More Snow Coming / Iran Issues Mount

Friday the 13th edition of Nebraska's morning news. Thanks for spending Friday the 13th with A. Vorhees. I am Scott Voorhees. Lucy Chapman's right there. Craig Evans. Jim Rose is here. And Jim Flowers, meteorologist, social media keyboard Doppler Warrior joins us here for a look. Anytime we introduce you on the program, Jim, your resume is going to slightly change. But that's what the weather's doing. It's slightly changing. Yeah, you know what happens. Every time somebody hears my name or I'm going to be on, they turn the radio up. He's got nothing but bad news, okay? Every time he bring the gun on, he's talking something loud in the weather. Yeah, we can talk about Wednesday. Wednesday looks great, but let's at least gloss over the conditions we're looking at for Sunday. Right, just beware. We're in the eyes of March. I've always said that. There's always a storm somewhere on March 15th. And we're looking at one this Sunday, the way it looks now, Scott, the latest U.S. model that just came in a few hours ago, has this with blizzard conditions here by about 4 o'clock. Now, it is the only model that has that. All the others, ensembles, all the other stuff we look at doesn't have it, but it may have caught on to something overnight. in terms of initialization and it's jumping all over it and says that by about 4 o'clock on Sunday, we could have wins, win Gus here. close to cat one hurricane force, that's 74 miles an hour, with heavy snow. So that gives you an idea of the worst case scenario, but that's what it, so that's the model is saying at this point. Now, it doesn't snow for very long. It snows for about six hours. You know, we can see in excess of three inches, maybe as much as six, but that'd be on the outside. But during that time, it's going to blow like a son of a gun. A minimum wind gust of 60 could go as high as 70 to 75 if things work out by late Sunday. This is one of those days where the temperature just drops throughout the day. And by that time on Sunday afternoon, if you might look at your phone or whatever little weather bug you have, you see, oh, a high on Sunday of 41. That's first thing in the morning, right? Right, exactly. Exactly. By noon, we're like in the lower to mid-30s for maybe a few sprinkles around. Then it starts falling late in the afternoon, probably into the mid-20s by evening and again. The snow picks up. The winds are just crazy off the model in terms of wind gusts. 70 is conservative for a wind gusts by late in the day on Sunday with heavy snow. Maybe a few hours, three or four hours. A Category 1 hurricane is a conservative estimate for Sunday afternoon? 74 miles an hour. If we hit that for a wind gust, that's a cat one. Okay. So for those in the area, Zawari, where is this coming in from? Is this coming in from northeast of Omaha and heading down? Is it coming up from the south? No, actually.

What happens, Scott, is it actually develops right over us. Things have been kind of pointing to maybe eastern Iowa for the last day or two. And now it's saying, no, things are going to begin to take shape literally over about the eastern quarter of Nebraska and then get worse as you go east. So from here across Iowa, up into Wisconsin, Green Bay, Minneapolis will be impacted. And then maybe Chicago, though, the low-made track. right over them so they may not get as much snow as they do further west. And then we're looking at cold temperatures and chances of snow as we get into Monday and Tuesday before we start warming up on Wednesday where we're back into the lower to mid-60s. Right. You're thinking three to six inches or more of snow here for Omaha? Six would be on the, I think three looks is probably a pretty good bet. But if this thing, the trends continue, I could see someone, especially in your coverage area, but even closer than that, very close to the Metro, but good luck measuring. I showed how to do that last year. You measure snow in a blizzard. You take a carpenter square and you shove it up against the siding on your house and measure it horizontally. That's how you measure snow in a blizzard. Yeah, I'll just be fine when it melts off after a few days here. Jim, all right, thank you. Beware the aides of March and always rely on Jim Flowers. We appreciate your time this morning. Hey, we'll see you, Scott. You can find Jim Flowers all over social media as he is covering conditions like this and joining us whenever we can convince him to here on News Radio 1110, KFAB. One of the things we have to detail. Later this morning here, when Gene Stothert rejoins us for the KFAB Comment Line at 10am, brand new show here, which is also a throwback if you remember this radio station's programming from decades ago, the old KFAB comment line, new host, familiar name, Gene Stothert. One of the things we have to deal with, though, is yesterday afternoon here, Chris Baker, revealed, and I have to talk to Chris about this. Some things that happen. Off the microphone, should probably say off the microphone. But Chris went on the air and said, Stother came in here and threw a big showbiz tantrum, just came through the door. Where's my office? Put her finger in my face. I need a computer and I need an office. And I don't like this chair, like throwing chairs around the room. Yeah, we gave her everything she needed. And you know what? Sure, it wasn't good enough. But. You know, Chris didn't need to bring all that up on the air. And even though none of it's true, Gene Stother is looking for a chance to respond to that later this morning and whatever it is that you've got. That's coming up at 10, the KFAB comment line. Yesterday afternoon, we had a lot to deal with responding in the news. How we have a guy who was in jail. Eight years in prison. And his crime was, you know those guys over there in the Middle East, ISIS? Good guys. I want to try and help them any way possible. He was spent eight years in jail for attempting to aid terrorists.

