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for much of the day, just a beautiful weather forest feeling a little more like summer. Highs today pretty close to 80. Tonight, mainly clear and pleasantly cool, we'll drop down to about the mid-50s. And for tomorrow, once again, plenty of sunshine, a pretty nice day with highs in the lower 80s. From the 13-Wam Weather Authority, I'm meteorologist Marty Snyder. On Rochester's news weather and traffic station, news radio, Web 1180. Downtown, it's plenty of sunshine and 58 degrees. It is 56 in Pittsburgh. Word 802 on Rochester Source for Breaking News, Weather and Traffic. News Radio Lamb, 1180. Bill Gates Police say a woman's death suspicious. The body was discovered at 7.30 last night along the Erie Canal near Lee Road. Investigators didn't release any other details on how the woman died, but Bill Gates Police are asking anyone with information on what happened to contact them. Dominic Chicorelli, News Radio, WAM 1180. 20-year-old Emily Motica pleading guilty in the tortured and murder of Sam Norquist. She faces up to life in prison but could receive as little as 15 years in prison under the plea agreement. Norquist's sister, Kayla, spoke with 13. To me, it doesn't matter how little involved she was. She was ultimately involved. She didn't do the right thing when she should have. Six others are set for trial starting at the end of August. They're each charged with kidnapping, murder, torture, and sexual abuse in Norquist's death. Prosecutors say he was held in Hopewell with even children involved in the abuse before his body was dumped in a field in Yates County. Three workers had to be rescued from a downtown Rochester high-rise. The power went out at the former Chase Tower on South Clinton Avenue. It's now called the Metropolitan, around seven last night. That stranded the men on their platform as they tried to replace a broken window on the 22nd floor. Mike Togas lives there. He tells 13 Wham, they weren't too stressed out. They honestly looked very comfortable in the basket, just hanging out up there, waiting for something, you know, somebody to get them out of the basket. I don't think it's their first rodeo. Crews were able to cut through the window and finally get them down. None of the men were hurt. Angel Colon, the Wyoming County man convicted in the 1997 killing of 7-year-old Samantha Zaldivar denied parole. Colon recently went before the parole board after serving more than two decades behind bars for second-degree murder. The victim's body discovered months after she was reported missing in a field near her home. Records show Colon's next chance of parole is now set for May 28. Community members and the victim's loved ones had urged the poor to keep him in prison. California, Iowa, and New Jersey held primary elections yesterday. Fox's Madeline Rivera has more with starting with Los Angeles' mayors race, where it includes incumbent Karen Bass, she's a Democrat, and Republican candidate Spencer Pratt. California relies so much on mail-in ballots, which slows down the vote-counting process, but Pratt is optimistic. He can't stay ahead of Rahman to clinch the second spot in the runoff. Meantime, the California gubernatorial race remains too close to call. Democrats Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer and Republican Steve Hilton appear to be leading the pack. The top two vote getters will move on to the general election, regardless of their party. In Iowa, Democrat Josh Turrick and Republican Ashley Hinson will face each other in the race to replace retiring Senator Joni Ernst. Democrats are hoping to flip this seat. And in New Jersey's 12 congressional district, Adam Homoie won the Democratic primary.

The general election, by the way, does take place November 3rd. Meantime on June 16th, residents of Bayville, New York will elect a new mayor. Here's the problem. No one's actually entered the race. There are zero candidates to run in the village of 7,000 on Long Island's North Shore. After a single term incumbent, Steve Mitikaze opted not to seek re-election. So for now, voters are being asked to write in the name of anyone they think should fill Bayville's top job. News Radio Wambled of D80-time now 805. Thanks for listening to the morning news. Maybe we write in Bob Lonsbury. for Bayville mayor. 100%. Go ahead. 100%. No, I'm going to do it. Are you? I'll also be a police commissioner, and I'll get a car with flashing lights and a badge, buddy. I love it. You're my pal. I'll let you go three miles over, pal. Thank you. That's, of course, the great Barry V there. Good morning, Rochester. I always appreciate the service of Mr. V and Mr. Lasky starting the day right for all of us. There, you know, was a little bit of upset last couple days on social media, and it came out of the 6 o'clock news last evening. On Saturday, somebody went to the Rochester public market, which is a good idea. The public market, I could wax poetic about it. I love the spirit. I love the place. You see, interesting people of every stripe. You see all sorts of pretty good produce. Be careful, though. Caveat Emptor, all right. And you have people who make unique bread and you've got folks selling different cuts of meat and you got this assortment of every kind of pickle you could imagine. It's a little bit of adventure. I love it. A great game to play with little kids is, my wife used to do this with our youngest ones. She would get on the computer and she would make, how did to describe this? On the piece of paper, she would have printed out all sorts of different fruits and vegetables, okay, in rows. And every youngster got a piece of paper with all those fruits and vegetables on there.

