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Oh, I got a ride to nowhere from British Airways. A plane full of British Airways passengers spent seven hours in the skies only to eventually disembark exactly where they set off from. The aircraft was already running more than five hours late when it took off from Johannesburg in South Africa on Saturday to begin the 10-and-a-half-hour haul to London. The plane headed north for two hours before making an abrupt U-turn in the skies above the Democratic Republic of Congo after what the airline had described as a technical issue. Online aviation sleuths have since suggested the problem may have had something to do with the aircraft's weather radar system. The jet then headed back to Johannesburg. Well, it remained in a hold pattern for two hours before finally coming into land. A British Airway spokesperson said, we're sorry for the inconvenience caused to customers after their aircraft returned. So you just ended up flying around in a circle, not going anywhere. It's kind of going around and around and around. Following the aircraft's return, our teams provided overnight accommodation and support and work to minimize disruption. How are you out there today? Good to have you with us. Here's our phone number 859-253-559-59. That's also the number for the Stukart Motors text line, and the email address is Cruiser at WVLKAM.com. Ben, can you call my guest when you get a second? Over there, we have our guests coming from the city. We're going to talk about the EPA. ruling from about 20 years ago the consent decree, which their lawsuit, a citizen lawsuit, actually forced the city into a 22-year, half-billion dollar sewer overhaul. So we're going to get an update on how that's going because that's been about 20 years in the making. Okay, some text messages, dark clouds and wind picking up at Fayette Mall. I heard a weather alarm from the parking lot, but I couldn't hear what they said. I'm sure I've been interrupted by weather warnings and all that. And I could go on again about how they drone on and on and on, something that should take 30 seconds, takes two minutes because the National Weather Service. I mean, they talk like this and it just takes forever. And it's like, God, get it over with. Can't imagine with all this technology around Cruiser, there isn't something to let on-air radio people like you know when the National Weather Service breaks in. I can't know because of delays. I'm not hearing the air signal like you are. I'm seven seconds ahead of you. So that's why I can't hear the air signal. So I know when it comes up because my monitor then reflects that there's a warning. I've been talking about some city government salaries, at least in terms of Louisville city government and then the Goodwill CEO. Here's the website. People can see government salaries. This is for state employees and city employees. It is public record, this from Dave, government salaries.com. Taxpayers need to know this website exists. Check some of Lexington's salaries. It's extreme, and a lot of them are double dipping.

Gov salaries.com. Okay. Well, check that out. All right. Any other texts, 859, 2? We'll get to some more here in just a little bit. Oh, yeah, I got a couple more I want to get to. Do you pay taxes on the lottery where you live or where you buy the ticket? I think it's where you live, but I can't. I would say it's where you live. that you're going to pay the taxes based on where you live, not where you bought the ticket. But I don't know that for sure. A tax attorney might be able to fill us in. Big powerball jackpot's getting close to a billion dollars. You didn't start a business just to keep the lights on. You're here to sell more today than yesterday. You're here to win. Lucky for you. Shopify built the best converting checkout on the planet. Like the just one tapping, ridiculously fast acting, sky high sales stacking, championed checkouts. That's the good stuff right there. So if your business is in it to win it, win with Shopify. Start your free trial today at Shopify.com slash win. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. These players are battered and exhausted, but you don't hurt like this if you don't care about this team, about this country, about this game. You can feel the intensity, the goals, the energy that, wow, look at us. Here in the U.S., I have got some news for you. There's so much more to come. My name is Megan Klingberg, and we're just getting started. The U.S. Soccer Podcast, presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. The dollar is next drawing tomorrow night. All right, Mark Bernie Sanders is the interim director of the Division of Water Quality. And this came up on the show last week about the EPA consent decree and the need that we had to basically overhaul our sewer system, our sanitary sewer system. And storm sewer system. Now, the water that goes through the storm sewer system is not treated. It goes right into waterways. The sanitary sewer system carries wastewater from homes, businesses, and industrial sites to treatment plants. This is the water from your toilet, your sink, your shower, your dishwasher, the water you used to clean with. But for decades, the two systems had nine known interconnections. Now, these are places where sanitary sewage or human waste mixed with stormwater. And then heavy rain would combine the flow and it would overwhelm the system causing millions of gallons of untreated raw sewage to go right into our creeks and streams. So citizens force this.

