From the Mighty 990 Broadcast Center, you're waking up in Starnes Country with Todd Starnes. Breaking news now on the mighty 990 a.m. KWAM. Good morning, Mid-South. This is Luke Symbol filling in for Todd Starns this morning on Starnes Country.
Motorists stranded overnight in North Mississippi. DeSoto County, Marshall County, Panola Counties, all affected. The interstates in North Mississippi, you are being asked not to travel on interstate. Fifty-five, twenty-two, two. 269.
Again, motorists stranded overnight in North Mississippi. Part of the KWham listening audience in North Mississippi. If you live in Shelby County, Uh Hernando, Olive Branch. DeSoto County, Marshall County, do not travel on I-55-22269. Extreme icy conditions.
Semi-trucks stranded overnight, stalled on the road, motorists again trapped in their cars overnight for hours in North Mississippi. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves. Tweeted this out at about midnight. Or 1 a.m. this morning.
He said, I just got off a coordinating call with law enforcement, Mississippi Department of Transportation, and National Guard leadership. Assets have been swarmed from drones to first responders to wreckers in order to clear the stalled vehicles in North Mississippi on I-55 and assist those stranded on the road. Again, that is Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves coordinating with the National Guard to remove cars off of Interstates 55, 22, 269, Highway 78, and DeSoto County and Marshall County. If you are on these roads, We want to hear from you. What are you seeing?
What are you hearing? Are you stranded on the highway, on the interstate in North Mississippi? Please give us a call. That is 901-260-5926. Again, that's 901-260-4.
five nine two six A K-Wham listener writing in. Uh, westbound I-22 Highway 78 from 269 is still shut down, blocked by stuck semi-trucks. That was sent in about 15 minutes ago. Uh, this listener is recommending avoid these highways completely. Yeah.
Mississippi. Um, folks, it is dangerous out there. What is happening is. is uh During the day, some of that ice cap is melting on the highways, and then it is refreezing overnight, causing extremely dangerous conditions. And four-wheel drive does not work on icy roads.
Again, the governor of Mississippi, Mississippi Department of Transportation, asking you to please not use Interstates 55, 22, 269, and Highway 70. eight. Valerie Calhoun from Fox thirteen Memphis just reported this about thirty minutes ago. There is an interstate emergency, she says on her social media. I twenty two and I fifty five are shut down in North Mississippi.
I-22 between Baptist DeSoto exit and Marshall County, Mississippi, is closed. Truckers and drivers have been stuck for hours. I-55 south of Hernando is closed. Again, this is Valerie Calhoun reporting from Fox 13 Memphis. She continues: There have been wrecks and backed up traffic on both.
Please stay off the road so emergency vehicles can get there to clear. Again, folks, if you typically in your commute, Whether you live. In the Memphis area, North Mississippi. Do not use those interstates. If you have to travel on the roads this morning, avoid the interstates in DeSoto and Marshall counties.
We need to allow emergency personnel to get to these stalled vehicles and semi-trucks. We need them to be removed. And again, the road conditions cannot improve. They cannot get Snowplows. They cannot get the salt trucks out on the highways because those interstates are blocked.
So please stay off of those routes. I recommend if you need to travel in North Mississippi this morning. Use m.traffic.com. Again, that is mdottraffic.com for the Mississippi Department of Transportation website. There are cameras there, a lot of cameras.
I was surprised. I'd not been on that website before when I was preparing for the show. There are a lot of traffic cameras that you can look at to see what the road conditions are like. Again, motorists stranded in North Mississippi within, and this is the K-Wham listening audience. Again, Holly Springs, Hernando, Olive Branch, Lewisburg, Marshall, and DeSoto counties, stranded.
Again, we want to hear from you. Are you out on the roads this morning? What are you seeing? What are the conditions like? That is 901-260-500.
Five nine two six. I am receiving another message. from a KWAM listener. I live in Olive Branch. Our interstate system has not been touched or treated for this storm.
269.22. Those are interstates. 269.22. It's been backed up since yesterday at about 5 p.m. This is a nightmare scenario, folks.
To be trapped in your car. overnight on the interstate in freezing temperatures Do you have enough gas to make it through? That is a scary, scary Situation. Um Again, this is in North Mississippi. We recommend you avoid interstates 55, 22, 269, and highway 78.
240 in Memphis, the loop is looking okay. There are a couple lanes each way that have been cleared and are dry.
Well done, TDOT. The governor of Tennessee also authorizing TDOT to help clear not only state routes, which is within their purview, but also non-state routes.
