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a week and a half. The oscars themselves are March second. Whatever that Sunday night is, I think it's the second, So that road will be closed to believe until the fifth.

to Donald Trump, so they are out. First pitch has been thrown, by the way in this year's spring training, The Dodgers are hosting the Cubs today in the first spring training game of twenty twenty five.

of Alaska, both of them not huge surprises. They tend to be much more moderate when it comes to their politics than others, and have said repeatedly that they didn't like some of Trump's choices for his cabinet, and in fact, Cash Battel was one of those that was touted as potentially being unconfirmable. I mean, you figure after Matt Gates

dropped out to the running to be Attorney General. There were still questions about whether Pam Bondi was going to be the ag, about whether Tulsey Gabbett was going to be Director of National Intelligence, about Cash Battel at FBI, about Pete Hegseath at Defense, and RFK Junior at HHS. All of those were questions, and it looks like Republicans fell in line and voted with their president to fill

out the cabinet. So it's almost complete now. We've talked also about the Idaho college killings and the suspect in that case, Brian Coberger. In a major ruling, the judge overseeing the case has denied a request to exclude some key DNA and other evidence from his upcoming trial. They wanted to suppress the DNA evidence that was seen as really the key piece of evidence against him. The judge said the constitutional rights of Brian Coburger were not violated.

The judge said that they failed to demonstrate that the demonstrate that the constitutional rights were violated by this because the cops and the investigators used a controversial new technique known as investigative genetic genealogy, which is strange because it's been around for several years and has been proven multiple times to be a very important tool when it comes

to investigating. They said that this genetic use of the use of genetic genealogy, with that minuscule drop of blood that was found on the Knight sheath, was able to point investigators in Coburger's direction. They have said that they connected it to a family member they haven't told us who that is, and then sort of built backwards the family tree that led them to this guy.

think he punted for UCLA as well. He was at the Huntington Beach City council meeting this week delivered a speech that criticized this design of a plaque that has an acronym at the bottom of it that spells out MAGA. Spells out MAGA. That's not what the words are. But Kluey, get up there, Got up there. Eight year NFL veteran played for the Minnesota Vikings the whole time. He said

that he denounced MAGA. They were profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy values, and said that he was going to engage in peaceful civil disobedience and then starts walking towards the city council with his arms behind his back and then was quickly put on the ground, cuffed and taken away. Four officers led him away from the council chambers. Not clear yet exactly what charges he's going to face as a result of this. The uber with gun app has

launched in Los Angeles. Not exactly what it's called, but if you're interested in riding in a blacked out suv with an armed bodyguard, you are in luck. Protector is an app that's now available on the iOS Mac app Store, offering ride share services kind of like Uber and Lyft, but with a twist. It comes with a personal protector in the form of former military or law enforcement professional who, by the way, are packing heat and To describe the new app in simple terms, one app advisor said, over

the last few months, I've been advising protectors. It's a new app for ordering an on demand security detail, or, as Nikita Beer said, it's simply Uber with guns. As of today, it's only available in LA and New York City. When you book it, you can select the amount of protectors you want inside. You can choose their dress code from business formal like a traditional suit, business casual, a lighter suit no tie, or tactical casual, a polo shirt,

tac pants and shoes. And an operator as well, which would be full on a tire that looks like they are a member of the SWAT team. You can select as many as three vehicles to be included in a motorcade. One passenger requested a single Cadillac Escalade with one protector. If you pick them up, it's about one thousand bucks.

It would offer five hours of protection. The minimum amount of time that can be selected would be five hours, and you could obviously split that up between different people, but the fare does not include a membership which is required, and that runs about one hundred and twenty nine bucks per year. We've had a series of airline and airplane

incidents over the last couple of weeks. I guess you could say it kind of started with the crash in DC, that regional airliner that was coming in that collided with an Army black Hawk helicopter. Sixty Seven people died when both of those aircraft ended up in the Potomac River, and that is being used in conjunction with a series of cuts for FAA staff that the administration has announced.

So wanted to get into some of these incidents that we've seen in the lines and talk about the FAA and how important it is in terms of air travel. Jay Rattliff is iHeartRadio's aviation analyst and joins us and Jay, first of all, thanks for taking time for us today.

coming in a little faster than that. But the thing that stuck out initially was that just before landing, typically what will happen is the aircraft nose well just tip up just a bit. We call it flaring, where the rear landing gears or the main gears will touchdown first and then the front rotates down where the front landing gear is then comes into contact with the runway. A few moments later, this looked like all three landing gears hit.