Some of them fairly exotic and unusual, and they got a pencil, and we turned them loose at the public market and said, go find these, right? And see if you can find these fruits and vegetables. And they had the time of their lives, you know what I'm saying? And I don't want to boast, but when it comes to fruits and vegetables, my kids are just a hell of a lot smarter than yours. No, I'm sorry. No, paw, paw, we know what that is, okay? The big giant root things that people from South America eat, we know all about that, okay? But love the public market. And like I mentioned, people from all over the world, you know, who live here now, go to the public market. And people from all over the world eat different things. Right? We all got our stuff we're raised with. That's part of our own personal family culture. And we eat those things. I eat stuff from the southern tier. You eat stuff wherever you're from. And, well, there are two fish markets in there. one run by an Asian family, another run by a Jewish family, and those are the fish markets. And at the Asian one, they had on Saturday a hammerhead shark. Right? Which is pretty cool. Here's the thing. For me, seeing that, it'd be like I'm at the zoo. If the kids were there, and here's the thing, walking through with the kids, if somebody's got lobster in there, shellfish, whole fish or whatever, we stop and look at them like we're at the fish zoo. Oh, look at that kind of deal. I mean, they're dead and on ice, but they're still pretty cool to look at. So the fishmonger. He gets his seafood in Boston, and he picked up there a hammerhead shark. Completely legal to catch, completely legal to possess, completely legal to sell. Everything that the people who caught it and were selling in Boston were doing was legal. Everything this gentleman fishmonger from Rochester was doing in purchasing it and bringing back here and putting up for sale. Everything was legal, okay? But somebody took a little video of it and looked at it through, well, maybe the eyes and culture of people from around here. And everybody got their panties in a bunch. And it was, how can they sell this poor shark? Well, I mean, we eat a lot of different animals. This one just has a funny head. So at any rate, a lot of attention, a lot of condemnation. It's a funny thing. We're so damn tolerant, but we're wildly intolerant. Some people eat sharks.

Okay, I would eat a shark if I knew how to cook it or whatever. If I was at somebody's house and this was their thing and they were serving shark, I'd be happy and thrilled to have some and be honored they were sharing it with me. And as opposed to going there and seeing this for sale and condemning it because it doesn't meet our culture or standards. We probably, unless we choose to be jerks, we should be there learning and going, oh, wow, you do that? Well, that's pretty cool. How do you cook that, right? Learn don't judge is a good approach to life. And it's just interesting that it was our young, very hip, very woke TikTok friends who were crapping on this poor Asian man for selling a shark, which, by the way, completely legal. And it was a smart move because somebody bought the shark. I imagine they probably've had it for dinner by now. It's time for trafficking weather on the 10s on News Radio Wham 1180.

From the Clark Peskin Traffic Center, protect what you have. A will is not enough. Visit Clark Peshkin.com. It's going to be sunny and in the upper 70s today. Okay? Any complaints? You should take them right to the psych ward at strong because you've got a problem. This is a perfect day. 58 at 812 and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180. Listen, I'm not trying to boast here like I'm some crazy wild he man. Though as a professional microphone operator, you understand that I got just a little bit of extra mojo in the tank. But when I caught a shark once, and I recognize now that, well, people catch sharks. That happens, okay? I was probably... like eight or so. There was a period of time from like first grade to fifth grade when I lived mostly in California, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, that kind of area down there. My mother and stepfather had gone out before, you know, trying to make a living and see if they could find a path forward in life. And they got their feet under them. You know, I eventually went out and lived with them. And three younger siblings were born. And it was all cool. And on Saturday mornings... often when my stepfather didn't have to work cooking at the diner, he would go fishing. And as I've only realized in my own adulthood, he was an unusually patient man because he would take me, you know, seven, eight, nine years old fishing with him. And, you know, these were, you know, there was no money. This was very low brow. and this would involve going to appear somewhere and getting some pail of, you know, kind of look like dismembered shrimp or something like that, and we would go out and stand on the edge of the pier, and he would have a fishing pole, and I would have a handline, right, which was, I think, a lot more common back then. You'd have a rectangular thing and there'd be a whole bunch of braided fishing line that was wrapped around that. And then there'd be a hook and a sinker on the end. And, you know, you'd let out the line and you'd stand there on the edge of the pier and you'd, you know, hold the line and you'd wait and see if you got a bite. And I do not recall catching very many fish, okay? And I suspect that I probably annoyed the living daylights out of him. We catch a fish yet? Carl, we catch a fish yet? But one time, there was a man who worked at the diner, and he somehow led this little group.

