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Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. This is Woodward and Witton on 987 and 1330 KNSS, Wichita's number one talk. Good morning. It is 6 o'clock. It is Thursday, July 23rd. Here with Woodward and Witt. Currently in Wichita, we have some scattered rain showers in the area. 69 degrees here on this Thursday morning. Allies of Iran claim to have attacked Saudi oil tankers while the United States strikes continue. Houthi rebels in Yemen are trying to stop Saudi Arabian ships from using the Red Sea. The Iran-backed group says it struck two Saudi oil tankers yesterday. The near closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has meant the Yemeni side of the Arabian Peninsula has become ever more important. Eight other tankers have chosen to avoid that area in recent days. Meanwhile, the U.S. completed a 12th successive night of strikes on Iran. Iranian retaliation included claimed attacks on American missile systems, weapons. and fuel storage in Jim Jordan, as well as military posts in Kuwait. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. The Kansas City Chiefs gives their fans a sneak peek at the new stadium. The Chiefs will move across state lines from Missouri to a new stadium in Kansas in 2013, and on Wednesday the team unveiled the first images of what the stadium is expected to look like. It will hold 70,000 fans and will have a dome made of translucent panels. It will also be shaped much like the team's current home, Arrowhead Stadium, and designed to hold in sound. Arrowhead is known as one of the latter stadiums in the NFL. In a statement, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said of the new stadium, It honors the rich legacy of this franchise while sending a bold course for the future of Chief's Kingdom. The stadium is expected to cost $3 billion, 70% of which will be covered by public sales taxes and bonds. Kevin Ureskes. Fox News. All Chiefs games are heard live right here on 987 and 1330, KNSSS. Warren Martin says he was recently in Hawaii wearing his Kansas strong shirt, and a snorkeling professional pointedly asked him, why do we need more oil and natural gas? Your entire career depends upon the oil and gas industry. And he said, well, how is that? And so I started going into how the mask and the plastics that are in the mask and how the swimsuits that we wear, how the life jackets that we wear, the flippers, all of the stuff that goes into snorkeling, all the stuff that goes into dieting. They're all made from petrochemicals. 96% of the man-made things that you're going to touch today are in some way made from petroleum products. 96%. It has really created the light.

that we have today. The oil and gas update bi-weekly on Wednesdays with Woodward and Witt on KNSSS. Democrat Socialist Mayor, New York City Mayor, Mayor, Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls on the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes he calls genocide. Zohran Mamdani, doubling down that while his city has no authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he believes the federal government. does and should. I do believe that our federal government should join the international criminal court and ensure that there is accountability. Zohran Mamdani's call to action comes after he released a two-minute social media video, slamming Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal and conceding that he wouldn't be able to fulfill a campaign pledge to arrest the Israeli leader. The mayor now insisting that his critique is not just targeting Benjamin Netanyahu. But Jewish advocacy groups aren't buying it, one writing in part, repeatedly singling out and vilifying the world's only Jewish. state for perceived political benefit is repugnant and puts juice at greater risk. That was Fox's CB Cotton in New York. Kansas Congressman Ron Estes among those voting in favor as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 27 National Defense Authorization Act. That legislation does include a $10 million authorization for the Point Defense Battle Lab mission. The 184th wing in Mitch McConnell Air Force Base is the only National Guard wing supporting that mission. And the 184th wing helps leverage Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research. Ted, we should note that Congressman Estes will be with us tomorrow morning right here on Woodward and Witt. Very good. For our biweekly DC update. A baby giraffe continues to reach milestones at Tanya Niko Wildlife Park in Goddard last week. The premature calf was delivered via C-section to a mother who couldn't survive her illness. The early prognosis for the baby was somewhat bleak, but the calf's improvements now include breathing on her own and standing up and lying down unassisted. Yay! Yeah, it's really good. It's a really fun little story, and you can follow it by visiting Tonganikas Wildlife Park's website. Hey, how about robot teachers? We're getting close.

Real close, so we'll tell you about that. And a scuffle at a movie theater in Miami that, you know, it's in Florida, so you know it's wacky. So we've got those details coming up. And your weather forecast. Hey, we have some thunder showers in the area this morning right now. So we'll get the weather forecast. We'll be checking in with Storm Team 12. Find out what's going on there. Hey, we're off and running here on this Thursday morning. We're glad you're with us here on 987 and 1330, KNS. It is 609 here on this Thursday morning on KNSS. Well, you may not have a choice, but here's the question. Would you let your kid be taught in school by a robot? A high school on the Seneca Nation Indian Reservation in New York State is testing an artificially intelligent... humanoid robotic teaching assistant created by the Toronto-based Rehobotics Company, Sally, as it's called, is designed to be a classroom tool but not replace human teachers despite being given the appearance of a young female adult. Sally doesn't walk around but can move its upper body and make facial gestures. Its AI system is intended to allow it to have ongoing conversations with individual students. helping them to learn while reducing workloads for classroom teachers. Evan Brown, Fox News. Miami police say a violent incident at a movie theater that left a woman with injuries is under investigation by their assault unit. The woman who did not want to be identified went to a movie theater Sunday night in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood of Miami where she says the guy sitting in front of her became annoyed by her laughter. Something happened in the movie and we are laughing like, ha ha ha, and he said, um, shut the fuck up. The confrontation caught on her friend's cell phone escalates when she claims he said, I want to throw away all your foot, and I say, do it. And he do it. The video shows the man slapping the woman in the face with a pizza pan and then throwing pizza slices up in the air. The woman said she suffered a fractured finger, bruised cheek, and an eye injury. C.J. Papa Fox News. Oh, nice night at the theater. Yeah. Other than that, how was the movie? It is 6-Eleven here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning. And as we get your morning commute underway, there are some rain showers in the area. So let's get the updated on your traffic conditions all morning long. Jad Chambers will help you out with that, Jad. Taking a look at things on the highways right now, we do have some areas with some wet roadways. It's something to consider out there as you might run into some rain as you're making your journey out there this morning. It does look like it's very spotty as far as the locations are concerned. But yeah, you might run into some slip roadways out there this morning. So be a little extra careful. We do have a stalled out vehicle.

This is southbound I-235 at 21st Street. Pretty close to Zoo Boulevard, so watch for a slowdown. Traffic update from 987, 1330K NSS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Chad Chambers. Now let's take a look at our weather forecast from Storm Team 12 meteorologist Halen Wilhite. Good morning, Haleen. Good Thursday morning. We're kicking off the day with mild temperatures, but watching for a chance for some isolated thunderstorms this morning. But those should move out by midday today, leaving the afternoon dry with partly cloudy skies, a high of 89 degrees. Heading it to the overnight hours, we will be watching for thunderstorms returning better chance with more numerous showers than storms, not expecting any severe weather. But storms will continue into your early Friday morning. We'll move out. Once again by midday, leaving the afternoon, partly cloudy, breezy, a high of 92 degrees. It will feel slightly hotter with the heat index, and we're only going to get hotter as we head into the weekend. Dangerous heat with those highs in the upper 90s to triple digits. That's your forecast from storm scene 12 by meteorologist Heel and Wilhite. And currently in Wichita, we do have scattered rain showers in the area. A breeze out of the east, it is 69 degrees here on this Thursday morning. July 23rd. Yeah, got some rain showers going through South Central Kansas this morning. We could sure use it. Yep, so it depends on where you are, if you're getting it or not, but kind of going through the northern part of Sedgwick County, the southern parts of Sedgwick County, even a couple parts of Wichita, maybe kind of the north part of Wichita right now. So we've got some rain showers here in the area on this Thursday morning. It is 613 here with Woodward and Witt. We are glad you're with us. as we get things going on this Thursday. And we're going to take a look at something, you know, you're not seeing this here in the U.S., but you are seeing it in Germany. It's this year's another contest. It's this year's German deer calling competition. You'll lay here. Fun.

Each of these humans have their mouths wrapped around a large wooden tube that slides. Sounds like my garbage disposal. This is an 800-year-old tradition, by it. They are using simple tools like horns, shells, and crafted devices, mimicking everything from young deer to dominant males during rutting season, all while deep-throating a wooden tube. All right. Well, so it's this year's German Deer Calling Competition. Okay, I guess, you know, whatever. So the fun continues in German. Good stuff. How about we're going to stay in foreign lands? Now we're going to go down to Australia. Okay. Where a woman has given birth to... It's very rare. She's given birth to identical quadruplet girls. Oh. And this is not a... Someone's paying for a whole bunch of weddings. This is not a fertility pill thing. This happened naturally. Really? Four. Four. Identical. Girls, Claude. It's amazing, to be honest, particularly the fact that this was spontaneously conceived. We do see multiple pregnancies more often with fertility treatments, particularly IVF, but for this to be spontaneously conceived for the conception to happen. So one fertilised egg that then splits not once, not twice, but three times into four different babies, who then share a placenta that is just amazing and to end up with four beautiful babies and a beautiful family now of 10. How wonderful. That was the doctor they were talking about that. Wow. How about that? Four babies. Family of ten. So they did have mom and dad and four kids. Now they have mom and dad and eight kids. Well, eight is enough. Wow. Holy cow. Yeah. Wow. What's going on in Australia. That's going to be a family that's going to need a whole lot of formula and diapers and wipes. The whole. Yeah. The whole thing. Time to start a GoFundMe page. Yeah, yeah, that will be necessary. 615 here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning. The job market is pretty good, and if you're sitting around waiting, you're falling behind. According to a new report, youngsters are devoting a lot of time teaching themselves new job skills, online tutorials, YouTube, and TikTok. What could possibly go wrong? Yeah, well, it's cheaper than actually taking a class. Or even more convenient, 71% of hiring managers believe that skills learned through informal online platforms are credible. I guess. Depends on the skill you're trying to learn. I mean, as long as it's not, I don't know, you know, colonoscopies. Some companies do admit that verifying those skills are harder when someone is self-taught rather than having some sort of certificate or test score from a formal education. But 18% of hiring managers say to them, a candidate that is self-taught, stands out more.

