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It's 802 on Rochester's source for breaking news, weather and traffic. News Radio WAM 1180. Greece police say they're investigating after finding two people dead at the Fetner Square Apartments and townhouses. Police were called to the apartment on Square View Lane by a request for a welfare check Monday night. They found the two people dead inside in what they say appeared to be an isolated incident. No threat to public safety. No further information was released. The incident remains under investigation. Bud Lowell News Radio, Wham 1180. A man reported missing to Livingston County authorities found dead in a snowmobile crash. The sheriff's office says they were looking for 25-year-old Adam Curry when he failed to come home 12 hours after leaving on a snowmobile. And then they had found that he had missed a turn while riding a trail in portage and then slammed into the side of a barn on Smith Road. He was dead at the scene. Two men found guilty in a deadly triple shooting in Rochester's Beechwood neighborhood will serve decades in prison. 22-year-old's Quentin Riviere and Nasuzir Horton were convicted last month of murder and attempted murder, along with drug and weapons charges. Police say they opened fire at a teenage boy on Hazleton Terrace in August of 2024. The boy and another teen were wounded and a stray bullet killed 19-year-old Rikaya Isaac. Both Riviera and Horton were on parole at the time. Dave Smith, News Radio WAMB, 1180. Riviera will serve 55 years to life in prison while Horton got 25 to life. Men accused of killing a Rochester bar, Dorman, and hit run could enter a guilty plea this morning. 34-year-old Leonel, Yaspania, currently faces vehicular manslaughter, leaving the scene and DWI. Police say he had left a Monroe Avenue bar before he ran over 70-year-old Henry Brown on South Union Street near Buena Place in June. Brown was a doorman at Salinger's in the East End. Yaspania has five prior DWI convictions. Marty Casper News Radio, WAM, 1180. Iran has just rejected further negotiations with the United States. Iran's foreign minister has just said there can be no negotiations between Washington and Tehran under the current, quote. atmosphere of threats, accusing Washington of making excessive demands and raising illogical issues. This, an apparent reference to Iran's brutal crackdown on protesters, which appears to be continuing despite President Trump's threat of military intervention. Vicki Barker, CBS News. And today is the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launching on a particularly cold Florida morning. Challenger, go. The crew of seven was lost, including the first teacher in space, Krista McColliffe. The cold weather revealed a design flaw in the space shuttle's booster, and also to blame was NASA's rush to launch. A second shuttle, Columbia, was lost in a 2003 accident, also killing a crew of seven. I'm Rory O'Neill. News Radio WAM 1180 time now 805. Thanks for listening to the morning news, sponsored by indoor air professionals. And here he is, Bob Lunsberry on News Radio Wham 1180. Thanks, sir. I appreciate that. Good morning, Americans. Hello, my friend. Morning, Rochester. Real quick, just my thoughts distracted there by that, look back on the explosion of the Challenger 40 years ago. Now, there aren't very many people old enough to remember that.

You probably were a little kid if you were born at all. I was in a bathroom at Fort Benjamin Netanyahu Harrison, Indiana, in the Army, working at the post-newspaper, and there were some renovations going on to our offices, and we didn't have a functioning dark room. Back then, when you took pictures, you had to develop film. and then print pictures, two separate processes involving chemicals and some expertise and a whole lot of products made right here in Rochester, New York. And at any rate, we didn't have the dark room. I had to develop film. And so I was in the men's room and closed off with paper, all the lights at the window and at the crack of the door and such down at the floor. And I had the radio playing, and I was in the sinks there processing the film. when came a bulletin that there had been an explosion. And that phrase, a major malfunction, the loss of that school teacher, McColliffe was at her name, the crew on board. It was a tough thing. And as soon as, you know, I got to the point where I could, you know, turn on the lights and open the door, ran into the newsroom at the newspaper where I was working. And, of course, the TV on the wall was tuned to this. And over and over again, they showed this incredible spacecraft, if you will, thundering off the pad and taking off. And then there was, you know, the catastrophic malfunction. And you had the two... booster rockets which continued sort of spiraling in odd directions in this large white cloud where the vessel had once been and then falling from whatever altitude they were at various pieces of the challenger And, you know, you stood there and you thought, my gosh, there is no surviving that. We have, for the first time since Apollo won in that fire on the training pad, we have lost astronauts. It was, and this Christma, was it Chris McCall? If I can't remember the school teacher, she was a star at the time, a good-hearted person. And in those simpler days, I think we got more excited and worked up. And the notion that a school teacher would go to space, we all knew school teachers. We all have been benefited and blessed in our lives by school teachers. And that was also at the end of the right stuff era. When up to that point, if you're an astronaut,