And it was him and my stepfather and another guy. And they got like a ride on a fishing boat. And I got to come. It was a small boat, went out, and in the center of it in the boat, there were live bait wells with all these like minnows swimming around in there. And they were over on the edge of the boat trying to catch fish. I was over there in my hand, splashing with the minnows, whatever else like that. Well, I had a pole. And, you know, it's there off the side of the boat, and I get done splashing with the minnows, and over there the pole, and, you know, what do kids always want to do? They want to reel it in, very annoying to the parents around them. But I reel this in. It was very difficult. And at any rate, on the other end of this, after a fair amount of struggle and a gathering crowd of adults, there was a sand shark. which could not have been more than like three or four feet long. But there I was eight or so, and I'm on a boat and I've just caught a shark, okay? And like this was, to be honest with you, it still may be the most significant achievement of my life, okay, in terms of like stuff like that, manhood and all that. Unfortunately, this was before the days when, like, a lot of people really had cameras. So there is not a, I mean, yes, George Eastman had been doing this thing for decades, but we didn't have any camera. And so it lives only in my memory where that shark gets larger by the year. Take a break back in a moment. It's going to be a great day. This is News Radio Wham 1180. This weekend, will it be this or will it be this? I thought you said. Well, I don't know it's what the app said. Local weather. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Every color, every option, every style, everything you could ever want a new vehicle. It's going to be a great, great day. 59 at 822, and you're listening to News Radio, WAM 1180. All right, this is going to be awkward and difficult. Stick with me. Radio Mike! Speaking to the producer of the broadcast, Radio Mike Oden. Radio Mike! Radio Mike! He's possibly a hostile. Yes. Radio Mike? Mm-hmm. Sir, are you not familiar with the general layout of the building at 100 Chestnut Street, aka the five-star bank building? Yes. Are you or are you not, sir, familiar with the layout of the lobby of said building? Yes. Could you describe it for me, please? Well, you walk in the front door, and to your right is the bank, and to your left is the Starbucks. Okay, all right. Anything else in this lobby?

There's a security guard, usually somewhere's in the middle. Okay. At about your 1 o'clock. Yes, and then there's a... Bank of elevators that you would take up here. Okay. So you freely admit that you are familiar with the bank location inside the lobby at 100 Chestnut. Yes, yes. Have you, sir, ever been to this bank? I have been to the ATM of that particular bank. Okay. Sir, do you know where you were yesterday afternoon approximately 1.30? I believe I was in the middle of... driving home after stopping at Wegmans, I need to have to pick up a few things. You believe you were driving home? Yeah. Okay. And do you want us to believe you shop at the East Avenue Wegmans? I don't shop at East Avenue Wegmans. I pick up things at the East Avenue Wegmans if I have to on my way home. You pick up things. Do you pay for these things you pick up? Yes. Well, that's shopping, isn't it? Okay. I'm not sure why you're so hostile about these questions, sir. But at 1.30 yesterday afternoon, you said you were in the lobby of the building? I was not, actually. You were not. It's just, I'm trying to nail you down on your story. You don't seem to know where you were at 1.30 yesterday afternoon, sir. Let me ask you this. When you communicate to the threat, was it by note or was it implied or did you say words? How did you commit this crime, sir? One thing that is noticeable is this rabber hit. At like the only time when there's no RPD officers in the Starbucks. Oh my gosh. They're in there all day. Oh my gosh. He must have gotten like the only time when they weren't in there. Oh my gosh. Let's piss on the cops. Why don't we radio, Mike? You know, they're allowed to take lunch breaks too. Your hostility towards law enforcement I think is only reaffirming of my suspicion that you may have been involved in this little event yesterday. All right, very good. If you had a choice of the top three prisons you'd like to be sent to, what would they be? Yeah, Groveland is his number one pick. Albian, if he could go bunk in with the ladies. Radio Mike Oden, we're watching you, okay? We are watching you. It's time for news. Greg Jolasky will do that. We'll be back when he's done on News Radio, Wham 1180. Use Radio, Wham 1180, an iHeart radio station, guaranteed human.

