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I'm Jenna Fisher and I'm Angela Kinsey and we have the podcast Office Ladies. Every Wednesday we'll be sharing even more exclusive stories and lots of laughs. Follow and listen to Office Ladies on the free Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcasts. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNS, Wichita's number one talk. Good morning. It is 8 o'clock here on this Wednesday, August 12th, here at KNSS. We'll be telling you about a look at last week's long county commission meeting. I'm Rodney Price. Wichita Police will apply for a federal grant designed to keep local schools safer. We'll look at the details and concerns from residents just ahead. Currently in Wichita, we do have a sunny sky to 79 degrees on this Wednesday here at KNSS. Winfield Police Department confirming that an entire family is dead. The gunman was the dad who ended up shooting his wife and four young children, all six dead after that shooting in Winfield yesterday. Just before 9 a.m., officers responded to a home near 9th Avenue and Stewart Street after receiving a call from a man who said he had killed his entire family and was going to kill himself. Officers arrived, heard a single gunshot, and immediately set up a perimeter. After nearly two hours, officers breached the front door and found six people deceased inside the home. The suspect, 53-year-old Ronald Williams Sr., was dead along with 44-year-old Kelly George. The four other victims were children, ages ranging from three to nine. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Winfield Police Department are investigating the shooting. Phil Hildebrand, KNSSS News. The Wichita City Council narrowly approved a motion. allowing the police department to apply for grant funding designed to help Wichita Police and schools feel safe. The $500,000 grant available through the Department of Justice's School Violence Prevention Program, would allow the department to purchase and implement school safety and public notification technology. The data would be sent to the WPD Real-Time Information Center and sent to a county emergency communications. Some residents voice concerns about extra surveillance in schools and transparency about the plan. Councilmember Becky Tuttle says the city has an entire webpage regarding transparency concerns residents have. So I feel that we are taking extraordinary steps to make sure that we are being transparent to the community in really robust measures. And if people have suggestions and how they want us to be even more transparent, you know, willing to entertain that. Wichita Police confirmed no cameras would be installed. Rodney Price, KNS News. Sedgwick County Commission Chairman Jeff Blubaw, looking back at last week's 12-hour commission meeting. The topic of that was Solar Project. The first hearing we had like 72 or 73 speakers, and the next one we had 35. And we gave each speaker three minutes. The majority of the speakers from the area...

They have subpoena power. They can have an independent investigation, and then they can prosecute as well. All Congress can do is expose the truth or try to expose the truth, which is hard to do when a guy takes the fifth 111 times. Senator Marshall appearing on Fox and Friends. We'll be taking a look at a new way to get your beautiful flowers in Hawaii. And maybe it's more convenient. And the guy going fast in that hydrocar. We'll have those details. And, of course, our weather forecast is on the way. The Storm Team 12. And we are 10 minutes out from our daily visit with Mitch Holtus from Kansas City Chiefs Training Camp. That's all coming up. KNSS News time is 807. 8.10 here on KNSS on this Wednesday morning. Well, if you're visiting Hawaii, how about a nice way to get fresh flower lays during your visit? The orchid lay company has been around for more than two decades, but the lay machines are a recent development over the last two years as a way to expand the options for where and how to get lay. The lay machines are a novelty for visitors and hotel guests too. The lay machines are open 24-7, and in the temperature-controlled environment, the fresh flower lay can last up to six days, with a team regularly monitoring the quality and checking the machines every other day. Keepsakes and Soak Forever Lay can also be found next to the traditional lay. Jocelyn Rose, KH12 News. A special record was made yesterday for a hydrogen-powered car. British driver Andy Green pushed his vehicle to more than 406 miles an hour along Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, more than two times the previous record, the fastest ever for this kind of vehicle, which contains two hydrogen combustion engines putting out 1,600 horsepower. The engines are somewhat similar to what you have in your car, but instead of running on gas, it's hydrogen that combusts in the pistons, and unlike gas, hydrogen is not... a fossil fuel. So the only thing coming out of the tailpipe is steam and oxygen, harmless to the environment. Roger Stern Fox News. 8-11 here on this Wednesday, 98, 7 and 1330, KNSSS. Traffic here in the Wichita area right now, still pretty heavy, and we've actually got something going on on Kellogg right now. You'll want to watch out for this. It is eastbound on Kellogg, starting at about Meridian, about halfway between Meridian and Seneca. We've got some sort of issue in traffic, and now a backup is starting to go back all the way past Meridian and getting close to West Street right now. So we're starting to see something forming there. Traffic Update from 987 and 1330 KNSS in the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers. And let's take a look at our weather forecast. Storm Team 12 meteorologist Jake Dunn. Good morning, Jake.