You were a certified badass. We hadn't shifted over into the, you know, overweight scientists who tend to dominate space flight today. But we still had that right stuff kind of, oh my gosh, you're an astronaut. These people were, because of their expertise through extraordinary achievement in life, we almost saw them as supermen and superwomen. There was, and I obviously don't remember what network we were watching, but in the first minutes after the explosion that day, there in the newsroom, they kept interlarding a video of someone coming down in a parachute. and it looked like perchance it was a rescue jumper or something like that and and they showed that several times over the course that first hour or so and you thought is well hold it is there are they are they jumping to rescue someone Well, subsequently, we learned that the capsule survived the blast, but we prayed that the astronauts did not. And we hoped that they were unconscious as a consequence of the kinetic dynamic of the explosion so that in that long drop to the sea. and death that they were unconscious and not aware of their terrible circumstance. It's time for traffic and weather on the tens on News Radio Wham 1180.

From the Clark Peshkin Traffic Center, protect what you have. A will is not enough. Visit Clark Pushkin.com. Sign up now for a free estate planning workshop on February 11th. 104 Eastbound is slowing down right past 590. It's an accident blocking two lanes. We're seeing volume up 590 south through Browncroft Boulevard, 490 westbound, building right into 590. More volume of 490 westbound, getting up toward the Freddie Sioux Bridge. You're slowing down on 390 southbound, heading right down toward Brooks Avenue. Over on Clinton Ab right into the inner loop, it's a collision. I'm Debbie Duhay, News Radio, Wham, 1180. This report is sponsored by New York State Department of Education. Your path to adult education begins with AEPP. Whether it's preparing for your GED, building your reading and writing skills, or discovering a... By William Matar. Hurt in a car, call William Matar. It's... We're going to have frigid wind chill today. You have to watch out for that. Partly sunny, sort of a brighter day like yesterday, not so bad. High temperature today may be 15 degrees. It's 9 degrees at 812 when you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180. In the wake of the explosion of the Challenger, there was an investigation and there was a keen interest on the part of the American people. What went wrong? What went wrong? That phrase, picture perfect, it was almost coined for NASA launches. And while NASA has spent the last handful of decades really in kind of a bureaucratic and DEI incompetence, NASA was 40 years ago. still in the glow of its, you know, we can do anything. We work hard. We're smart. We don't cut corners. We can climb mountains. We can do anything. And so this catastrophic failure in the loss of the crew, it shook us. And I remember there was a hearing going on. And it had been determined by looking at, you know, video slow motion frame by frame that one of the solid rocket boosters had developed, if you will, a leak at a seam in one of the tubes that made the superstructure of the booster. And that heat and flame had started coming out this, you know, compromise of the seam. as opposed to all the heat and fire going down, some of it was coming sideways, and it ended up burning through the side of this giant fuel tank, igniting it, and of course taking the lives of these astronauts. Well, there had been an O-ring, a piece of rubber-like material, which had been at this seam in the superstructure. It had been, you know, in there, as you'll often have, like a gasket. And the deal is that it was very cold that day, and no one had ever considered what would be the impact of cold on that gasket, that O-ring. And, of course,