Oh, yeah. No, there's still time this year to get a pool from design, pool, and spa. And here's the thing. I'm an ignorant person. Pool, that's the thing like with water in your backyard, right? It's kind of a portal to, oh, my gosh, we love our home even more. And oh, my gosh, we have even more wonderful things to do with our family here. I would urge you to stop out if you get a chance at design pool and spa. There are a showroom such like that. 7244, Pitchford, Palmyra Road. And if you can't stop off, why don't you do it right now or when you get to work, just check out their little website. Just look at designpoolinspa.com and start thinking thoughts, okay? Start dreaming dreams. Start making plans. You make a call, you make a future with a beautiful pool or spa from the great people at designpool and spa.com. With prices changing and uncertainty everywhere, now's the time to build... Oh, to you. There is an update on George Santos. George Santos was that guy who, hanging my head in shame, briefly served as a Republican congressman. He ran for Congress down by New York City twice. And both times, he told the biggest whopper lies ever there were. Talked about his grandparents being killed in the Holocaust. They were not. Talked about being Jewish. He is not. talked about being gay, he probably is not. He told so many crazy whopper stories. And the deal is that his first campaign was unsuccessful. The second campaign, however, was successful. And... Kind of the surprising thing was that through both campaigns, neither his opponents and their opposition research nor the supposedly vigilant press of New York City, neither of them like caught on to the fact that he was a lying dirtbag. I mean, like, in an astounding fashion, like they make movies about. Like, can you believe this crap? At any rate, he got elected to the house. It caught up with him fairly quickly, and he was no longer in the house. And then he was in the big house, if you know what I mean? He was convicted and sentenced to a federal penitentiary was to have been a term of years. However, October last, his sentence was commuted by Donald John Trump. So this is last October, and here's George Santos, who since Joe Asuzu is a, hold of Joe Suzu is a good guy. Who is the one who told the lies all the time? At any rate, I don't know. But George Santos, one of the bigger liars in America in quite a while. And he got a second chance. A president let him out of prison early.

And I would think if I had gone to prison and I got out early, maybe I'm a pansy bit. I would probably try extra special hard, never to do anything again the rest of my life that might put me back in prison. However, George Santos is his own sort of fellow. We'll explain that in just a moment. Time now for Trafficking Weather on the Tens on News Radio, Wham 1180. From McClark's Presbyan Traffic Center, protect what you have, a will is not enough. ...in 80 weather. Brought you by William Matar. Hurt in a car? Call William Matar. Sunny and upper 70s, okay? If you don't like that, go back to the polar bear exhibit at the zoo where you came from, okay? Because this is a perfect day. 60 degrees, the temperature at 841, and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180. So we're talking about George Santos. We'll be very quick here. He gets out of prison thanks to Trump last October. You get to the end of January or so beginning of February, and it's time for the state of the union address. And he goes on X, does George Santos in the days leading up to it, and he gets all excited about on X, oh, I can't wait to see the state of the union address. I've got a ticket to sit in the balcony. It's going to be wonderful. Right? So he goes through this falter all. And then when President Trump is actually speaking at the actual state of the union address, he posts on X supposedly from an airport that, dang it, my life got messed up and I missed this flight and here I am and I didn't get to go to the state of the union address, right? And he despairs of that, bemoans that on social media. Well, here's the interesting thing. Shortly after announcing that he was going to the State of the Union, this guy, George Santos, went on one of those predictive market gambling things, and he bet that he was going to miss it. Right? They literally have bets on who will be at the state of the union. They have bets on everything, okay? I think America has a problem, all right? And this would be one symptom of it, but they bet on every freaking thing, right? And he goes in there and he bets against himself being at the state of the union right after he announces that he's going to be at the state of the union. and lo and behold when surprise surprise he wasn't at the state of the union um he won several tens of thousands of dollars

