Climate Depot’s Marc Morano, WMAL’s Redskins analyst Trevor Matich, Montgomery County Councilmember George Leventhal, South Carolina reporter Jay Shadix and Bret Baier joined WMAL on Friday!

Mornings on the Mall

Friday, October 7, 2016

Hosts: Brian Wilson and Larry O’Connor

Executive Producer: Heather Hunter

 

5am – A/B/C Hurricane Hype?

• A Fox News host issued terrifying proclamations about Hurricane Matthew: ‘You and everyone you know are dead’ / Fox News anchor Shep Smith issued some terrifying proclamations urging people to evacuate before Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in Florida on Friday. “This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead — all of you — because you can’t survive it. It’s not possible unless you’re very, very lucky,” he said on his show Thursday afternoon. “And your kids die, too.” Smith also spoke to a Floridian woman who didn’t want to leave her home. “I’ll ask her why she’s staying, and if she expects us to cover her funeral,” he said before the segment. While these statements are chilling hyperbole, meteorologists are predicting Matthew could be one of the biggest hurricanes to hit Florida in decades.
• Weather Channel Issues Severe Hurricane Warning, ‘This Is Not Hyperbole.’ Thursday The Weather Channel aired a strongly-worded warning urging the public to take it seriously and evacuate if they live in the areas under evacuation orders for Hurricane Matthew. Meteorologist and hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross said, ‘I’m senior hurricane specialist, Bryan Norcross, and I want to talk to my friends in Florida. Today on behalf of The Weather Channel, I have a special message about the threat from Hurricane Matthew. This is like no storm in the record books. We are concerned about reports of people deciding to stay in areas under mandatory evacuation orders. This is a mistake. This is not hype. This is not hyperbole, and I am not kidding.” “I cannot overstate the danger of this storm. Central and North Florida have never been hit by a hurricane this strong,” he continued. “If you live in a Florida evacuation zone, you need to head for a safe spot now. Do not assume you can survive if you choose to stay. There will be overwhelming damage, and likely a heartbreaking loss of life. Based on everything we know, Matthew will make history. The Weather Channel does not want you to be part of that history.”

5am – D         Hillary and The Hurricane:

• Hillary blames Hurricane on climate change; says Trump ‘totally unfit’ to protect USA from ‘the threat of climate change.’ (Climate Depot/Marc Morano) —  TAMPA, FL — Speaking to supporters in Tampa, Hillary Clinton says climate change is “wreaking havoc on communities across America.” Clinton warns that Hurricane Hermine “is not the last one that’s going to hit Florida given what’s happening in the climate.” She says, “When it comes to protecting our country against natural disasters and the threat of climate change, once again, Donald Trump is totally unfit and unqualified”.
• Clinton delays Weather Channel ads until after Hurricane Matthew passes. Washington (CNN) The Hillary Clinton campaign requested Thursday that The Weather Channel delay airing its campaign ads until Hurricane Matthew passes. “Earlier in the week, we made changes to our TV ad reservations across hundreds of stations in several battleground states including Florida,” said Jesse Ferguson, a Clinton spokesman. “Less than 1% of those changes included The Weather Channel. We have requested that stations in Florida delay any of those ads on the Weather Channel until after the storm passes.” Clinton’s decision to air ads on The Weather Channel as attention shifted from the 2016 campaign to the approaching hurricane sparked some criticism from Republicans, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
• Florida Gov. Scott says no to Clinton request for more days to register to vote due to storm. Florida rejected a request Thursday from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chief to extend the state’s voter-registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew. “I’m not going to extend it,” Gov. Rick Scott told reporters in Tallahassee. “Everybody has had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote: early voting, absentee voting, Election Day. So I don’t intend to make any changes.” Clinton’s team had asked for more days earlier, after Democratic-leaning political groups said they had to cancel planned registration drives in the last frenzied days ahead of the deadline because of the storm. Tuesday is the last day for new voters to sign up ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election.