what we subsequently determined was that it would lose its maleability. It would become stiff and less plastic and such. And it was its plasticity that it allowed it to maintain the integrity of that seal all the way around the superstructure of the solid rocket booster. But because it was not malleable, it was stiff. The flame was able to work around the side and burned a larger opening, which led to the catastrophe. And as this was being discussed at some sort of hearing, one of the people on the panel who was set to investigate this was an engineer of one sort or another. And he had a, as they were talking, He had in front of him a glass of ice water, like they'll often have at those hearings, or at least they used to before they made bottled water, and he had a little sea clamp. just a small one fit in the palm of your hand, and he had a piece of that O-ring, the material from which it was made, that rubbery type thing, that malleable substance. And what he did is he took that C-clamp, and he clamp, and he clamped it down on that malleable, that room temperature O-ring material, and then he took it, and he dunked it, he'd let it set in his glass of ice water, right? um he he recreated the situation of of great cold for that substance of which the old ring was made and then when it was his turn to talk um he pulled the old ring out He pulled the C clamp out. He undid it, and he held up the piece of O ring, which was still significantly deformed from that clamp in the cold water, demonstrating that it had lost its malleability. And his question was, why did nobody anticipate that? Why did nobody think that? And it was a wake-up call. And I imagine that there are folks engaged in the engineering trade to this day. who probably think of that and try to think of every permutation that could impact whatever device or vehicle it is that they have a hand in designing. God bless these folks who died in the service of our country. Take a break back in a moment. It's going to be a great day. This is News Radio Wham 1180. As we welcome the start of a new year. News is already happening. So we're off to a busy start. Fast. Whatever is next in Venezuela. Keep up to the events of the day. amounts of oil. The trial of Nicholas Maduro. Now you know. Use radio. Wham, 1180. I'm Ayanna from Tom Wals and Avon. Are Haddock fish dinners? Yeah, they really are that big. Crispy on the outside, flaky on the inside. Don't wait for Friday. We fry fish every day. Share the good times. Talk.

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And the men in suits at CBS, the network that carried it, and the NFL, which of course owns the Super Bowl, they were concerned now, hold it. We're at war. How was she going to do the anthem? And so CBS and the NFL asked for a recording. We'd like to hear what she's going to sing. Well, what did she sing? She had, some few years earlier, been impressed by Marvin Gay's rendition of the anthem at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game. And so what she did is the gentleman with whom she was working, producer, arranger, I don't know what those words are in the music business, but whoever was helping her with the, let's write this up the way we want it, she said, I want to do the Marvin Gay arrangement. And so the Marvin Gay arrangement from 1983 was adapted, orchestra was got, and Whitney Houston recorded this song. And that was played for NFL executives who coincidentally were meeting in Buffalo, and they didn't like it. The NFL said, no, no, no, no. It's too slow. People can't sing to it. Also, we're at war. I don't know if that's respectful enough. CBS gets involved. CBS says the same thing. Whitney Houston demonstrating an awful lot of backbone says, you're going to have to trust me on this, right? And then here's what the suit said. Okay, but we want you also to record a standard version, right? Just in case, and maybe we'll play that instead. At any rate, She got up. It was a lip-sync performance that was, you know, necessary by virtue of the venue and the stuff like that. But at any rate, that version of the national anthem, it touched America's heart. And for those of us who are around to hear it and still remember it, it remains. There are two in my mind that I love like crazy. It's this Whitney Houston from the Super Bowl. And then back in the early 60s, I can't remember what year, Jose Feliciano did one. at a World Series game. And again, he got a lot of crap for that because it was a different arrangement. But it is stinking beautiful song. At any rate, here's what Whitney Houston did.