Good morning. The extreme heat continues for a few more days, becoming sunny, breezy, and very hot today. High 107 southwest winds, 15 to 25, and gusty, clear, and 80. Today, mostly sunny and 106 on Thursday. May see a storm Thursday evening, especially northwest of Wichita. Otherwise, it's back over to sunshine, wind, and heat on Friday, high temp 105. That's your forecast from Storm Team 12. I'm meteorologist Jake Dunn. Currently in Wichita. We do have a breeze out of the south. Sunny sky, it is 81 degrees here at Wichita's severe weather station, 987 and 1330, KNSS. A few hours ago, I was listening to the police scanner, and there was a report of a house fire, and they said, you know, 9,800 block of West Savannah. Right. And I was like, well, I've heard that address. That's where that, that's where those man and the woman died in that house fire that. that burned down their house and the house next door. I was like, it's that same address. And I was like, that can't be. But then I was listening to the scanner and they said, yeah, one of those houses is on fire again. So some ember was down there and started flaring up again at five in the morning today. So they had to send fire crews out there again. Wow. So they didn't do a good enough job putting it out the first time. I thought they did. That thing was two days ago. Yeah, that's what I thought. It must have been a tiny little ember and some wind got to it and ignited, and it started burning again this morning at 5 a.m. That's all out by a Pawnee and Mays Road in that neighborhood. It was so sad. Those two people perished in that fire, and they're still messing around with it out there. Yich. I have a better fire story, though. Okay. A better happy ending. A pet goose in Texas is getting credit for saving a family's life after it alerted them to a barn fire. The family was asleep when Goosey started honking really loudly as the flames tore through their barn. Luckily, the goose was loud enough, obviously, and the family woke up, grabbed a water hose, put out the fire, all the animals in the barn escaped unharmed. And they claim that's actual audio of Goosey. Of Goosey. Hey. Somebody worked hard to get that audio for us. There's your wing man. So there's your hero for the week. Goosey. Goosey. The pet goose in Texas alerting the family. There's a fire. Hey, you know. If you don't have a reliable dog, you just get your handy goose. That would be good. Hey, it is 815 here with Woodward and Whit. Don't forget, sports is brought to you by SertaPro Painters. Schedule your free estimate online at surtapro.com. And don't forget that sports is brought to you by Wichita Brewing Company, now featuring trivia tonight and every Wednesday at WEC West at 7 p.m. Speaking of reliable. Don't go ahead. I was going to say speaking of reliable goose. You get prizes for first, second, and third place at WBC West for trivia tonight at 7. WBC, pizza and beer made here. Now it is time to check in with our daily training camp report from the Kansas City Chiefs with the play-by-play voice of the chiefs. Mitch Holtus, brought to you today by Heartland Credit Union. Good morning, Mitch.

