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See terms at sportsbook.fandal.com. Gambling problem, call 1-800-522-4700. Good morning Larry Richard with Anchorman Paul Rasmussen. And Paul you just talked about the millions of pounds of recalled foods produced by Bruce Pack, a pre-cooked meat producer out of Oklahoma, sold at major grocery chains around the country and here, ready to eat chicken and turkey products. I think that's going to be something people are definitely going to pay attention to. Well you've got 200 products and 10 million pounds of this ready to eat chicken in Turkey, sold in all kinds of products with some of the brand names including Jenny Craig, Atkins, Signature Select, Boston Market, Amazon Fresh, Michelinas, Reos, Dole and Market. I think that's Market Side? Yeah Market Side. Right and including Trader Joe's, Walmart, Aldi, Target, Giant Eagle. So obviously just about anywhere where you would purchase these ready to eat chicken and turkey products. There's a 200, make that a 326 page PDF on recall itself from I guess this would be the FDA. Or no I guess the USDA. Anyway, we can simplify things for people. If you've got products in your refrigerator or your freezer, you can look for these numbers. There's a USDA mark of inspection and either inside it or below it, it'll have this number 51-205. Or P-51-205. That's the way to spot it. And Listeria is a bacteria that can affect particularly people who have compromised immune systems, 65 and older and it can be deadly. You recall a couple of weeks ago Bors head issues and that was a major story too. So just a heads up, nothing to panic about but if you have these products, take them back for a refund. These products are produced by companies that are so big and when there's a problem, it's a big problem. Because they're distributing so many of their products to places all over the country. Yeah that's a good point. So if you need those numbers again, one more time Paul. It's 51-205 or P-51-205 and that would be the inside or under the USDA mark. Alright yesterday, top-notch universities, tech companies from all over gathered in Pittsburgh. And they called it artificial intelligence, horizons, Pittsburgh summit. Governor Josh Shapiro was here, he said the future runs through Pittsburgh. And with the technology investment coming here, apparently Paul, one of the factors for our region is the expansion of artificial intelligence requires more power. And sitting on natural gas here in the state, it makes sense with Carnegie Mellon and some of the other universities that are participating, University of Pittsburgh, that Pittsburgh be this hub for this major expansion of artificial intelligence. And we're talking about attracting people from all over. I know that they mentioned Nvidia in our report. This is a chip making company that's a primary function. Their stock is just out of this world. I think Nvidia is the highest value stock right now or something like that. How about the company is valued at $3.4 trillion. Yikes. And they're making chips that really can hum. And they announced last week a partnership here with Carnegie Mellon University. And we expect an investment and some more announcements when it comes to this tech expansion. So they gathered at Bakery Square and we talked about that place. Good place for it used to be the Nabisco plant. And when that who to thunk that right? Right. Back in the day who to thunk that who to thought while they're making crackers back in the day. I think in some day this could be the hub of technology and artificial intelligence. So I've got to throw a little something extra in here on the governor Shapiro. I don't know if you knew this or not, but Marty Griffin had him on the air before that conference. Right. Yesterday. And Marty asked governor Shapiro about the phone call with Elon Musk that we was widely reported that Elon Musk spoke with the governor from the like a suite over it. The steelhead. Yeah. At the acrosher game. And then so anyway Marty asked the governor about it. And here's what he said when the phone call came in. So taking the trash out when Thomas reached out and said, Hey, you know, I want to talk to you on Musk about some economic interest economic, you know, development interest he has. He's talking there about Thomas tall. Yeah. Who's a billionaire minority owner of the Steelers. Right. And but I thought that was funny. He hosted him at the Steelers Cowboys game. And so they end up calling him up a gov. I love that Marty asked him that. Listen to what the governor said about the political rift that exists between himself and Musk. Listen to this, but I'm not going to let that stand in the way of me trying to bring jobs and economic growth to southwestern Pennsylvania. And I think that is one of the reasons why he has our higher approval rating than your typical first term governor in a politically charged climate. That's a smart thing to say it's like, okay, let's, let's be adults here. Let's talk it through. Yeah. It's high. She's got multi billions to invest in southwestern Pennsylvania. Let's talk. Yeah. Let's let's not be foolish. Exactly. All right. And what else are people talking about? Well, it's, this is salted the game. Right. Yeah. And Las Vegas. Yeah. Raider fans have a tradition. They, they used to call where they played in Oakland, California, the black hole. Right. And they would get dressed up in some pretty scary outfits. And it was for fans of the other team visiting one of the most dangerous places. I think Philadelphia has a jail inside their stadium. Not anymore. They had one in the basement over at veteran stadium. Oh, they don't have it in the new one. And so they had a judge on hand when they wanted to deal with drunks. It's unfortunate it gets to that, but it does. So. Well, I went to a game at the vet couple times. Was it fairly civil? It was okay. Yeah. But. So I've never been to an Eagles game in Philadelphia. Yeah. I watched an Eagles Cowboys game. Anyway, that's what people are talking about. We'll keep you posted about this expansion of artificial intelligence here in the region. It could be a big economic boom for us. Download the free Odyssey. I'm taking us with you wherever you go. We'll keep you posted a breaking news and weather information a whole lot more. And today is a special