So emergency personnel, linemen, if needed, and especially in the middle part of the state. Can begin making repairs, can begin clearing the roads. We have a lot of upset people in North Mississippi, a lot of folks asking questions. You know, yes, this is a once-in-a-decade, once in a couple decades storm. unique conditions with very hard packed snow.
Turning to ice on the roads. Again, unique conditions, but did the state adequately? Prepare. We have a lot of folks posting on social media. And again, we want to hear from you, 901-260-5926.
But several folks posting on social media. Let's go ahead, Helen. Let's play SOT number eight. Uh This is I fifty-five. and Mississippi.
I just wanted I just want to say to Mississippi DOT. You guys are terrible. Absolutely. Terrible. You guys had enough preparation time.
to get crews from other places Well, what have you? to get these roads right. Not only have I not seen a single plow out here, It is not treated. Nobody's out here throwing salt. This is all ice.
This is on a major interstate natural single. Wayne Plow. What a piece of shit. What a piece of Okay? All other states had plows out.
This is the only state that I haven't seen a plow on social media. I haven't seen a plow on the road. I haven't seen any salt trucks out. I haven't seen a damn thing from the state of Mississippi. to help with travel on their roads.
You should be ashamed of yourself, Mississippi. You should be ashamed of your damn selves. That is a gentleman on social media driving on I-55. Reporting conditions, and he had posted a video. The video shows that the roads, the highways are nearly impassable, and we know that they're impassable because of the large number of people trapped overnight in their cars for hours on the interstates.
A reminder, folks, if you are in Tennessee, If you are in Tennessee and you need assistance on the highway, you can dial star 847 from your cell phones. You will be connected to Tennessee Highway Patrol. We know here in Shelby County, we have additional Tennessee Highway Patrol on the roads because of the Memphis Safe Task Force. They can help connect you to emergency personnel if you need assistance on the highway. A lot of that snow that was melting, that ice that was melting yesterday, refroze overnight when the temperatures dropped.
So please be careful driving, particularly if you are in. North Mississippi. Um The MDOT issued an emergency travel only that's the Mississippi Department of Transportation is advising emergency travel only in SOT number nine. M. Dot Executive Director Brad Whitehead.
MDOC crews have done a great job in pre-treating and keeping open our state's highways bridges.
However, we're still experiencing an extreme ice and a significant force to our transportation system. At this time, we're advising everyone to please stay home and stay off of the highways and bridges. Stay home and stay safe. Another K-Wam listener writing in this morning in North Mississippi, Olive Branch area. He is saying Pleasant Hill is nice and clear.
However, stay away from interstates 269, 55, or 78. Wrecks everywhere, people stranded. Again, this K-Wam listener saying wrecks everywhere, people stranded. We know that that is true. If you have to travel this morning in North Mississippi, again, that website to view traffic cameras is m.traffic.com.
That is the Mississippi Department of Transportation website. It is m.traffic.com. Folks, this is Luke Symbol filling in for Todd Starnes this morning on Starnes Country. We will continue to bring you the breaking news of the motorists that were stranded overnight on the interstates in North Mississippi. Really, a nightmare scenario.
We are going to cut to break so that you can get a traffic update and a weather update, and we will continue. Discussing this throughout the show this morning. Good morning, Mid South. Luke Symbol here in the principal Toyota Memphis studio, filling in for Todd Starnes on Starnes Country. Breaking news this morning out of North Mississippi, making national headlines, national news this morning.
Terrible road conditions, motorists stranded overnight for hours, semi-trucks blocking the roadways on highways and interstates 55, 22, 268, highway 78. Those are the areas that the Mississippi Department of Transportation, Governor Tate Reeves, they are asking you to please avoid those areas in North Mississippi during your morning commute. Last night, Todd on his Newsmax show interviewed Scott Simmons from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency with some important updates. Let's go ahead and listen to that interview.
Well, joining us now, Scott Simmons, the Director of External Affairs for the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Scott, just how bad is it there in the Magnolia State?
Well, we've made some progress, Todd, but we still have a long way to go. This is not going to be a couple of day recovery. It's going to be several weeks. But we've made a lot of progress. And the break we've gotten finally is we'll start seeing some temperatures above freezing.
We saw sunshine today, which helps loosen up some of that ice on the roads. MDOT here doing a big job in getting the thoroughfare traveling north cleared, at least up to past Grenada, up to Batesville. The challenge still remains those secondary roadways, getting access to those line areas that need to be repaired. Even as they cut pine trees and remove debris, the problem is stacking that up on the side of the road.
Well, then that blocks access for line mid like those images you have there. But we're making progress each day, each hour, with more supplies coming in from FEMA as we speak. We've got 60 generators in transit, more heading out to our launch space from Camp McCain, which is outside of Grenada, Mississippi. That's kind of a staging area that's set up where you can move supplies and goods to those frozen areas. I'm curious about Oxford.