Good morning, Theodore, and good morning, Johannes. Morning, goose. Hey, Maverick. There he got it. I'm Cougar. I'm Cougar. I'm trying to land the plane. I can't land the plane. All right, Iceman. Yeah, Kazansky. That's me, Iceman. I still wanted to look like that in Valcomer's early career. Okay, boys, I speak of Andover, but I've got to give a shout out to the folks in Andover yesterday. We had 700 people. And Ted, you're going to like this. We had such a great school district, as you know, but awesome to be. There's such energy and a chance to present in front of... The teachers, administration, staff is great. But their elementary schools are all most, well, for the six. One is Meadowlark Elementary School. One is Sunflower. One is Wheatland. One is Cottonwood. How cool is that? It's all about, I said, your next elementary school, you need to name Ornate Box Turtle. Yeah. To the state reptile. How cool it would it be to go to? Hey, where's your kid go to school? Ornate Box Turtle Elementary. Elementary school or OBT to you. So I just think, hey, come on, come on, Andover. If you're going to have a next elementary school, it's got to be Ornate Box Turtle. That is great. And yet a shout out you said for sure to the folks at Heartland, Heartland Credit Union. You always want to play at home if you can. When you go to hc u.coop, you can play at home and getting a home. How about that? Let's get a home game. On the hottest week of the year, how are things going at training camp? Well, you know, there's a few organisms left surviving in this feat. But it has been, we've got a storm here this morning that's supposed to pass through and I think we'll be fine and on the field. But it's also the heat and humidity. But that's the way coach likes it. He'll take it all. He loves to train in this. Even if it's raining, he likes it. He just wants it to assimilate as much real life as possible. And even though we have the Rams game and we'll pivot a little bit tomorrow, mainly Friday and getting ready for that, Wednesday is... Not that way at all. They've done a ton of work this year on third down. Third and short, third and long, short yardage, third, third, third, third, third, third. And there was really a weakness on both sides of the ball last year. So hence, the extra work on a critical down here in situations. They're going to continue that today, and they'll still be in pads today. But getting a little break this morning with a storm, if it passes through, it should be okay weather-wise.

But, you know, this week, you guys, I'm featuring players on this team that need to jump up another level. If the chiefs are going to get back to winning the division, be a Super Bowl contender. On Monday, I talked about George Karloff. It's got to jump up, be more consistent like he is in the playoffs. Xavier Worthy's got to be more consistent as a receiver, not just on deep passes, catch, the tough catch. Today, it's Noah Gray. Noah Gray is not Travis Kelsey. No one is. But Noah Gray, if he can jump up and just be more consistent in his production and be a tight window catcher, third down catcher, red zone catcher, I ask him about it. He literally has worked very hard on his game in those regards. How much have you worked on precision in routes, tight window catches, red zone effectiveness? Yeah, you've got to work on it every single offseason, every single day. It's something that you can't slack off on just because, you know, there's going to be different situations that present themselves on the field. So like I was saying before about my teammates, just... Allowing me to up my level, it's just like when you see your teammates working as hard as they do at their craft, the different little nuances of the game, of red zone catches, of tight window catches, makes you want to work even harder. So it's really just a credit to those guys. It's a credit to Pat making the throws and all the other quarterbacks making the throws and the guys up front making the blocks. You know, you can't make any plays unless those guys are working for you. So just continue to do my part, working as hard as I can just to be the best teammate that I can to the other guys is all that I really want to be. fellas, I've been around Noah Gray, a good deal this spring and summer. He has worked harder than his upper body looks different. And keep in mind, there's no fullback on this team. There's no sausage Anthony