Provided they can back it up. Okay. Right. The trend is being led by young adults. Two-thirds of Gen Z reporting teaching themselves skills online compared to only half of millennials, 35% of Gen Xers, and just 20% of boomers. So it's obviously shifting through the years. Right. I guess it depends on the skill. I mean, that's really the key, is what is it you're teaching yourself? And then obviously, how do you verify that they've actually learned that particular skill? More than half of men likely to do this. Only 40% of women likely to include self-taught skills on their resumes. That's what the Gen Zs are doing out there. Yeah. I don't know. Again, I think it comes back to how do you certify? How do you verify that you're actually skilled in it, trained in it? I guess you'd have to prove it. Yeah, you have to say, hey. Okay. Right. You say you're a mechanic, take apart that engine. And if they screw up, say, all right, bye. Yeah, see you. Proofs in the pudding. The, uh... Top cause of death in the U.S. Top two right now are heart disease and cancer. That's what I would have thought. Yeah, we kind of know that. I would have thought. Unintentional injuries is third on the list. Really? Yeah. For death? We're an injury-prone society, maybe. But yeah, heart disease and cancer are the top two. We go back, what about in the early 1900s? What were the top causes of death back in the day? In early 19- They're health-related.

It's tuberculosis was number two. And the flu. Influenza. People died from the flu back in the day. I wouldn't have thought that way. So we've changed in some ways. But, you know, it's not like we've gotten rid of the flu. Everybody gets it. Oh, yeah. But it's not as fatal as it used to be. No. I mean, I think most of us probably get it once or twice a year now. I generally do. Of course, tuberculosis, you're dealing with breathing in the lungs and things like that. And people still get things like pneumonia and bronchitis. Yes. And the older you get, the more susceptible and the more dangerous it can be. There's some stuff we just can't seem to lick. Right. You can't seem to get rid of. It's like humanity forever. Yep. And of course, like you said, the older you get, the more difficult, I mean, the more dangerous it can be to get the flu. It is 619 here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning. Now, let's see what's going on in sports. Man, we've got a lot going on. We'll start out with July basketball, the 13th annual TBT, and the first round games being played this week. Tonight we have another one here in Wichita. Game two of the best of three between the Aftershocks, the Wichita State Alums, and the Enchantment, the New Mexico Alums. Shockers won handily in game one. See what happens tonight in game two. If the aftershocks win, they advance. If the enchantment wins, we'll have a deciding game three. But first things first, game two tonight. That'll tip off at 8 o'clock at Coke Arena, nationally televised on FS1. The aftershocks up one game to zero in the best of three. All right, we had game two last night up in Topeka between the KU alums, JHX Hoops, and the K-State alum's Purple Rain. And coming back from behind, Jayhawks Hoops won that game, 84 to 80 in Topeka last night. So that leaves those two tied at one game apiece for the deciding game three coming up on Friday later in the week. So it's the TVT action getting interesting as the Jayhawk alum's stay alive. Now tied one to one with the purple rain. All right. We've also got going on. The beginning of the annual National Baseball Congress World Series, which is starting tonight. How about that? First 1,000 fans through the Bill Gates at X Stadium will receive a back-flipping Aussie Smith, Florinda A's bottlehead, and it does really spin. How about that? Bill Gates open at 5 o'clock tonight, and they'll go fast. First pitch at 6 o'clock. We have two games on the schedule today. Pool play games. Again, the NBC World Series. First up at 6, the Hutchinson Monarchs and Lone Star. And then after that at 8.30, the Seattle Cheney Studs and Austin Gold Sox. We'll be getting underway tonight for the annual National Baseball Congress World Series. Let's go to Major League Baseball. Yesterday, the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants up the Kauffman Stadium. The Royals going for a three-game sweep. And we had some history made in that game. You heard the game over on 97-5 and 1240 KFH as the Royals star catcher, Salvador Perez, at the plate. Here's the one-strike pitch. Swung on, hit in the air. Deep, left-center field and...

Number 317. And one Royal's legend ties another. 317 home runs for Salvador Perez, tied with George Brett for the Royals' all-time record. An opposite field home run to right center field. And Salvi... is getting a hug from everybody in the royals dugout right now going from one end to the other coaches players support staff you name it the crowd knows exactly what's going on they are standing and cheering and hoping that he comes out for a curtain call and here he comes Pretty good stuff. He was, Salvador Perez was the designated hitter in the lineup for the Royals yesterday as they beat the Giants 5 to 4. The big five-runs seventh inning. Perez kind of got that started there in the 7th. So it's a three-game sweep for the Royals. Man, Royals need to be in the National League West. Five out of six from the Padres and the Giants on the week at home. So that worked out well for the Royals. Now they go on the road to begin a four-game series against their division rival, the Detroit Tigers. Royals take a three-game winning streak into that series. You can listen to the Royals and the Tigers at live coverage begins at 5 p.m. And that is on 975 and 1240 KFH. Royals and the Tigers tonight. The Royals can get there. fourth win in a row. Speaking of winning streak, how about your Wichita Rangler, the Wichita Wind Surge downtown? The surge has now won six in a row. Beat the Midland Rockhounds seven to five last night downtown at Equity Bank Park. As a, hey, six-game winning streak for Wichita, 12 hits. Four guys in the lineup had a multi-hit game, so it all worked well for Wichita. And they'll be at it again tonight. Try to go for seven in a row. By the way, Winsurge hasn't lost since I think the 11th. It's been 12 days since they lost the game. Nice. Play again tonight downtown, and that game is at 705 tonight. Game three of a six-game set between Wichita and Midland. That's sports with Woodward and Witt here on KNSS. Sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company. Heading to the big concert downtown tonight, free game at WBC Delano with live music by Lou Brown Band starting at 5 p.m. and all of your favorite WBC eats and drinks before the big concert. That's tonight at WBC Delano starting at 5 p.m. It is 624 here with Woodward and Witt. We do have a traffic and weather update next. And how healthy will you be? How long are you likely to live? More on that, on A Better Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta. That's next on KNSSS. Wichita's number one talk. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSSS.

Good morning. It is 633 here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you. Currently in Wichita, we have scattered rain showers in the area. It is 69 degrees. The number of confirmed cyclosporiasis cases in Kansas increasing sharply. State health officials now reporting nearly 300 cases statewide, including 30 here in Sedgwick County. Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the number of domestically acquired cases up significantly since late June, 241 cases this month alone. Cyclosporiasis and intestinal illness caused by a parasite spreading through food or water contaminated with feces. It's been linked to contaminated fresh produce in previous U.S. outbreaks. So far, investigators not able to identify a common source of the cases here in Kansas. Health officials say symptoms usually begin anywhere from two days to two weeks after exposure. Can include frequent watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea, low-grade fever, loss of appetite, and weight loss. A man was arrested after refusing to leave an Emporia City Commission meeting. In video of the meeting, a person is heard clapping off-screen while a woman approaches the podium purportedly to speak against data center planning in Emporia. Also off-screen, there is commotion involving officials and the man, who police later identified as 37-year-old Lux Clarage of Emporia. Emporia police claimed that several people in attendance were issued verbal warnings by the commission for disruptive conduct that was causing interruptions. Police said that Claridge didn't comply with law enforcement's demand to remove him from the meeting. Claridge was booked into the Lyon County Jail on charges of interference with law enforcement and disorderly conduct. Phil Hildebrand, KNSSS News. The Secretary of State has held a meeting with his Russian counterpart. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the ASEAN summit in the Philippines. We're not being given many details, but it was expected Marco Rubio would try to revive efforts to end the war in Ukraine. A State Department spokesman confirmed the two men discussed efforts to conclude that conflict. In a statement, Foreign Minister Lavrov said he reaffirmed Russia's readiness for a diplomatic and political settlement. Russia wants to go back to proposals put forward by President Trump and Vladimir Putin when they met in Alaska last August. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. U.S. Senator from Kansas, Dr. Roger Marshall hosted a press conference following the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee's overwhelming bipartisan approval of his Patients, Deserve, Price Tags Act. A thousand dollars a month. That's what we think that this bill can save an American family. You have an average Kansas family. They're making $70,000 a year, and you give them $1,000 a month savings. That's real money. Certainly the number one issue back in Kansas, Colorado, Louisiana, the cost of living. And I think this is the bill. This is the bill that will actually make a difference sooner than later in the cost of living for folks. The bill was approved out of committee by a vote of 21 to 1.

