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Speaker 2: Some limited breaks of sun may occasionally try to work in, but with all that cloud cover in place, it's going to be tough to really get temperatures to move all that much. We'll range anywhere from 60 to the lower 60s for highs. For tonight, mainly cloudy for the evening, then a little more clearing as we head later into the overnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. And for tomorrow, partly sunny skies, but still cool. High temperatures in the lower 60s. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. On Rochester's news weather and traffic station. NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 3: Downtown 58 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. 802 on Rochester's source for breaking news, weather and traffic, NewsRadio, WHAM 1180. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin today in the Soriano brothers' murder trial. The two accused in the murder of an Irondequoit family. We'll have updates for you during the day. New York has reached an historic $ 24 million settlement with the family of Robert Brooks. a state prison inmate from Greece who died after being beaten by officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility. The beating inadvertently captured by the corrections officers on their body-worn cameras. The family is holding a news conference at 1130. Governor Hochul has issued a statement saying nothing can erase the pain the Brooks family has endured, but she hopes the agreement will provide them with some measure of relief in the aftermath of his loss. Employees at Rochester's George Eastman Museum are looking to form a union.
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Speaker 4: Roughly 75 workers will be holding a vote on whether to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees Union. The workers pushing to organize want better pay, better definition of their jobs, and more transparency from management about its decisions. There's no date yet for the vote. Todd Halliday, NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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Speaker 3: Protests have taken place in Austin, Texas, after a man was shot by ICE agents during a traffic stop. Fox's Marianne Rafferty has the details.
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Speaker 5: Police in Austin, Texas, detaining several protesters after a man was shot by an ICE officer earlier in the day. A large crowd gathered in the streets for hours following the shooting. Police eventually fired pepper balls into the crowd to clear the area. The shooting happened around 1 p.m. local time following a traffic stop. Local officials say the 28-year-old victim was shot in the torso. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. We're told he's since been released and is now in ICE custody. It's not clear what led to the shooting, but a DHS source tells Fox News the man is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with final orders for removal. His attorney is still working to confirm details of his immigration history.
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Speaker 3: And finally, a new poll shows President Trump's approval rating hit a second-term low ahead of the November midterms.
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Speaker 6: According to the NBC News poll, Trump's approval rating stands at 41% among registered voters. Meanwhile, 55% of voters say they believe Trump's policies have hurt the economy. That's up from 48% in March, before the war in Iran sent prices on gas and other essentials sharply higher. The poll also found Democrats hold a 5% edge in the battle for control of Congress. I'm Lisa Carton.
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Speaker 3: NewsRadio WHAM 1180, time 8.05. Thanks for listening to the morning news. And it is now time for Bob Lonsberry on the 5 o'clock NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, sir. I so appreciate that. Good morning, Rochester. Good morning. They don't need to investigate this ICE shooting in Austin. situation. Yesterday, there's a pursuit. The ICE people call for local police to come to their assistance. In New York, of course, a call like that would be answered with a pre-recorded message from the governor telling the ICE agents to go F themselves. But Texas authorities were responding. By the time they could get there, there had been a confrontation between and this individual, a native of Venezuela, had been shot. We don't need to investigate what happened there. There's no need to look into it. The federal and the city police in Austin, Texas, both had anticipated investigating, but apparently, according to Joe Morelli, that's not necessary. Joe Morelli posted, well, about 7 o'clock last night on X, It says, ICE shot and wounded another person today, this time in Austin. Their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. By the way, ICE is a singular, not a plural, Mr. Congressman. So it wouldn't be their chaos and cruelty. It would be its chaos and cruelty. But hey, don't worry about it, all right? You're the big smart man. He continues, their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. Americans should not have to fear their own governments. the public deserves answers and accountability. It's like you, you've all seen the picture of, uh, uh, Joe Morelli sitting crisscross applesauce in the middle of main street out here in a piss on the cops demonstration back in the, uh, uh, summer of F 12, right? Uh, 