day. It's ask the experts from MediConnect. So if you're a senior on Medicare, you know, it's time to choose the health care plan. This is enrollment periods about to open up. And from 8 a.m. through the afternoon, we're going to have experts and you can starting at eight o'clock this morning, call 888-818-MEDI that's 888-818-6334 and ask the experts. There are a lot of legitimate questions that you can get answers to and make sure you've got the best situation for you when it comes to your health care. How important is that? And every year, Paul, we go through the enrollment with our company, right? You have to make selections on what to decide. And a lot of people need assistance with that. So they make sure that you are maximizing what you get for your money. Really, really critical. And speaking of health, how about mental health? Aaron and Paul, you'll appreciate this. The more content you consume, the worse your mental health gets. That's from a new survey finding the average American feels like they lose three days per month while consuming online content. You call it doom scrolling. I was going to say, Larry, tell them the name. 36 days of the year are completely lost to scrolling, streaming, and binging content. It even gets worse the younger you are. Gen Z Americans feel like they lose close to five days per month, just doom scrolling. So next time you get sucked down the vortex. Take your other hand and close your phone. Take your left. I mean, you have to discipline your. It's hard. You do. You literally have to discipline yourself to unplug. If you don't, now we're in a business where we have to kind of stay plugged in. That's part of what we do is to make sure, you know, we're up on information, breaking news. Yeah, it's it's it's part of what we do. But you should be able to back off when you just go down these mindless videos of stuff. And then once you watch something, if you stop or even slow down, the algorithms start feeding you more of the same. Yep. For some reason, I'm getting videos of monkeys, little monkeys, big monkey. So you watch one video for a little too long. Yeah, there was a guy who had dressed up a little monkey. I would have watched it in the world are we talking about here? I was kind of lost in correcting a story of Ellen Gamble got some information on a story for me. And so I'm over here tic-tac-in-a-way and you guys are having a pleasant conversation. Next thing I know it's something about little monkeys. Does your monkey bite this I remember that. And so once you do that, Amazon fall favorites are here to make you say with low prices on home, beauty and fashion brands like Amazon Essentials. So hold on to your pumpkin spice whatever and save on fall favorites at Amazon. The sharpest ride's spooktacular savings event is happening now with unbeatable seasonal clearance deals. But only through the end of this month, whether you're looking for a reliable sedan, family-friendly SUV or something sporty. Now is the time to take advantage of these frighteningly good offers. The sharpest rides are the pre-owned auto experts and have thousands of satisfied customers. And they give back for every vehicle purchase. 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We can't help that we love animals and they're just too cute. I can't help it. And there's other ones, you know, then there's people that had, you know, trip and fall accidents from their doorbell camera. What are you doing here? I like the ones where the guy, booby traps a package. Yeah, for people that are orange pirates. Yeah, and they come by to get it and then it goes bang. And then they all get mad. It's like, "No, dude." That's what you get. All right. All right. We're good now. Let's lock in. Sam's the big K morning show, Larry Richard, with our anchor man, Paul Rasmussen. Just want to reiterate one thing about this listeria scare that's millions of pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and turkey products because it's so pervasive that it affects just about everyone, potentially. So around the region, really a big heads up on that. And this is on the heels of Borshead having issues a couple of weeks ago, Paul, that obviously also made national news. And so these recalls are really important and can be lifesaving for some people. So the recommendation is, if you have one of the products and you can go online to check that you take them back to where you purchased it for a refund, but most importantly, you don't ingest it, right? Yes, definitely don't eat it. I mean, that's probably going to be something you really want to pay attention to. We'll have details on that story coming up at seven. And also, the cleanup, the last two hurricanes, Helene, which affected not only Florida, but as we know, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, and they're especially in western North Carolina, in particular, some issues have developed, CBS's Janet Chamoline. One man armed with a handgun and rifle was arrested Saturday after making a comment about possibly hurting FEMA workers. 44-year-old William Parsons was arrested, charged, then released on bond. These reports about militia threatening the National Guard and the Army troops. What say you? That's just fiction. There's no truth to that. There's not been any of that. Communities here are still recovering more than two weeks after Helene hit. People can't even get into Chimney Rock right now without an escort. And we are going in with a local business owner. It's going to be one of the first looks at this devastated community. There is destruction in every direction and there's tons of mud and debris, hundreds of soldiers clearing it by day, sleeping at a nearby park at night. And the downstairs was just terrible, you know, gutted, totally gutted. The water came up so high and the power just shredded them. Oh my goodness. Water and mud now fill the first floor of Teresa and Glenn Cawthorn's home. They're staying at the Chimney Rock Inn, the hotel they own. It's closed. They don't know for how long. Will you stay? Yes. We will be back. 100 percent. Chimney Rock is very resilient and we will 100 percent be back. Janet Chamley in CBS News. And that Chimney Rock is one of those towns that were completely just leveled by the flooding. And the western part again of North Carolina, Asheville, which