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis says the number of U.S. adults out of the workforce has surged. More than 100 million of us are not working in the month of June. The overall number of those who are not working is now higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic. It covers all Americans, age 16 and over, who aren't currently working, and that includes retirees and students. But if you drill down even further, 5.3 million workers, or about 5% of the total, have dropped out because they are discouraged or they're not even bothering to look for work. Up to 22% of America's non-working population are on long-term illness, disability, or other forms of benefits. That's Fox Businesses, Ashley Webster, with that report. The man who helped introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world has died. Charles Gaines, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84, co-wrote the 1974 book Pumping Iron and also helped produce and create the 1977 documentary of the same name. The cover photo on the book was of Schwarzenegger, and the movie focused on the rivalry between Arnold and Lou Furigno. Schwarzenegger won seven Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles, and the book and movie propelled him towards his acting career. In a 2022 edition of the book, Gaines admitted neither he nor co-author George Butler thought many outside of the world of bodybuilding would be interested. Gaines' daughter Greta confirmed his death. No cause was announced. Kevin Yeretsky, Fox News. Now let's take a look at our weather forecast from Storm Team 12 meteorologist Halen Wilhite. Good morning, Halen. Good Thursday morning. We're kicking off the day with mild temperatures, but watching for a chance for some isolated thunderstorms this morning. But those should move out by midday today, leaving the afternoon dry with partly cloudy skies, a high of 89 degrees. Heading into the overnight hours, we will be watching for thunderstorms returning better chance of more numerous showers than storms, not expecting any severe weather. But storms will continue into your early Friday morning. We'll move out once again by midday, leaving the afternoon partly cloudy, breezy, a high of 92 degrees. It will feel slightly hot. with the heat index and we're only going to get hotter as we head into the weekend. Dangerous heat with those highs in the upper 90s, two triple digits. That's your forecast from Stormseen 12, I meteorologist Heel and Wilhite. Currently in Wichita, we do have a breeze out of the east, some scattered rain showers in the area. It is 69 degrees here on this Thursday morning. July 23rd at Wichita's severe weather station, 987 and 1330 KNSS. 639, now it is time to check in with Tom Kelly Loeffler of Kelly Loeffler Commodities with the Commodities Update. Good morning, Tom. Well, good morning, Ted and John. The Cattle Complex Wednesday gap lower on the open, scored new lows. Some of the lows were the lowest we'd seen since late December of last year. We saw live cattle and feeder cattle all closed with large triple-digit losses and near their session lows. We're still waiting for cash trade to really develop in our feed yards. And Friday is our cattle on feed.

Our cattle inventory and cold storage reports. Lean hogs traded two-sided and closed positive yesterday. On to close, August live cattle, $3.47 lower at $2.2320. August feeder cattled at $8.37 at $3.41.17. And August, lean hogs down a nickel at 101.45. Well, Wednesday, the grain and soybean complexes built risk premium into the markets due to weather and war concerns. Managed money also was notable buyers and also were liquidating short positions. The wheat and soybean futures made new contract highs, and corn was also higher yesterday. Crude oil this morning is trading as highest since May 22nd, and heating oil made a new contract high for the seventh session out of the past eight sessions. At the moment, September Casey Wheat's down. penny and a quarter at 7.62 and a quarter. December corn up three and three quarters at 488.5. November beams up five and a quarter cents at 1244 and a quarter. September crude oil, $4.23 higher at $91, $8. August gold, down $72 at $72, $7,0.72, down $72. $1.62. since higher 101.08 in September Dow Jay Jones futures 332 points lower at 52,117. For commodity trading, egg marketing, or managed trading programs, contact left for commodities on the phone or on the web by using 866. Go to Tom. Well, Tom, Ted and I decided during the break that today is going to be one of your top three days in the national days. Because I scream, you scream. We all scream for vanilla ice cream because today, July 23rd is National Vanilla Ice Cream today, celebrated during National Ice Cream Month. This special day comes right on the heels of National Ice Cream Day, which was yesterday. Because Americans love vanilla ice cream so much, it should come as no surprise that it remains the top ice cream flavor across North America. I did not know that. In fact, many consider rich classic vanilla to be the gold standard of frozen treats. Many ice cream lovers are familiar with Thomas Jefferson's. historic vanilla ice cream recipe. I did not know that he was the originator of that flavor, by the way. The third U.S. President likely developed his passion for the flavor while serving as a minister in France, known for carefully recording the recipes. Jefferson penned a handwritten draft for vanilla ice cream in the 1780s, one of the earliest recorded recipes. in American history. Today, the Library of Congress preserves an original copy, which happens to feature a cookie recipe on the reverse side, that actually is considered one of the original recipes for vanilla ice cream. So there you go, folks. Tom Kelly Loeffler ranking this as one of the top, what would you say, one, two, or three national days, Tom.

Oh, it's got to be up there in the top two, and it's nice to know I'm in a majority as vanilla ice cream is the most popular. Yep, most popular in North America is vanilla ice cream. So, yeah, and we, I'm not going to say yet until we come to what we think is the number one, but for you, that is. But yes, vanilla ice cream day. So we'll have to, you have to get yourself for some vanilla ice cream day today, buddy. Sounds like a good treat for breakfast. Hey, yeah. I love it for breakfast. Yes, there we go. All right, brother. We'll get yourself some vanilla ice cream today. By the way, Chad regrets. He's back with us today, and he said he missed not being able to join us for WBC the other night. Yeah, I tell you, I miss not seeing Jan too. I wish he could have joined us because we had a good time and he would have just added more to it. Yeah, well, sometimes things happen and unfortunately things happened and I was needed elsewhere. He was having fun. He was out partying. Yeah. Yeah, from what I heard, he was working hard. Yeah. Yeah, he was out repairing air conditioning units. Repairing air conditioning units in a hundred degree heat. Yep. So, no, he was not having fun. All right, brother. Well, tomorrow we've got yet another national day that you will love. Right, right, Ted, do you agree with you? I think so. I think so, too. So we will check in with you again tomorrow. We appreciate you, brother. Okay, nook. That was Tom Kelly Loeffler with our commodities update. Every day here with Woodward and Whit. It's 644 here on KNSS. We'll be taking a look at how the stock market fared yesterday. We'll take a look at daylight saving time and our nation's security. That's always important as well. KNSS News time is 645.

It's 649 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Now it's time for three big things. Three. President Trump has threatened to target an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. Two. A 37-year-old Emporia physics teacher was arrested. After repeatedly clapping during a city commission meeting on a proposed data center project, despite warnings against, quote, disruptive behavior. ICE says it arrested a 32-year-old Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally during a targeted enforcement operation in East Wichita. He remains in ICE custody pending removal to his home country. That's three big things with Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNS. Let's hear about traffic from Jad Chambers. Traffic in the Wichita area, it does look like there's still some scattered showers maybe here in the area, mostly to the south and east at the moment. But you will run into some wet roadways out there, so things could be just a little bit slippery this morning. Good idea to watch out for that. We've also got some road to construction slowing things down northbound on K-15, short of... I-135 traffic update from 987 and 1330 KNSSS and the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Chad Chambers. A few morning showers today, then becoming partly cloudy with a high of 90 degrees. Tonight, some increasing clouds with some isolated storms possible and a low of 70 degrees. Tomorrow, a chance of morning storms, then partly cloudy and a high of 90. Right now in Wichita, there's some light rain and 70 degrees. At Wichita, 7th and 1330, KNSSS. 6.51 here on this Thursday morning, we're looking at our nation's security, the House Intelligence Committee. A recent House Intelligence Committee hearing examined the security threat atmosphere nearly 25 years since 9-11. Republican Congressman Rick Crawford of Arkansas pointed out that the age of the singular threat is over. Our adversaries often combine cyber operations, foreign influence campaigns, economic pressure, and military posturing into coordinated strategies. New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer said one factor has changed things dramatically. AI is collapsing all of that, letting a small cell or a hostile government move at machine speed. Former National Security Advisor, H.R. Henry McMaster testified that hostile states and non-state actors are striving to weaponize those technologies against the United States. While national security expert Frank Seleufo testified attacks were often aimed at our vital infrastructure. Can America still govern? Can we communicate? Can we mobilize military forces? Given your asking, Fox News. The clock is ticking as Congress still thinking about an end to daylight saving time. The House of Representatives decided it's about time.

Down the 6 o'clock hour. Check that box. Now we move on to the 7 o'clock hour when we have. Well, great items for you. We do. In particular, Dave Traubert from the Kansas Policy Institute will join us. And he'll break down the city of Wichita. The city manager has proposed the 2027 budget. He's going to break it down. There's a good chance you may see an increase in your property taxes. We'll talk to Dave Trobert about that coming up at 7.30. Very good. We're looking forward to that. And all your news, business, sports, weather, and traffic, too. KNSS News time is 656. 709 here on this Thursday morning on KNSS. The Los Angeles Dodgers are going to visit the White House. Celebrate last year's World Series win. The White House says President Trump is excited to welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers back to the White House to celebrate their World Series championship. Team manager Dave John Roberts saying in a statement earlier this month, my company line, my personal line is I hope that we get this invitation every year because that's the goal to win a championship. to get this invitation to the White House. The Dodgers last visited after their World Series titles in 2020 and in 2024. This year's visit comes during a day off for the team in the middle of a nine-game East Coast trip. And after a scheduled visit to the White House during a series against the Washington Nationals in April was delayed because of scheduling. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News. One of history's most notorious addresses has a very different purpose today, and frankly, that's exactly the point. Adolf Hitler's birthplace in Brown Now I'm in Austria has officially reopened as a police station after years of debate over what to do with the building. Austrian officials say the goal was to strip the site of its appeal to neo-Nazis who have long treated it as a pilgrimage destination. The government spent nearly $23 million renovating the property, changing its appearance and preserving a memorial outside that reads, in part, never again, fascism. The building had been vacant since 2011, and authorities hope its new role sends a lasting message about democracy instead of dictatorship. Matt Murphy, Fox News. I don't know. It's still a police. I don't know. I guess. What do you think? It should have torn it down. Why wouldn't you just tear down? I'm surprised it's still there. I mean, it's gone from a police state to a police station. I would have just torn it down. It is 7-Eleven here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning at 987 and 1330, KNSSS. Right now in traffic, things are, well, looking a little bit heavier as far as the traffic volumes are concerned. Eastbound on K-254, we have a stalled-out vehicle, so watch for a slowdown there, and something I can see in that area, rainfalling right now, so we've still got some of these scattered showers moving through, and especially if you happen to be there in the north part of town, definitely getting some rain.