2020 when that it, it's him sitting there in the middle of main street in an anti-police demonstration. Uh, unfortunately, Adam Bellow, uh, is sitting beside him, um, I can't find it in my heart to figure out why Bella would be there. I got to figure Morelli was twisting his arm or something like that. But here's what he says. Ice shot and wounded another person today. That's correct. This time in Austin. He also has it geographically correct. And then their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. That seems to imply that there is ice fault or wrongdoing in this matter. Something which has not been alleged by any authority. The Austin mayor said, we're going to investigate this. We're going to put our own eyes on this to make sure that it's okay. All right, good, fine. It occurred in your city. Please do investigate. No one has alleged that there was anything inappropriate or out of line in this. I also would remind you of what we just heard in the newscast, that the individual in this matter was treated and released at the hospital. and did not require hospitalization. Well, that's very good, right? Glad that's the case. But for a congressman to come out, and again, this is a member of Congress who is criticizing law enforcement officers for enforcing laws passed by Congress, right? If you don't like the law, Joe, change it. But the point I'm trying to make here, forgive me, I got the Monday morning cloudy head going clearly. But to describe in the next sentence after the shooting, talk about chaos and cruelty is to imply guilt, to imply wrongdoing. It is to characterize these federal police officers in a negative way in the complete absence of not only evidence, but of allegation. No one that I've been able to see has claimed that there was anything inappropriate or unjustified about this shooting. But here's Joe Morelli, and judge, jury, and executioner, he's already decided what it is. And in his third sentence is, Americans should not have to fear their own government. You know, that's true. That is absolutely true, Joe. But this wasn't an American, first of all. This was a Venezuelan who was in our country illegally and who had defied a final order of removal. That's number one. Number two, Joe, you've been shoving government up our ass for 40 years. Forgive my French, but that's the case, right? And what we need to fear, Joe, to be honest with you, are people like you. Now, there are a lot of people like you in my party as well. I'll acknowledge that. People who get into the cult of government, who believe just bass-ackwards of what the founding fathers believed, people like you, Joe, who believe that government is God, that government is the source of power, that government will drip and drab freedom and favor to its chosen friends. That's what we have to fear right there. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. But there'll be an investigation of this. We'll find out what happened, right? We should know maybe more by the end of the day, not the end of the investigation, but a rough idea of what happened. And then maybe people can form some conclusions. Or, You can just be like Joe Morelli and instantly, immediately, with no information, presume the worst about police officers. It's time for Traffic and Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be mostly cloudy. And to be honest with you, it's right now about as warm as it's going to get. Maybe 60 or low 60s if we are fortunate. 58, the temperature at 812. And you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Continuing in what seems to be just a vein of general Monday morning pissiness on this issue of the folks who work at the George Eastman Museum forming a union because they want more transparency from management and a louder voice in determining what happens at the museum. Again, and forgive me, there are jobs where a union is a good thing, where a union may even be an essential thing. And then there are other jobs where the union is like a play toy, something you feel you're supposed to do because you took a class on this at whatever college where you got hosed on the tuition. I just politely like to say, if you work at Starbucks or at the George Eastman Museum, a union for you is like a hobby. It's like a cause. It's like wearing the little scarf that they wear at the Palestinian protests. You are not in an environment where you are mistreated, endangered, or anything else. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but there are places where people need unions. There are places where people do very difficult and sometimes dangerous jobs, and having a union make sure that things are going in the good direction is a good idea. If you're out there plowing snow in the middle of the winter for the state, the town, or the county or something like that, you know what? A union makes sense. If you are down mining salt under the soil of Livingston County in order to get that to the highway crews so the people can be safe when they drive in the winter, I can see why a union is a pretty good idea, right? If you work for, say, a government entity, and maybe that government entity sometimes tends to ignore you or screw you over, maybe you're in a first responder category, I can see how a union might be a pretty good thing, right? If you're working in a production facility with equipment and such like that, and you've got quotas and the possibility for danger, having a union that keeps an eye on things, likewise, can be a pretty good.
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Speaker 7: Idea, right?