Sherman. Noah's actually also the fullback. He's like the Hback of this team. There's a lot on Noah's plate. He just has to be more consistently productive, especially in those areas we discussed. Is that an NFL thing kind of getting away from the fullback? Yep, sure is. They're going the way of the dinosaur. They'll be in the museum soon. They just, they want somebody in that role that can do, well, the perfect example is Noah Gray. If they're going to have an H-back fullback type, they also want them to be an inline tight-in, slot tight-in. There'll be special teams guy. I didn't mention that about Noah. He's a four-core special teams guy, too. I said there's a lot on his plate. Man, he's just got a lot of responsibility. But he can handle it. And again, he's tried to prepare his body better to physically take all that, but then just be more effective. in that role. If you look back at our Super Bowl teams, you know, good old Beldozer, or Bishop Carroll Eagle, who was just, he did part of that, Noah did part of that, and then Kelsey was Kelsey. Now Noah's asked to do Noah and Beldozer's work. Again, Noah Gray is a key piece to this team. Hey, Mitch, I meant to ask you yesterday, I didn't get a chance. Things got a little chippy on defense. There was a, you know, I wouldn't say,

fighting, but there was a little bit of heat. Some players got into it a little bit. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, and it's kind of been that way, John, for almost close to a week. Now, Coach, you don't want it to get out of hand, and somebody gets hurt in it. But it's also the irritation of pushing and pushing. And coach is part of the training that he hates fights, but he kind of like, okay, boys were mixing it up. But he's, again, challenging this team. And that's just a byproduct of having all these days and pads, the heat and humidity, keep pushing. There's no end in sight. And so they're just frustration sets in. Now, the other thing I would say is Spags hasn't played fair. With Trey Smith out with the hip injury, we've moved Cleo Guy Benson inside the right guard. And there's a blitz period. I mentioned all this third down work. Every day we work on blitz period. Different types of blitzes, different situations. But Spaggs hasn't played fair. He's being in like organic chem and first day of Cam 1. And the offensive line's getting a little ticked off. So anyway, it's part of the process, I should say. But nothing that's like going to tear up this team. Yeah, it's not like when Andover and Andover Central get chippy with each other. Now we're talking. I had them all in the same room. How about that? That's right. I'm standing on this stage in front of 700 people, and I got the future Ornate Box Turtle Elementary School staff to my right. But I got Andover Central to my left, and I got Andover to my right. And I'm like, oh, boy, dogs and cats living together. What a rivalry. But I did bring up the fact that I did call the Andover High State Championship over Mar Hill all the way back in 1984. I called that game. But then I gave the AC folks credit. When they beat Meage in 2024, you guys, it was the first time Meage had lost to a public four-A school in 16 years. Wow. There's like 6,000 days, and the Jaguars pulled that one off. And, of course, being a Smith Center. Big Red alum, I applauded it because Smith Center has the same amount of state titles as Measian football. It's like, good job, A.C., way to do it for Smith Center. They didn't even know they were getting that. But I had them all on the same room, and yes, I was a little nervous trying to play it right down the middle. Oh, yeah. Anytime Mar Hill goes down, it's a good day in South Central Kansas. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, no, it's a great school district. And there's a lot really cool things going on there. If you see Ornate Box Turnal Elementary School someday pop up, you know where it started. Oh, good stuff. Hey, thanks for being on the show again today. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning from Training Camp, Mitch. I'm going another one. It's another day tomorrow when we're going to, somebody's got to jump up here big on the defensive side tomorrow. All right. We'll find out who that is tomorrow. Once again, our daily visits with Mitch here at Training Camp brought to you today by Heartland Credit Union. It is 824 here with Woodward and Whit, traffic and weather next.