Although I'm seeing slick roadways just about everywhere around the area. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNSSS. The Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jad Chambers. Now let's take a look at our weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Halen Wilhite. Good morning, Haley. Good Thursday morning. We're kicking off the day with mild temperatures, but watching for a chance for some isolated thunderstorms this morning. But those should move out by midday today, leaving the afternoon dry with partly cloudy skies, a high of 89 degrees. Heading into the overnight hours, we will be watching for thunderstorms returning better chance of more numerous showers than storms, not expecting any severe weather. But storms will continue into your early Friday morning. We'll move out once again. by midday, leaving the afternoon partly cloudy, breezy, a high of 92 degrees. It will feel slightly hotter with the heat index, and we're only going to get hotter as we head into the weekend. Dangerous heat with those highs in the upper 90s to triple digits. That's your forecast from Stormseen 12 by meteorologist Heel and Wilhelm. Currently in which you saw, we have a breeze out of the northeast, scattered rain showers in the area. It is 69 degrees here on this Thursday morning, July 23rd. Yeah, we've had a nice little round of rain showers coming through the Wichita area in Sedgwick County. Yeah, it's getting some nice, heavy rain up on kind of the north side, going through Mays and Park City, right? And on the west side. I just got a text from my wife. You know, we live out on the west side. She said it's raining like cats and dogs out on the west side of town. So that's good. Our lawn needed it. And raining up in Newton, some in the Derby Mulvane area too. So we've got some rain showers coming through this morning. It is 713 here with Woodward and Witt on KNSS. You know what I did last night? You know, we talk, one of our sponsors is WBC. Right, yes. And, you know, they promote their trivia on Wednesday nights out at the west location. I got a kind of a last minute call last night. So I want to go to trivia at WC, sure. How'd you do? So it was fun. We did not finish first, but performed admirably. Performed adorned. Yeah, we did pretty well. So, do you remember any of the trivia questions? You want to give us a good trivia question? See if Jad and I can remember one? I can't remember stuff like that. I only remember, of course, the stuff I couldn't get. Right. Like what? Well, the big final question was it had to do with Adele album titles. I'm not going to know this. And I just immediately threw up my hand. I was like, Chad might. My other people at the table, I was like, this is yours. I have no idea. Do you remember what the question was? Yeah, it was like... You have to name three of the four Adele album titles that are named after her age. Would you know this? No, yes, yeah, I wouldn't either. Why didn't she give me what I could know? So I wouldn't know anything. One of the categories was they put pictures of ten comic strips up. You had to name the comic strip. Okay. That was fun. I might be able to get like, do you remember any of the comic strips? Oh, it was stuff, you know, it was Peanuts and Blondie and. Okay, I could have got that. Haygar the Horrible and stuff like that. Garfield, you know, some of those. The one we had trouble with was.

You remember the, it had a penguin named Opus? Yes. Oh, yeah, I loved Opus. Well, yeah, so did I. I immediately said, well, that's Opus, but I couldn't remember the name of the comic. Bloom County. Jad nailed it. Blue County, yes. I hadn't known Bloom, I would have said Opus. I was like, well, that's Opus, but I was like, what is the name of that comic? Oh, okay. Somebody else at the table finally thought it out. Bloom County. That's right. Yes. So we had fun playing trivia last night at WBC West. So that was my big Wednesday evening. What did the Mrs. and I do? Oh, we are rewatching a boardwalk empire. Did we watch Boardwalk Empire? Did not. We are watching a Boardwalk Empire on HBO Max. Great series. Steve Bishemi. plays sort of the head gangster set in the 1920s in Atlantic City. You know, it's got Al Capone. And, you know, all the gangsters from back to Lucky Luciano. It's a really good series. It came out in the early 2000s and really good series. And so we've been kind of binging on Netflix some shows. And we came upon that one. We were like, oh, honey, you remember when we watched this? It was a great series. It ran for about five years. And so we decided we would start being. I enjoy going back and watching TV. Yeah. We've done that too. We watched one of my favorite shows. which, you know, so that we've been going through some of these. And, of course, we've been doing that with some of the shows that we used to watch. My favorite of all time, House of Cards, you know, I had to do the knock on the table here. And so now we're doing Boardwalk Empire. You know, Chad, I was watching an old episode of Mission Impossible. Oh, the original, yes. From like 1969, maybe. Yes, Leonard Nimoy. And it's always fun to see who shows up. Larry Linville. Who played Frank Burns in the TV show, MASH, showed up as some sort of a vague European bad guy. That was a great show, though. I loved the original Mission Impossible. So I've been enjoying going back and watching. Who was the great-haired? Peter Graves. Yes. Mr. Phelps. I loved the original Mission Impossible. This guy showed up. That's Larry Linville. Where are you watching that? And, of course, it's a drama. I got it on DVD from the library. I'm sure it's on one of the streaming services. No, it's not. Really? That's why I had to kind of start. I would have thought that would be on a streaming service. No, it's not. It's probably a rights issue. Whenever there's a show that isn't somewhere on a streaming service and you have to go to DVD, it's probably because there's a complicated rights issue. Wow, I would have thought for sure that thing. YouTube TV has been on the air in 60 years. Wow. That's sort of right. Yeah, I'm sure Sony or whoever owns the movie rights, I'm sure that's what it is is Sony probably owns it and wouldn't want to release it. But the trouble is when you're watching a guy that played Frank Burns, I kept waiting to laugh. Yeah.

Because it's a drama. Yeah. It's not a comedy. But even then, you know, I would see a look on his face. I was like, that's Frank Byrne. Let's start chuckling. All right. Well, MASH even, MASH had its serious moments. Oh, yeah. Almost none of the serious moments in MASH involved Frank. Right. If you think back to it. No, no, no, no, no. Frank was always comedy. Comedy. Yeah, always comedy, really. It is 718 here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday, July 23rd. Let's see what's going on in sports. We've got a lot of stuff going on in sports. We'll start out with July basketball, the 13th annual TBT. We've been playing first round games this week. We have another first round game for Wichita. Tonight, it is game two of a best of three. Between the Wichita State alums, the Aftershocks and the New Mexico alums, the Enchantment. The Aftershocks won big earlier in the week to go up one game to zero. Try to close out that series tonight. 8 o'clock tip off at Coke Arena for the Aftershocks nationally televised on FS1. The other half of the bracket is not decided yet. The Jayhawks Hoops, J.HX Hoops from the KU Alums, came back and beat the K State Alums. Purple Rain, 84 to 80 in game two of that set in Topeka last night. We got Washburn. So that series is now tied at one game apiece. And we'll be a deciding game tomorrow night for that one. So we're still figuring out this side of the bracket at the TBT with game in Wichita tonight. By the way, in that win for the JHX hoops, KU former KUJalk stars, Frank Mason had 23 points, Billy Preston had 18 points and nine rebounds. Even up that series at 1-1. Baseball, it is time for another great annual event in Wichita, the 92nd Annual National Baseball Congress World Series gets underway today with day one of competition. It's all taking place at X Stadium. And it begins with two games in pool play tonight to get things going. Six o'clock, the Hutchinson Monarchs and Lone Star. Then at 8.30 tonight, the Seattle Cheney Studs take on the Austin Gold Sox. And the first 1,000 fans at the game tonight get a back-flipping Ozzy Smith, Clorinda A's bobblehead. It does actually spin. And the Bill Gates open at 5 o'clock if you want to obtain that. So that's going on as we get underway with the National Baseball Congress World Series. Minor League Baseball, the Wichita Wind Surge are on a tear. And it continued again last night, beating Midland to 7 to 5 for a 6th win in a row for Wichita. Designated hitter, Billy Amick, get another homer. He's got 21 home runs on the season now. And Wichita goes for seven in a row tonight. They're the turbo tubs. Wichita hosting Midland to 705 tonight downtown at Equity Bank Park. Major League Baseball yesterday afternoon. The Kansas City Royals going for a three-game sweep over the San Francisco Giants. And quite the day for Royals designated hitter, Salvador Perez. You heard the game on 97-5 and 1240, KFH. Here's the one-strike pitch.

Swung on, hit in the air. Deep left center field and gone. Salvador Perez, number 317. And one Royals legend ties another. 317 home runs for Salvador Perez, tied with George Brett for the Royals' all-time record. An opposite field home run. to right center field. And Salvi is getting a hug from everybody in the Royals' dugout right now, going from one end to the other, coaches, players, support staff, you name it. The crowd knows exactly what's going on. They are standing and cheering and hoping that he comes out for a curtain call, and here he comes. All right, pretty good stuff. Salvador Perez. Royals won the game five to four. For three-game sweep of the Giants. Now the Royals go on a road trip at Detroit. Start out with four in Detroit against their division rival, the Tigers. Live coverage of Royals baseball at 5 p.m. It's over on 97-5 and 1240, KFH. And we have a couple of Wichita State basketball birthdays today on a night in which Cochorino will have basketball action. Happy 46th birthday, the former Wichita State basketball star, Terrell Benton, from Derby. A 1,000 point career scorer for the Shockers. Daryl Benton is 46 today. And one of the legends, his rafters is hanging, his jersey is hanging from the rafters. Antoine Carr is 65 today. Happy birthday to Antoine Carr. Born in Oklahoma City. And he became a superstar at Wichita Heights High School. He stayed home and played for the Shockers. In four years at Wichita State, he averaged 17 points a game, 55% shooting from the field, still holds the single game scoring record for the Shockers with 47 points in his final college game. He was the number eight overall draft pick by the Detroit Pistons, but did not sign, played in Italy for a year, then came back to the U.S. and signed with the Atlanta Hawks. Ended up 16 years in the NBA for six teams, piling up 9,000 points, 3,400 rebounds, 900 block shots. Of course, his number 35 is one of only five numbers retired and hanging from the Raptors at Coke Arena. Wichita, basketball legend, Antoine Carr. It's his birthday. He is 65 today. That's Sports with Woodward and With. Sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company. Hey, heading to the big concert downtown tonight. Pregame at WBC Delano with live music by Lou Brown Band starting at 5 p.m. And all of your favorite WBC eats and drinks before the big concert. That's tonight at WBC Delano starting at 5 p.m. We have a traffic and weather update on the way.