She took the song, and she released it as a single. And on the other side of, this is back when they had 45s, remember Ray Charles had done America the Beautiful. And she sang, Whitney Houston did. She sang that arrangement of America the Beautiful herself, and that was the B-side. At any rate, all the money she wanted to go to the troops. to the families of those who have been wounded or injured or killed in the war. And she said, this is all for soldier relief. And it's sold like crazy. In fact, the only time... that the national anthem has ever been in the top of 40 as a popular hit in the United States when released by Whitney Houston. But that happened twice in 1991 when she sang it. And what was it, 10 years later, in 2001, after September 11th, it was re-released. And it was the anthem that we all stood and put our hearts. our hands over our hearts to after the attack of September 11th. Great, great song 35 years ago yesterday. News next with Joe Lasky on news radio, Wham 1180. Venezuela. The illegitimate dictator. We are not occupying a country. Nicholas Maduro. What happens next? Had his chance happens here. Heft around and he found out. Use radio. Wham, 1180. Hep sales, North Main Lumber, not to sound hokey, but it's about you standing on your own two legs being free and self-reliant. Hept sales, North Main Lumber, they have the tools, they have the supplies to help you around your house or on your job site or at your camp to be self-reliant. You can fix it yourself. You can build it yourself. You can renovate it yourself. And whether you've got a small project, I need a part right here for this, or you're thinking something bigger, right? Is this season of the year that you ultimately build that deck out back for the family? Whatever it might be, your hardware store, your place to get the supplies, the encouragement is at HEPSales, North Main Lumber. Hepsales.com. It has all the locations. I really appreciate the one up by Canandaigua, the one just outside Hornell. They also have there, you click on the big yellow for sale ticket, and it'll show you all the things that are on sale right now. A lot of them focused on our season of the year. If your furnace is giving you problems, stuff like that, you have a heat issue. They have any number of furnaces and heaters, boilers, and such like that, ready there and waiting for you. And when you want to stand on your own two feet, when you want to do business with your neighbor, you want to get your hardware supplies at Hep Sales and North Main Lumber.

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Joe Morelli's not one of those. Joe Morelli is a hide behind a telephone town hall where if you call up and you wait on hold and they like your question, maybe he'll speak to it. But to her credit, Ilhan Omar was there in a group, a room full of people and she was given her spiel. And then when her spiel was done, she was going to take questions, which she ultimately did. At any rate, she was talking, and as you heard, reported in the newscast, she'd gotten just about to the point where she was saying that Kristi Noem ought to be removed, fired, impeached, something like that. A point, which, to be honest with you, I'm not sure I disagree with, and a growing number of Republicans in Congress would agree with. But lay that aside, as she was speaking, Up comes a guy, and he was sitting back like three or four rows on the left on the aisle, and he is able to get up and get to her, and he extends a hand to her, and apparently there's some sort of spray bottle or hyperdermic syringe, and he squirts a small stream of liquid seemingly at close range onto her clear. uh, liquid onto her, her, uh, like the front of her shirt or bodice, whatever like that. And, um, you know, it, it took a half a moment for some burly guy over on the side to come over and bear hugged the guy and lift him up and walk him off the stage. Um, had he been armed with something else, um, it, it, it would have been a tragedy. Now, here's a thing. I can't stand Ilhan Omar. Um, and I, I guess her brother couldn't either. That's why he divorced her. I believe that her dramatic explosion into opulent wealth in Congress is as crooked as the day is long. I think she hates America. I think she's in effect a spy for Somalia. And if she were to be kicked out of Congress or tried and convicted, I'd be a happy guy. That said, she is a member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the people where she lives. She is, consequently, a constitutional officer of the United States, and she was there as a member of Congress reporting to speaking to her constituents. And people, elected members of our government must always be safe. We do not do violence. We can disagree till we're blue in the face. But we all have an equal stake in the safety of everybody. The ones I vote for, the ones you vote for, and this was completely wrong. It doesn't matter who the victim of it was. It's time for trafficking weather on the tens on news radio Wham 1180.

