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Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDul, America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play-by-play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's fandul.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDul, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21+ and present in Colorado, first online real money weights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issue does now withdrawable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandul.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. Kamala Harris is bringing us a new way forward. She's bringing us a politics of joy. She's bringing real solutions for the middle class, and she's centering you at the heart of that. All the while asking everyone, join this movement, make your voices heard. Let's look for a new day where everybody gets that opportunity and everybody gets a chance to thrive. I humbly ask for your vote on November 5th for Kamala Harris. And I believe, as a person who wants to be your next vice president, that we are a rich and prosperous enough country where every American, whether they're rich or poor, ought to be able to turn on their heat in the middle of a cold winter night, that's gotten more difficult thanks to Kamala Harris' energy policies. I believe that whether you're rich or poor, you ought to be able to afford a nice meal for your family. That's gotten harder because of Kamala Harris' policies. Part of the closing arguments last night in New York on CBS, Tim Walz, Governor of Minnesota, and Senator JD Vance. And let's talk about, as a related item here, Larry, John Delano's interview, his exclusive interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. There's a story in front of me right now concerning her remarks about U.S. Steel. She spoke about that again with John Delano, and she said, "This is a quote. I feel very strongly that U.S. Steel needs to remain a U.S. company and that the people working there need to be American workers." I think that is also why I'm proud to do, I am proud I do have the support of the Steelworkers Union. So she doubled down on her position here when Delano asked her, "If you block a foreign acquisition, can you guarantee that there will be support?" And she said, and this is her response, "Will it come for the federal government to make sure that these furnaces stay open when the jobs are kept in Pittsburgh?" And she said, "It's my priority to keep the jobs in Pittsburgh." So, and by the way, John Delano will air more of his conversation with Kamala Harris, starting at foreign, K-D-K-TV, and JD Vance, and Tim Walls, according to overnight polls, basically it was a tie. In terms of if asked people who they felt won, it was 42% for Vance, 41% for Walls, and 17% said it was a tie, but statistically with the margin of error, it basically follows party lines. Was that your takeaway, by the way? No clear winner? Yeah, I thought if you, you know, whoever you're backing, but the takeaway for me was I appreciated the civility. Talking about the issues, getting passionate, but not, you know, constantly throwing each other under the bus with verbal jabs, and it was civil, and after they shook hands before, and they shook hands spoke for a moment after, and somehow I appreciated that most of all. I'm delighted for two reasons. The first one is is the debate focused on issues. Well, what is what is surprising change? And the second reason I'm delighted is is the debates are over. Yes. Unless they pull an October surprise, which I don't never know happen. Definitely the vice presidential debates are over and for the most part, since 1976, which by the way was the first televised vice presidential debate, mercifully. There is very little that you could take away from those debates over the past almost 50 years. That said, obviously, we have 34 days till the election and it still runs. Whoever you're supporting will last night's vice presidential debate change your mind. We'll see. Meanwhile, much more important in the moment. And that was the first question they asked to the candidates last night was Iran sending missiles into Israel. The Iranians said that this barrage of missiles, it was 180 to 200 of them, Larry, ballistic missiles was retaliation for recent Israeli attacks against Hezbollah leadership. So here's an interesting clip from CBS reporter Chris lives say, who was in Tel Aviv at the time that the missile started coming down. Listen to this ballistic missiles light up the night sky as Israel intercepts them, sending red hot shrapnel floating like embers. Some leak through Israel's defenses hitting targets on the ground. Iran blanketed the length of the country with some 180 missiles, Israel says, from the north, on the right, left side to the western wall in Jerusalem, to Tel Aviv, where we were when the sirens blared and panic erupted. So they say the Israelis, they intercepted most of these ballistic missiles with help from US forces. And now the question is, is how will Israel respond? Are we going to have a wider Middle East conflict, perhaps a full on regional war, or the Israelis going to pick something symbolic out? And hopefully the Iranians will back down. I heard one analyst say, and I think it was an interesting