Eat your avocados. More on that on House Call for Health. Next on KNSS. Good morning. It is 731. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you here on this Thursday, July 23rd. Currently in Wichita, we have scattered rain showers in the area. It is 68 degrees here on this Thursday morning. The United States completing its 12th night in a row of attacks on Iran. Things like power stations as well as bridges, even in and around Tehran. This, if Iran, keeps targeting shipping around the Straits of Hormuz. Here's President Trump. They're getting hit so hard, and they want to make a deal. But I say they're not ready to make a deal. Iran's foreign minister issuing a sharp response saying Iran's policy is crystal clear, an eye for an eye, that Iran will respond to any attacks in kind, attacking not only the United States, but any nation that helps the United States as well. That's Fox is Steve Harrigan with that report from Tel Aviv, Israel. President Trump attended the dignified transfer of remains at Dover Air Base for the service members recently killed in the latest round of fighting in Iran. President Trump spending private moments with the families before the transfer. We love you. We love your child. All you can do is throw out your heart. First Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan slated to be married when he returned from his deployment. Private Isabella Gonzalez, just 19 years old, told her high school English teacher she was enlisting to pay for college. Both killed in action during an Iranian missile and drone attack at an air base in Jim Jordan. Sergeant Angel S. Rampersat believed to have also been killed in that same attack. Her body not yet positively identified. and Sergeant Michael Emanuel Swinton. He died at Erbil Air Base in Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian attack drone. That was Fox's Aishnah Hosni at the White House. U.S. Senator from Kansas, Dr. Roger Marshall, hosting a press conference following the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committees overwhelming bipartisan approval of his Patients Deserved Price Tags Act. $1,000 a month. That's what we think that this bill can save an American family. You have an average Kansas family. They're making $70,000 a year, and you give them $1,000 a month savings. That's real money. Certainly the number one issue back in Kansas, Colorado, Louisiana, the cost of living. And I think this is the bill. This is the bill that will actually make a difference sooner than later in the cost of living for folks.

And that bill was approved out of committee by a vote of 21 to 1. The gallery targeted by thieves who raided the Louvre Museum in Paris last year has reopened to the public. Hopefully they've improved security since then. The Apollo Gallery has opened its doors for the first time since the heist in October last year, but the precious jewels and artifacts it once displayed have been removed, and not just by the thieves. Louvre management says the gallery is returning to its original 17th century ceremonial purpose. Robbers took less than eight minutes to force their way in through a window and steal a hundred million dollars worth of crown jewels. Since then, security has been boosted with new surveillance cameras and... anti-intrusion systems. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket lifted up from Cape Canaveral, Florida this week. Northrop Grumman has been working on this mission robotics vehicle for years now. It was launched yesterday, as you mentioned, on a SpaceX rocket from Florida. It has state-of-the-art robot arms developed by DARPA. Those will be able to grab onto satellites that are near the end of their lives and attach one of those jet packs. They're about the size of a washing machine that will keep the satellite in orbit for around five to eight more years. Now, they will also be able to add new cameras or processing power to exist. Satellites in the future. The robot will be controlled remotely from Earth, but will be able to use AI to learn to work on its own. That's Fox Business's Connor Hansen with that report. It is 735 here on this Thursday morning. Let's check out our weather forecast from Storm Team 12. Meteorologist Halen Wilhite. Good morning, Halen. Good Thursday morning. We're kicking off the day with mild temperatures, but watching for a chance for some isolated thunderstorms this morning. But those should move out by midday today, leaving the afternoon dry with partly cloudy skies, a high of 89 degrees. Heading into the overnight hours, we will be watching for thunderstorms returning better chance of more numerous showers than storms, not expecting any severe weather. But storms will continue into your early Friday morning. We'll move out once again by midday, leaving the afternoon partly cloudy, breezy, a high of 92 degrees. It will feel slightly hot. with the heat index and we're only going to get hotter as we head into the weekend. Dangerous heat with those highs in the upper 90s to triple digits. That's your forecast from Stormstein 12. I meteorologist Heelan Woolhite. Currently in Wichita, we do have a breeze out of the northeast, scattered rain showers in the area, especially east of Wichita, raining pretty good right now in Butler County. It is 68 degrees here on this Thursday at Wichita's severe weather station, 987 and 1330, KNSS. KNSS News Time 736. The city of Wichita's city manager has proposed his 2027 budget.

That budget would increase overall spending, exceed the state's revenue neutral rate, and, by definition, would then mean higher property taxes for many Wichita homeowners next year. Joining us now is Dave Traubert. He is the CEO of the Kansas Policy Institute to break down what's in the proposal, what it means for taxpayers, and why he believes Wichita needs a different approach to budgeting. Good morning, Dave. Thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning, John's good and be here. So give us the big picture. What's your overall assessment of the city managers proposed 2027 budget? Well, pardon a pun, John, but their proposal is a perfect example of why the state legislature needs to pass assessment limits and levy limits. They are proposing an 11% property tax increase. That's the average. Some people, it's going to probably be 20 to 30%. That's outrageous. Over the, I mean, over the last five years, the city of Wichita, if they do this, would have increased property tax by 52%. I'm sorry, say that. Say that again. Over the last five years, if this goes through, that would be a 52% property tax increase. 52. There is no justification for that. The city, and of course, Wichita is not much different from most other governments. They don't have a real budget process that is designed to find ways to reduce the cost of providing services, not cutting services, but if they had a performance-based budget system. they would be going through and first identifying, do we have anything unnecessary? Do we have programs that aren't producing the results we thought? We don't know because we never put down any results we hope to achieve. And so instead, you have an appropriation process where every department comes forward and says, this is how much I need. And then the city council and the city manager just says, well, I guess we need to raise taxes. Well, I think we all know that there are things that they overspend on. I mean, we've seen them. A million dollars in art, $600,000 port-a-potties, bridges to, you know, the million dollars for another, 600,000 or whatever, 700,000 for bridges. They just spent $300,000 for an electronic or robotic police dog. The city, you know, says that they're exceeding the revenue neutral rate. I'm constantly having conversations with voters. who don't understand what that means because they will then immediately say, well, we're keeping the mill rate flat, which is a nice way of saying, they then say it's not a property tax increase. But that is, in practical terms, can you explain to the average which to a homeowner, when they say it's revenue neutral, what that really means and that it's not revenue neutral?

Sure. So each year, the county clerk has to reduce the mill rate for every city, county, whatever, so that the new valuations bring in the same dollar amount of property tax as the current year. So that makes it, that's why it's called the revenue neutral rate. This rate will bring in the same amount of property tax. If they want to collect more tax, they have to exceed revenue neutral. And they have to notify taxpayers of that in writing. They have to hold a public hearing. And then they have to vote on the record. And ironically, John, this all came about because taxpayers were absolutely fed up with local officials saying, oh, we didn't raise your taxes. Mill rates the same. People pay their taxes with dollars, not mill rates. And every local official knows that. And unfortunately, a lot of them continue to try to deceive taxpayers. With this, we're not raising the mill rates or we're not raising taxes. Citizens don't buy it. They know they're getting ghosted on this. They know that this is just gaslighting. Well, and as I've tried to explain to folks, the bottom line is exceeding revenue neutral rate is a tax increase, no matter how they spin it because you're paying more in taxes. We're talking with Dave Traubert from the Kansas Policy Institute. I know I'm coming up on a break, but... I did want to also ask you real quick. Your recent analysis has raised some concerns that Sedgwick County taxpayers could also be facing another property tax increase tied to the interest bank arena because of this reserve fund. Can you walk us through that real quick? Sure. So the Sedgwick County's proposed budget has a long-term forecast that shows that the fund balance. Basically, it's the savings account. It's the surplus. It's money that's accumulated over years where tax collections were more than they spent. So you end up with surpluses. This surplus is going to, according to the county's budget, will go from about $100 million in 2023 to $122, $123 million in 2030. So you not only have over $120 million, you've not even spent all the money that you projected to spend. You haven't spent all the money you've projected to collect over that period. So why in the world would you want to ever consider raising any tax when you're not spending all the money you're getting in the first place? It's just an opportunity to get more tax revenue. And also, John, by their own admission, they put a mark on these graphs every year that says this is what we think our minimum balance is. They're 30, 40 million over that balance in 2030. They can easily pay for this if they want out of their reserve by their own admission. Well, Dave, it's some interesting analysis. I know you've got an article on it at the Sentinel, which is your online publication. If folks are interested, if they want to read it, they can find that at sentinelkosmo.org, correct?