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Speaker 1: And you can add, I'd throw Teamsters. Yeah, Teamsters make sense to me. There are a lot of them. But if you are, you know, giving people cups of coffee, or if you are, what, alphabetizing things at the museum, I don't know if you need a union. Now, again, you want to be part of the revolution and all this other stuff. But yeah, why create an undue financial burden for you and your employer to which will essentially achieve nothing other than making you feel cool, like you're part of the whole cause or whatever. So anyway, I probably will not be welcome back at the museum again. It is, however, a wonderful facility. I'm grateful for Mr. Eastman forever ago, so lavishly spending on himself. It's too bad he didn't have a big giant family to share that with. But sometimes we feel sorry for ourselves or feel like we're getting screwed over when we're not truly sorry. And there are people in the workplace in our region who absolutely do need union representation, I think. But I'm not exactly sure that the hallowed halls, the George Eastman House, are where I think the answer would be yes. Take a break. Back in a moment. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. You know, Hep Sales in North Main Lumber is a locally owned regional chain of hardware stores. That's important, right? It means there's one near you. It also means that this is not some corporation from far away, all right? This is a place where the money stays in our region. That's huge. Here's something huger. It's the best hardware store you can go to for my money. It has extraordinary selection. They have very competitive prices. And they have staff who, for someone like me particularly, they can answer questions. How do I do this? What piece do I need for that? What should my approach to this particular challenge be? May I put in the back of your mind, whenever the topic hardware pops up or lumber yard or something like that, or you want to do some renovating or fixing up at the house, you're doing something with your bathroom, your kitchen, you want to put in some lights or whatever, there's one place to go. It's Hep Sales in North Main Lumber. HepSales.com has all the locations. And once you go to the website, click on that big yellow price tag, and that'll show you the special sales going on right now at Hep Sales in North Main Lumber.
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Speaker 1: What you see is what you get. In fact, the forecast high is right around 60 degrees Fahrenheit. And we are at 58 at 821. You're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. You know, I try wherever possible to talk about local things. And it was, there are local things to talk about. But the weekend was most notable for a variety of things done by President Trump. And, you know, I don't want to turn this into the, you know, kick Trump in the seat of the pants show. But he did. has become increasingly interesting of late and a little mercurial, I guess is the polite word. A lot of things happened over the weekend. We'll go through each of them. What's happening today relative to President Trump is that he is going to go to New York City. He will meet with Zoran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, has come to the White House twice. once before the mayor's inauguration and once after. And now President Trump will be returning the favor and coming to Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence in New York City. You would think that these two might be kind of at loggerheads. Mamdami ran, promising that he would be Trump's worst enemy. And Trump's best argument is, in terms of the looming midterm elections, is that the Democrats are socialists and maybe Islamists. And so he's going to visit a Muslim socialist. But instead of being critical, if the past two meetings are any indication, it'll be a love fest. Both of these individuals have had great praise for one another, at their previous meetings. And during those meetings, certainly seemed to be very, very cordial. The deal is, I think that Mayor Mamdani and President Trump both very much like being popular. And I think they like being around people who are popular. And I think that President Trump likes the popularity of Zoran Mamdani, Mayor Mamdani, probably likes the prestige that might come from meriting a face-to-face meeting with a president of the United States. I did a little Google search earlier, and I can't find another mayor who has had three individual personal meetings with President Trump ever. So it's a unique relationship. We'll see what that's about today. Trump is in New York City because that deal they do every year at the U.N., where a bunch of people get together and they give talks, stand in front of that green, uh, marble wall or something at the United Nations general assembly. Um, that's going on, uh, this week, uh, Trump while in New York city will also meet with, uh, the new prime minister of England who I'm certain has a name and I'm certain I don't care what it is. Um, also the, uh, lady who's running Venezuela, uh, she will be there. Um, Vladimir Zelensky will be there, and he will meet privately with President Trump as well. Also, our Gulf allies, the Saudis and the Emirates and those people, there's going to be a meeting between them and President Trump relative to the Iran war. But the big meeting with President Xi of China will be in Washington, D.C., at the middle of the week, not in New York City at the beginning of the week. News is next with Bud Lowell on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Making a major dental decision can feel intimidating, especially when you don't know what to expect.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I hope you're doing great. Ed Sheeran gave a concert over the weekend and stood up and said a lot, which is, of course, his right to do. We all got a right to speak our mind and have the opinions that we have. But he, at the beginning of his remarks, perchance you saw the video, he said, quote, America is a scary place right now, close quote. Well, then get the hell out and go back to where you're from, right? If it's scary here for you, go back where you're from. Go where you're not afraid, okay? And Ed Sheeran, I have nothing against him. I'm not a smart person about music. And I have no comment on his music. I'm sure he's very good, given his extraordinary success. And I rejoice in everyone's success. And I'm glad that people get together and listen to his music. Concerts are fun and wonderful, and I'm glad that everybody's having a good time. But here's an observation I'd make, and this is without regard to that whole thing about, you know, he had the Macklemore guy who said stuff about Palestine or whatever, and this bozo at the Patriots, Robert Croft or Craft, whatever his name is, screwed everything. I don't know. But more often than not, my attitude is leave people alone. But in this situation... Sharon got put in a tough spot. He got crap from this man he thought was his friend, Robert Kraft. Robert Kraft, by the way, charged, I think, with two misdemeanor counts of being around a prostitute or something like that a while back in Florida. Those counts dropped because the video evidence was thrown out. It hasn't been released publicly. I imagine there's a reason for that. But anyway, you get to the point where Ed Sheeran is on stage, and there are a lot of things he could have said. And he spoke for quite a while. There were a lot of things he did say. But one of them is, quote, America is a scary place right now, close quote. And see, that gets my back up. And I can't help but notice that as he's talking about America being a scary place, he's here in America making money. I guess America isn't too scary if you're coming– and again– People want to hear him and that's tremendous. But he says this in front of a crowded stadium and he's going from crowded stadium to crowded stadium. And again, that's a testament to his popularity. And I'm happy for that, right? But my friend, we're making you richer by the day.