some 20 or so years ago, as I mentioned back in, it was actually 2008. The lawsuit was filed. The EPA and the Commonwealth of Kentucky filed a clean Water Act lawsuit against the LFUCG back in November of 2006. It was February 19th of 2008 that Mayor Jim Newberry, this was such a big problem that the mayor then, Newberry, delivered his first ever televised address from the mayor's office. And the council approved a consent decree that afternoon. So where are we? And Mark's going to fill us in on where we are some 20 or so years later. Good afternoon, Mark. How are you? Good, sir. I've got Bob Peterson here with me as well. He's the Remedial Measures Program Manager who's overseeing all the consent decree projects. But nope, you're correct. The city entered into the consent decree January 11 or January of 2011. And since then, we've been... hard at work on correcting up to now 111 century sewer overflows. We've got 89 of them abated, which is about 80, 81% that so far has been completed since we've started. Of all the projects that's remaining, whenever we... Whenever the consent decree was, I guess, into there was 82 original projects, and we are down to the final 16. We've got six in construction with the final 10 in a planning, design, kind of early stage days for the last few years. We've done two modifications with the EPA that's extended the deadline. So the new deadline that we're under is to be completed fully by December 31st, 2030. Why did you have to ask for an extension, Mark? Why? I mean, these projects, I guess, they take longer than anticipated more often than not. What kind of led to us needing an extension? Because originally the work was supposed to have been done this year, right? Correct. It was supposed to be 2026. But it was a, like you said, these projects are very costly projects. So. Some has to do with just obtaining the materials, the supply chain a little bit. That's just extended it out because whenever we got into COVID, that really pushed us a few years out to this date. Would a ring like this 20 years ago have scared you guys?

Because of what would happen? Oh, yeah. Yeah, the rain like this was bad news, not only for basement flooding, but I guess also for that stormwater and the sanitary sewer system and the storm sewer system water merging together, right? Correct. Yep, that whenever they started, there was some combined sewer, but now it's kind of, that's part of what we've been doing on removing. And the work that still needs to be done, was this in the original decree? Has there been some problems that maybe new development is uncovered or maybe some new projects that have come along since then? Are we still working on the original dozens of projects that we were assigned to do? Mostly we are working on the original ones. There have been a couple modifications where the projects that were done work better than expected and eliminated the need for some of the original ones. But at the same time, there were other areas of the city. As we uncovered stuff, we found other issues. So we have traded out a couple projects. I think it's only like three or four that have been changed since the original. R&P. Has this work included, I guess, infrastructure improvement? Hasn't? I mean, we've been hearing about that more and more, not only in cities in the United States, but around the world where water infrastructure and some of this has been allowed to deteriorate. We haven't gotten to it. Have we, I guess in a way, this has allowed us to be able to keep up with the infrastructure of our sewer system and our stormwater system. Would that be accurate? That at the same time, we're improving that infrastructure so that we may not have to go down in there later. Yes, these are a lot of system improvements. We've made improvements at both the treatment plants out on the pump stations, out in the system, and in the lines feeding each. How many people have to work on this kind of stuff in any given time? Are these city employees mostly doing the work, or do we contract this work out? Most of it is contracted out to construction companies. Depending upon what's going on at the time, anywhere from three to about 10 people more directly with the city working on it to keep up with all the projects that are going on. Mark, I would think a lot of cities, we can't be the only city that's faced this sort of thing over the last couple of decades, are we? No, many cities have very similar consent decrees. And so, yeah, we are by far not the only one. Yeah, there were 14 just in Kentucky when they started. And Kentucky is not the only state. Almost every state has the same issue. Have you all run into cost escalation over the years? You know, the cost of everything has changed dramatically since this all started. Has that been an issue trying to keep the cost within budget when you're dealing with cost escalation?