5am – E         Critter News:

• Can fish have regional accents? These cod do, scientists say. (USA Today) — You say potato and I say potahto. You say tomato and I say tomahto — potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto — and so do cod, kind of, according to British scientists who launched a study Wednesday into the regional accents of the cold-water fish species. “Recordings of American cod are very different to those from their European cousins, so there is a precedent,” said Steve Simpson, a professor of marine biology at the University of Exeter, who is leading the research. “This species is highly vocal with traditional breeding grounds established over hundreds or even thousands of years, so the potential for regionalism is there.” Simpson, who specializes in bioacoustics — sounds produced by living organisms — said previous underwater recordings of cod have shown they make different sounds in different regional spawning grounds just like birds, bears and other animals. “They have have quite a diverse range,” he said. Cod found in U.S. waters display a deep thumping sound while those taped in Norway have a higher-pitched sound, with a long growl.
• Animals from hurricane-vulnerable shelter up for adoption in DC. Several dogs and kittens are up for adoption in D.C. after they were evacuated from a South Carolina animal shelter at risk of being pummeled by Hurricane Matthew. WASHINGTON — Several dogs and kittens are up for adoption in D.C. after they were evacuated from a South Carolina animal shelter at risk of being pummeled by Hurricane Matthew. Eight dogs and about 10 kittens arrived at the Washington Humane Society-Washington Animal Rescue League Wednesday evening from a shelter in a Beaufort County, South Carolina — an area being evacuated as Hurricane Matthew barrels toward the southeast.
• NOAA finds cows, rice farms driving methane rise, not fossil fuels. (The Washington Times) — The Environmental Protection Agency may have overlooked the real culprits in its recent crackdown on methane emissions from fossil fuels: rice farmers and cows. A newly released study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration attributed the increase in global atmospheric methane since 2007 to microbial sources, including rice paddies, livestock, decaying vegetation in wetlands, even termites, not fossil fuels. That finding comes even though scientists also concluded that methane emissions from oil, coal and natural gas are 20 to 60 percent higher than previously estimated.

6am – A/B/C What Are You Kids Asking About The Election? / Calls

• Bombshell: Hillary Caught Using Child Actor at Staged Town Hall. Girl who asked question on ‘body image’ is daughter of democratic State Senator. Hillary Clinton has been caught in yet another staged fake town hall style question and answer exchange, this time with a child actor who was planted to ask Hillary a question about ‘body image’ and the way Donald Trump talks about women, which was repeated ad nauseum on mainstream media broadcasts. The town hall event took place in Haverford, Pennsylvania Wednesday, with Clinton taking questions from people ‘chosen at random’. When a 15-year-old girl popped up to ask Clinton about Trump’s past comments on women, it all seemed a little too scripted. Sure enough, when YouTuber  Spanglevision did some further investigating, it was revealed that this “random” girl in the crowd is a child actor named Brennan Leach. What’s more, the girl’s father, just coincidentally is Pennsylvania democratic State Senator Daylin Leach, a staunch supporter of Hillary’s campaign.

6am – D         INTERVIEW – MARC MORANO – Climate Depot founder and filmmmaker of the new film ‘Climate Hustle’ www.ClimateHustle.com

• Hillary blames Hurricane on climate change; says Trump ‘totally unfit’ to protect USA from ‘the threat of climate change’
• Hurricane and Climate Media Hype: NBC’s Ron Allen Thinks Climate Deal Is ‘Designed to Stop’ Storms Like Hurricane Matthew

6am – E         TV News:

• Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity Make Up Following Twitter Feud: ‘It’s Complicated.’ The Fox News anchors are “#friends,” again. Fox News anchors Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity kissed and made up on Thursday after having a high profile fallout via Twitter the night before. The “Kelly File” host tweeted a cheery photo of the pair together with the caption, “We’re Irish. It’s complicated. #friends.” While Hannity denied one Twitter user’s accusation that they had been ordered to make nice by their “corporate masters.” “Actually that’s just not true. 2 friends just worked out a MINOR disagreement,” he wrote in response. The reunion came after Hannity called Kelly out on Wednesday for being biased towards Hillary Clinton in the heated presidential race. “u should be mad at  @HillaryClinton Clearly you support her. And @realDonaldTrump did talk to u,” he tweeted, while linking out to a clip on Mediaite.com in which she said Trump will only go on “Hannity” because it is a safe place.
• Hack Shows MSNBC Producer Going Full Hillary Fangirl In Email To Clinton Campaign. (Daily Caller) – The hacked emails of an influential Clinton insider give the public a glimpse into the relationship between the Clinton campaign and the mainstream press. In an April 2015 email to Clinton campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod, editorial producer for MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” Sheara Braun reached out to the Clinton campaign about booking an appearance with a Clinton aide. In the email, Braun gushed over Clinton’s personal qualities — expressing awe for the “amazing, intelligent ” Clinton — and dismissed a handful of prominent scandals attached to the Clintons as “crap and nonsense.” “Hey Adrienne,” Braun wrote, “Thanks for your help in getting Karen on with Chris the other night. I have a question for you. As you guys have probably seen, we’ve been airing a ‘Hillary Clinton for Millennials’ segment on our program every night this past week.” “The point of the segment is basically to inform young people about all of the crap and nonsense that Sec. Clinton and President Clinton (but mostly Sec. Clinton) had to face back in the 90s when President Clinton was running for office…everything from cookie-gate to stand-by-your-man-gate to Hillarycare.”
• E! Halts Production on ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Following Paris Robbery. Following Kim Kardashian West’s robbery at gunpoint in Paris, production on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has been shut down, Variety has learned. “Kim’s well-being is our core focus right now. No decision has been made as to when production will resume,” a spokesperson for E! tells Variety.

7am – A         INTERVIEW — TREVOR MATICH — Redskins elite long snapper, WMAL’s Redskins analyst and Comcast SportsNet co-host – previewed the Redskins-Ravens game.

• Redskins-Ravens: Key matchups to follow in Sunday’s game. The Washington Redskins will try to win a third consecutive game Sunday when they face the Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium. The Ravens (3-1) are four-point favorites in the sixth regular-season meeting and has a 3-2 advantage in the series. Washington won the most recent meeting in overtime, 31-28, in 2012.

7am – B/C     Sunday’s Trump-Clinton Presidential Debate Preview. The second presidential debate between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will be held Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016 — at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The debate is slated to run from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Eastern. The moderators will be ABC’s Martha Raddatz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.  The debate will have a “town meeting” format in which half of the questions will be asked by uncommitted voters in the audience chosen by the Gallup Organization, and the other half will be asked by the moderators.

7am – D/E     Hurricane Hype?

• A Fox News host issued terrifying proclamations about Hurricane Matthew: ‘You and everyone you know are dead’ / Fox News anchor Shep Smith issued some terrifying proclamations urging people to evacuate before Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in Florida on Friday. “This moves 20 miles to the west, and you and everyone you know are dead — all of you — because you can’t survive it. It’s not possible unless you’re very, very lucky,” he said on his show Thursday afternoon. “And your kids die, too.” Smith also spoke to a Floridian woman who didn’t want to leave her home. “I’ll ask her why she’s staying, and if she expects us to cover her funeral,” he said before the segment. While these statements are chilling hyperbole, meteorologists are predicting Matthew could be one of the biggest hurricanes to hit Florida in decades.
• Weather Channel Issues Severe Hurricane Warning, ‘This Is Not Hyperbole.’ Thursday The Weather Channel aired a strongly-worded warning urging the public to take it seriously and evacuate if they live in the areas under evacuation orders for Hurricane Matthew. Meteorologist and hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross said, ‘I’m senior hurricane specialist, Bryan Norcross, and I want to talk to my friends in Florida.