and then managed to end up in a classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia and started shooting, former Army National Guard member, and one person was dead too wounded before the ROTC students, the ROTC there at Old Dominion, were able to use extreme bravery and courage. According to the FBI's Norfolk Virginia Field Office to prevent further loss alive by stopping the gunmen who subdued him. And according to the FBI director in that case, the special agent in charge, he said they subdued him and, quote, rendered him no longer alive, unquote. That's some solid government speak right there. What happened to the gunmen? Well, the Rossi students stepped in and they, quote, rendered him no longer alive. In other words, they beat the hell out of him. Well, they shot the hell out of him is what they did. Either way, you're not going to have to worry about that guy anymore. Good for them for doing it. We shouldn't have had to worry about him before. How is this? Obama. Now the 1110 KFAB certified transmission sports brief featuring some basketball later this afternoon. Here's Jim Rhodes. Okay, Scott. Good morning, everybody. After a five-day break, the Husker Basketball House Party continues from Chicago. Quarter final round of the Big Ten tournament. Big Red got a double by, so they got to watch all the other guys for two days. Purdue Boilermakers today at 5. Guard Sam Hoyberg, the steady Eddie, is telling his guys to chill. If it doesn't go well, we can't be down and think we're not going to play well in the end of the league tournament because I looked at my dad's Iowa State teams that they won the Big 12 championship one year that made the Sweet 16. And one year they lost in the first round. So you have to kind of stay level no matter what. Nebraska played two different games on the same night against the boilers and that overtime loss in Lincoln last month. Got down 14 to 1, trailed by 16, but then launched a massive comeback, tied it, could have won it with a rinkmasked free throw, then lost it in overtime. This tournament will do nothing for Nebraska's seating unless they win it. But what would that be worth? Three games in three days. I say tank this, get back home and get ready for the big dance. Iowa got beat by Ohio State. The Hawkeyes may not have enough gas to get an at-large berth. They need to think Crown or NIT. Iowa State got another resume builder win. 7553 route of number 14 Texas Tech. In the Big 12 tournament from Kansas City, they get Arizona tonight at 6 from down there. In the MAC tournament, the last unbeaten team in the country, Miami of Ohio, got beat, lost to UMass. They are now 31 and 1. Will they still get into the NCAA tournament? Not necessarily.

They never played a Power 5 team this year. Their schedule is ranked 361st. If they don't make it, they will displace the 2025 Cal, Irvine, Anteaters, who were left out of that tournament that year with 28 wins. The Jays were the same, long stretches of no points, and they lost a Seton Hall in the Big East tournament from New York City. They will get invited to one of these postseason events, likely the Crown Tournament from Vegas. But the speculation now. centers on coach Greg McDermott. Those close to Mack speculated at the outset of this season that a long run in the NCAA tournament would be it. He'd retire and give the job to assistant Alan Huss. But with what has been clearly among the most disappointing seasons in his career, he may come back for one more and try to go out a winner next year. Key keeping guys. They lost that great recruit. They're going to lose some seniors, but holding on to McAndrew and Greer and getting active in the free agent market may impact his decision a lot. State tournament in Lincoln, semifinal day, starts at 9 a.m. with the plucky D.C. West Falcons. And the Oglala Indians in Class C1 at 9 a.m. from the Pinnacle Bank Arena scores yesterday at the Class B bracket because it was Class B day. Class B and C1 and D1 yesterday. And in action involving Metro teams, Scott 51 41 over Pius, Elkhorn North 66, Wahoo 39, Norris 63, Bennington 55, Scott's Bluff 76. Gretna East 53. A today, semifinals, 130 Westside versus Lincoln Southwest. And at 315, you got Bellevue West versus Papio South in Class B. Semis today at 6. It's Scott and Elkhorn North. And at 745, Norris against Scott's Bluff. Round one of the Players Championship tournament down at Sawgrass. Maverick McNeely, not to be confused with Mr. McPhee, Lee Hodges, Sepstraka, Three Gala, all five under 67. Austin Smotherman is also five under, but it got dark and he's only through 17 holes. Rory was average two over. Sports is news on Nebraska's news weather and traffic station. It was a late night last night. We slammed Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmutter's face into the bar room floor. At the Omaha Press Club, that's the honor that they give. There's no greater honor than the so-called face on the bar room floor. One of these days, I'm going to get on that list, that elite list of being invited to all these wonderful events. My face is on the bar room floor. Officially? Yeah, well, a very, very small picture of me is in the background in Gary Saddlemire's honor. So am I. Yeah, we're on there. That's true. So how come I'm not on the list? You're on the list. Oh, yeah. I mean, who are you going to be in front of Chief Todd Schmutter? I don't think I could stand it. I don't think we're talking about the same thing. It was a really fun night last night. And it featured roasting.