comment, that Iran launched the missiles primarily because it had to, you know, in keeping with their, you know, they've, I mean, they've had, they've been having the Houthis, and Hezbollah and Hamas do all the fighting for them against Israel. That's, that's what they've been doing. They've been funding it. It's a proxy war. So, you know, they've got a responsibility, I guess, to launch some rockets after Hezbollah's leader was taken out. Well, there'll be a lot more discussion about this and how it kind of puts the world on the brink of potential really dangerous international response. You know, when I saw the first bulletin on it, I printed a copy of it and took it into Marty, I said, you know, just in case you need it later. And by the time I got home, the missiles were flying. So, all right, also, there's some financial news. One, by the way, just a quick sidebar is they approved the $1 million in Pittsburgh to put toward the draft. I have to laugh. Okay. So, they did that. And then you have an update. Yes, we have an interesting story here. I just touched on it a moment ago. Deficits are ahead for Allegheny County. A midterm report from the controller, Corio Connor says that expenses in the county are more than double what they had been budgeted for 2024. It's $57 million. So far, a hunk of it is due to the appeals of the tax assessments, but also sales tax and drink tax revenue is down. And so they've been tapping the rainy day fund. And next week, county executive Sarah in a Marado will be presenting her 2025 budget. And I wonder to what extent they're going to try to adjust to this new reality. It'll be interesting to see declining revenues and increasing expenses creates deficits. The city, the county, and eventually, you know, the state, there are challenges financially because of you had the federal monies that are no longer going to be there or have already dried up. And yeah, that's not going to be replaced. I don't recall doing a story anywhere like this during the time that I've been here until now. And then, you know, on top of all of that, we've had challenges of getting bodies back to the cities and spending money of those revenues for drink tax and those kind of things, although that is coming back in the city and the county. So we'll keep you posted. That's what people are talking about. News radio, K D K A download the free Odyssey app a U D A C Y take us with you wherever you go. And we'll keep you posted on breaking news, weather updates and even Friday night lights, high school football. We have great coverage here. And believe it or not, already coming down to home stretch of the regular season in high school football before, you know, when we talk in playoffs, we're just getting started with the pro season and the college is maybe about a third over yet, right? Correct. That happened so fast with the high school teams. It does. And Mike Tomlin spoke to the media horde yesterday, including our own Jeff Hathorne and it looks like the Justin Fields Steelers quarterback is going to be the guy again Sunday night, even though Russell Wilson looks like he's more active and a participant in practice. And we'll see how it goes today. I love when coach Tomlin says, we'll let the week speak to him. Sure. And how things develop. But I mean, from a common sense point of view, Justin Fields is playing well. That's great. And perhaps Mike Tomlin does have a depth chart in his head that says Russell's number one and Justin's number two, but Justin's playing well and winning his second half performance man. I mean, how can you not be impressed with that? Right. So maybe he's found the right place to be a quarterback here in Pittsburgh, as opposed to Chicago. The only thing is as we all know that Russell is a very, very good quarterback, a Super Bowl winner and one of the highest rated quarterbacks among all time players. So really, it's tough to not know how he's going to do here because we haven't seen him play. I get it. I get why people want to see that. Yeah, here's what coach Tomlin said about it yesterday. Justin, getting to a point where his play is Russell's health is sort of immaterial. Just staying with the guy where the team's from. There's a potential for that, but we're not there as I stand here today. Is there anything Justin can do to prove it right now while Russell injured? Play well. When? That's our business. I love it. Here's another. There's so many great quotes with coach Tomlin. You do what you got to do from a coach's perspective. I use the phrase all the time. If you got red paint, you paint your barn red. And so, you know, with those dynamic edge people like Lawrence and maybe even Parsons out, we better get ready for a lot of schematic pressure from him. Do you get all that? Hey, did you hear what he said about Justin Fields when the game wasn't going so well? And he said, I didn't notice any blink in him. That's another Tomlin is in my hat and heard before until this week. Yeah, that's a big. That's a good one, huh? He's he don't blink. He's also said, cut your eyelids off at one point. Here's some more coach Tomlin on Fields. Because I didn't feel any blink in Justin talked about his steady demeanor in recent weeks in terms of the things that I've grown and know and understand about him. I think it's really on display in