We've been hearing a lot of reports about significant damage there. I think the mayor described it as catastrophic. Also, the University of Mississippi, can you give us an update on what they're dealing with?
Well they are dealing with the same that Tippa County nearby is dealing with that. Area got hit so very hard with freezing rain. We're not talking about fluffy snow, but sheets of ice, as you can tell there. And that has shut down everything. It's brought down trees on top of power lines.
It's shut down transit and access and taken out power. The TVA power transmission line was damaged. That fed those other outlet suppliers down the chain, as we like to say. As of this afternoon, we're told that that power transmission line has been repaired and is up and running completely. But you remember, you have those rural outlet authority electric authorities that are still trying to get their lines and their feeder lines repaired.
And that's the process, the Herculean challenge, if you will, over the next couple of days. What is it that you guys need that you are not getting right now from the federal government?
Well, I wouldn't say we're not getting. The wish list has been answered. When the president, Governor Tate Reeves, signed off on that emergency measures declaration, the goods started flowing. Rob Ash, the Regional Foreign Administrator from FEMA, is here now in the building. He's been here for a couple of days.
In the briefings, he simply asks, what do you need? The FEMA people here on the ground, some 50 personnel in state, more expected. The simple ask is for us, what do you need? That's what we're trying to do. We're still doing assessments in those areas that we can't get to.
We're opening warming centers, more of them each day, getting more people into those areas and getting those generators connected with the help of teams from the Army Corps of Engineers. to make sure that a long-term care facility or a nursing home or a school that's set up for a warming station, that generator is set up correctly.
Some of these nursing homes, unfortunately, have generators, but they failed. That is an interview that Todd did yesterday with Scott Simmons from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency on Newsmax. Again, folks, this is really a dangerous situation in the Mid-South and North Mississippi. These are our friends and neighbors who are stranded right now on the highways, Interstates 55, 22, 269, and Highway 78 in DeSoto and Marshall counties. Fox Weather reporting that this is a dangerous situation continuing in northern Mississippi as freezing temperatures iced over major interstates.
Governor Tate Reeves, again, this is Fox Weather. They're reporting. Governor Tate Reeves said late Tuesday that first responders, including the National Guard, are rescuing drivers stranded behind. In Rex, folks trapped overnight on the interstates and freezing temperatures. And the the situation in Oxford is particularly dire.
Jaden Peppenheim is a professional storm tracker. He interviewed a woman in Oxford yesterday. That's SOT ten. Barbara Hoggard. I live in Woodland Hills in Oxford, Mississippi.
We've lived here for 35 years. We have a tree through our roof at our house and through the bricks of the garage and a broken window and a lot of other damage with trees across our driveway. We can't get our car out of the Garage because we can't put the garage door up because we have no power.
So the 94 ice storm was bad, and there were people in. Our area that were without power for anywhere from two to three months, but that was thirty. Two years ago, and the trees have grown for 32 years. They've gotten much taller. And so we had way more damage this year.
Our neighborhood has power lines down all over the place. We have power lines in this neighborhood down all over the place.
So I think the 94 ice storm was child's play as compared to this one. This one is much, much worse. Wow, that is a resident in Oxford, Mississippi stating that this storm is worse than the famous ice storm of ninety four. Uh actually the year that I was born, uh nineteen ninety four, uh that ice storm That crippled much of the United States. It is talked about often here.
I hear folks bring it up often when discussing bad storms in the Mid-South. That Oxford resident stating that she has lived in that house since 94 and that this storm is worse. And the video that that storm tracker took of that lady in Oxford is devastating. A tree came through their house, a large tree. no power in Oxford.
Really terrible situation. And Ole Miss, the University of Mississippi, classes have been canceled through Sunday, and several are expecting that that may even continue with more cold temperatures coming This weekend. What are you hearing? K-Wham listeners, are you stuck on the interstate in DeSoto or Marshall counties? 901-260-5945.
Again, that's 901-260-4. Channel 3, WREG News Channel 3 reporting that there is a truck that has spun out at I-40 and Highway 64. Again, that's at I-40 and Highway 64. And I-40 looks clear, but the problem is black ice has formed overnight.
So Tennessee is advising that you, Tennessee officials, Department of Transportation, advising emergency travel only folks. Emergency travel only this morning. We will continue to bring you updates. Let's go to a news and traffic update now. Hey, good morning, Mid-South.
Luke Symbol here filling in for Todd Starnes on Starnes Country. I'm here in the principal Toyota Memphis studio. It is cold outside, but it is warm in the studio. And I am very happy to be spending my morning with you all. Thank you for tuning in.