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Speaker 1: And piss on our country, right? And if it's too scary for you, then pack up and go back and have concerts in wherever you're from, okay? But people love the American dollar, but don't seem to like the American people or the American country. And I'm not saying he doesn't like American people. And I'm not saying that we're perfect right now. Certainly, our boat is on some stormy seas. But to say America is a scary place right now is to pass a judgment on us that, to be honest with you, I think I have too much national pride to quietly allow some foreigner to make, all right? You go tell people how your country is and leave your nose out of our business. How'd that be? Time for Traffic and Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. From the Clark-Peshkin Traffic Center, protect what you have.
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Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy and autumnal, which means it will be fall-like. Temperature topping out right about where it is now, 60 degrees, maybe a couple degrees one way or the other. It is 58 at 842, and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. We touched on this last week, but over the weekend, some of the politician people, some of the editorial writers have commented as well on the situation where the New York State Department of Education and the New York State Board of Regents have decided that beginning in the next academic year, the class of 2028, that a high school diploma in New York State will not require taking any regents tests. Now, it's a funny thing because requiring people to take a regents test or a string of them in order to graduate was a bad idea in the beginning. But what the regents in the education department have been able to do is to take that bad idea and make it worse. They have removed the obligation to take regents tests, but they have not truly replaced that with any other specific requirement. Instead, they want some amorphous kind of deal where teachers will be able to subjectively determine whether or not a student is ready and worthy for graduation. This will be based on, say, projects that the student might do. Attendance at school will not be a particular requirement. There won't really be tests. It will gauge social involvement. I guess if you go to some protest or whatever, you get to graduate. I'm not exactly sure. It'll look at cultural relevance. The bottom line is that there end up being not very many discernible requirements for to get a high school diploma in the state of New York for the class of 2028 going forward. And the problem with that is it takes public education in New York State down yet another notch. And the purpose of this is to allow the state and especially its urban school districts to demonstrate success with success being measured by the percentage of high school graduates. And that'll come about by making it so that really any student can get a diploma for about any reason. And instead of you have to meet this standard, we're going to eliminate standards and make it subjective. And there aren't many teachers, there aren't many districts under pressure to have more high school graduates who are going to deny people these participation diplomas. Why is this a bad thing? Well, because the purpose of education, to include its rigors, and rigor means it's hard, right? The reason school is hard is so that you learn and you set high standards because people produce more when they have high standards. And with no standards or with low standards, people produce less. People will tend to give you what you expect of them. That's true of you and me. It's true of our children. It's true of our neighbor's children. If we expect a lot from you, we're going to get a lot. Maybe not everybody will get to that very high standard, but everybody will be striving and reaching, and everybody, on average, will perform better than they would have otherwise. But when you have low standards or no standards... people will respond to those and they will learn less. They will achieve less and they will be less well-prepared as they go on to life. So in Mississippi, they had a poor educational outcome here five, six, seven, eight years ago, not enough literacy. And so what they did was they refocused, they created very high standards for reading and they did a lot of phonics and they have completely turned themselves around. Their statistics are far better because they have far better outcome. New York has found a way to have far better statistics without the far better income. It seems that we're just kind of going to pass out high school diplomas and you don't even really have to show up for school to do it. And that will help the education industry. It will help the administrators and the teachers and the teachers unions to look like they're winning, but it will screw our kids, which is just a bass-ackwards how the whole thing's supposed to be. Back in a moment on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: Hey friends, is your company looking for the future workforce of advanced manufacturing? Well, you can find them in high school through the Finger Lakes Youth Apprenticeship