by among others, Mayor John Ewing and Mayor Jim Suttall was there last night as well. And I was one of the roasters too. I don't know what's wrong with me. I can't help it. There's always someone in the crowd that's just going to catch just stray references that they don't deserve. And I decided last night that person would be former Omaha Mayor Jim Settle. And I told him, I said, it's just because I don't see you anymore. I see Mayor Ewing at a number of events for several years, Mayor Stother, who did a very funny video. And, of course, I took plenty of shots at the chief, Todd Schmutter, but I just relentlessly went after Jim Settle for no reason. How is Mayor Lepetamane holding up these days? He's doing great. And he was very funny last night. Did you plan it? What's going to be there? Yes. Okay. Yeah. That's Scott Borges. I thought he'd grown up a little, but I was wrong. He was very funny. He was a great time, and I hope that Chief Schmutter enjoyed it and doesn't want to fight his roasters because I was one of them. It was a really fun time last night. I got the inbox open here. Dean emails, and he's talking about how he enjoys hearing Chris Baker in the afternoons, and Gene Stother, now mornings at 10. And he also mentions in this email, Many years ago, I was in real estate for a year and your father fired me. No hard feelings. I didn't like it anyway. And then he tells the story. I'm going to have to look at this a little bit more. So you can email anything to Scott at kfab.com. Jim, did you see the dispatch yesterday? Speaking of emails, the Nebraska Broadcasters Association sent something out to our journalism and news partners in radio and television and newspaper across the state. Do you see that? I did not enlightening. Okay. Well, you don't cover the Nebraska Unicamble, so maybe you didn't get it. Well, I talk about them a lot. Yeah, but I'm on a list, and so I got this too. But. I have never been down there in a journalistic capacity covering the unicameral. We do that from afar here. I did it years ago when I was in school. I took a legislative reporting class. Did you ever see this? Because here's what this said that says this message was sent to the Nebraska Broadcasters Association and the Nebraska Press Association by this person and that person. And the executive director of the NBA, that's the Broadcasters Association. Says, I'm asking all NBA members who cover the legislature from the floor to address their personnel and procedures and make any and all needed changes immediately. We cannot allow these actions to result in a loss or restriction of access for all journalists. I'm like, what the heck is this? It says there's been an increasing level of frustration with the press. And the press is at risk of losing floor privileges if things don't change. The speaker of the unicameral John Arch.

He says inappropriate attire, ranging from ultra casual to sloppy, roaming the floor and occasionally interrupting senators while they're having discussions, being loud and disruptive under the balcony. Well, somebody wearing a wife beaters t-shirt and a Speedo? What? Taking pictures of senators' computer screens and reporting on private conversations they overhear on the floor. So the unicameral is not happy. He says, if you guys are going to come in here dressing awful and acting like a bunch of babies and all that, that's our job. I would love, and it says, we don't know exactly which members of the press are doing this. I've got to know. What podcast are they part of here? Well, there's not a lot of them left. No, but I think a lot of these people are podcasters who are just social media activists who are looking to have some sort of credential so they can get in there and cause trouble. So do they issue credentials? They never issued credentials. Well, again, I haven't done it for many years. I don't know if they still issue credentials to media to get into the unicameral. They used to have them sort of confined. to a certain space in the chamber, in the legislative chamber. Maybe those rules have gotten lax. It used to be the lobbyists had to talk to the senators in the rotunda. They could not talk to the senators when they were actually on the floor, too. So I don't know what the rules are, but at some point, you do have to have some kind of... I think legitimate credentialed agency behind your name before you get in there. First of all, from a security standpoint, second of all, just I think it's critically important that at least the people who are covering it have some sort of credential that says my agency is legit. It's not just me and my mom's basement in Ralston. Dressing frumpy is every journalist right. So it's been that way. That's not a change. That's traditional. You know, if you're a journalist and you don't have something spilled on your shirt, then you're just not real. Just go in there looking like a rumpled wet dishrag every day. It's part of the joy. It's the charm. Chief Smotter said something last night that really got my attention. He said, so you hired Gene Stotherd as host of the KFAB comment line. Remember, they worked together for 12 years. He said, does she know it's a live radio show? She has to be on time every day. And I thought, uh-oh. Could be an issue. I saw her at lunch. I didn't realize that she and I were in the same place for lunch yesterday. And I said, if I had known you were coming here, I'd have we got a carpool. Taco Bell or? No, exclusive country club, the likes of you would not be allowed in. Oh, I've only heard tails. And I said, you did a great job. And she's, you know, she's very competitive and she wants to be the best. And she recognizes it's a little harder than it looks.