Yeah, that was part, you know, that was part of the driver on getting the date push back just because of, like, you know, whenever we got post-COVID and kind of numbers started escalating. We didn't want to just start doing projects just to do them. So that's the reason why we was real cautious on the bid that we were receiving. But currently to date, we are actually under projected estimates. We were initially right now at this stage projected around $492 million, but we're at $409 million. So we're still coming in under what was initially thought. So we're kind of, we're still, you know, still have her head down. You know, jobs not finished. So we still got the. get through the tunnel, but we're kind of in a good spot right now. The cost of this decades of deferred maintenance, about two years after, I guess all this started or this EPA decree was revealed, we citizens and rate payers started paying a sewer fee. Sewer fees increased. They were voted on just two days after Mayor Newberry's televised event. Environmental and energy costs now represent 22% of the city's annual budget. There was some community development block grant funding that was diverted from neighborhood projects to do some of these sewer repairs. And we all started getting a lexer bill, which I imagine we're going to be receiving into perpetuity. Would that be right? I mean, you guys may be the wrong ones to ask about that, but we're going to keep paying for this even after the job's finished, aren't we? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This will continue on. It's kind of just like your water bill and other utilities that you'd receive. Yeah. It'll just be something we all contend with. All are going to have so that's not going to. I don't know. I can't remember if that was pitched at the time as something. Well, well, we need to pay for this project, you know, some insinuation that it would go away. But those things hardly ever go away. Go ahead, Bob. One thing that people have to remember is at one point in time, Kentucky American Water used to bill for the city sewer, and they would do the billing and then pay the city around when the Lexer bill started up. Kentucky American decided they no longer wanted to do the billing for the city. So that's a lot of what it is. People were paying, the rates did go up, but they were paying a bill. It's just that they were paying it with their water bill at the time, and now it's separate. Now it's a separate bill. Let me get back to one other thing. I'll let you guys go about the infrastructure part of all this. Do we still have a lot of cast iron water mains in our system?

That would be a Kentucky-American water. That's an American water. Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. So those guys, those are the guys that would be handling that because that's something else that, well, at least Charlie Martin. You guys know who Charlie is, obviously. And when he was discussing sewer progress back in June of 2022, Kentucky American Water presented a parallel infrastructure crisis saying that our oldest mains date back to the 1880s. You know, cast iron mains caused the most breaks. And it would, you know, if you replaced them all, the entire system in Lexington, it would take something like 377 years. Now, in some Lexington neighborhoods, I guess both the water mains and the sewer lines are being replaced. Just like we were talking about before, some of this has made infrastructure improvement part of the process, which is good. But, you know, we're going to be improving and working on these things underground for a long time. Yeah, you know, and that's something even, you know, not maybe to the degree in speed that we're doing right now, but, you know, infrastructure improvements will continue on past the content decree, you know, because stormlines and sanitary lines and water lines and, you know, everything has a shelf flight and, you know, break, so it, you know, it requires the utility to go in and fix and correct and repair. Any kind of ribbon cutting or anything, guys, when this is over? We're going to do something special in this city? Have a parade? I don't know. Have a block party? More to come on that. Once we get there. Okay. Well, thanks guys for working so hard on this. Mark Bernie Sanders, the interim director of the Division of Water Quality, along with Bob Peterson from the LFUCG. Thanks, gentlemen, for your time today. Thanks, sir. Appreciate it. Getting an update on the EPA consent decree. And as that work continues across the city, and as I mentioned, yeah, they're replacing some of these water mains, especially where both the water mains and sewer lines could be replaced simultaneously. But, you know, the orange cones and the torn up streets, they'll remain. And so were that sewer fee. That came up last week. And I told you, I was always here. Just now it's a separate bill. And it looks like it'll always remain that way. Modis Senior Care has great caregivers out there. They may even have some broke caregivers. I don't know. They're probably mostly women, but these are people that have a great deal of compassion, a great deal of empathy for other people, and they want to help. And especially they want to help someone who might be ailing, who may not be able to do the things that they used to be able to do, but by gosh, they want to stay in their own home. And they should be able to. And so caregivers can involve, they can do work that involves assistance with activities of daily living. Maybe you've lost your ability to drive, so they can drive you to errands or doctor's appointments. Take care of some of the errands, as I mentioned, preparing meals, reminding you about medication, just basic household chores. But you know, the Amada senior caregivers are going to give more because caregivers, good caregivers, also provide emotional support and companionship. And an Amada senior caregiver will try to find an activity that the caregiver and the patient, the person they're caring for, like something to sort of build a bond.