Program. About where we are now. Cloudy and the temperature in the near proximity of 60 degrees. Maybe a couple above, maybe a couple below. It's 58 at 853 and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180. The word in recent days that there has been a settlement between the state of New York and the family of Robert Brooks. is good and welcome news. There will 1130 today, I believe, be a press conference with members of the Brooks family. Robert Brooks was a gentleman from Rochester who was beaten to death savagely. He was functionally lynched at Marcy Correctional Facility back in December of 2024 by correctional officers of the state of New York. There have been criminal prosecutions in those matters with appropriate convictions. It was an act of cruelty that none of us would have believed if we had not seen the video. At least I wouldn't have believed if I'd not seen the video. I couldn't have imagined any such thing possible by those who wear the uniform of the state of New York or who come to work with the flag of the United States on their shoulder. It was horrific. The man was savagely beaten, and injuries inflicted upon him were clearly intended to be torturous and injurious. And they killed him. It was a lynching. And horrifying in every regard. $ 24 million, the reported amount. I don't know what justice is in this matter with a dollar figure attached. If both sides feel good about $ 24 million, then I feel good about it too. I hope that that money is spared a heavy burden of taxes, but probably it won't be. The thing that is unsatisfying at this stage is that there have been no systemic improvements or changes in In the New York State correctional system, the commissioner and the governor continue a system of status quo which misserves everyone in our prisons, from employees to prisoners. It is an abject and embarrassing failure on the part of our state government. God bless the Brooks family. It's time for news with Bud Lowell on NewsRadio QAM 1180.
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Speaker 2: Some limited breaks of sun may occasionally try to work in, but with all that cloud cover in place, it's going to be tough to really get temperatures to move all that much. We'll range anywhere from 60 to the lower 60s for highs. For tonight, mainly cloudy for the evening, then a little more clearing as we head later into the overnight. Lows in the mid to upper 40s. And for tomorrow, partly sunny skies, but still cool. High temperatures in the lower 60s. From the 13 WHAM Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. On Rochester's news weather and traffic station. NewsRadio, WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 3: Downtown 58 degrees under mostly cloudy skies. 802 on Rochester's source for breaking news, weather and traffic, NewsRadio, WHAM 1180. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin today in the Soriano brothers' murder trial. The two accused in the murder of an Irondequoit family. We'll have updates for you during the day. New York has reached an historic $ 24 million settlement with the family of Robert Brooks. a state prison inmate from Greece who died after being beaten by officers at the Marcy Correctional Facility. The beating inadvertently captured by the corrections officers on their body-worn cameras. The family is holding a news conference at 1130. Governor Hochul has issued a statement saying nothing can erase the pain the Brooks family has endured, but she hopes the agreement will provide them with some measure of relief in the aftermath of his loss. Employees at Rochester's George Eastman Museum are looking to form a union.
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Speaker 4: Roughly 75 workers will be holding a vote on whether to join Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees Union. The workers pushing to organize want better pay, better definition of their jobs, and more transparency from management about its decisions. There's no date yet for the vote. Todd Halliday, NewsRadio WAM 1180.
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Speaker 3: Protests have taken place in Austin, Texas, after a man was shot by ICE agents during a traffic stop. Fox's Marianne Rafferty has the details.
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Speaker 5: Police in Austin, Texas, detaining several protesters after a man was shot by an ICE officer earlier in the day. A large crowd gathered in the streets for hours following the shooting. Police eventually fired pepper balls into the crowd to clear the area. The shooting happened around 1 p.m. local time following a traffic stop. Local officials say the 28-year-old victim was shot in the torso. He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. We're told he's since been released and is now in ICE custody. It's not clear what led to the shooting, but a DHS source tells Fox News the man is an illegal immigrant from Venezuela with final orders for removal. His attorney is still working to confirm details of his immigration history.
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Speaker 3: And finally, a new poll shows President Trump's approval rating hit a second-term low ahead of the November midterms.
