Latest / The Erica Show / THE ERICA SHOW - 3 Things We Need To Know 8-14-23

Transcript

THE ERICA SHOW - 3 Things We Need To Know 8-14-23 · The Erica Show

• 0:00
  Here are the three things. One five, we still have severe weather risk
• 0:07
  today. Hot and humid conditions continue. The heat index values at one hundred
• 0:11
  and five to one hundred and nine. They say, be very careful our
• 0:13
  first responders, saying that they're expecting to get more calls because of the heat.
• 0:17
  So to be clear, that means it feels like one hundred and five
• 0:20
  to one hundred and nine degrees outside. Yes, so we're spoiled because we're
• 0:24
  in the ace and really it's not cold in here, but those that are
• 0:26
  working outside, we are sending so much love because it's definitely hot and humid.
• 0:29
  When we pay our bills, sometimes it feels like we're in the ace
• 0:32
  in here. Sometimes it doesn't. We've got birds circling the building. I'm
• 0:36
  like, either they know the storm is coming because they're calling for storms later
• 0:39
  today, or they know that it's so hot that somebody's gonna drop before too
• 0:43
  long. So be careful out there. And at least ninety three confirmed deaths
• 0:47
  from the wildfires in Maui, making it the deadliest wildfires in you in the
• 0:51
  US in over one hundred years, the deadliest in Maui, the deadliest in
• 0:54
  Hawaii history. Yes, and I mean it's devastating because it was such a
• 0:57
  lovely area with amazing people. And so they say the rebuild is about six
• 1:03
  billion dollars according to FEMA. Jeff Bezos now donating one hundred million dollars to
• 1:07
  help rebuild. But they say they've only searched what three percent of the area,
• 1:11
  so more deaths are likely to that number is going to increase, and
• 1:15
  Duke Energy has proposed rate increases starting in January, but it's going to be
• 1:19
  in increments of three So at the end of this year, we'll see a
• 1:23
  ten percent hike somewhere around December January, and then another four percent the following
• 1:26
  year, and then another four percent the next year. And they say,
• 1:30
  what you need to do go to the Durham County Courthouse tonight and speak out
• 1:34
  against it because they're doing the meeting. I guess tonight. Yeah, that's
• 1:37
  a that's a big hike ten percent. It's gonna be a sixty two degrees.
• 1:41
  Oh, that's the three things we need to know.