build community with one another while at the same time supporting your efforts to stay in your home individually and safely i mean maybe you you're at a point where you can't even dress yourself or bathe yourself They can handle those sensitive chores. If you're taking care of a loved one and you need help or you realize you need someone to help you to be able to live individually and safely in your own home, call Amata Senior Care. They can provide staffing up to 24-7 and they're a locally owned and operated company. 859-963-1842 is their number and they're online at Amata, AMA-M-A-M-A-M-Lexington.com. According to the Lexington Times, the city has spent over $374 million and completed roughly 75 major infrastructure projects with dozens more active or scheduled. I mean, this was a huge decree regarding our raw sewage overflows into local waterways, like town branch, Wolf Run, that's where some of that water was going. I thought it was interesting too when I asked these guys 20 years ago, a rain like this scared you. Oh, God. No, we hated this kind of stuff. All right, obviously with cyclospora, we're not eating as much lettuce. Well, now scientists have genetically engineered high protein lettuce. The answer still no. I got to admit, I haven't eaten lettuce in a month. Now, I'll still, and I'll tell you what, locally sourced, locally grown lettuce? Wow. You're killing it. You're selling it to farmers markets and whatnot. But salad sales down and lettuce sales down. Scientists have created what might be the only thing that gets you to eat your lettuce. Or maybe there's a meathead out there that just eats meat. Well, now there's protein lettuce. By literally shooting pig genes into the chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco cells, an international team of researchers, were able to grow produce that contained an animal protein known as myoglobin. This reported in the journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Scientists say their findings could pave the way to weaning ourselves off environmentally destructive meat. Our study demonstrates for the first time that, well, I don't know if you're going to get people off beef. I like the taste. People like the taste of beef. I mean, there are cooking shows. There are strategies for cooking beef and creative ways. People like to cook it. They like to eat it. Now, you know, I love lettuce too. And maybe you put protein in lettuce. Maybe that will get more meatheads to eat lettuce. But the idea that, okay, well, we've got this sustainable food production, and there's a demand for this, and we're answering that demand with pig genes with plant DNA injected into this lettuce to give it high protein. But I don't, for a lot of people, that's not going to replace meat. Alex Groff, a plant biotechnology researcher at the Imperial College of London told Science Alert, this is very relevant at a time when the demand for sustainable food production platforms is greater than ever.