That's it. Dave, we appreciate you joining us this morning. Again, it's Dave Traubert from the Kansas Policy Institute with some analysis of the city manager's proposed budget and the funding of the Cedric County's funding of the interest bank arena. So interesting analysis, Dave, thanks for joining us. It is 744 here with Woodward and Witt on this Thursday morning. We have a local business update coming up from editor Kirk Seminoff at the Wichita Business Journal. Kirk will tell us about an aerospace supplier here in town. It's doing the big-time expansion. We'll find out what that's all about. KNSSS News Time is 744. It's 748 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Our Wichita Business Journal update is on the way. Now it's time for three big things. Three. The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. Two. The Kansas City Chiefs have released their initial look at a new $3 billion stadium slated for a 2031 opening. One. Broadcasters announced that the Kansas City officially ranked as the number one television market in the entire United States for total World Cup viewership share. That's three big things with Woodward Ngueth on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Let's get a traffic update with Jad Chamber. Traffic in the Wichita area, pretty heavy right now. Several places we've got to slow down, southbound and northbound. I-135 up by the north junction in that road construction. Watch for a slowdown. And we've got a traffic accident, stalled out vehicle to northbound K-15. This is right at MacArthur. Remember, that is just short. of some road construction northbound on k-15 approaching i-135 traffic update 98 7 and 1330 kns s in the accident recovery team traffic center i'm jad chambers a few morning showers tapering off then becoming cloudy throughout the day and a high of 90 degrees tonight in some increasing clouds with some isolated storms possible and a low of 70 degrees tomorrow, a chance of morning storms, then partly cloudy at a high of 90 degrees. Right now in Wichita, it is cloudy and 70 degrees at Wichita's severe weather station, 98, 713, KMSS. 7.50 here on this Thursday morning, the 23rd. Let's go back yesterday and see what happened on the stock market. A choppy trading session with the major averages ending lower after the Dow lost steam in the final hour of trading after being solidly higher for the better part of the trading day. Investors are getting in gear for the first major tech earnings reports to gauge the sustainability of the AI-driven market rally. The Dow winners Goldman Sachs, Nvidia and Johnson & Johnson, the Dow decliner's, Microsoft, IBM, and Sales Force. The Dow down six points. The NASDAQ lower by 100.

46. S&P 500 down 10. Hillary Barski, Fox News. We do have some great business stories, including one of our aerospace suppliers, doing some expansion. We'll see what's going on there. It's time to check in with editor Kirk Seminoff and get a local business update from the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. Good morning, Ted. Wichita Aerospace Supplier Envisage Manufacturing is undergoing a major expansion after being acquired by a United Kingdom-based manufacturer early this year. Formerly precision products, Envisage is moving into a new 48,000 square foot facility near 31st in Oliver, increasing its manufacturing footprint nearly sevenfold from its previous location. The company says the larger facility will support new automated machining equipment and continued growth in aerospace, defense, and space-related manufacturing. Employment has already grown from six workers at the time of the acquisition. to 16 today with plans to reach 30 by the end of the year and potentially 50 by the end of 27. Wichita Modular Construction Company, Madhu All, is benefiting from the rapid growth of the drive-thru's coffee chain, 7 brew. Modual, this is a subsidiary of the land companies, has built nearly 20 modular coffee stands for seven brew franchises across several states and is preparing to deliver another location in northwest Wichita this week. The company says the partnership showcases the advantages of modular construction, allowing buildings to be manufactured off-site, while site work happens simultaneously, speeding up development timelines. Modual now uses that success to pursue additional retail and restaurant clients. as interest in prefabricated commercial buildings. continues to grow. And as John mentioned, the chiefs that selected Kansas City-based Manika architecture to design their $3 billion dome stadium in Wyndott County. New renderings show a 70,000-seat venue in KCK, featuring an enclosed roof, expanded team store, dedicated tailgate areas, and design elements inspired by Arrowhead. Actually, it looks a lot like Arrowhead. The stadium is part of a larger mixed-use development and will be supported in part by Kansas Starbond incentives, along with a new team head. quarters and practice facility in Olatha. And the stadium is expected to open for the 2031 NFL season. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Seminoff. Of course, the chief's owner Lamar Hunt, his dream was always to have that roof over Arrowhead. Of course, the idea, you've seen that rendering of the retractable roof that would slide between Royal Stadium and Arrowhead.

on train tracks on both sides, on the eastern west sides. Oh, yeah. I guess if they'd have figured that out, it would have been well ahead of its time, but they never came to pass. No, I think once they got to that point, they determined we've spent enough money on the Truman Sports Complex. We can't spend any more on this rolling roof. But here we are decades later, and the Hunt family is finally getting its new stadium with a roof. So it took a while, but that was part of the dream originally anyway. Only going to go ahead. No, I was going to say now the Kansas City Chiefs will finally be actually in Kansas. Instead of being the Missouri City Chiefs, it'll actually be the Kansas City Chiefs. Confusing people all around this great country of ours. Well, and what it's going to do is it's going to, it sets the stage for a Super Bowl held in Kansas at some point in the 2030s. I'm sure it will be early 2030s. I would not be surprised if it's 31, 32, or 33. It would not surprise me. And it also gets them on the final four rotation, too, I would think, at some point. Yes. Of course, that was always one of Lamar Hunt's dreams as well. Eventually, at some point, Kansas City would host a Super Bowl. He tried to do it in Arrowhead, but the NFL would never go for it. No. They will now. The weather was too much of a factor. Now, you know, this will happen. And for that matter, you know, Denver now will get one too because they're getting a new stadium with a dome as well. It's, hey, it's all good. I think it's a great thing. And, you know, who knows? I think it's all going to bring money, too, the amount of money that will come to Kansas with that stadium. But the indoor, I'm, but I lament the fact that I'm going to miss the cold weather games. Maybe they'll open the roof. There's no more snow games in Denver. Maybe they'll open the roof. Ted, you'll have to go back and watch NFL films of the old coach that says, they're killing me, Whitey, they're killing me for a snow game. Right. I have to wait for the Buffalo Bills. They'll get it done. All right. They're getting a new stadium too, though. Thank you for the great info, Kirk. We'll check with you again one hour from now. It's editor Kirk Semenoff with a great local business report for us from the Wichita Business Journal. Hey, the 7 o'clock hour is finished up. And now we roar on ahead into the 8 o'clock hour for another fantastic hour of information. Yeah, Jad's favorite topic. AI is going to pop up its ugly head as a New York school introduces an AI humanoid robot teacher. Beepoom. Named Sally. Evan Brown from Fox News Radio will tell us all the details and see whether or not you want your kid being taught by a robot. We'll find out coming up here about 10 minutes.

Frackin' toaster. Yeah, I know. We'll see. Cylons teaching your students. I know. It is 756 here at KNSS. Good morning. It is 801 here on this Thursday, July 23rd at KNSS. Currently in Wichita, we have some scattered rain showers in the area. It is 68 degrees here on this Thursday morning. Allies of Iran claim to have attacked Saudi oil tankers while United States strikes continue. Houthi rebels in Yemen are trying to stop Saudi Arabian ships from using the Red Sea. The Iran-backed group says it struck two Saudi oil tankers yesterday. The near closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran has meant the Yemeni side of the Arabian Peninsula has become ever more important. Eight other tankers have chosen to avoid that area in recent days. Meanwhile, the U.S. completed a 12th successive night of strikes on Iran. Iranian retaliation included claimed attacks on American missile systems. and fuel storage in Jim Jordan, as well as military posts in Kuwait. Jonathan Savage, Fox News. The Kansas City Chiefs give their fans a sneak peek at their new stadium. The Chiefs will move across state lines from Missouri to a new stadium in Kansas in 2013, and on Wednesday the team unveiled the first images of what the stadium is expected to look like. It will hold 70,000 fans and will have a dome made of translucent panels. It will also be shaped much like the team's current home, Arrowhead Stadium, and designed to hold in sound. Arrowhead is known as one of the latter stadiums in the NFL. In a statement, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt said of the new stadium, it honors the rich legacy of this franchise while sending a bold course for the future of Chief's Kingdom. The stadium is expected to cost $3 billion, 70% of which will be covered by public sales taxes and bonds. Kevin Uretsky, Fox News. And, of course, all Chiefs games are heard right here live on 987 and 1330 KNSSS. Warren Martin says he was recently in Hawaii wearing his Kansas strong shirt, and a snorkeling professional pointedly asked him, why do we need more oil and natural gas? Your entire career depends upon the oil and gas industry. And he said, well, how is that? And so I started going into how the mask and the plastics that are in the mask and how the swimsuits that we wear, how the life jackets that we wear, the flippers, all of the stuff that goes into snorkeling, all the stuff that goes into dieting. They're all made from petrochemicals. 96% of the man-made things that you're going to touch today are in some way made from petroleum products. 96%. It has really created the life... that we have today. The oil and gas update bi-weekly on Wednesdays with Woodward and Witt on KNSSS. New York City's Democrat Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani calls on the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes he calls genocide. Zohran Mamdani doubling down that while his city has no authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he believes the federal government does and should.