Somebody sent me a picture, and I'm grateful for it, and I'm not being critical, but it was a picture of Joe Morelli. He was flying back from Washington, D.C. on an airplane, and he's just sitting there in his seat, and he'd fallen asleep, and he was by himself. He had his Joe Morelli suit on, his little, I'm a member of Congress medallion on, and there's Congressman Joe just taking a nap. Well, thankfully, 99.999% of the people, however they vote or whether they think of Joe Morelli in his politics, they'll probably just think, oh, there's Joe Morelli and go on to their seat. But I'll be honest with you, in the world today, you can't bank on that. And you can't bank on common decency being the protection for these people. And again, you know, you'd hate to see members of Congress running around with like a security detail, but there probably ought to be a security person. And here's what I note. When you see Adam Bellow out, if you're discerning, you usually see his security person. If you see Malik Evans out, who I see a lot more often, if you're discerning, you also see a security person. I feel good about those things, right? That makes sense. And, you know, I don't want to bog down every member of Congress or whatever with a security person. That might not be a bad idea. And I hope that, again, it doesn't matter if you vote for them or not. This is our system. We need these people to be safe. The ones we disagree with, we hope to remove from office by voting. And that's the only way. So thank goodness she was okay. Now, hopefully she'll be prosecuted for something. It is in a very peaceful, safe fashion. It's time for a break on News Radio Wham 1180. Welcome to 2026. Maduro and Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York. This is happening. We should be concerned about fraud in our state government. Use radio, Wham 1180. The Crosper Brothers Pool and Spot. Radio Wham 1180, traffic. From the Clark Preskin Traffic Center, protect what you have. A will is not enough. Visit Clark Preskin.com. Sign up now for a free estate planning workshop. On February 11th, over in Pittsburgh on Mitchell Road into East Jefferson, it's an accident, heading to Penfield, Atlantic Ave at Fairport, 9-mile point road. It's an accident at the intersection. Over on Clinton, Ab, by the inner loop, they're working on a crash. Some stop-and-go traffic still on 590 south into Browncroft Boulevard, 490, and 390 moving fine. I'm Debbie Duhane. News Radio Wham 1180. News Radio Wham-1180 weather. Brought to you by William Matar. Hurt in a car. Call William Matar. It's going to be pretty cold out there, particularly with the windshield. We'll top out at about 15 degrees. It will be gusty, so that could put it in the neighborhood of zero. Bundle up, cover your skin. It is 9 degrees at 8.50, and you're listening to News Radio Wham 1180.

Last night, City Council voted to spend a whole bunch of money on the so-called reconstruction of Bullshead. It's not a reconstruction of Bull's Head. It is a deconstruction of a Bull's Head. Bull's Head was a natural neighborhood hub, a sort of a retail and banking focal point for really a couple, three different neighborhoods that all sort of came together where these various streets met. It's at the north end of Genesee, of course, where... You know, it meets West Main. And Bulls had, you probably haven't been there quite a while. The only part of the original Bullshead that remains is St. Mary's Hospital. And then there's across the street where that man has his body shop and where he used to have a sub shop. But everything else is gone. They've knocked it all down. And $17 million will be spent essentially realigning the streets, putting in new sewers. Also... They want to make it more bicycle and pedestrian friendly, which is, you know, progressive talk for make it so you can't drive your car there in a convenient fashion. Being anti-transportation, particularly anti-private ownership of cars, is for some odd, insane reason, one of the progressive priorities. If you have a car, you have a degree of freedom that they don't want you to have. And so, again, they have choked down traffic on Main Street at the very business heart of Rochester, one lane each direction. As I often say, downtown Mount Morris has a greater carrying capacity for vehicles on Main Street than does downtown Rochester. And that's true. And they have come out West Main Street, put like a concrete divider in the middle and on the sides. What used to be four lanes is now two. And the deal is they want to use this money to extend bicycle lanes and these concrete dividers. all up the way through what used to be Bowleshead, $7.4 million from the federal government, a total of $4.3 million out of different coffers of the state government. And what they'll do is they will restrict traffic up there and, you know, rejigger the streets, and then it will remain large, empty, rubble lots for the rest of my life and yours.