It's the same time I heard the fighter pilot Matthew Buckley I think his name is, said, this looked like an aircraft landing, you know when you come in high speed and they've got the net to catch a type of thing. Because this was much harder than what we

would normally see. Now, why did it happen, we don't know, but apparently from the video, as soon as the landing gears hit you see that immediate pitch to the right, and it looked like either a tire blue or probably what happened was the landing gear itself collapsed and could

have been ripped off the aircraft. I don't know about that part, but obviously something happened to cause that airplane to dip quickly to the right, which unfortunately allowed the wing to catch on to something that caused it to be ripped off, turn the airplane sideways and then continue down the runway. The other wing tipped up and of course with the crosswind, it came right on over which put that aircraft on its top as it was going

down the runway. So we don't know what caused this hard landing, If it was something weather event that caused the crew to land harder than they should have. If it was a mechanical situation with the aircraft, we don't know. If it was a medical episode, was on the pilots.

I mean, there's a lot that goes into the investigation of the National Transportation Safety Board, and that's the reason the investigation will go eight to twelve months and Gary, they're going to look at everything, but the visual look get things seems to me to center around that Wright's main landing gear and what caused it. What happened, we don't know, but that certainly seemed to be the first event that triggered the other events that led to that

aircraft ending up on its top. And I've been doing these for thirty three years, and I was trying to think the last time I had to talk about an aviation situation here in the United States where we had an aircraft on the top of itself like that, and I couldn't think of anything. It's incredibly rare. And then to see everyone walk away from that is even more of a testament of just a lot of things going right after whatever happened wrong took place.

next segment. But I wanted to ask, isn't the investigative agency, whether it's in Canada for the Toronto crash or the NTSB for anything that happens here, wouldn't they want to get out in front of and give some initial information about something, at least to put people's minds at ease that this isn't a systemic problem.

point forward. One of the reasons we were enjoying the safest there ever of commercial jet travel for nearly sixteen years from February of two, two thousand and nine, up until that DC crash is because the all star team of the National Transportation Safety Board and the job they

do every accident near accident. They have a final report that they give the Federal Aviation Administration saying, here's our recommendations from what we've gleaned from this incident that we can implement to make the travel industry and the future of aviation safer. The problem is that that takes time, and this is a group that is not going to

rush anything. They're really not going to make too many conclusive statements up front because so many things have to be checked and those things take time, and obviously there's a desire to learn more, and of course a lot of members of Congress was pushing the NTSB for them to release information more quickly, and they simply pushed back and said, no, we can't, that's not how we do things. And this is a group that, again they're an all

star team. They do an incredible job. They are the reason that we have seats that are as sturdy as they have right now that are rated up to six TEAMG force on crashes, the fire resistant material inside and aircraft. All of the different things that have made aviation safer over the last forty to fifty years has been a result of each accident or near accident investigation that we've had. So I'm totally okay with the pace of the investigation because I know that they have to check a lot.

They're gonna be looking at the pilots, the training, the aircraft, the maintenance records. They go through a ton of information that takes a considerable amount of time and when they're finished, we'll get that final report. And not before.

of them were released last week. What's your concern You watched this industry for a long time. Do you have concern about what's going on in terms of cuts at the agency?

have it upgraded. Although the word upgrade is an insult to the word upgrade when you understand just how far behind the times we are from a technology standpoint. So the President is indicated he's going to push for even more air traffic controllers, updated technology, bringing in some of

the SpaceX team texts to try to assist. And I like everything that I'm saying because I've been so frustrated over the years, decades really and seeing the FAA tend to get what money falls off the table versus a concentrated effort on putting in the resources that we need. We're short of air traffic controllers, so why do we give them anything but the best in technology to make their job easier when they are in fact working over time and doing the job of one, two or three people.

We need to upgrade the technology to make it easier for them. And I don't know where the promises are going to go, but we're pointing in the direction. That has me incredibly excited for the first time in a long time, because I'm frustrated that members of Congress and others, the elected officials we've had over the last five, ten, fifteen years, have done nothing to seriously upgrade the FAA's technology, and for them to point at President Trump suggesting that

anything that has been ongoing is his fault. After three and a half to four weeks. I find laughable because those are the individuals that had an opportunity over an extended period of time to do something and chose not to.

