they have enough.
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  Speaker 3: Information and from living there that they know what minor
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  Speaker 3: to moderate flooding during high tide. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: as a full moon too, that's not going to help
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  Speaker 3: is going to bring, I think for the majority of
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  Speaker 3: the population, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. That's where I'm kind of aiming at the majority
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  Speaker 6: of the population, meaning. So yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're just giving you a hard time.
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  Speaker 6: We'll give you, but he's on his feet.
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  Speaker 2: But tomorrow you pretty much you'll have this nailed down.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't expect any big changes. If there are,
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  Speaker 3: trust me, I'll come in here screaming.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking right now at the news. Wind gusts at
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  Speaker 1: 45 mile an hour, waves up to 13 feet.
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  Speaker 6: Where?
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  Speaker 10: 45.
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  Speaker 3: Probably Long Island.
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See once again you start putting out false information somebody
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  Speaker 3: and somebody just caught that like me and said when's
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  Speaker 3: the 45 mile per hour i was teasing just left
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  Speaker 3: that but i didn't say where.
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  Speaker 1: I was teasing about north carolina they they did it
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  Speaker 1: this is a new york forecast for our area i
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  Speaker 1: think it's i think it's one of those up to
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  Speaker 1: things you know you go by the most extremes on
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  Speaker 1: the TV news, but it's going to be something we don't,
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  Speaker 1: we do know at this point, it's going to be something.
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  Speaker 2: And why don't we talk again tomorrow and we'll be kinder.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we, I don't, we're laughing now, but we
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  Speaker 7: might not be laughing Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Right. Again. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Again, impacts will be, I'd say somebody say rate on
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  Speaker 3: a scale one to 10, like a five, a.
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  Speaker 2: Five, unless you level on the shoreline, it might be higher.
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Eastern long Island. The winds will gust 50-plus. Montauk, point
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  Speaker 3: out that way. You're going to get 50-mile-an-hour winds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: We're ready. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Ray. I think we got it. I think
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  Speaker 2: we got it.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again tomorrow if you do come back.
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  Speaker 1: Ray Stajic, Meteorologist for WOR.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Curtis Lewa and Larry Minty in the morning. The conversation continues.
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  Speaker 4: On 710WOR.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the White House has lost in court.
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  Speaker 2: Judges ruled.
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  Speaker 5: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: District Judge Timothy Kelly has ruled. that they can't pull
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  Speaker 1: the press credentials. And they believe he believes he didn't
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  Speaker 1: rule on this.
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  Speaker 2: He believes it is.
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  Speaker 1: Unconstitutional and might have to be cleared up by a
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  Speaker 1: higher court for the time being. He has a 14
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  Speaker 1: day hold on that, a 14 day respite. So CNN,
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  Speaker 1: MS Now and Politico will be able to get into
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  Speaker 1: the White House at least for the next 14 days.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk to our own correspondent, John Decker, W.O.,
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  Speaker 1: our White House correspondent and Washington correspondent. He's also host
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  Speaker 1: of the podcast, The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
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  Speaker 1: That can be found on the iHeartRadio app. So, John,
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  Speaker 1: I went through a little bit on this ruling yesterday
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  Speaker 1: about the press corps.
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  Speaker 2: What happens now?
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  Speaker 9: Well, what happens now is that those news organizations can
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  Speaker 9: return to cover the White House. The ban has been lifted,
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  Speaker 9: as you pointed out. This is what's known as a
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  Speaker 9: temporary restraining order, a TRO. It's an injunction, but it
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  Speaker 9: lasts for 14 days, and the administration has 14 days
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  Speaker 9: in which to appeal this decision to the D.C. Circuit
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  Speaker 9: Court of Appeals. And I would imagine they'll do that.
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  Speaker 9: But what it means is that this particular issue in
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  Speaker 9: the short term is one in which the president has
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  Speaker 9: suffered a loss in the federal courts. He predicted that
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  Speaker 9: would happen. I predicted that would happen back on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 9: And this is one of those issues in which the
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  Speaker 9: president clearly not happy with the coverage that he's receiving
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  Speaker 9: from certain news organizations, including the ones that were banned.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see this going up to the Supreme Court? No,
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  Speaker 2: I don't.
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  Speaker 9: I think that at a certain point, the administration drops
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  Speaker 9: this effort. You know, it was always and is a
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  Speaker 9: losing cause. And for the reasons that were spelled out
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  Speaker 9: by the federal judge, a Trump appointee who was assigned
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  Speaker 9: this case, one, there was no due process for those journalists.