But I told her you did a great job. And I said, I'm glad you're there. And I think that if you keep working at this, you've got a chance. Just remember to bring your own money. We're looking for strong opinions here. Let's check these Zonkers Customs inbox and see if we find any. This email from Brett. Sent to Scott at kfab.com and says there should be zero confusion. As to why these attacks at a college in Virginia or a synagogue in Michigan are happening, what kind of a country allows its border for four years or opens its border for four years and allows millions of non-vetted persons in? This country, under Democrats, what kind of nation? wants to defund and destroy the law enforcement agency responsible for tracking these kinds of individuals down and deporting them, this nation, under Democrats. TSA agents are not getting paid. Coast Guard, part of the Navy, not funded, among others. Very troublesome, let alone in a very volatile time like the current time, and it's all because of Democrats. Seven out of ten hate crimes are against Jews in this country. It is obvious what is going on with the fusion of the left and Islamists, and sadly, it's only going to get worse. That's from Brett. Sent to Scott at kfab.com. Like I said, we're looking for strong opinions here in the inbox. Now, Brett didn't have any, but that was heavy sarcasm. I do know this as obviously. There are some members of the media taking a look at things, and maybe some people will say unfairly so. We've had here recently a rifle-armed suspect ramming his vehicle into that synagogue in the Detroit area. And this is someone who was said to have lost family in a recent airstrike in Lebanon. I guarantee the kids in the synagogue school there in a suburban Detroit community had nothing to do with it, but this coward was looking for soft targets. We had the ROTC members attacked in a shooting investigated as a terror plot at Old Dominion. The shooter went in there yelling Alu Akbar. And then we had the guy in Texas who went after people at a bar in Austin wearing a shirt that said property of Allah. We had the ISIS-inspired suspects detained in New York City after they tried to blow up an area of a protest near the mayor's house. And this is people protesting Islamofascism in terms of more government intrusion in this country. Now,

You can find as many news stories as you want of people not associated with Islamofascism out there committing crimes. I have a story here about a couple of teenage girls who wanted to kill a classmate and drink his blood. And you're thinking, what part of Florida was that in? It's just northeast of Orlando, but that's not important. So you can find evidence certainly that there are people out there doing horrible things. But... when the media like CNN takes a look at these teenagers and frames them as a couple of kids were enjoying a seasonably warm day. They came over from Pennsylvania into New York City for what should have been just a beautiful spring afternoon spent in the city. But next thing you know, they just found themselves chucking the homemade bombs that they brought with them at members of law enforcement and protesters. And, you know, Boys will be boys. And that's literally how CNN phrased that. Whereas if you had all the stories I just referenced here, and they were all carried out by guys wearing MAGA hats and big Trump supporters while blasting kid rock music, the media and everyone would be having this national referendum on these domestic terrorists. Why is Trump telling these people to do these things? And they don't do that if it's not fitting that narrative. So these are my thoughts. Like I said, we look for strong opinions here. You can either send them to scotakfab.com or you can sit right here in the studio and you can share them yourself. Anyone? Anyone? Well, you look at these guys, especially the guy that shot up or tried to shoot up Old Dominion, and you go, how were they vetted before they got into this country? How did they become naturalized citizens? What is our process for allowing for this? This guy came in 2011 on a sponsorship from his... spouse, who is American, became a citizen in 2016. He spent years with the Army National Guard, I believe it was, but became radicalized here and spent time in jail for rendering aid to ISIS. And they let the guy out. How did he get out? Eight years in jail. Why was he not deported? When he got out of our American jail, why wasn't he deported? Because he was a citizen. He became a citizen. When you aid in a bet, a terrorist organization, this is why. And, you know, people talk about. People talk about the problems we've had in this country with leadership. And, you know, you wonder, go back to the Obama administration. He was so cozy with the Iranians. You not only gave him $500 billion with a hope that, okay, now you behave. If you behave, little guy, you can have your $500 billion in cash. But I'm convinced that Valerie Jarrett, who is probably as close to the Obama's as any other person in the world.

close to Michelle, close to Barack. She went back with him all the way to when he was a state senator in Illinois. She had Iranian. connection. She was from her family, I don't know that she was directly from Iran, but she had very close family that was from Iran. And I just wonder if she wasn't running that policy. I asked for strong opinions. Jim Rose provided. Thank you very much. Special good morning to all of you teachers, either spending one more day in the classroom before potential spring break for some of the area districts or maybe you're already on it. Parent teacher conferences today in OPS. This story is for you. It comes from BuzzFeed. where they talk to a lot of teachers of young kids, and they said, what are some things that you would expect that these students would be able to do at the age they are that none of them can do? And they said, all right, pre-K, three- and four-year-olds, most of the kids can't put a jacket on? And not only will that, can they not put a jacket on, they won't try. And they start throwing temper tantrums before even attempting, saying, I can't do it. It's too hard. Another teacher says a majority of students in elementary school struggle to read a clock unless it's digital. Others say that the kids know, and this is for older kids, they know they'll pass, no matter how unqualified, ill-equipped, or unprepared they are. They come to school with an attitude of, I'm not going to do the work, and you can't make me. And the teachers admit, sorry to say, we can't. And then this teacher says the number of second and third graders who can't tie their shoes, fourth graders who can't write their own names. And they say, it's scary to think a kid can get to fourth grade without anyone. having an expectation that he's able to write his own name. You know, I wonder about this when I hear statistics like this. Why aren't there teachers that are out there that are listening, whether it's here in Omaha or anywhere across the country, why aren't their teachers that are saying, no, this isn't true. This isn't as prolific as you are making it or the stories are making it sound. Probably because... They could do it anonymously. But you know what? Why would you even want to do that anonymously? I know. I get emails from teachers all the time, and the first thing... The reason I know it's from a teacher, because it starts off with, please do not say my name on the radio. And it's going to take more teachers... coming through and lending their names. Yeah, so if nobody's going to deny it, then I guess it's true. Right, but at the same time, they did the same thing. They went to the legislature years ago and said, you've got to help us here with these kids. And the unit camera said, nah. So.