moments like that. You really get an opportunity to develop a relationship in the midst of adversity and competition. And I'm not trying to microwave our relationship, if you will. And so, you know, being in circumstances, man, it's an opportunity for him to get to know me, me to get to know him and to fight and fight together. No blink. And I mean, I'd really if I were a football player, I would like to play for Mike Tomlin. Well, apparently I really would. That's a very common feeling and sense among the athletes and our players. And frankly, players who have played for coach Tomlin over the years who are now with other teams, we're not going to microwave it. Or are we? I like that he's not going to speed things up. He's going to let things happen as they happen. Paint the barn red. Yeah. My favorite takeaway image of the game from last week was when they decided to go for it on fourth and very short, right? And then there was that isolation shot right before the snap on Tomlin with his arms crossed and his eyes wide open and that really serious look on his face. And I was saying to myself, with the formation they were in with a shotgun, not right up at the line of scrimmage that this isn't going to go well. But but he had that look on his face like, okay, let's see now. Let's see. He has so many great things. Yeah. But Sunday night football, the Cowboys come to Acryseur and they're missing a couple of their key defensive players, including Parsons. Good. Yeah. I hope they're missing all their people. We need another win. Nothing makes me happier than a cowboy loss. Let's go when it comes to the NFL from Rasmussen. And right after their show yesterday, Paul in the newsroom, when you got the alert about an imminent attack, they ran on Israel where they had nearly 200 ballistic missiles. And they have this, I guess, iron dome, they call it around the region and helped mitigate what could have been a lot worse in terms of damage. My understanding, by the way, is the iron dome is actually not for those kind of missiles. They do have a separate system for taking ballistic missiles out. And they needed some help from the US with that as well. I didn't know. Hey NFL fans, you can start the season with a big return on FanDul America's number one sports book. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game, you can check out the latest stats, view live play by play, and so much more on the same page where you place your bets. You'll get started with $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place your first $5 bet. That's fandul.com/sportsfan. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with FanDul, an official sports book partner of the NFL. Must be 21 plus and present in Colorado. First online real money weights are only $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued is now a throwable bonus bet set expire seven days after receipt restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fandul.com gambling problem call 1-800-522-4700. Fill that until last night. And with some more details, CBS's Tina Kraus in London. Israel is considering its next move after Iran fired a barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at the Jewish state. It was Tehran's second attack on Israel in close to six months. Following Tuesday's wave of missiles, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran made a big mistake and he vowed Iran will pay for it. Israel's ambassador told the United Nations Israel will decide when and how it will respond. It will be noticed. It will be painful. An Israeli military spokesman said the country's air defenses intercepted many of the incoming missiles with help from the U.S. military and naval destroyers in the region. President Biden said the U.S. remains fully supportive of Israel and directed the U.S. military to help shoot down the Iranian missiles. We're still assessing the impact. But based on what we know now, the attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective. Iran says it launched the attack in retaliation for Israel's ground offensive in Lebanon and Israel's strikes on Hezbollah. Iran is saying to Israel, look, we can get you. We know how to get you. We're not going to do this time. We're not going to risk a war. We're not ready for a war yet. But if push comes to shove, we can do it. The Pentagon moved additional military support to the Middle East ahead of Tuesday's attack. The U.S. has more than 40,000 troops and aircraft squadrons spread across the Middle East, along with 12 warships in the region. Another aircraft carrier is on its way. Tina Kraus, CBS News, London. So we'll continue, obviously, to follow this story and what comes next as Israel contemplates their retaliation for that. And that was the first question last night that they asked the vice presidential candidates basically how they thought there would be a reaction with their representative parties. There are 300, their response to the 300 missiles and drones that were launched the last time around. They just went after one facility, one military facility. So we'll see what they do this time. If it's something symbolic and similar or if there's a wider response. And last night, watching on CBS, the vice presidential debate, there was about an hour before that they had assembled their correspondence, Major