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  Speaker 9: They received no notice that their hard passes to the
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  Speaker 9: White House were being revoked, nor did they have an
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  Speaker 9: opportunity to appeal that decision. That's problem number one. And
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  Speaker 9: problem number two, for all those First Amendment advocates out there,
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  Speaker 9: this is a clear-cut case of viewpoint discrimination. In other words,
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  Speaker 9: the president's saying he doesn't like the coverage being given
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  Speaker 9: to him by these three news organizations, and as a result,
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  Speaker 9: he's going to ban them from the White House That,
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  Speaker 9: based on a 1977 court case, also in the D.C.
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  Speaker 6: Circuit, is illegal.
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  Speaker 5: Now, John Decker, yesterday after the show, I was talking
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  Speaker 5: with Larry about, hey, whatever happened to AP?
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  Speaker 4: They were banned a long time ago.
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  Speaker 5: And Larry told me they were banned because they had
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  Speaker 5: the culions, the chutzpahs, to refer to the Gulf of
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  Speaker 5: Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico and not the Gulf
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  Speaker 5: of America.
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  Speaker 4: Say that ain't so, John Decker.
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  Speaker 9: No, Larry, he's right on the money. That's the reason
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  Speaker 9: for the ban for the Associated Press. That issue, by
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  Speaker 9: the way, still being argued in the federal court system,
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: still not resolved entirely. Certain AP reporters are indeed being
• 16:01
  Speaker 9: permitted to cover certain events at the White House, including
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: those in the Oval Office. It doesn't impact AP photographers.
• 16:07
  Speaker 9: They travel with the president on Air Force One. They
• 16:10
  Speaker 9: go into the Oval Office, into the Cabinet Room. But
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: that's another issue that arose early on in President Trump's
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: second term.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I will say, and you can tell me if
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong about this, this is the most ballet, the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: most publicized, the most newsworthy maybe visit that the president
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: had at the White House. It certainly has gotten a
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: lot of attention for even the last two weeks with
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Chairman Xi from China. What is on the agenda? I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: would assume AI is on there, but every time I
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: say that, I'm told, no, no, no, there's many, many
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: other things ahead of AI.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Is that the case?
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Keep in mind this.
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: I traveled with the president back in May to Beijing
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: when the president was hosted for a state visit, and
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: now the president is reciprocating. Back in May, AI was
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: not even on the agenda, and it's remarkable in just
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: a few months, that it is on the agenda.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Is it at the top of.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: The list of things to discuss?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: No.
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, always the top when you're talking about the
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: two largest economies in the world is tariffs and trade.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: And so that will be the number one issue discussed
• 17:22
  Speaker 9: between the president, his team, President Xi, his team at
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: the White House. A series of meetings will take place.
• 17:28
  Speaker 9: In addition to that, security issues, the future of Taiwan,
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: and yes, the future of AI. In addition to that,
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: Larry and Curtis, You also have the president will certainly
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: bring up China's support of Iran and China's support of
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: Russia in its war with Ukraine. Those issues will come
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: up as well.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: Now, John Decker, based on public comments, it appears that
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: the Red Chinese and the United States, the Trump administration,
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: are on the same pathway with AI, which is this
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: is a race, no guardrails. To the winner go the spoils,
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: at least apparently by public comments. But boy, at the
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: United Nations yesterday, you had the two top CEOs warning
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: the world, you know, if it gets out of control
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: of the humans, it could be dystopian. Even Zelensky, who
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: was making his yearly appeal for more help, said, and
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: let me warn you, as having been in war for
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: four years, we cannot allow AI to be involved in
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: war or it'll be devastating. Speaker after speaker after speaker said,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: And yet the two most powerful world leaders just appear
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: to be saying this is a race and we don't
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: want to be confined.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: We don't want guardrails.
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a good read on it. You know, the
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: president made that clear in his address that he gave
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. And although
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: President Xi hasn't spoken much about this, I think he's
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: likely on the same page as President Trump. You know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: if it is a race, if it is a competition...
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: China would like to win that race. China would like
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: to win the competition, just like the president spelled out
• 19:06
  Speaker 9: in his speech and even before his speech that he
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: gave at the U.N.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: You know, I was listening to both Chuck Schumer and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, both from New York, giving press conferences yesterday,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: and they were naming all these issues that they believe
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Congress has to deal with. And they were frustrated that
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: there's not going to be enough time, and they were
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: blaming the Republicans for that. Just correct me if I'm
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: wrong on this, but usually right before a midterm election,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Congress is off a lot because they have to go
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: out and they have to campaign.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Isn't this normal?
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: It is normal.
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: It's just a matter of when that recess takes place,
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: when they adjourn.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: It's just a matter of timing. And maybe it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: a day.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: Or two earlier that we saw Congress adjourn to get
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: back to their states, to get back to their home districts.
