good morning, everyone. phil is making jokes before 6:00 a.m. it s friday. we re glad you re with us. five things to know for this friday, september 8th. we want to start with weather breaking overnight. hurricane lee intensify ing int a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 160 miles per hour. that was double what it was 24 hours ago. the big question, is it going to hit the east coast or make a turn and stay in the atlantic. and eight sightings, but an escaped murderer is still on the run. and new overnight, we re hearing from the american trapped 3,000 feet deep in a cave. he says he was very close to the edge suffering from internal bleeding and rescuers saved his life. this morning for if the first time we re expected to see the full report from the special grand jury in georgia. they are investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll see if it has any new information that was not included in the indictments against former president trump and his 18
coworkers were in the path of this and as a meteorologist local affiliate with a lot of heart. and this is something that my chief meteorologist and the whole team here, myself, wednesday of the previous week, the three of us looked at each other and said, this is not good. but there s a distinct difference between a computer model and the parameters looking bad on paper. and then the atmosphere realizing that potential and ending in this. and that is the splut worst feeling for a meteorologist is when the worst we know can happen, and it does. and that s unfortunately what we ve seen. not just in mayfield. i want to make sure everybody who hasn t been following this as closely knows, we ve got many other small towns outside of mayfield that are just as bad. and they have nothing. they ve been totally, totally devastated. for those of you at home, you
that s what putin was very much concerned about. i m not patting putin on the back. there is a strategic move. that s why he s done it in all the rest of the nonsense that you hear about putin is notwithstanding, the principle reason for all this is he was terribly concerned about ukraine turning to the west and his losing his access to that particular port and to that extent, i think the eu has a lot of answer here, trying to lure ukraine and splut it apart and anger futureen? do you think we can put economic sanctions on them that would have an impact? for instance, eliminating them or expeling them for a certain time from the g-8? the ruble has dropped dramatically, they are going to have some financial issues here in a big, big way after spending all that money on the olympics? this is somewhat a gamble by putin as well, isn t it? yes, he thinks any restrictions will be short
about the news and not the sports. very seriously news. the issues of terrorism, security, put in s anti-gay propaganda law. that took up all of the airspace and the headlines really for months leading up to sochi. i ve never seen a games where we have focused less on the sports going into the games. now, i would say that in the last week we have really made that turn to sports. you make the point and i think it s well-taken that then where are the superstars. we don t have any huge names to talk about. splut absolutely. there s no doubt it will affect the way the games are looked at for the future, the way history will look at the games and it did take away the sports impact because there was so much news. right. nbc s ratings have been about the same as the last winter olympics. i m measuring in terms of the water cooler factor and how much people are talking about it here in the states. during the women s downhill skiing event, nbc commentator steve parrino said that they do this
about the news and not the sports. very seriously news. the issues of terrorism, security, put in s anti-gay propaganda law. that took up all of the airspace and the headlines really for months leading up to sochi. i ve never seen a games where we have focused less on the sports going into the games. now, i would say that in the last week we have really made that turn to sports. you make the point and i think it s well-taken that then where are the superstars. we don t have any huge names to talk about. splut absolutely. there s no doubt it will affect the way the games are looked at for the future, the way history will look at the games and it did take away the sports impact because there was so much news. right. nbc s ratings have been about the same as the last winter olympics. i m measuring in terms of the water cooler factor and how much people are talking about it here in the states. during the women s downhill skiing event, nbc commentator steve parrino said that they do this