They're trying. Some of them are trying. Sadly, a lot of the teachers just leave at the weekend staring us right, smack in the puss. We've got some basketball to watch and some snow and weather we're watching too. This is not the time, Scott, to come on here and talk about the worst story in the world. But I want to. I should be to everybody. And I want to see if we can have an honest assessment. of this story, and it comes courtesy now of the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, who's saying, she's taking the French route here. She's already saying, hey, look, we don't want anything to do with what's going on in Iran. We surrender. We don't want anything. The strikes from the United States and Israel on Iran fall outside the scope of international law. It says Italy has no plans to join the campaign. Now, she thinks that that means that Islamofascism, Iranian terrorists, and all of that, Sharia law stuff, won't come trying to wrap its tentacles around Italy. Then, hey, good luck with that. But one of the big things she's talking about, and here's the issue I want to discuss. Jim, this is not a time to run and hide. I want a serious, honest assessment here. She is among those who's looking at the accidental bombing of a girls' school in southern Iran, where 160 people, most of them kids, girls, were killed in that blast. She calls it a massacre. She says the U.S. must determine who carried out the strike, and responsibility must be ascertained. Now, the president said, everyone's got Tomahawks. Who knows? Probably Iran. We don't have any idea. Preliminary military inquiry reports that there was outdated targeting data. The school, like a lot of... A lot of military installations, especially secret underground nuclear bunkers, tend to be around schools and hospitals. They know that because they want to have the United States, in this case, or Israel, think twice before you start lobbying any missiles or bombs or drones or whatever over there because you might have some collateral damage, including kids. They know that. That's why they do that. But still, we have the strategic... targeted capability to not hit a school and a school was hit. We don't know who hit it. Let's say it was us. What exactly does Prime Minister Maloney of Italy or anyone else, what do you want to have happened next? Is the president then jailed for being a war criminal? Are we looking past the fact that Iran massacred scores tens of thousands of protesters who their crime was wanting freedom? for their people in their country. And they were murdered by this regime. This regime that's been threatening the United States and Israel that's been supporting terrorists, not just from like Hamas and Hezbollah and the Houthis, but also China and Russia. We had to take these guys out. They were actively trying to build a nuclear weapon. And this is a wartime footing. This is...

an unfortunate thing that happens in a situation. What do the people who are looking at this horrible atrocity at the school, what exactly do you expect should happen now? It's one of the great tragedies of war. People die. Innocent people die. Do I think this was an American strike? No, because I think American technology makes it far too precise to do such a thing. It is possible it was an Israeli strike. They have a little bit less concern about the outcome of war than the United States. It's because a lot of their people have been attacked too. They have a different approach to war than we do. I still don't think that Israel would have targeted the school. Probably not. I don't think they targeted it, but they might have lost one of them, and it wound up there. If we are to believe them. Now, remember, what comes out of Iran state media is not to be taken seriously most of the time. This is the same organization that this week announced that the United States Aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln, had been sunk. It then resurfaced on its own and was hit again. Meanwhile, we just released pictures of the Abraham Lincoln launching jet fighters dropping bombs on Iran. So if this is coming out of there, you can't trust any of that information. This is an organization that says it has killed thousands of American soldiers. This is what they're telling Iranians. Oh, yeah. They're winning. We're winning the war. They're winning. Pay no attention. to all of our dead soldiers and all of our fires that are going on right now in our country. We're winning this war. We are sinking their entire Navy. We will begin bombing Washington, D.C. shortly. This is what they're being told by Iran state media. President Trump is rapidly trying to get the Ayatollah on the phone to surrender and unconditional terms immediately in Ayatollah who may or may not be alive. We're going to give Iran, Delaware, in exchange for this. Since Joe Biden was such a fan of theirs. Right. We don't know who, and it might have been Iran that mistakenly or maybe purposefully to try and blame it on the United States, took out of school. I don't know. But if it was missiles everywhere and your underground bunkers for your peaceful nuclear reactors that are hidden underground mountains and next to schools and hospitals, if a school got accidentally hit in that strike, what is it that the prime minister wants? Does the president go to the Hague and the United Nations prison somewhere? Is he a war criminal? What is it that you want to have happen in this situation? And why are there so many people here in America rooting for this to be something that America did that they can hang on either our military or our commander-in-chief? Why are they rooting for it? It's an ugly, ugly time. It's a horrible situation. Well, we talked about this on the year. I believe it's because the country has a genuine lack of understanding of the world at large. They've been paying attention to a certain media bent. They get their news from one source. It's either MSNBC or the New York Times or Twitter or X. And they really don't have a functioning knowledge of the world as it is. We used to educate kids in class about the world.