The problem is a lot of the computer support systems of technology that air traffic control uses for the air traffic control system network is nowhere near state of the art. We've been talking about for decades how we tracked airplanes in this country using ground based radar. You can track a drug dealer on the corner of Fifth and Maine using his cell phone and satellites, but we're tracking aircraft across the country and we did this for decades using

ground based radar. You know, when the Malaysian Airline flight went missing all those years ago, the world was shocked that there were parts of the world that we couldn't track these airplanes. Well, we weren't using satellite based systems. We were using line of sight, ground based radar to track aircraft. And given the curvature of the Earth, there were times that airplanes were flying outside of our ability

to track them. That should never be the case, and we need to do everything that we can because to me, the aviation industry is an integral part to our nation's economy. We know that in the next ten to fifteen years the industry is going to double. We know that we do not have the technology and infrastructure now to meet today's demands,

to say nothing of what's coming. So simply from an economic standpoint, we need to invest everything that we can in aviation right now so that we can take advantage of what's coming from an economic standpoint, and again I'm pleased that we seem to be headed in that direction.

was great to see. Now we have had three crashes where we've had the Alaska crash where ten lives were claimed. We don't know what happened there. We had the situation in DC where we had the helicopter crash to the regional jet, and then we have this situation with this third crash and fortunately no loss of life. But when you have that much happening in a short period of time, now people start paying attention to the general aviation crashes,

and those happen sadly every week. We will tend to lose about ten people a week from general aviation accidents, as much as maybe four hundred and fifty to five hundred and fifty people a year that die in in the general aviation accidents. So when you have this focus where people all of a sudden are paying attention, they start noticing a lot of these general aviation accidents and they're thinking, oh my gosh, you know, what's happened to

the aviation safety. Should I be concerned about flying? And my response to that is absolutely not. We still have the safest air traffic control network as far as from a safety standpoint, pilots, technology, mechanics, everything across the board

than any of the place in the world. So I don't hesitate one bit to go to the airport and jump on an airplane knowing that these three different accidents probably had much different causes, and as a result, we'll find out what happened and we will honor the lives of those that were lost by making the necessary changes so that we can, as much as humanly possible, prevent those types of situations from happening.

which is now a desert of course. The paleontologist and the lead author of this from Mansoura University and the American University in Cairo, said they meticulously excavated layers of rock dating a back of around thirty million years, and they say, just as they were about to wrap it up for the day, a team member spotted something remarkable, a very large set of teeth sticking out of the ground.

His excited shout brought the team together marked the beginning of an extraordinary discovery, a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, A dream for any vertebrate paleontologist, if

you say so. The skull was unearthed during their team's expedition to the Faiyu Depression, which is in the Egyptian desert to the west of the Nile River, fame for its fossils for its ancient Egyptian artifacts and digs there have revealed a window of about fifteen million years, they say, of evolutionary history of mammals in Africa, Bastetadon Bastetidon, belonging to an ancient group of carnivorous and mammals known as

I'm not even gonna try it. The predators had hyena like teeth, and they said they evolved but long before the modern day carnivores like cats and dogs, and they hunted in the African ecosystems after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

fuel even existed within the Earth's crust. In now, what they're saying are pretty large amounts they natural or geologic hydrogen, and they've talked about how it forms, about where it might be located, and the main problems has been working out where to find volumes of it that are large enough that would be useful considering how much energy we

use every single day around the Earth. So to find answers, they put together some computer models to simulate the movement of the tectonic plates and then pinpoint areas where the right conditions would exist for generating again white hydrogen geologic hydrogen, and they found that mountain ranges like the Pyrenees and

the European Alps are potential hotspots. The hydrogen, of course, is produced when water produces only water, I should say when burned, has long been eyed as a safe green fuel, especially for aviation for steel making, but a lot of commercial hydrogen is aid using fossil fuels, so it completely cancels out whatever sort of climate saving power you have, which is why when the Earth makes it itself, that's going to be a much more tantalizing prospect.

been found in France. The problem is it's not a lot, and they're hoping that they're going to be able to find a place that has a lot of this white hydrogen and then somehow get it out and use it to power all of our vehicles and phones and AI computers and things like that, and then finally sign at the University of Bristol have used a powerful supercomputer to create a picture of Earth's distant future and to predict

when we're all going to die. And I think they're getting it wrong because it doesn't say anything about the asteroid. In twenty twenty thirty two, they said temperatures would predicted will be exceeding one hundred and four degrees in some areas, some reaching over one hundred and twenty two. Combine that with dense humidity, it will push conditions beyond the limits for most mammals, including the mammals that look a lot like you and I.