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: But it's generally around the same time that we saw
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: the adjournment take place in other midterm election years, just
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: like we saw this year as well.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Now, we saw yesterday the president of Iran spoke and
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: he talked about we will not buck or bow or bend,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: but we still we want to discuss. You know, we're
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: open to discussion. Did anything result from all the back
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: channeling that took place first when our president spoke the
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: day before and when president of Iran spoke yesterday between
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: the delegations, the Americans and the Iranians that were there?
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: No, we're still in the same place, unfortunately, because I
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: think that, you know, hearing it from Republicans, the president's
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: own allies, they want this war. They're saying this publicly.
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: They want this war to end quickly as well because
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: they're hearing it from their constituents. You know, you have
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: gas prices so high, diesel prices so high, the prices
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: at the supermarket because the diesel prices are so high.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: All of those reasons you have very prominent supporters of
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: the president urging him, to end this conflict as soon
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: as practicable. But it hasn't happened yet. And those discussions
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: did take place in New York, but it didn't move
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: the needle in any way.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Well, John Decker, God bless you, because I have never
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: seen a news cycle this chaotic. Almost every single day,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: there's a new topic thrown at you. As you mentioned,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: AI now is a big deal. Remember, the flock cameras
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: were a huge deal. Now, you know, it's China, it's everything.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: What's gotten lost in all of that is Cuba. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: is there any news out of there?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, we.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Isolated Cuba, we talked about possibly taking the government over,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and now it just seems to hang on in defiance
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of us.
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: Well, the president brought up Cuba in his speech to
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: the UN, hinted, you know, that Cuba could be next.
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: He's got a lot, he being the president, President Trump
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: has a lot on his plate right now that he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: dealing with. And let's not forget, the midterm elections are
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: They're less than six weeks away. So it's not that
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: Cuba has disappeared. It's not like Cuba has gone away. Cuba, however,
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: has taken a backseat to these other more important issues
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: that are on the president's plate right now. And I
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: would imagine he'll return to Cuba once these issues have
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: been cleared off his plate.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: And then finally, John Decker.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: With the meeting with Red China out of the way
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: as we get through the weekend. When is the president
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: beginning his promised barnstorming on behalf of 38 separate Republicans
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: either running for re-election or trying to get elected? That
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: includes Congress and the Senate.
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: Well, I think you're going to see that this week.
• 22:45
  Speaker 9: In fact, I just got word the president just added
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: to the schedule. He's going to be attending a college
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: football game I don't have an indication about which one
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: on Saturday he'll be attending, but my guess is it's
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: going to be in one of those states that has
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: a very competitive Senate race. That would be my guess.
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: And then as far as next week's schedule is concerned,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: I would imagine that the president will hit the road
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: on behalf of a candidate who is in a competitive race,
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: whether it's the House or the Senate. The president realizes
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: what's at stake. So it's really going to begin in
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: earnest this coming week, Curtis.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: John Decker, WOR White House and Washington correspondent, host of
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the podcast The White House Briefing Room with John Decker.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: You can find that on the iHeartRadio app. Good talking
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: to you, John. Thank you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Have a great day. Bye-bye.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: There is a substance out there that you should be
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: aware of. It's become very popular in universities. It's called Kratom. C-R-A-T-O-M. Kratom.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It is connected right now to two deaths at the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: University of Mississippi.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Here is the 911 call.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I'm meeting around the campus of Stewart Hall, 61 Women's Terrace.
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Stewart Hall, 61 Women's Terrace.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they tried at CPR. They tried to save him.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: He was, she was already dead. There was also a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: male student that was killed there. Kratom has killed well
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: over two dozen high school students and college students across
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the country. Here's the thing about it. If you're hearing
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: it for the first time, and I just heard about
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: it with this University of Mississippi death, It is a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: legal substance, legal in the United States, in that it
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: is not federally controlled. Now, some states have laws against it,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but it's not considered a federally controlled substance. It varies
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: from state to state. 31 states have some sort of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: regulation in place. A couple of states have banned it outright.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It is not FDA-approved substance, and again, those rules on
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: how to and where to sell kratom vary state to state.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So it's important to know, and I have not looked
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: into the rules in New Jersey and New York. I should,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: but I will, and I'll pass that along to you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But kratom is natural, and they also, this is the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: word you might hear, it's called gas station heroin, because
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you can pick it up at most gas stations, and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: it's become extremely popular on campuses. So it's something you really,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: really need to know about. Here's more from a physician.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Kratom's been around for a while, and it's been sold
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: in gas stations for quite a while. And now what
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: people are doing is they're isolating the active compound in Kratom.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: You may have heard the term 7-OH before, and they
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: are producing it at very potent levels. And now, you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: if Kratom wasn't enough, they're starting to buy this 7-OH.