I do believe that our federal government should join the international criminal court and ensure that there is accountability. Zohran Mamdani's call to action comes after he released a two-minute social media video, slamming Benjamin Netanyahu as a war criminal and conceding that he wouldn't be able to fulfill a campaign pledge to arrest the Israeli leader. The mayor now insisting that his critique is not just targeting Benjamin Netanyahu. But Jewish advocacy groups aren't buying it, one writing in part, repeatedly singling out and vilifying the world's only Jewish. state for perceived political benefit is repugnant and puts juice at greater risk. That was Fox's CB Cotton in New York. Coming up, we'll be telling you about robo teachers and a scuffle at a movie theater that got a little out of hand, it sounds like. And, of course, your full of business sports weather and traffic are on the way, too. KNSSS News Time is 805. KMSS News Time, 808. And artificial intelligence, as artificial intelligence is making its way across the country, it's now find its way into classrooms in a whole new way. A private school in New York City has introduced an AI-powered humanoid robot teacher named Sally. To help instruct students raising big questions about the future of education, the role of human teachers, and whether technology can really replace its personal connections in classrooms with us now to tell us all about the latest is Fox News Radio's Eben Brown. Good morning, Eben. So I guess we're going to replace Mrs. Cratchett with Sally. Is that the way that's going to work? Yeah, so Sally is a robot and is designed by a company called Real Botics out of Toronto that makes humanoid-looking robots. And I will not use the term she or her because it isn't it. But it is designed to resemble a 20-something female that will work in a classroom. In this case, it's a pilot program in upstate New York at an Indian Territory High School. And the idea here is for it to be a teaching assistant, that it can, you're using its AI powers here. It has the ability to have one-on-one conversations with students where it can provide instruction and remedial help and tutoring and things like that to kind of take that burden off of the teacher in the classroom who is trying to conduct that day's lesson. So it is a pilot program. We'll see how well it does, I guess, maybe in a few months. But, you know, school in New York gets started in September. But we will perhaps hear some of the results and whether or not this is a good idea and it does as expected or it needs more work. Sally has a price tag of just under $60,000. That would obviously be the cost of district would incur. But the question is, is how much does a teaching assistant cost in terms of salary over how many years of a career? Right. So if you're encounter, you're probably looking at this going, hey, we could use something like this. But then again, you have to address the issue of parents and students feeling comfortable.

having that type of relationship with an AI that's sitting inside a concoction that's made to look like a human. Well, first off, Evan, I'm sure somebody's going to get upset at you for misgendering, Sally. But so it's not designed to necessarily replace. It's assisting the human educators. What are education experts saying about the benefits and the potential drawbacks of bringing AI-powered robots into the classroom? Well, we're already seeing AI being used to, you'll be used as a teaching tool in many ways, just not necessarily in the form of a robot that looks like a person. Right. interacting and learning how to use AI properly, you know, through chatbots and through, you know, other types of interaction through a computer screen. And so these students are going to need to know how to use AI in the future anyway and understand its limits and it's, you know, the fact that it's not a real person. So this may be a good way to help reinforce that. Um, ultimately it may be a labor issue. You know, if, uh, you know, does this mean teaching assistants jobs might be fewer and far between in the future because there will be robots that can do this. It's very twilight Sony thinking. If you, it is. I'm sure the teachers unions can't be happy with this evolution. I mean, like, wow. They're watching, they're certainly watching it with, uh, Some great curiosity. You know, one of the things teachers do in the classroom besides teaching is provide supervision, safety monitoring and whatnot. And I don't think people would be too happy to have a bunch of kids left alone with a robot. God forbid there's a medical emergency. A kid has an allergy attack or something like that and needs an EpiPem. Do we trust a robot to assess that situation and react not just simply appropriately, but quickly enough to handle that? So that's a concern that I would imagine a lot of parents have. And, you know, exactly how much supervision or any supervision at all should be done by a robot. I would say the answer is should be none. that there should be a human involved in that. But can there be a robot off to the side of the classroom that handles certain things? Well, you know, at one point in time, we had computers in the classroom, and parents were saying what do they need it for? So maybe. Do you think this is the beginning of a broader trend, or is this a one-off? I mean, I just can't. I don't think it's a one-off. I think that as AI is used and integrated more and more into life, And as robotics improve and become more cost effective, you will see more of this stuff. The company that makes this Rehobotics out of Toronto already makes life-like robots that serve as companions to senior citizens to help prevent them from feeling isolated or lonely and whatnot. And so that maybe this is a further part of that trend to have humanoid robots that can...

Not simply just be fun toys, so to speak, but can perform necessary tasks for people and whatnot. I mean, if you had a robot able to do your laundry for you or clean your bathroom, that would be helpful for a lot of people, especially if there's mobility issues for that person, right? I guess we trust Fox, but how do we know you're not a robot? You'll never know. That's just what I'm worried about. There we go. Well, Robot Eben, we appreciate you joining us this morning. Go plug yourself in. Yeah, I need to recharge. That was Fox News Radio's Evan Brown. We think. Yeah, we hope. We're just 814 here with Woodward and Whit. Police in Miami say a violent incident at a movie theater. That left a woman with injuries is under investigation by the assault unit. The woman who did not want to be identified went to a movie theater Sunday night in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood of Miami where she says the guy sitting in front of her became annoyed by her laughter. Something happened in the movie, and we are laughing like, ha, ha, ha. And he said, um, shut the fuck up. The confrontation caught on her friend's cell phone escalates when she claims he said, I want to throw away all your foot, and I say, do it. And he do it. The video shows the man slapping the woman in the face with a pizza pan and then throwing pizza slices up in the air. The woman said she suffered a fractured finger, bruised cheek, and an eye injury. C.J. Papa Fox News. A baby giraffe continues to reach milestones at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard. Just last week, the premature calf was delivered by C-section to a mother who was not able to survive her illness. The early prognosis for the baby? Kind of bleak, but still with us. The calf's improvements now include breathing on her own, and she's been able to stand up on her own and lie down on her own, unassisted. Such a great story, such a sweet story. Of course, yeah, giraffes, you know, you want to have the care of the mother, but that mom is not here. Right. So I think we have humans and trying to make sure that. Little baby giraffe makes it and grows up into an adult. Yeah, and I've seen some of the video where, because it has to be able to hold its own head up and has to be able to stand and sit down on its own. And it can. And those were major milestones that had to be able to do. And particularly from what I was reading. is the neck, is being able to hold its own head up. And it can now. So she's making progress. Good news. Yeah, if anybody can figure it out, the people at Tanunika, they're really good. Well, the thing I like about this is some people have mocked Tanganyika as not being a quote-unquote real zoo. And they are. And they do a lot of work. They're a great facility. And so I'm really glad to see them.

carrying their old and holding their own and performing this. So I'm good for them. I'm proud of them. It is 817 here on 987 and 1330, KNSSS. Traffic this morning here in the Wichita area. Still looking okay out there. We do have... We do have some wet roadways still after some rain has moved through the area. In fact, there's still some areas up north of the city of Wichita where they're still getting quite a bit of rain. And there's parts of even further down into Belle Plain and Mulvane that are getting some rain. So definitely going to be seeing wet roadways out there this morning. The good news is the traffic volumes are starting to thin a bit. So things are looking... Better in that regard. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNSS. In the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center, I'm Chad Chambers. And let's take a look at that weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Halen Wilhite. Good morning, Halen. Good Thursday morning. We're kicking off the day with mild temperatures, but watching for a chance for some isolated thunderstorms this morning. But those should move out by midday today, leaving the afternoon dry with partly cloudy skies, a high of 89 degrees. Heading it to the overnight hours we will be watching for thunderstorms returning better chance with more numerous showers than storms, not expecting any severe weather. But storms will continue into your early Friday morning. We'll move out once again by... midday, leaving the afternoon partly cloudy, breezy, a high of 92 degrees. It will feel slightly hotter with the heat index, and we're only going to get hotter as we head into the weekend. Dangerous heat with those highs in the upper 90s to triple digits. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12-eye meteorologist, Heel and Wilhelm. Currently in Wichita, we do have a breeze out of the northeast, scattered rain showers in the area. It is 68 degrees here on... 987 and 1330, KNSS, Wichita's severe weather station. Hey, it's 818. Let's take a look at what's going on in sports. Very busy sports day. Let's go yesterday afternoon to Major League Baseball, the Kansas City Royals, going for a three-game sweep over the San Francisco Giants, but it was an individual effort. Really made the story of this game. Royals designated hitter, Salvador Perez at the plate. You heard the game on 97-5 and 1240, KFH. Here's the one-strike pitch. Swung on, hit in the air. Deep left center field and gone. Salvador Perez, number 317. And one Royals legend ties another. 317 home runs for Salvador Perez, tied with George Brett for the Royals' all-time record. An opposite field home run to right center field. And Salvi is getting a hug from everybody in the Royals dugout right now, going from one end to the other, coaches, players, support staff, you name it. The crowd knows exactly what's going on. They are standing and cheering and hoping that he comes out for a curtain call and here he comes. All right, that was pretty cool.