        

8am – A         INTERVIEW – Montgomery County Council member GEORGE LEVENTHAL  (D-At Large)

• George Leventhal (born November 19, 1962) is a Democratic politician from the state of Maryland. He is currently serving his fourth term as an At-large member of the Montgomery County Council.
• With a month to go, Montgomery County term-limits contest heats up. (Washington Post) — The campaign to defeat a term-limits amendment in Montgomery County doesn’t have to report its contributors until Oct. 14.  But four of the County Council’s nine members say they have given money to the effort, and a fifth says he plans to do so. Council members Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Bethesda), Sidney Katz (D-Rockville-Gaithersburg) and Nancy Navarro (D-Mid County) each say they have transferred $1,000 from their campaign funds to the “No on B” committee. Council member George L. Leventhal (D-At Large) said he contributed $1,500, and council member Marc Elrich (D-At Large) said he intends to contribute $1,000. If Question B is approved by voters, council members and the county executive would be barred from serving more than three terms.  That means Berliner, Elrich, Leventhal and Council President Nancy Floreen (D-At Large) would not be able to seek reelection in 2018. All four county lawmakers are likely to exit anyway — either by running for county executive or leaving the council of their own volition. Katz, a first-term lawmaker, would not be immediately affected. The amendment, which defines a “term” as both a full four years or any portion of that time, may also apply to Navarro, who was first elected to the council in 2009.

8am – B         INTERVIEW – JAY SHADIX — host on NASH FM 96.9 in Charleston, South Carolina – discussed the hurricane preparations in South Carolina.

• Hurricane Matthew Evacuation Orders for Florida, Georgia, Carolinas. Hurricane Matthew is closing in on the Atlantic coast, and hundreds of thousands are fleeing their homes.  Evacuation has been ordered by several states.

8am – C         Nats Playoffs:

• Plan ahead: Nats’ playoffs begin in thick of Friday-afternoon commute. WASHINGTON — On Friday afternoon, the Washington Nationals face the Los Angeles Dodgers in a playoff game at Nationals Park, and some workers may be getting an early start on the holiday weekend. The combination means commuters should plan ahead. Rush hour could start as early as 1 p.m., he said. The team is running a promotion to encourage fans to get to the park by 3 p.m., when the gates open.
• ROCK THE RED: Nats Open Playoffs At Home Against Baseball’s Best Pitcher. WASHINGTON — (WMAL) They have the Natitude covered. But do they have the Batitude? The Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Dodgers are bringing out their best arms for game one of the National League Divisional Series, which gets underway at Nationals Park Friday afternoon. Max Scherzer, the National League’s only 20-game winner in 2016 against 7 losses, will take the mound for Washington. Mad Max, who won a Cy Young award as a Detroit Tiger in 2013, is a favorite to pick up the award again this year, and he would be a strong favorite to win game one in almost any circumstance. But the Dodgers aren’t just bringing any old number one starter to the mound. They have Clayton Kershaw. The THREE-time Cy Young award winner, who comes into the game with a 12-4 record and a gaudy 1.69 earned run average on the season, is the consensus best pitcher in baseball. One could make the case for the Nationals being underdogs against L.A.. The Dodgers won the teams’ regular season series, 5 – 1, and they didn’t even face Kershaw. With Scherzer and Kershaw on the mound, both teams will be scrambling to manufacture runs any way they can. Fortunately for the Nationals, their leadoff hitter is a veritable run-making machine.

8am – D         INTERVIEW — BRET BAIER – Anchor of SPECIAL REPORT, weekdays at 6 pm and SUNDAYS at 8 pm – shared his thoughts on the impact of the VP debate this week, previewed the presidential debate this weekend and discussed the looming hurricane moving up the East Coast.

8am – E         Maryland handgun licensing law challenged in federal court. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Gun-rights activists are challenging a handgun licensing law in Maryland in federal court. Maryland Shall Issue, a gun store and four residents filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Wednesday. They contend the law reduces Maryland residents’ constitutional rights “to mere privileges.”  They also argue that the state’s handgun licensing process is lengthy, expensive and invasive because it requires people to submit fingerprints to get a handgun license.