Garrett and all before. They turned it over to anchor woman Nora O'Donnell and Margaret Brennan, who host face the nation. And lo and behold, they say, let's go to Pittsburgh and CBS and John Delano and John joins us just getting up and shaking off the national spotlight chined on him. John, good morning. Hey, good morning, Larry. Good to be with you and all your listeners. I guess it made perfect sense that CBS would come to you to talk about the importance of our state first and foremost to Pennsylvania. Plus you had a exclusive one on one with Kamala Harris. So how did all this come come together? Well, as you know, I'm pretty aggressive in going after interviews that I've been working on trying to get Vice President Harris to do a local interview for months. So our weeks, I should say, because I guess it's only been a few months since he's been a candidate. But I had interviewed her once before in 2021, shortly after she became Vice President. And so I just kept pressing again, and again, and again. And finally, it surprised me a little bit that they gave me that interview the same day of the debate, but it allowed me to ask at least well, in this case, two nationally related questions. One, of course, was the war in the mid east and the involvement of the US. And the second question was the vice presidential debate. What was her advice to Governor Walz? And so, and then I went on to ask about some Pittsburgh issues that we're going to run some stories on on Katie KTV later today. But the bottom line is when she said, yes, of course, I said, yes, let's do it. And CBS was aware that CBS had already booked me to go on their national pre-debate coverage story. And I think it's because they've they understand, like most political pundits understand that as Pennsylvania goes, so goes the nation with respect to this for the battle for the White House. And I've been saying that, as you know, on your show and others for a long time. And in fact, in the lead up to introducing me, they had both their pollster, Anthony Salvanto, and Major Garrett, talking in different ways about how Pennsylvania's key more visits by these presidential and vice presidential candidates than any state in the nation is Pennsylvania. And of course, Salvanto of looking at polls and looking at the electoral college map pointed out that basically whoever wins Pennsylvania wins the White House. And so, I was able to go on and describe how different the state is from east to west and particularly relevant for this vice presidential debate. The two candidates running for vice president are both both Midwesterners, Ohio and Minnesota. And I suggested to the national audience that Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, we're more like the Midwest than we are the east coast, you know, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, that belt, the old Amtrak line, the metro line that runs up and down the coast. We're not like those folks. We're kind of our own unique brand more Midwestern than east coast and they kind of like they like me using the map to do that. So that's how it all happened. Well, congratulations, John, on getting a great interview. One thing that I would like you to comment on if you could in greater detail about the Pittsburgh issues, you tried to pin the vice president down on her US steel position and she gave an interesting answer to your question about whether if this deal falls through, what kind of support will there be coming from a Harris administration should she be elected? Yeah, it's a very fair question. Thank you for asking that. What I did with, and I'll do it with President Trump if I get another chance to talk to them, both President, former President Trump and Vice President Harris and President Biden have said they're going to kill this deal, that is that they will keep Nipon steel from purchasing US steel. But the problem here is that US steel is saying that they need the billion and a half dollars that's coming from Nipon steel in order to modernize their facilities in the Mon Valley. And if they don't get that money, they may have to close the Mon works. And at the same time, they suggest they might move their headquarters out of Pittsburgh. So the question to Donald Trump and to Kamala Harris is, all right, suppose you killed the deal, what are you going to do to save jobs in Pittsburgh? And that was my basic question to Kamala Harris. I will ask the same question to Donald Trump if I have the opportunity. And, you know, it might have taken her a little bit by surprise, but she certainly focused on the fact that she was committed to jobs in this region. I was trying to pin her down on whether or not the federal government could would give the same amount of money to Pittsburgh and the US steel operations as Nipon steel. And of course, I don't think there's any way that's going to happen. So it's an interesting question to ask. And I can't say that it was answered. It hasn't really been answered by Donald Trump. Kamala Harris made an effort to answer it. But I think there's more follow up to come on that issue. And we'll look forward to more of your one on one with Kamala Harris starting at four this afternoon on Katie KTV john, I appreciate you jumping on with us short notice. But now that you're an international star, you're