In all the lettuce and tobacco plants yielded about 800 milligrams and 810 milligrams of myoglobin protein per kilogram of their dry weight, 10 times less than beef. But there's not as much into raising plants as there is raising animals. So there is that three-day forecast. It's a nasty one. Now the heavy rain is back downtown. Visibility in issue, folks, ponding on roadways, traffic signals being out. Be careful this afternoon on the roadway. Some people have had to pull over because the hail and the heavy rain is just too high. 68 southbound is bumper to bumper from downtown all the way to Brannon Crossing. according to this text messenger severe thunderstorm watch until eight now let's see what else we've got though in terms of warning now and a flood watch in effect until eight a m tomorrow morning but obviously we do have other warnings let me get to the ones that are still active southern woodford county north central garrett county southwestern clark county jessamine county northern madison and southern fayette severe thunderstorm warning until six I don't think anything else new has been issued. Also, a severe thunderstorm warning for parts of Clark County, Bourbon, Madison, and Fayette County until 545. So these showers and thunderstorms will persist at least through the early evening, down to 72 tonight, partly sunny and warm tomorrow with more showers and thunderstorms around high of 92, high around 90 on Thursday with partly sunny skies, warm, humid, continued chance for showers and thunderstorms. And then showers likely upper 80s on Friday. And currently that temperature is dropping. We're down to 73 now at 97.3 FM and 590 a.m. WVLK. Okay. So from the text line, they can have my beef when they pry it from my cold dead hands. Yeah, you can put a bunch of protein and lettuce, but that's still not going to be. And again, yeah, you may have farmers that will raise it and it may be sold as a protein substitute where you don't have to eat beef. It's not going to be a total substitute for beef. I don't think with a lot of people because people like beef. Okay. Our question of the day is it time for the TSA and Homeland Security to lose the rule limiting carry-on liquids to just 3.4 ounces or less? I'm kind of surprised at this right before the show started. I was checking the voting. 52% of you said, no, it's work and keep it. 48% said, yeah, get rid of it. It's just a dog and pony show. It's security theater, as some security expert from Harvard said. The U.S. government keeps that liquid limit to prevent passengers from bringing enough liquid explosive material on board an airplane to cause catastrophic damage. We can go back to 2006 for this, too. A terrorist plot was exposed. British authorities then stopped a terror plot where attackers planned to mix liquid chemicals disguised as drinks inside soda bottles to blow up multiple airplanes flying from London to North America. The initial ban was all liquids, gels, and aerosols from airplane cabins entirely were banned. You'd have to check all of that.

But then after testing security agencies and laboratories determined that the small amounts under 3.4 ounces or 100 milliliters fit into a quart-sized travel bag, or if it fits in any quart-sized bag, I guess, was not enough to successfully blow up an airplane. It just blow up a few rows. Not the whole thing. I guess there's some new 3D scanner technology that's being deployed at some airports that's going to be able to detect threats better. But upgrading hundreds of airports take a long, long time. And then, I mean, there's some airports that think that they're going to upgrade by going private with their airport security. And TSA workers are suing. The union representing 47,000 TSA workers, is suing TSA. The lawsuit is looking to force the release of records regarding the expansion of privatized security screening at airports, a new program known as TSA Gold Plus. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents TSA officers at over 400 U.S. airports, filed the lawsuit August 5th in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming the agency's secretive push of the private public partnership took place without formal disclosure. In fact, they claim they found out about the new program by accident when a flyer was found at Orlando's International Airport in April. TSA did not respond to a request for comment. About 20 airports now already used privatized screening under the screening partnership program. TSA called TSA Gold Plus, the next evolution of the screening partnership program offers airports the opportunity into a partnership with a third-party contractor for a tailored security screening service that's overseen by the federal agency. Well, you know, one reason they're probably doing this is because TSA workers and other homeland security workers, their shifts keep getting disrupted because of funding lapses and government shutdowns. And so these airports are probably going, yeah, could I do public-private? Yeah, the hell with this is all public. Three airports set to implement TSA Gold Plus next year, Charleston International Airport, Tampa International Airport, and Des Moines International Airport. You know, last time this happened, you had 61,000 TSA officers working without pay. So you now have government employees suing the government. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. What is your take? Was it what you expected? Oh, it was the best thing ever. It was something I always wanted to do. If you show me a clear goal, I'm like, okay, I can do that. Master Chief. He's like, you realize there's about 1% chance that you're making a 3%. That's all I need Master Chief. My platoon went home early, and I just went up to my chief, and I was like, I'm not going home. Turns out I'm staying. That's when we go to war. Yeah, I was like, okay, I could get used to this. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. It basically. What are you guys doing here? But you can understand the airports because of getting jerked around so many times. The union said it's not only concerned about the lack of transparency around TSA Gold Plus, but also about having for-profit companies in control of security screens. Well, that's the way it always was, wasn't it? Before 9-11?