Salvador Perez with that big home run there, and that kind of ignited the Royals and ended up beating the Giants 5 to 4 for a three-game sweep. Nice home week for the Royals, taking 5 out of 6 from Interleague opponents. Now it's back into division play. The Royals are on the road for 4 in Detroit against the Tigers. You can listen to that one, Royals Tigers, live coverage starting in 5 p.m. It's over on 97-5 and 1240, KF.H. Baseball, it is the 92nd annual National Baseball Congress World Series. And it gets underway this evening in which it's at X Stadium. There are two games on the schedule in pool play tonight. It starts at 6 o'clock with the Hutchinson Monarch taking on the Lone Star, Texas. And then at 8.30, the next game has the Seattle Cheeney Studs taking on the Austin Gold Sox. And the first 1,000 fans at the game tonight. Bill Gates open at 5 o'clock. Get a back-flipping Ozzie Smith, Clorinda A's bobblehead, and it does actually spin. Pretty cool to get one of those. That's what's going on tonight because we get underway at the NBC World Series. Minor League Baseball, the Wichita Wind Surge, Red Hot, have now won six in a row. Beat the Midland Rockhounds last night downtown at Equity Bank Park, 7 to 5. Another big night for the wind surge left fielder, Caden Kindle. Two for fourth plate. Two more hits. He's played in 10 games now in AA. He's had hits in all 10. That's why he's batting 559. Wow. The wind surge and Midland. In fact, it's the turbotubes tonight. Wichita Turbo Tubbs, hoping Midland at game 705 tonight downtown at Equity Bank Park. And July basketball. Yeah, the 13th annual TBT continues this week. First round games. When we have a game in Wichita tonight, the defending TBT champs, the Aftershocks, the Wichita State alums, picking on the enchantment, the alums from New Mexico. Tonight in game two of this best of three series, with the Aftershocks up one game to zero. That'll tip off at 8 o'clock tonight at Coke Arena, nationally televised on FS1. The other side of that bracket has not yet been finished up yet either. Game two last night in Topeka between the K-State alums, Purple Rain, and the KU alum, J.H.S. Hoops. And Jayhawks Hoops end up winning at 8480, and that best of three is tied at one game apiece. They will play a deciding game three on Friday. Frank Mason leading hoops with 23 points. Billy Preston, another former Jayhawk, with 18 points and nine rebounds.

In the TBT, that and oh, happy birthday today to one of the all-time greats, of course. Antoine Carr. Shocker basketball legend is 65 today. Superstar at Wichita Heights High School. Stayed here and played four years at Wichita State after that, averaging 17 points a game, 55% shooting from the field, still holds the single game scoring record for the Shockers with 47 points in his final college game. He was drafted in the top 10 by the Detroit Pistons, did not sign, played in Italy, and then he came back to the U.S. and signed with the Atlanta Hawks on his way to 16 years in the NBA. 9,000 points, 3,400 rebounds, 900 block shots. His number 35, one of five numbers retired and hanging from the rafters at Coke Arena. Chalker basketball legend, Wichita basketball legend, Antoine Carr is 65 today. That's sports. Brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company. Heading to the big concert downtown tonight. Pregame at WBC Delano with live music by Lou Brown Band starting at 5 p.m. And all of your favorite WBC eats and drinks before the big concert. That's tonight at WBC Delano starting at 5 p.m. It is 824 with Woodward and Whit. Traffic and weather is next. And, well, no surprise. For the frontrunner for the Democrats in 28th, says Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Morning Minute. That's next on KNSS. Good morning. It is 833 here with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you on this Thursday morning, July 23rd. Currently in Wichita, we have scattered rain showers in the area. It is 68 degrees here on this Thursday morning. The number of confirmed cyclosporiasis cases in Kansas up sharply. State health officials now reporting nearly 300 cases statewide. There are 30 here in Sedgwick County. Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the number of domestically acquired cases up significantly since late June. There have been 241 cases this month alone. Cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by a parasite, spreading through food or water contaminated with feces, been linked to contaminated fresh produce in previous U.S. outbreaks. So far, investigators have not been able to identify a common source of the cases here in Kansas. Health officials say symptoms usually begin anywhere from two days to two weeks after exposure. It can include frequent watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea, low-grade fever, loss of appetite, and weight loss. A man was arrested after refusing to leave an Emporia City Commission meeting. In video of the meeting, a person is heard clapping off-screen while a woman approaches the podium purportedly to speak against data center planning in Emporia. Also off-screen, there is commotion involving officials and the man, who police later identified as 37-year-old Lux Clerage of Emporia. Emporia police claimed that several people in attendance were issued verbal warnings by the commission for disruptive conduct that was causing interruptions.

Police said that Clarege didn't comply with law enforcement's demand to remove him from the meeting. Clarege was booked into the Lyon County Jail on charges of interference with law enforcement and disorderly conduct. Phil Hildebrand, KNSSS News. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis says the number of United States adults out of work, not in the workforce, has surged to more than 100 million people not working in June. The overall number of those who are not working is now higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic. It covers all Americans age 16 and over who aren't currently working, and that includes retirees and students. But if you drill down even further, 5.3 million workers, or about 5% of the total, have dropped out because they are discouraged or they're not even bothering to look for work. 2% of America's non-working population are on long-term illness, disability, or other forms of benefits. And that's Fox Business's Ashley Webster with that story. The man who helped introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world has died. Charles Gaines, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 84, co-wrote the 1974 book Pumping Iron and also helped produce and create the 1977 documentary of the same name. The cover photo on the book was of Schwarzenegger, and the movie focused on the rivalry between Arnold and Lou Furigno. Schwarzenegger won seven Mr. Olympia and five Mr. Universe titles, and the book and movie propelled him towards his acting career. In a 2022 edition of the book, Gaines admitted neither he nor co-author George Butler thought many outside of the world of bodybuilding would be interested. Gaines' daughter Greta confirmed his death. No cause was announced. Kevin Uretsky, Fox News. This is 987 and 1330 KNSSS. Wichita's number one talk. It's 850 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Our Wichita Business Journal update is coming up, but first it's time for three big things. Three. President Trump has threatened to target an Iranian bridge or power plant. for every ship attacked in the Strait of Pormuz. A 37-year-old Emporia physics teacher was arrested after repeatedly clapping during a city commission meeting on a proposed data center project. ICE says it arrested a 32-year-old Mexican national living in the U.S. illegally during a targeted enforcement operation in East Wichita yesterday. He remains in iced custody pending removal to his home country. That's three big things with Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNS. Let's get a traffic update with Jed Chambers. We have a stalled out vehicle on I-235. This is in the southbound lanes, and it's pretty close to the ramp from Seneca. Now, right there at Seneca, the southbound lane is actually moving east. It's down there in the southern part of Wichita there, where I-235 turns and goes east and west there. But that's the southbound lanes of I-2-35 right there at the ramp from Seneca.

Traffic update 987 and 1330 KNSSS. In the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center, I'm Chad Chambers. We still have a few lingering showers this morning, then becoming partly cloudy today with a high of 90 degrees. Tonight, some increasing clouds and some isolated storms possible and a low of 70 degrees. Tomorrow, chance of morning storms, then partly cloudy and a high of 90 degrees. Right now in Wichita, some light rain and 66 degrees at Wichita's severe weather station. 98, 7 and 1330, KMSS. 851. Of course, after Woodward and Witt, that we have two hours of Glenn Beck program every day from 9 to 11 a.m. One of the topics today on the Glenn Beck program, a massive swarm of mysterious objects off the U.S. Coast sparks Pentagon investigation. Talking about that on the Glenn Beck program. Coming up right after us at 9 a.m. here on KNSS. Well, I hope you got out of the stock market a little bit yesterday. It is way down today. The S&P 500 and the Dow are both down by 1%. The NASDAQ is already down 1.8%. That's a bad start today on the stock market. 852. Let's see what's going on in local business. Get a local business update from editor Kirk Semenoff of the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. Good morning, Ted. Wichita Aerospace Supplier Envisage Manufacturing is undergoing a major expansion after being acquired by a UK-based manufacturer earlier this year. Formerly precision products, Envisage is moving into a new 48,000 square foot facility near 31st in Oliver, increasing its manufacturing footprint, nearly sevenfold from its previous location. The company says the larger facility will support new automated machining equipment and continued growth in aerospace defense. and space-related manufacturing. Employment has already grown from six workers at the time of the acquisition to 16 today with plans to reach 30 by the end of the year and potentially 50 by the end of next year. Wichita modular construction company Madhu All is benefiting from the rapid growth of drive-through coffee chain seven brew. Modual, the subsidiary of Lange companies, has built nearly 20 of the modular coffee stands for seven brew franchises across several states and is preparing to deliver another location here in Wichita this week. The company says the partnership showcases the advantages of modular construction, allowing buildings to be manufactured off-site while site work happens simultaneously, speeding up development timelines. Modual is now using that success to pursue additional restaurant and retail. clients as interests in prefabricated commercial buildings continues to grow. And the chiefs have selected Kansas City-based Manika architecture to design their $3 billion dome stadium in Wyndt County. New renderings show a 70,000-seat venue in KCK, featuring an enclosed roof, expanded team store, tailgating areas, and designed elements inspired by Arrowhead.

The stadium is part of a larger mixed-use development and will be supported in part by Kansas Starbond incentives, along with a new team headquarters and practice facility in Olathe. The chiefs say the stadium is expected to open by the time they kick off in 2031. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. There were three key words there in that story about the Chief's New Stadium, Expanded Team Store. Let the revenue start coming in. Oh, yeah. If you could pick one chief's jersey of any all-time chief, who would it be? Oh, man, what a great question. How about Joe Delaney? That'd be a great one. How about Steve Fuller? Okay. I know I'm being facetious. Lenny Dawson. Lenny Dawson, Willie Lanier, yeah. Curtis McClinton from Wichita. That's true. Very true. Got some good ones there. Or Blake Bell. Blake Bell, another Wichita who played for the Chiefs. Ah, see, we're already hitting that expanded team store concept right here with this discussion. All right. Hey, Kirk, thanks. We appreciate it. That is editor Kirk Seminoff. From the Wichita Business Journal, twice every morning here with Woodward and Witt. Hey, Big Thursday show wrapping up. Thank you, John. Oh, thank you, Ted. Thank you, Jen. Nice to have you back, by the way, and Joy and I, a little bit cooler day today. Have a great day. We'll be with it tomorrow.