Thinking about those who have gone before us. Pretty good Sean Hannity Morning Minute coming up here on KNSF. This is Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSS. Good morning. It is 833. Ted Woodward and John Whitmire with you here on this Wednesday, August 12th. Currently in Wichita, we have sunny sky. It is 81 degrees. President Trump took extraordinary measures to avoid a potential threat from Iran last month. There's been no denial from White House officials of a Washington Post report detailing a secret flight President Trump took out of Turkey last month amid serious concerns of an assassination plot by Iran. Despite boarding the traditional Air Force One in Ankara following a NATO summit, the newspaper reports the president was covertly moved to a smaller aircraft concealed by a catering truck on the runway. Reporters traveling with the president were not informed and some White House staff also remained. to board Air Force One. President Trump did fly the newer Katari-gifted Air Force One Tuesday for the Patriot Games in Ohio. At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. In all likelihood, Cedric County Commissioners will not be repeating last week's nearly 12-hour marathon session. The highlight of today's meeting will likely include a vote on extending mutual aid to several Cedric County communities. including Valley Center, Mount Hope, Cheney, and Clearwater. These cities are asking that aid be extended to September 23rd so they can finalize their budgets. The Hutchinson Cosmosphere hosted a private event yesterday for some out-of-this-world guests. Reed Wiseman and Christina Koch. Astronauts from the historic Artemis II mission back in April were in attendance after being invited to the museum by U.S. Senator Jerry Moran, who originally invited the astronauts to the cosmosphere while they were still in space. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman was also there yesterday. Commander Wiseman stated... at the event that the Cosmosphere is the greatest space museum on planet Earth. A Wichita woman made her first appearance in court yesterday after a two-year-old was found unresponsive in a South Wichita home. 26-year-old Brandy Glover is charged with three counts of aggravated endangerment of a child. Shortly before 3 a.m. on Friday, officers responded to a home near South Broadway Avenue and East 47th Street to help emergency medical services with a report of an unresponsive child. The two-year-old was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The report led to the discovery of evidence consistent with distribution of dangerous drugs, according to police. The Wichita Police Department's bomb squad responded to the scene. Two other children inside the home.

home were placed into police protective custody. Glover is being held on a $300,000 bond. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 24th. Phil Hildebrand, KNSSS News. The Perseid Meteor Shower is back and the U.S. may have a pretty good view. Peak viewing for this summer's Perseid meteor shower will be tonight into Thursday morning with promising viewing conditions for the northern hemisphere. NASA says as many as 50 to 100 meteors per hour may be visible under ideal conditions, while the American Meteor Society says about 30 to 50 meteors per hour can be seen from rural areas. The Perseids are debris from a comet that orbits the sun every 133 years and is not scheduled to return until 2125. Star watchers on planet Earth have been taking in this meteor. year shower for more than 2,000 years. This year's event coincides with some other big celestial happenings, a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland, and a six-planet parade. Tanya J. Powers, Fox News. It's 850 with Ted Woodward and John Whitmire on 987 and 1330 KNSSS. Our Wichita Business Journal updates on the way. Now it's time for three big things. Three. New details reveal an extraordinary security operation involving a military jet, a catering truck, decoy, and warnings of a possible missile threat against President Trump. Two. Twenty-six-year-old Brandy Glover faces a child endangerment charge after a... Two-year-old was found unresponsive earlier this week in Wichita. Three years after the controversial police raid on the Marion County record, a former reporter has finalized an $850,000 lawsuit settlement. That's three big things with Woodward and Witt on 987 and 1330 KNSSS. Let's get a final traffic update from Chad Chambers. Westbound on K-96, we have a stalled-out vehicle. This is around 13th Street. Now, that's westbound on K-96, but that's actually going... North right there in that little corner. Again, that's westbound K-96 at 13th. Expect a bit of a slowdown there. Traffic update from 987 and 1330KNS. In the Accident Recovery Team Traffic Center. I'm Jed Chambers. We do have an extreme heat warning today. Sunny, breezy, very hot with a high of 107 tonight, clear and warm, low of 80 degrees. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, breezy, and very hot again with the high of 106 degrees. Right now in which thoughts clear in 82 degrees. at Wichita's Severe Weather Station, 987 and 1330, KNSS. Coming up after our show, you get two hours of the Glenn Beck program from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. every weekday. Glenn is on vacation right now. Pat Gray and Jeff Fisher are handling the duties on the Glenn Beck program next on KNSS. Stock market is open for the day. Hey, everything is up.