The union is also concerned, of course, about this how it affects public safety. Well, and the most important thing they're probably concerned about, which is they're the union representing workers. I guess the number one thing they should be concerned about, the security of their workers. But I don't know that a public-private partnership on security is so lapsed, and I can understand the desire to get away from this, because it gets used as a pawn by politicians in Washington, by these congressional representatives. And now the biggest problem here with a private contract is going to be staffing, and that's the most expensive part. So where is that money going to come from? Also, the TSA is warning you that there are banned items that if you bring them... into your carry-on, and some of these are banned from carry-on and check luggage. You could be looking at over $17,000 in fines. Now, you can go to TSA's website for a complete list of banned items for carry-on and check luggage when an item is flagged, even if it's technically permitted, your suitcase may have to go through additional screening, so... Here's your research. If you're caught trying to bring a prohibited item through, you could face fines of $17,062 in civil penalties per violation. Here's some of the items banned by TSA. Some of these may surprise you. Cordless curling irons. That's banned and check baggage. Bowling balls are banned and carry on. Well, I guess you're going to a bowling tournament, but you're going to have to check that ball, I guess. Fred Flintstone and Barney, you know, trying to get on a plane. I've got a big lodge bowling tournament coming up. You know, that might be kind of fun to roll down the aisle, but I guess we can't do that. Cast iron cookware, banned and carry-ons. I guess I don't want somebody tempted to whack somebody upside the head with an cast-iron skill. It corkscrews with a blade. I can understand that. Band and carry-ons. Electronic cigarettes and vaping devices are banned and checked luggage. Foam toy swords are banned in carry-ons. Gel-type candles, banned and carry-ons. These are the items that are banned that might surprise you. Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones are bad. What's so unusual about a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone? Those are banned in both carry-on and checked luggage. Screwdrivers longer than seven inches. Abandon your carry-on. You know, I was hoping to do a little maintenance on the plane. They took my tool away. Snow globes. If it's got over 3.4 ounces of liquid, you think you're getting on with that? Uh-uh. Oh, but it's so pretty. There's snowfall and I got the Santa and that. Oh, no. Three or three point four ounces of liquid were taken at. And then they throw it into a trash can right next to them. So if they're worried about it being explosive, they must not be that worried because it's not like they're taking special security measures to get rid of the liquid that they just confiscated from you. They throw it into a trash can right next to them. There is an exception to the 3.4 ounce rule. That's basically, well...