The deal is that they don't seem to grasp is, and who knows what they do or don't grasp, they have an agenda, and they're implementing it. But the deal is that Bulls had... developed into, you know, 100 and 120 years ago what it was because of transportation. There were a bunch of streets from significant places that kind of came and had good carrying capacity that came together sort of at one place. and natural economic growth put businesses in the bank and other stuff there and it was like a little town center if you will for again the two or three neighborhoods that all kind of like you know pieces of pie came into bull's head When you choke out the transportation, you make sure that that never happens again. And, you know, what they call renovation in this town is, you know, things don't get renovated, they get bulldozed, and that's about all she wrote. So that's the story on Bull's Head, and I hope that it has a happy place in your family's memories if you grew up in Rochester. Unfortunately, I've never found any good histories written of that community, and that's too bad because it really was a hopping place, which now, again, except for St. Mary's, and St. Mary's isn't what it used to be, obviously, but it's nothing. That's what happened there last night. Amazon early this morning announces that... It's going to lay off 16,000 employees. These will largely be, you know, corporate. I want to be a manager, employees. Amazon had similar large layoffs last year. And they say, oh, this isn't about saving money. It's about enlivening our culture, enlivening our corporate culture. I think that many of us have seen that kind of enlivening, right? You walk in and you fire half the people in a workplace, and then you turn and you glower at the others and say, you bastards are next, right? That tends to enliven people a little bit. And they tend to, you know, put their head down and scurry about, praying and praying, that they're not the next ones to go. That seems to be the corporate genius of the folks over at Amazon. It's a funny thing, and if any of Mr. This man's relatives are listening, I apologize for using your family name and I send my regards.

But I always think when I think about Amazon and what it did to retail in America, I think about Mr. Helmer, who moved into Cana Steele. I think we were in middle school or junior high. Of course, that same thing. I don't know. It was like we were a teenager-ish. And he moved into town. He'd been transferred. He was a manager at the Sears in Hornell. They bought a house. had a nice family. The kids were great. Mr. Helmer, Mrs. Helmer, all great people. And they were wonderful middle-class Americans. And he supported that family working at Sears. And there were untold probably millions of such people engaged in the retail trade. And then came Amazon. And now it's got a new culture, corporate-wise. And that Jeff Bezos up top there with his little penis thing. His rocket ships and all, he's got more and more billions. So good for him, I guess. We're going to stop after the news with Joe Lasky. I want to tell you about a person who was just paroled into the city of Rochester. That's coming up on News Radio Wham 1180. People are experiencing these events. These events are so important. Big and important events. The events of the day. In Iran. In Minneapolis. In Venezuela. The Supreme Court. Every day. If you're not paying attention, shame on you. Use radio. Wham! 1180. This is a special alert to all Americans who own a vehicle with less than 200,000 miles. Tyler Reddick here from 2311 racing. Another checkered flag for the books. Time to celebrate with Chumba. Jump in at Chumbacasino.com. Let's Chumba. No purchase necessary. VTW Group. Boyd were prohibited by law. CCNCs, 21 Plus. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. The first ever X-Games League Championship is going down live, and New Orleans has the call. Three days of elite action sports, a season's worth of competition, coming down to one final weekend. Watch July 24th through 26th on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN 2. Or stream on the ESPN app, X Games YouTube, Kik, Roku Sports Channel, and Amazon. The championship starts July 24th. Don't miss the moment it becomes history. What's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and we're driving through the States in the BluffMobile, and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino-style games on SpinQuest. They have over a thousand games, including Live Dealer, Blackjack, and craps, with tons of slots and unlimited. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. Got plans this summer? A brewery crawl? Another lake trip? The same festival you've been to three times already? Do something different. This August, Virginia International Raceway becomes the ultimate summer destination.

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