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Speaker 6: According to the NBC News poll, Trump's approval rating stands at 41% among registered voters. Meanwhile, 55% of voters say they believe Trump's policies have hurt the economy. That's up from 48% in March, before the war in Iran sent prices on gas and other essentials sharply higher. The poll also found Democrats hold a 5% edge in the battle for control of Congress. I'm Lisa Carton.
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Speaker 3: NewsRadio WHAM 1180, time 8.05. Thanks for listening to the morning news. And it is now time for Bob Lonsberry on the 5 o'clock NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, sir. I so appreciate that. Good morning, Rochester. Good morning. They don't need to investigate this ICE shooting in Austin. situation. Yesterday, there's a pursuit. The ICE people call for local police to come to their assistance. In New York, of course, a call like that would be answered with a pre-recorded message from the governor telling the ICE agents to go F themselves. But Texas authorities were responding. By the time they could get there, there had been a confrontation between and this individual, a native of Venezuela, had been shot. We don't need to investigate what happened there. There's no need to look into it. The federal and the city police in Austin, Texas, both had anticipated investigating, but apparently, according to Joe Morelli, that's not necessary. Joe Morelli posted, well, about 7 o'clock last night on X, It says, ICE shot and wounded another person today, this time in Austin. Their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. By the way, ICE is a singular, not a plural, Mr. Congressman. So it wouldn't be their chaos and cruelty. It would be its chaos and cruelty. But hey, don't worry about it, all right? You're the big smart man. He continues, their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. Americans should not have to fear their own governments. the public deserves answers and accountability. It's like you, you've all seen the picture of, uh, uh, Joe Morelli sitting crisscross applesauce in the middle of main street out here in a piss on the cops demonstration back in the, uh, uh, summer of F 12, right? Uh, 2020 when that it, it's him sitting there in the middle of main street in an anti-police demonstration. Uh, unfortunately, Adam Bellow, uh, is sitting beside him, um, I can't find it in my heart to figure out why Bella would be there. I got to figure Morelli was twisting his arm or something like that. But here's what he says. Ice shot and wounded another person today. That's correct. This time in Austin. He also has it geographically correct. And then their chaos and cruelty are unacceptable. That seems to imply that there is ice fault or wrongdoing in this matter. Something which has not been alleged by any authority. The Austin mayor said, we're going to investigate this. We're going to put our own eyes on this to make sure that it's okay. All right, good, fine. It occurred in your city. Please do investigate. No one has alleged that there was anything inappropriate or out of line in this. I also would remind you of what we just heard in the newscast, that the individual in this matter was treated and released at the hospital. and did not require hospitalization. Well, that's very good, right? Glad that's the case. But for a congressman to come out, and again, this is a member of Congress who is criticizing law enforcement officers for enforcing laws passed by Congress, right? If you don't like the law, Joe, change it. But the point I'm trying to make here, forgive me, I got the Monday morning cloudy head going clearly. But to describe in the next sentence after the shooting, talk about chaos and cruelty is to imply guilt, to imply wrongdoing. It is to characterize these federal police officers in a negative way in the complete absence of not only evidence, but of allegation. No one that I've been able to see has claimed that there was anything inappropriate or unjustified about this shooting. But here's Joe Morelli, and judge, jury, and executioner, he's already decided what it is. And in his third sentence is, Americans should not have to fear their own government. You know, that's true. That is absolutely true, Joe. But this wasn't an American, first of all. This was a Venezuelan who was in our country illegally and who had defied a final order of removal. That's number one. Number two, Joe, you've been shoving government up our ass for 40 years. Forgive my French, but that's the case, right? And what we need to fear, Joe, to be honest with you, are people like you. Now, there are a lot of people like you in my party as well. I'll acknowledge that. People who get into the cult of government, who believe just bass-ackwards of what the founding fathers believed, people like you, Joe, who believe that government is God, that government is the source of power, that government will drip and drab freedom and favor to its chosen friends. That's what we have to fear right there. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. But there'll be an investigation of this. We'll find out what happened, right? We should know maybe more by the end of the day, not the end of the investigation, but a rough idea of what happened. And then maybe people can form some conclusions. Or, You can just be like Joe Morelli and instantly, immediately, with no information, presume the worst about police officers. It's time for Traffic and Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be mostly cloudy. And to be honest with you, it's right now about as warm as it's going to get. Maybe 60 or low 60s if we are fortunate. 58, the temperature at 812. And you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Continuing in what seems to be just a vein of general Monday morning pissiness on this issue of the folks who work at the George Eastman Museum forming a union because they want more transparency from management and a louder voice in determining what happens at the museum. Again, and forgive me, there are jobs where a union is a good thing, where a union may even be an essential thing. And then there are other jobs where the union is like a play toy, something you feel you're supposed to do because you took a class on this at whatever college where you got hosed on the tuition. I just politely like to say, if you work at Starbucks or at the George Eastman Museum, a union for you is like a hobby. It's like a cause. It's like wearing the little scarf that they wear at the Palestinian protests. You are not in an environment where you are mistreated, endangered, or anything else. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but there are places where people need unions. There are places where people do very difficult and sometimes dangerous jobs, and having a union make sure that things are going in the good direction is a good idea. If you're out there plowing snow in the middle of the winter for the state, the town, or the county or something like that, you know what? A union makes sense. If you are down mining salt under the soil of Livingston County in order to get that to the highway crews so the people can be safe when they drive in the winter, I can see why a union is a pretty good idea, right? If you work for, say, a government entity, and maybe that government entity sometimes tends to ignore you or screw you over, maybe you're in a first responder category, I can see how a union might be a pretty good thing, right? If you're working in a production facility with equipment and such like that, and you've got quotas and the possibility for danger, having a union that keeps an eye on things, likewise, can be a pretty good.
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Speaker 1: And you can add, I'd throw Teamsters. Yeah, Teamsters make sense to me. There are a lot of them. But if you are, you know, giving people cups of coffee, or if you are, what, alphabetizing things at the museum, I don't know if you need a union. Now, again, you want to be part of the revolution and all this other stuff. But yeah, why create an undue financial burden for you and your employer to which will essentially achieve nothing other than making you feel cool, like you're part of the whole cause or whatever. So anyway, I probably will not be welcome back at the museum again. It is, however, a wonderful facility. I'm grateful for Mr. Eastman forever ago, so lavishly spending on himself. It's too bad he didn't have a big giant family to share that with. But sometimes we feel sorry for ourselves or feel like we're getting screwed over when we're not truly sorry. And there are people in the workplace in our region who absolutely do need union representation, I think. But I'm not exactly sure that the hallowed halls, the George Eastman House, are where I think the answer would be yes. Take a break. Back in a moment. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. You know, Hep Sales in North Main Lumber is a locally owned regional chain of hardware stores. That's important, right? It means there's one near you. It also means that this is not some corporation from far away, all right? This is a place where the money stays in our region. That's huge. Here's something huger. It's the best hardware store you can go to for my money. It has extraordinary selection. They have very competitive prices. And they have staff who, for someone like me particularly, they can answer questions. How do I do this? What piece do I need for that? What should my approach to this particular challenge be? May I put in the back of your mind, whenever the topic hardware pops up or lumber yard or something like that, or you want to do some renovating or fixing up at the house, you're doing something with your bathroom, your kitchen, you want to put in some lights or whatever, there's one place to go. It's Hep Sales in North Main Lumber. HepSales.com has all the locations. And once you go to the website, click on that big yellow price tag, and that'll show you the special sales going on right now at Hep Sales in North Main Lumber.
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Speaker 1: Good morning. I hope you're doing great. Ed Sheeran gave a concert over the weekend and stood up and said a lot, which is, of course, his right to do. We all got a right to speak our mind and have the opinions that we have. But he, at the beginning of his remarks, perchance you saw the video, he said, quote, America is a scary place right now, close quote. Well, then get the hell out and go back to where you're from, right? If it's scary here for you, go back where you're from. Go where you're not afraid, okay? And Ed Sheeran, I have nothing against him. I'm not a smart person about music. And I have no comment on his music. I'm sure he's very good, given his extraordinary success. And I rejoice in everyone's success. And I'm glad that people get together and listen to his music. Concerts are fun and wonderful, and I'm glad that everybody's having a good time. But here's an observation I'd make, and this is without regard to that whole thing about, you know, he had the Macklemore guy who said stuff about Palestine or whatever, and this bozo at the Patriots, Robert Croft or Craft, whatever his name is, screwed everything. I don't know. But more often than not, my attitude is leave people alone. But in this situation... Sharon got put in a tough spot. He got crap from this man he thought was his friend, Robert Kraft. Robert Kraft, by the way, charged, I think, with two misdemeanor counts of being around a prostitute or something like that a while back in Florida. Those counts dropped because the video evidence was thrown out. It hasn't been released publicly. I imagine there's a reason for that. But anyway, you get to the point where Ed Sheeran is on stage, and there are a lot of things he could have said. And he spoke for quite a while. There were a lot of things he did say. But one of them is, quote, America is a scary place right now, close quote. And see, that gets my back up. And I can't help but notice that as he's talking about America being a scary place, he's here in America making money. I guess America isn't too scary if you're coming– and again– People want to hear him and that's tremendous. But he says this in front of a crowded stadium and he's going from crowded stadium to crowded stadium. And again, that's a testament to his popularity. And I'm happy for that, right? But my friend, we're making you richer by the day.