including the NASDAQ, which is up more... Sometimes it feels like the news is full of things that have never happened before. And that is not exactly true. In fact, it may have happened this very week, hundreds or thousands of years ago. I'm Sally Helm, host of the podcast History This Week from the History Channel. Trade embargoes, Thomas Jefferson tried them. Rent too high? We've been arguing about that for a while. Each episode is proof. The past isn't that far away. Listen to History This Week, available now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. More than a half percent already on the day. It is 852 here at KNSS. Now it is time for a local business update. It's time to visit again with Kirk Semenoff, the editor at the Wichita Business Journal. Good morning, Kirk. Good morning, Ted. Construction is set to begin on Prevecho, a $6.2 million redevelopment of the historic Nomar Theater and a neighboring building in Wichita's North End. The project, led by nonprofit Empower, will create a food hall, retail space, and business incubator designed to help Latino entrepreneurs launch and grow businesses. The restored theater will become a community events venue for concerts, movies, and other gatherings while preserving the building's historic character. expects construction to take about a year and is still raising roughly 900,000 to complete the broader $14 million North End revitalization effort. River City Painting has promoted longtime paint industry executive Britain Houser to CEO and co-owner as the Wichita Company pursues expansion across the Midwest. Houser joined the company in 2023 as C-O after a 21-year career with Sherwin Williams, where he rose from a part-time employee to a district sales. manager. Founder Tony Lynch, who started River City painting in 2005, will transition to president and chairman of the board. Hauser says the company plans to build on its presence in Wichita, Kansas City, and Tulsa by expanding into markets that include Oklahoma City, Dallas, Omaha, and Denver. The company employs more than 100 people. And Exploration Place has landed a national grant to bring a free concert series to the Wichita Foundation Amphitheater this fall. The museum earned a three-year grant from the Levitt Foundation after Wichita finished in the top 10 vote-getters out of 108 communities competing for the funding. Eight free concerts will be... On Reddit, true crime doesn't come from journalists. It comes from the victims, the witnesses, and sometimes the suspects themselves. Every Tuesday on Crimes of Reddit, we read these posts out loud. I'm Sabrina DeAnna Roga. And I'm Alexis Linkletter. One of us brings the story, the other goes in blind, reacting in real time just like you. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen to and follow Crimes of Reddit, available now wherever you get your podcasts. It held on Thursday nights from September 3rd through October 29th, featuring artists spanning blues, folk, rock, country, soul, and indigenous roots music. Local breaking business news every day on KNSS and at Wichita Business Journal.com. For the Wichita Business Journal, I'm Kirk Semenoff. Kirk, big happy birthday today to a true Wichita legend. Lynette Woodard celebrating a birthday today, basketball star, and what a Wichita treasure to have around.

She is the best. And we did a special section on her back when I was at the Eagle in 2004 when she was inducted in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. And one of my favorite photos of Lynette is spinning a ball on her finger in front of Allen Fieldhouse. Just an awesome photo. Oh, yeah. I know what picture you mean. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Wonderful lady. Yeah. And she's pretty cool. It seems like she just, you know, you're around her and everything is going well. Yes, that's for sure, always on the upbeat. Yep, helping her high school, Wichita North, to two state titles when she was a player. And then legendary at KU, too. Happy birthday to basketball legend Lynette Woodard, the Wichita native today. Well, Kirk, stay cool there. Keep that air conditioning revved up as you keep the pedals moving. I know you have to do that, didn't you? I heard 106 today. Yeah, that's the way it's going. Thank you, Kirk. That is editor Kirk Semenoff from the Wichita Business Journal. That does it for the show today. Thank you, John. Thank you, Ted. Thank you, Jad. Thank you for listening. And stay cool today. Woodward and Witt, 98, 7 and 1330, KNS, NSS, Wichita. Hey, it's the sports junkies. If anybody knows about die-hard sports fans, it's us. We get to live and breathe the excitement of the season all year long. For advertisers, that passion matters. It's exactly why sports radio performs for brands. People who listen to sports on the radio via streaming or on sports podcasts are nearly three times more likely to consider a brand that supports their favorite team. If you're interested in reaching sports fans, we have the playbook for you. Check out our comprehensive e-book, state of audio, sports fandom. Check out state... of audio.com.