Here are the communists. This is what they believe. Here are the capitalists and the democracy lovers over here. This is what they believe. But now all of that's getting mixed together. And most of the country, under the age of 65, really does not understand a nuclear threat. They, by their perspective, and it's not their fault, they weren't around for it. Yeah, and thank goodness for that. If you were around, the greatest generation was around when we dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima and World War II. The greatest generation, the baby boom generation, was there when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Khrushchev signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. They were there when the INF Treaty was signed between President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev. That was 1987, 40 years ago. So they don't understand a nuclear threat. They don't understand what happens if a suitcase nuke gets into the hands of a terrorist organization. We all need to watch the movie A Sum of All Fears, okay, starring Morgan Freeman as the president of the United States, when one of those wound up in a Coke machine in a football stadium. Yeah, we don't want people to have to understand that. And one of the reasons we don't want that is to stop threats like Iran. Look, hey, thank you for engaging in a serious... Conversation here, I won't let it happen again. Take News Radio 1110, KFAB, anywhere you are with our free app. And if you're so moved, you can touch that little microphone button and send us a message right here in the Zonkers Custom Woods inbox. You hypocrites are hilarious. Talking about not trusting state-run media in Iran. Yet you are told that by the person who lied to you about tariff refunds, doge checks, and finding waste, fraud, and abuse. I also think there's the same person who told you no new wars and has bombed, what is it, nine countries? Good job, guys. Sorry, I was listening to myself in the background to that message, and then I heard him say, good job, guys. So I was just very entertained by the sound of my own voice in the background. Thank you for that. You're welcome. I was in raptured, but. 1110. Everyone gets a voice here. It's News Radio 1110, KFAB. We have scary things afoot here at the Nebraska legislature. They've got to find some money. When is the Michaela Brett Kavanaugh bikini car wash so they can raise some funds down there and try and plug this budget shortfall? Let's make some money here. People will pay to not have that happen. Someone might put up a lot of money for that. Who?

Someone. Okay. There will not be a Michaela Brett Kavanaugh, Danielle, Conrad, Jane Raybold, bikini, car washed in front of the state capital to raise me. I'm just trying to think a bake sale, a garage sale, and there's got to be something we can do here. Does the governor have a friend that he can get some money from to try and fill this? Shortfall. Are you suggesting you go to Julie Bushal and ask for some of the $2.5 million back? Trying to figure out here. We got $125 million budget deficit. And it looks like 140. Is it? Well, this story says 125, but maybe there's 125 left. I don't want my taxes to go up. My taxes are up enough. What are they going to do here? Well, we haven't even gotten to the line item vetoes yet, because in this state, the governor has a line item veto. Some would argue that's too much power. Maybe, but when you look at the collective capacity of the state legislature, it's better to have the red pen in his hand than theirs. He'll carve out a bunch more, and then they'll come back and try to override the vetoes. At the end of the day, Scott, they'll probably have to go to the emergency fund to cover the gap because Nebraska has a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. They can't just say, well, we'll get to it next year, like the United States Congress does. This is an organization that is required to balance the budget. Now, you can do some funny math and get here to there. The big thing down there that continues to be off limits is the Perkins County Canal Project. Are you familiar with that? No. I'm going to need you to help you where Perkins County is. Perkins County is Western Nebraska. Grant is probably the best known community in Perkins County. Try again. Try again? No. I'm... Right. Anyway, the Perkins County Canal Project is something... I'm just saying Grant, Nebraska is not a real well-known community. Sure. Bill Jackman, you know, the great basketball of the 1980s. Okay. You got Madrid. Where was I? Elsie Grant. Brandon, Nebraska is up there. Anyway, just north of Imperial. This is not about Perkins County. It's about a project named after Perkins County. It's not far from Colorado. And the idea is that we need to build a waterway to get water out of the Platte River, the South Platte River, in Colorado to Nebraska because it's ours and they've been using too much of it. It's our water. It's our water, even though it's in your state. It's God's water. He's the one that started it by dumping snow on the Rockies, which, by the way, has not happened this year. It's a $700 million piece of business that was actually born when we got all this COVID money from the federal government. And Jim Pillen put that money, and actually Pete Ricketts, I believe, Pete Ricketts put that money in a fund to build this canal because we need it for Western Nebraska irrigators.