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Speaker 1: And piss on our country, right? And if it's too scary for you, then pack up and go back and have concerts in wherever you're from, okay? But people love the American dollar, but don't seem to like the American people or the American country. And I'm not saying he doesn't like American people. And I'm not saying that we're perfect right now. Certainly, our boat is on some stormy seas. But to say America is a scary place right now is to pass a judgment on us that, to be honest with you, I think I have too much national pride to quietly allow some foreigner to make, all right? You go tell people how your country is and leave your nose out of our business. How'd that be? Time for Traffic and Weather on the 10s on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. From the Clark-Peshkin Traffic Center, protect what you have.
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Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy and autumnal, which means it will be fall-like. Temperature topping out right about where it is now, 60 degrees, maybe a couple degrees one way or the other. It is 58 at 842, and you're listening to NewsRadio WHAM 1180. We touched on this last week, but over the weekend, some of the politician people, some of the editorial writers have commented as well on the situation where the New York State Department of Education and the New York State Board of Regents have decided that beginning in the next academic year, the class of 2028, that a high school diploma in New York State will not require taking any regents tests. Now, it's a funny thing because requiring people to take a regents test or a string of them in order to graduate was a bad idea in the beginning. But what the regents in the education department have been able to do is to take that bad idea and make it worse. They have removed the obligation to take regents tests, but they have not truly replaced that with any other specific requirement. Instead, they want some amorphous kind of deal where teachers will be able to subjectively determine whether or not a student is ready and worthy for graduation. This will be based on, say, projects that the student might do. Attendance at school will not be a particular requirement. There won't really be tests. It will gauge social involvement. I guess if you go to some protest or whatever, you get to graduate. I'm not exactly sure. It'll look at cultural relevance. The bottom line is that there end up being not very many discernible requirements for to get a high school diploma in the state of New York for the class of 2028 going forward. And the problem with that is it takes public education in New York State down yet another notch. And the purpose of this is to allow the state and especially its urban school districts to demonstrate success with success being measured by the percentage of high school graduates. And that'll come about by making it so that really any student can get a diploma for about any reason. And instead of you have to meet this standard, we're going to eliminate standards and make it subjective. And there aren't many teachers, there aren't many districts under pressure to have more high school graduates who are going to deny people these participation diplomas. Why is this a bad thing? Well, because the purpose of education, to include its rigors, and rigor means it's hard, right? The reason school is hard is so that you learn and you set high standards because people produce more when they have high standards. And with no standards or with low standards, people produce less. People will tend to give you what you expect of them. That's true of you and me. It's true of our children. It's true of our neighbor's children. If we expect a lot from you, we're going to get a lot. Maybe not everybody will get to that very high standard, but everybody will be striving and reaching, and everybody, on average, will perform better than they would have otherwise. But when you have low standards or no standards... people will respond to those and they will learn less. They will achieve less and they will be less well-prepared as they go on to life. So in Mississippi, they had a poor educational outcome here five, six, seven, eight years ago, not enough literacy. And so what they did was they refocused, they created very high standards for reading and they did a lot of phonics and they have completely turned themselves around. Their statistics are far better because they have far better outcome. New York has found a way to have far better statistics without the far better income. It seems that we're just kind of going to pass out high school diplomas and you don't even really have to show up for school to do it. And that will help the education industry. It will help the administrators and the teachers and the teachers unions to look like they're winning, but it will screw our kids, which is just a bass-ackwards how the whole thing's supposed to be. Back in a moment on NewsRadio WHAM 1180.
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