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of active ingredients in it, and they're
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: making it stronger and stronger and stronger because then it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: becomes more addictive and more addictive and more addictive. That
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is one of the things. That, by the way, is
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the contributor at Fox News, Dr. Stephanie Widmer.
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: Fentanyl is incredibly potent, but the cyclorphine goes beyond that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: And it was actually first identified around 2024. But its
• 26:30
  Speaker 10: prevalence is starting to increase, and it's something that we
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: need to watch out for.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: So there should be some laws about this. It should
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: be banned across the country because now it's starting to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: kill people. They have now made it stronger than it
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: used to be. And again, you can buy it at
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: a gas station. But as she said, it started in 2024.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody even heard of it before 2024. It's becoming popular now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: But certainly, you should have a talk with your grandchildren
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and your children about this so they don't make the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: same mistake that many young people have made across the country.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Well, shame, shame on us. We went through this with K2.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Remember the fake marijuana? They sold it in gas stations,
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: truck stops. uh, you, or you did it nice package,
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: you know, K2, they would take the leaves falling from
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: a tree and spray it with chemicals. And it turned
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: people into K2 zombies, very cheap, pay for a dollar
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: or two. So obviously nobody is regulating what's being sold
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: at these gas stations, truck stops and rest stations. So
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: now we have a new drug. And once again, Americans
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: have an insatiable appetite for drugs. They'll come up with
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: a new drug, but There is a remedy for many
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: of you who are frightened because your children are away
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: at college and university and maybe might succumb to the
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: peer pressure of sororities or frats or their age group. Yes,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: our own producer, Natalie, has discovered an agency in which
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: you can hire a mother away from home to dote
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: over your students to make sure maybe they stay out
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: of harm's way.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Can you give us some details on this, Natalie? I will.
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: And Larry, I did a very quick search for you.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: This is very, very basic, but.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: It looks like in New York, Creighton is illegal to
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: sell for anyone under 21.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Great.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: But in New Jersey... The laws are different and it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: still broadly accessible.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: And if you're over 21 in New York, you can
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: buy it?
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: That's what it says.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: And in New Jersey right now, there's some legislation, but
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: it's still around.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: And I have heard about this from my kids who
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: have said that, you know, it is a thing that
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: college kids talk about it. So, yeah, college age, you
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: should try to find out what's going on in their
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: worlds because everything happens so fast.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's sick that they're making this stronger and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: stronger and stronger to make it more addictive.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: How can they hire you, Natalie, at the various universities
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: in New Jersey to watch over their kids?
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: You brought this to my attention recently. There are companies.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: One is called Mindy Knows. It's not around here.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: It's about 10 large universities that you can be a
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: mother to a child at a school that maybe you're
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: not around. So say you have a child at Rutgers,
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: but you live in South Carolina. And you're like, oh
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: my gosh, I need to help, you know, somebody could
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: be on top of my kid. Apparently you can hire mothers.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: So I'm thinking this is a good sidekick for me.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: What about Penn Station to make sure that my undergrad
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: son is not involved in packaging cocaine and distributing it
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: around the country?
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: That would be hard for me to probably do, but
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: I could be hired out to help your kid if
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: they become sick when they're at school and you can't
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: be there and I could run and get them stuff.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Chicken soup.
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: I can make really good chicken soup.
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: I do. So you have brought this to my attention
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: and I am now looking at my side hustle being
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: a mom for hire.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: You know what sounds better than Mindy knows? Natalie knows.
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: Natalie knows.
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: Natalie knows.
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: And I was thinking, I mean, the universities around, you know,
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: Seton Hall, Ramapo, Montclair.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: There's a plethora.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of them.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: I mean, I want to be driving distance. I want
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: to be able to get there in a hurry if
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: I need to.
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: But there are a lot of women out there who
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: would want to side hustle like this. And the family
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: who has sent their kids away who are worried every
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: time they hear stories like this would feel somewhat comforted
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: that they have somebody they can talk to.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Well, she doesn't need the competition. Don't try to get
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: some more people doing this. Let her establish first.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Spying on their kid.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: You're like a flock camera on the kid.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: I am on the parent pages. Everybody knows about the
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Facebook parent pages.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: There's something.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: That's good reading if you want to have a laugh
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: here and there.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: And I'm always chiming in like, Because somebody's like, oh,
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: my kid needs a hair place or whatever.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: Why am I giving it out for free?
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Can I get involved in this somehow?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Um, we'll see.