Well, they haven't even started building it yet. There's 700 million sitting there. Some senators say, well, let's take 100 million out of it now, pay it back when we get going. Western Nebraska senators who have compromised on other bills and supported them to get this project done, say, are you out of your minds? You will not take money out of that project. We've been trying to get this project done for over 100 years. And it's finally through the court's been litigated. And Colorado says, okay, plug into the South Platte River. If you can get it to your state, fine. And that's what the canal will do. But they haven't even started building it yet. It's just in the design phase. Been sitting there for four years. I hope they've been getting some interest payments on it. They were going to cut $40 million from Nebraska educational television, NET, Nebraska. They don't give ETV 40 million. They give. Now it's they're saying, well, maybe it's only 11, but. They give them 13 million a year. I'm just reading the news here from KETV Newswatch 7 says this plan called for $40 million to be taken from NET, but now that's closer to $11 million. They were able to hold on to millions of dollars that they may or may not be given. We've got the Bureau of Educational Land Fund, the Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund. No one even knows what this money goes towards. I think the lottery proceeds support that. Project. So we play more Kino. We might be able to shore up the budget deficit. Buy a few more tickets. And not raise my taxes. That's good. Boxes and verticals. Pete Hegseth, our secretary of war, is referring to Iran's quote, not so supreme leader, unquote. This would be the new Ayatollah Khomeini. And I'm going to continue to pronounce the name that way because my entire life, well, since I was old enough to remember. It's been the Ayatollah Khomeini. And he died. And then we had the Ayatollah Khomeini. And then he died. And now we have the Hyatollah Khomeh. Like, nope, it's the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And Pete Hegseth says he's the not so supreme leader. He lacks legitimacy. If he's even alive, he's probably disfigured. But wait a second. He released a statement. Yeah, we got a statement, but we didn't see him. We don't have any video of him. We don't even have him doing a selfie on a TikTok video going, hey, guys. Just wanted to say, hey, if you like the video, please like, comment, subscribe. Pete Hegseth says he's called for unity, apparently killing in his country. He's apparently killing tens of thousands of protesters in Iran. The Iranian people is his kind of unity. He got plenty of cameras, plenty of voice recorders. Why is it a written statement? Pete Hegseth says, I think you know why. His dad's dead. He's scared. He's injured. He's on the run. And he lacks legitimacy. He's wounded and likely disfigured.

The not-so-supreme leader. That's Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, calling out the new Ayatollah Kalmany. Let's throw another name into the mix, Joe Rogan. He's not joining us. And this is a regular occurrence by the media. You have someone who's not exactly your staunch conservative, someone who maybe had some differing political views, had some... disagreements with the President Trump himself or the administration. And then he wanders over, dips a foot into the Trumpy Maga Waters and says, you know, it's not as bad as people think. And so the media, if you don't hate Trump, then you are against us, say liberals in the media. So Rogan didn't hate Trump. He made the mistake, according to them, of giving him a platform. to espouse his views, putting him on his very popular Joe Rogan podcast leading up to the 2024 election. And now you're hearing again, at the time, it was like, well, it's not really that big a deal. It's a comedian on a podcast, not that big a deal. But now that Rogan is saying stuff against Trump, now the media has completely shifted around. It was potentially Trump's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast that caused many young males to come around and vote for Trump. Yes, the former president and one of the biggest names in history was nothing until he was on the Joe Rogan podcast. But now the media is propping it up because Rogan is saying some, well, he's questioning the war on Iran. He says a lot of Trump supporters feel betrayed. Trump campaigned on ending foreign wars. And he says this campaign in Iran seems insane based on what he ran on. A lot of people are thinking we're going to be in an endless war in Iran, despite the fact that President Trump and others in the administration say now we have no plans and we don't see in any expectation of being involved in Iran like we were in Iraq like we were in Afghanistan. But. There are some people who may have a microphone in front of their face who, when they hear the president and other members of the administration, say, yeah, we're beating them good. This would be done any minute now. Like, you've been saying that for a week. And so how much patience should we have? Jim, how much patience do you have for how long it takes to get this done right? So we don't have to go back in a couple of years. We don't have to deal with them hitting us in the next year if we don't fully take out their ability to strike. I have a little bit of patience. I don't have a lot of patience, meaning I don't think this can go on and on and on and on. I would think if we can't take care of this with the Israelis and our Arab state allies in a month, that's an issue.

We need to knock out everything that's going on along the Straits of Hormuz. We've got to knock out all of their docks and ports along that stretch of territory for them on that side of the canal and the Straits of Hormuz. But as not only an American, but as a taxpayer an American and somebody who needs the economy to do what the president said it's going to do. This needs to go on no more than a month, which would be another two or three weeks. We have issues in our economy right now, fundamentally, that worry me. Number one, the private credit market is getting very jittery because it spent a lot of money on AI in 2025, and they want an ROI. So the private credit, these are the equity guys, they're thinking, hmm, I don't know, let's pull back a little, and some of their people are saying, I want my money back right now. That's not healthy for the economy. You're yanking money out of the supply. I'm a little concerned about 10-year treasuries right now. They are up. That's not good because that drives mortgage rates, and mortgage rates ticked up a little bit in the last week or so. I think it's all part of this uncertainty. The market is off roughly 10% from the big high of 50,000 that the president was chirping about a couple of weeks ago. So is it a crash? Is it a concern? Is it a recession? No. But we elected this guy to do two things, primarily. shut off the border and get the bad guys out of here and get this economy zooming again. And I mean the 3 to 4% GDP growth. That's zooming. The GDP numbers are going to come out and it's going to be probably about 1.9% annualized growth. That's not good enough. To say nothing of our entitlement issues that he's not dealing with right now, to say nothing of student loan debt, to say nothing of some of the other fundamental issues. that exist in our country today that need presidential and congressional attention. Well, the president, previous president. But I support what he's doing. Right. President Biden tried to do something about student loan debt, which was asinine, and that was to quote unquote forgive it. And by forgive, we mean ask taxpayers to pay off someone else's loan that they had nothing to do with. But. The stock market is up right now between a half and a full percent. Oil is down about two and a half percent. That's of right now. That's up right at this very second. But in this... In this minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day level of patience that Americans have, I think a lot of Americans will probably lose their patience with what's going on with strikes against Iran the next time they gas up, which for me was last night, which was about a dollar more than what I gassed up a week ago. Pretty rough. It's a lot of money. And hopefully that at least stabilize. And then...