just gonna have to deal with it. You know, I feel a star for being on your show. I am so pleased. You don't need to fuck up. All right, John. Thank you, bro. I appreciate it. Have a great morning, everybody. Katie KTVs, John Delano. Let's check in with our meteorologist, Joe Lundberg and accurate headquarters Joe. Good morning. Oh, they're good morning. So we had this week front that passed through brought us a little shower activity overnight. It's off to the east of the city, as you know. So what's the game plan as we get into the weekend? Maybe a few more drips this morning, but they'll be fleeting in nature of looking to the west. And I'm seeing some clearing skies taking place in central and western Ohio. So that's our lot, I think, for midday and this afternoon. And once that happens, then I think we're in pretty good shape through most of the day Sunday with the fair amount of sunshine. There's a weak front that'll come through on Friday with no nothing to show for it. A second one comes through, I think, Sunday night. And as it approaches late today, Sunday early Sunday night, there is a risk for a thunderstorm with it. And then it cools off early next week. Well, wait, we can't have a risk of a thunderstorm Sunday. We got Sunday night football stealers, cowboys. Oh boy. Yeah, timing as they say is everything. And unfortunately, it looks like the timing of the front might be right around game time. So that would be the window I'd be concerned about. Maybe it comes through later. We can get everything in without any kind of lightning delay. But that's a real possibility. It's one of those fronts where the timing of it is such that, you know, early morning showers that it's coming through Detroit or nothing, but we get up into the low 80s on Sunday with some sunshine ahead of the front. So it's prime in the heating time. And then thunderstorms probably blow up over Lake Erie and try to march southeastward with this front toward the area. And I could see sometime between five, six o'clock and maybe nine or 10 o'clock, there being a thunderstorm in the area. John, I'm looking at my app here, but whether AccuWeather app, and there's nothing but like little sunny logos for day after day after day. Yeah, that's the only little fly in the ointment other than that. We've got some sun this afternoon. We've got some sunshine tomorrow, sunshine Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. I mean, we're going into an extended stretch of uneventful weather. Now, we've been fortunate enough to get some rain this week from this pesky upper level O that was once a lean, but that may be it. I mean, we're I think we're going to go through probably a two week period with very little rain across the area. And again, that one chance might be Sunday late in the day or early at night. I wonder if Jerry Jones, the owner of the Cowboys has something to do with this thunderstorm. Maybe he does. Joe, thank you, brother. You're welcome. All right, meteorologist Joe Lundberg. So there's one little fly in the ointment. See, he delights just as much in a Cowboys loss as I do when the Cowboys play the Steelers. And I don't know why that is. You would think that I would be happier about a Ravens loss, right? But no, it's actually the Cowboys. Well, I don't know why that is. Hmm. A chance to win tickets to see Stevie Wonder, his first stop in a 10 city tour is at PPG paints next Tuesday, October 8th. So we're going to give you a chance to see the show. That's a maybe a once in a lifetime opportunity as a lot of these aging superstars are making their runs through Pittsburgh, including how about when they had the big show with Willie Nelson and John Mellon camp and Robert Plant. That turned out to be a great day. And then you had Bruce Springsteen, who kind of bookend the Labor Day weekend. And you have the stars, you know, Stevie, Nick's heart, you know, all these great artists. And then the big shows, you know, down at the stadiums as well with Taylor Swift, right? Yeah. Last summer, back to back, what, 72,000 people each night? I know my goodness. It's been a really good run for about the last 18 months of big concerts to go to in the Pittsburgh area, like nothing I've seen before. We had also Kenny Chesney returned the Flo Tilla outside of Acra Share, Chesney's Navy. And by the way, this Steelers weekend, the Dallas Cowboys, I don't want to say they traveled as well as I don't think there's a team in football that travels as well fan wise than the Steelers. You see it. Yeah, I couldn't go ahead more. But they're going to try to invade Acra Share, because there are a lot of people that follow the Cowboys that don't get a chance to see them in Dallas. So they try to go to all the cities and there's been a crush to get tickets for the game. Just because of that, I don't want to see too minute with, or at least if they're there, not give them a reason to cheer, right? I have a feeling we'll have a nice rebound weekend coming up with, I think you're right. And again, I mentioned earlier, I'll repeat it. Two of their top defensive players are not going to be on the field, including Micah Parsons. Well, hopefully that bodes well for the Steelers offense with Justin Fields a quarterback again for the fifth game in a row. 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