apparently is a beautiful place or was before the flooding. I talked to many people that used to enjoy going there and it's going to be a long time before it will be anything assembling what it used to be. It had become until the storm, a destination, a place people wanted to go, growing in popularity. And then Milton affected just Florida along the Gulf Coast, entering around the Braden Tint Sarasota area and cutting through to the east northeast to the other side. And then what did really devastating damage were the tornadoes spun off in advance of and as the storm moved through. And so many of them were clustered in the West Palm Beach area all the way up to Fort Pierce. Yeah, I worked for a period of time out of college in West Palm Beach. Those in spite of the fact that across the way in Tampa, you know, Tampa is the lightning capital of the world, but they do not have tornadoes in Florida like they do, certainly in the Midwest, the plain states, alligator, not alligator alley, tornado alley, alligator alley is in Florida in the great swamp land they call the Everglades, which is a national park. But the clean up there and I'm getting good feedback from our sources, you know, that they're they're making progress. So they want to try to get ready for their season because that's when a lot of the businesses make their money. And if the people that work for them don't have employment, that just, you know, compounds the situation. So a lot of relief services coming out of our Western Pennsylvania again, Red Cross Salvation Army, brothers, brother foundation, and utility workers who volunteered to go there and help to just say they they had convoys of utility trucks to an amazing site, isn't it? It really is. It's actually uplifting. And if I were somebody dealing with that and knew that so many other states were reaching out to help it would at least lift your spirits, but it's going to be a while for many of these places. So if you have plans to visit parts of Florida that have been affected, obviously you got to stay in touch and keep up with what's going on. And in just a minute, we're going to check in with our meteorologist in charge. It'll look at our chilly weather here to our east. Let's check in with our meteorologist in charge, Joe Lumber, Joe. Good morning. Another good morning, Larry. So this is short lived at least for a little while, but it looks like for the next few days, unusually cool. Yeah. Next two, three days. This is a big upper level low that's dropping into and through the area, and that's just going to keep temperatures on the chilly side of the ledger for the next three days, 50 for highs today and tomorrow. I think the last time we didn't get out of the 40s for high was back in April, believe it or not. And that's a possibility today or tomorrow and in between a couple of chilly nights, particularly, I think tomorrow night when we finally clear things out and the winds can be pretty light. That can allow the temperature to get down into the low to mid 30s across the area. But now next week, we're looking at a reversal. It's going to feel like late summer again. Oh, it is. I mean, we're going to go back up above 70 degrees, probably by Saturday and certainly 70 plus on Sunday. And I think at least the first couple of days the next week are going to be warm. There's a front that's going to try to come through midweek and maybe cool things off. It's nowhere near as strong as this one, but that may back pedal temperatures back into the 60s for a couple of days, but still I think the second half of October is pretty much going to be above normal most days after you get that past the next three days. Yeah, we got to clear the skies. We got this hunter's moon that's going to be a super moon, the brightest of a whole year coming up. I'm hoping that we can clear the skies so we can see the comet after sunset in the evening. These clouds have gotten in my way the last couple of evenings. I'm not happy. Oh, yeah. This is a rare comet that's passing what in the western sky about 45 minutes after twilight. Yeah. So if you look up, you know, probably five to ten degrees above the rise and you should be able to see it with the naked eye. Of course, use your binoculars and you'll be able to see it that much more spectacularly. But again, you got to have clear skies in the western horizon. I don't think that's going to be the case tonight. I'm not sure it is tomorrow evening. Well, I think we have to wait until Thursday and we should be able to see it then. Joe Lundberg, thank you. You're welcome. All right. That's the latest with AcuWithers, Joe Lundberg at World Headquarters. Coming up right after the news at the top of this hour, a conversation with controversial Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who's going to be here tomorrow night as part of the Pittsburgh Speaker Series presented by the University of Pittsburgh and Paul earlier, we talked about what happened in Las Vegas at the Steelers game for one stealer fan and that prompted the conversation about misbehavior with the Raiders fans in the old black hole in Oakland California. And if we talk about Philadelphia, they had been known that they had a jail in the old veteran stadium. Well, that was the legend, but the legend is wrong. It's wrong? No, it was a courtroom. There was really no jail, a lock anybody up. They had a room where people sat and waited to see the judge. But basically what it was with Eagle's Court was for the misdemeanor stuff, drunkenness and if it was a really serious crime, that would be handled differently. But all of this, by the way, started in November of 1997. The Eagles were losing to the Niners on Monday night football. Over 60 fans were rejected after incidents at the stadium. Even a man was at the game, he brought a flare gun and fired it over the field. So that's when it was set up and what the idea was was to give them a means of dealing with this. Eagle's Court did not handle all the crime at the vet and it was a court, not a jail. And so there's that. And I might add this to the other myth is that there's been one at Lincoln Financial Field. That didn't happen. And I did hear that Ed Rendell used to be one of the judges. Now, that would have been a hit TV show right there. Absolutely. 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