The site he used was Colsey or something like that, and they noticed this behavior, and they tracked it, and they froze his account, and they reached out to the federal government and said, I think we got a stinker here. And the Department of Justice has reviewed the matter and is conducting an investigation the report is, and seems to have concluded that, in fact, there might be a stinker here. So just four months out of federal prison with a presidential commutation, it seems possible that George Santos engaged in another con and potentially committed one or more felony crimes. So here's the deal. Is there, I don't know if there are records on this, has anyone ever received more than one commutation from a president? And here just, okay, I'm just talking out loud here, okay? If I were to go on one of these predictive markets and make my bet about whether or not George Santos will get a second commutation, could I win anything or whatever like that? Anyway, here's politely what I'd like to say about predictive markets, and I know nothing about them, which I'm sure qualifies me to be an expert and will give great weight to what I'm about to say. This is just gambling on random stuff. And if you're just gambling on random stuff, you have one of two things going on, neither of which are good for you. One, you believe that you're supposed to get money, not by working and earning, but by figuring out some kind of scheme. That's never going to work out for you. Okay, number one. Number two, possible explanation is that you're in a situation where you have a real gambling problem. It is an addictive behavior, and it can be wildly damaging to anybody anywhere. And so whichever way you're going with this, I would politely like to say that playing the predictive market game, is not good for your heart, your soul, or your pocketbook. Take a break back in a moment. If I haven't mentioned it already, it's going to be a great day. This is News Radio, Wham 1180. Reliable information. God to know what's happening in my city. My city. Traffic reports. I'm going to know.

the weather. Listen and you'll know my city. Excuse me sharp. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Hey, Franz Lonsbury here talking with Jason, the general manager of Jamestown mattress. Mitar. Such a beautiful day, dear friend, sunny with a high in the upper 70s. If that's not pleasant to you, like you're, you got something wrong with your head, okay? And you should see a head doctor. It is 52. 62, forgive me at 851, and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180. A robbery downstairs. Broadcast Central is in the five-star bank building. You see on the skyline of Rochester that one beautiful building there says five-star bank along the top. That's where we work. And in the lobby of that building yesterday, 130, there was a bank robbery. And here's the deal. We have one door in. To walk in, you would have to walk in the front door, walk past the guard desk, go into the bank, make whatever threat you want to make, and then you'd have to walk out past the guard desk out the front door and disappear into a beautiful downtown Rochester. It just doesn't make any sense to me. One of the many reasons I could never be a bank teller is somebody came up and said they're wrong with the bank. I tell them to go F themselves, right? No, you can't have the money. You cannot have the money. Speaking of which, yesterday we talked about that story early Sunday morning, I think it was, out of beautiful Greece. They're at the Denny's. There's a woman, 58 years of age. She's just gotten takeout from Denny's, and she's sitting in her car eating it, right, as opposed to in the restaurant, whatever. But she's sitting in her car and she's eating her food. And up comes man, 45 years of age, Brian Wheeler from the city of Rochester. And he's got a razor blade. And he begins to violently assail her, quite possibly trying to carjack her, to steal her vehicle. There is a young man identified thus far only as Giuseppe who is walking home from work. Now, what work, where home is, what his story is, we don't quite know. But maybe you saw Christian Garzone last night had him on Channel 13. And, you know, Garzone's tall, but Giuseppe is standing next to him, and Giuseppe is, no offense intended, flat out short. He's not a big man. He's a muscular man. You can see he's fit, got some nice tattoos, and he lives in the city of Rochester, so maybe he had a ways to walk or who knows what. But he's just walking by, and he sees this fellow attacking this lady in the car.

And he goes over and breaks up the attack, allowing the woman to escape. And then Giuseppe takes, you know, the bad guy, Brian Wheeler, 45, the alleged bad guy, takes him to the custody, if you will. When the police show up, Wheeler is down on the ground and Giuseppe is holding him there. When you look at the mugshot, You can see that it looks like the assailant in this matter has recently had a bloody nose, quite possibly provided to him by Giuseppe. At any rate, this, I say kid, I don't mean any disrespect by, but this young man, straightforward. Just kind. I'd want somebody to help me. I want to be helpful and useful if I can. It's not right to do that. We all got to pull together and be good people. And you're sitting there thinking, man, what a freaking giant. What a good man. What a good man. And then they had the Greece police captain on saying, you bet we're going to honor him up at City Hall or Town Hall. And you just rejoice in that. Right? And at any rate, thank you for the example, sir. Thank you for delivering this woman from that incident of peril. And thank you for being a good example for the rest of us. We got music, which means we have news. After that, Mark Molanaro was going to explain to us the new Democrat plan for congressional redistricting. That's coming up on news radio, Wham 1180. With the spirit of 1776 in our mind. The stories that made America. 250 years of the struggle for life, limiting, and the pursuit of happiness. The stories that are still shaping our nation. You've seen nothing yet. Use radio. Wham, 1180. If you want unlimited talk text and data on a crazy fast network, big wireless will sell it to you right now for his...