Food for babies or toddlers. That's the exception. Formula, breast milk, toddler, or drink, baby or toddler, food are allowed in your carry-on. Because these are considered medically necessary liquids, according to the TSA website. That includes the ice packs needed to keep the liquids cool, even without the presence of breast milk. You're supposed to tell the TSA attendant that you've got this stuff. And then usually you won't have a problem. All right. I think the liquid thing needs to go. But then again, I sometimes wonder if this whole deal is not. You know, it's the appearance that we're taking precautions. But I would imagine that the real security, I hope, is going on somewhere else. That's, you know, kind of like the Israelis do it, quite frankly. Okay. Just one quick observation here about Joe Biden. And I'm going to want to mention this. They came out, his son, Hunter, yesterday said, yeah, it spread to his bone. I think it's a real crime what happened to Joe Biden, that his doctors were not testing for PSA. I can't believe that. Well, you know, Cruiser, once you get to your 70, they stopped testing for PS. Well, I'm going to ask for it. This thing is now metastasized to his bones, and supposedly he's in some pain now. And you probably thought the same thing. Had that debate not gone wonky and crazy and pretty much eliminated Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential election, he would have run. And if he had won, I don't think he could have hidden the pain. I mean, not only were we losing it cognitively, but now we've got bone cancer. And this metastasizing to the bone is a sign of advanced cancer. The required treatments alone, you wouldn't have been able to hide that. Number one thing, he loses his hair. We probably would have been looking at a president of Harris. Had Joe Biden been elected, let's say, let's say that debate didn't go off the rails like it did, and Biden would have stayed in the race. And I know he's behind in the polls. Trump may have beaten him anyway, but let's just say. What do you think the odds are that Joe Biden would have been president today, given what we know now about how his cancer has. And I don't have any doubt that Jill and the rest of this inner sanctum within the Biden administration would have tried to keep his pain, his treatments from the public. I mean, you saw what they went, the lengths they went to to keep his mental decline away from all of us, even away from people on their own staff and fellow Democrats. I mean, so I think they would have tried. To hide the cancer, to hide the treatment to, oh, and everything's all right with Joe, man. We can't keep up with the guy. He's crazy. He's crazy, busy. But this is a whole new deal now, and I pray and hope he's okay. And I, you think the president of the United States would have the most thorough physicals in health care out there. Yeah, we quit testing for his PSA a while ago. Huh? And by the time they spot the prostate cancer, it's kind of late. Where if you catch it early, it's not as aggressive as some other cancers can be.

All right. We didn't hit Bill Meck on the show today because he was on television with all the weather warnings. There were tornado warnings up around Harrison County and whatnot at the time. We'll talk about this with him tomorrow, but there's the first total solar eclipse visible from mainland Europe in 27 years and the first anywhere in the world since 2024 that will block out the sun for up to two minutes. This is tomorrow. I don't know if we'll see this or not. But we can talk about it with Bill Meg. Maybe not. I don't know. Parts of the United States from Alaska to North Carolina will be among the locations in the northern hemisphere where viewers will have a chance to see a portion of the solar eclipse. You know, you're not supposed to use those old glasses? See, I would have used them. You know, back when we had the solar eclipse and people were handing out glasses, you bought solar eclipse glasses. Remember that? Well, I'll save these for the next eclipse. Well, doctors say you should not use the same glasses that you use for the last solar eclipse. The American Astronomical Society advises people to only use solar eclipse glasses that are less than 10 years old and always inspect the solar filter of the eclipse glasses first to make sure they're not damaged. If they're scratched, punctured, torn, or otherwise damaged, get rid of them. I would have never thought. I mean, they're just cardboard. But I guess if they're scratched or if the lenses are compromised, then you're looking up at something that you're not supposed to be looking at. Experts have warned that the only special solar eclipse glasses that are ISO 12312-2-2-certified. I don't know what all that means. For the safest eye protection should be used to view the eclipse. You don't mess around with anything else. On the airplanes, those were the Samsung Galaxy products that melted. So that's why they're banned. Traffic light at Cooper Drive and Sports Center near the UK football stadium stuck on red in all four directions. Yeah, we're just all kinds of traffic problems this afternoon due to the rain, the power outages and everything else. There's a meeting tonight at the Senior Citizen Center. It starts at 6 about homelessness prevention public input meeting. It's at the Lexington Senior Center at 195 Life Lane. The task force mission review the city's emergency shelter capacity street outreach programs and provide the formal next step recommendations to the mayor. So if you're passionate about that issue, it's at the Lexington Senior Center on Life Lane, and it starts here in just a few minutes. The U.S. soccer podcast. I'm your host, Megan Klingeberg. And after interviewing so many dudes during this men's World Cup, I'm so happy to be back with my U.S. women's national team players. I know the U.S. men's national team has changed how I think about myself, how I think about being an American, how I think about being on a team. It's one year out from that World Cup, and we're going to talk about the brightest prospects in U.S. soccer. You ready? I'm ready. Let's do it. The U.S. soccer podcast. Presented by Henko. Follow and listen on your favorite. platform.