All you can ever do with a lot of these political leaders that say, well, I hope they know what they're doing because we're doing it, whether it strikes against Iran or streetcars, we're just doing it. And president says this will be over very, very soon. We're knocking out their ability to be able to strike back. We don't want to have to go back there in a couple of years because we miss something. We've got to do this right. If we're going to do it, we've got to do it right. And we'll have the market stabilized oil tankers be going through the straight-ohromoze. Your gas prices start going down. Really quickly. Well, you hope. But you know, I hope he knows what he's talking about because that all sounds fine. Yeah, and the thing is the national political scene is a little hard for us to touch here in Nebraska. But the 49 Fulbright's and the governor are not. And I think it was a real big worry yesterday when a whole big chunk of Midtown Omaha went dark, including this place. Well, a power. poll got snapped in half by wins. And you know what I say every time we have really strong wins and that's we have branches hanging over power lines on people's property and none of them did anything about it. They're like, well, I hope OPP comes out sometime to deal with that. I'm not going to call them and nor am I going to pay someone to do it on my dime to protect the neighborhood. We just sit there and stare at these things and go, well, I hope that's okay. It's never okay. It was a problem here, but we didn't even. really have high winds yesterday. Yes, we did. Well, not real. Are you kidding? Not comparison compared to what Jim Flowers says we're going to have on Sunday. Well, everybody wants to live in Florida. Well, we're going to have hurricane force winds here like they get in Florida on Sunday, according to Jim Flowers. It happens. It's a very windy place. And if we think that power lines were getting snapped and the little breeze we had yesterday, wait about Sunday afternoon, throw it another three inches of snow and five degrees below zero. It was not a little breeze. yesterday. I was out in it. It was a nine-club wind. It wasn't a nine-club wind. It wasn't a nine-club wind. Don't go missing with a country boy, a country.

From Nebraska Game and Parks today or tomorrow. Tomorrow doesn't look like a bad day here. Sunday might not be a great day to be out if you're a man or beast. What's going on here with doing some fishing over the next couple of days? The big news for tomorrow morning. The two rivers trout lake opens up. That is so popular, you guys. Lots of 12-inch rainbow trout. We've already stocked in there. Lake opens up at 7 a.m. We'll have lines there. And then it'll be open all the way until sunset every single day. But tomorrow looks pretty good. And trout are a cold water fish, so they're not going to mind little breezy, chilly conditions at all. So that's really the big news in fishing. And, you know, more kids. And there goes my hand up right there, the kid from Gretna. More kids have been hooked on fishing there than any other place because it's just small and the trout are easily caught. So trout, crappie, you mentioned last week. Croppy, croppy are biting, still biting, the marina area of Cunningham Lake. And then also the Bocelder Creek, that feeds Zirinsky Lake in West Omaha. Those two places have been the best. It's not, you know, again, it's not a gangbusters bite anything like. like that, but a few crop be being caught. Water temps are still cold. What do the sandhill cranes think about this wind? They're probably saying, what have we done to ourselves? We're up here early. Look at it, and here comes Sunday. But a lot of cranes to see. You got viewable numbers of sandhill cranes. And the migration peak is coming. It'll be just after St. Patrick's Day to about the first week of April. That's the real big time to see about 600,000 sandhill cranes between Grand Island and Carney along the Platte River. It's a big deal out there. It's a big deal. Some outdoor activities over the next couple of days. Might want to go indoors in our state parks on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday look cold too. Yeah. What do we got to do here? Mahoney State Park, great place to be for recreation to wear the kids and the grandkids out if they're on spring break. And that would be the climbing wall area of Mahoney in the indoor playground. That would be great. And then at Tram, it's all nature. We have a really cool indoor nature facility there, the Outdoor Education Center. A lot of different things happening. They're very interactive, really cool. And on the outdoor bulletin board, Greg. Don't be a fire starter. So you and the outdoor. crowd, high fire danger, no parking or driving in the tall grass or crop stubble, no smoking, and no campfires. Head the burn bans that are in place. You heard Craig Evans earlier here. All right, Greg Wagner from Nebraska Game in Parks. Always a pleasure. Have a great weekend.

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