Our very own Senator Brent Taylor making news over the weekend for a bill that he is sponsoring alongside Representative Johnny Garrett. That quote from Senator Taylor ensures only natural-born U.S. citizens without dual citizenship can be nominated for federal office by a political party in Tennessee, with Representative Garrett following up and saying, Elon Omar came here to rob this country and created an environment that's ruining Minnesota. With this legislation, we will never have a fraud-first, America-last member of Congress representing Tennessee. Strong language there, a firm stance from Representative Johnny Garrett.
And I am pleased to announce we have him joining the show this morning. Good morning, Representative. Good morning, Luke. How are you today? I am okay.
Thank you for joining us this morning. I know much of Tennessee has really been crippled with this weather. Is it affecting the area that you represent? Oh, yes. I mean, we have still dealing with power outages, hopefully.
Rows are getting clear.
Some of the back rows are in pretty bad shape. There's still a lot of ice. And a lot of these ice melting on the trees are causing further problems.
So I'd still encourage folks, at least the listening audience, if there is in Nashville, to be careful. I don't know if you got it as bad as we did in the Memphis area, but we are we are still dealing with the after effects of all this ice.
Well, I'll tell you, we do have a lot of folks listening on our K-WAM app and Facebook and Twitter live streams out of Middle Tennessee. It's really amazing when I get comments or messages from folks across the state that are tuning in to the Mighty 990 K-WAM right here in Memphis, Tennessee. But, Representative, this bill that you're carrying is really taking a firm stance on protecting those that we're sending to Congress, or protecting Tennesseans, rather, from foreign influence. Can you tell us a little bit about this bill and what your goal is and what you're trying to achieve? Absolutely.
Editor. Taylor has done a phenomenal job in Memphis with making Memphis a matter of making Memphis safer with the task force that's gone on there. There's been, in my view, no one that's been the front of making Memphis a great place to be and safe for families to go than Senator Brent Taylor. He's done a great job. And part of that is the cooperation that the city, the county, has had with our federal partners, with law enforcement on making sure we rid that city of the criminal illegal aliens of the worst of the worst, right, to get them out of the city to make it safer again here.
You know, in Minneapolis, you have a congresswoman that's encouraging this. That wants to take taxpayers' dollars, that wants illegal immigrants to thrive in that state. Became worrisome for me because that's the last thing that I want Tennessee and Nashville and Memphis to become Minneapolis. We don't need a mayor that we have in Minneapolis. We don't need a governor like we have in Governor Wallace.
That's stoking the police. I mean, for years, the Democratic Party wanted to defund the police, wanted to make the police the very folks that are. There to protect us, make them the enemy. And that's exactly what they've done in Minneapolis, making our federal folks that's all they're doing is enforcing the law up there. And here you have a congresswoman, one of the elected, highest elected officials in that state, that's encouraging this and stoking this.
And they've been doing that for the past a decade to our police and law enforcement, and it's got to stop. And so I'm, you know. I'm currently in the State House working as hard as I possibly can for Tennesseans. I'm running for Congress to support President Trump's agenda, and this is exactly what I'm going to do if, indeed, we get to Congress is to make sure that we protect Tennesseans, that we make sure we support President Trump's agenda to make this state as safe as possible and no OMA in Tennessee. That's what this bill is going to do.
So that's what I'm doing right here in the State House to make sure we take what we take here. We'll take it to Congress.
Well, Representative, thank you for taking a firm stance on this and also for not only talking the talk, but walking the walk and running for Congress yourself in District 6, Tennessee's District 6 over there in Middle Tennessee. You know, a lot of Republicans have come around to the idea: okay, we want no illegal immigration, right? All illegal immigrants need to come in legally. We need to remove them from the country. They need to follow our laws to do this the fair way.
We have a lot of people working to become citizens, but Something that more Republicans are talking about is the effects that legal immigration has on our communities and on our politics. And when you have Elon Omar, who was born in another country, Who holds rallies in a foreign language? And then denigrates our federal laws. And honestly, her language is so inflammatory. I believe it is inciting a lot of these riots that we're seeing in Minnesota and Minneapolis.
So we have literally a foreigner, somebody who was born in another country. Who there are some credible allegations, has even broke immigration laws. There are allegations she married her brother. I know the feds are looking into that to commit immigration fraud for her brother.
So, credible allegations.
So, she's a foreigner holding rallies in a foreign language and speaking out against federal law. And I think that this bill. that you are introducing with Senator Taylor. is addressing exactly that problem. Why would we have foreigners why would we have foreigners representing Americans in Congress?
It just it seems very out of whack. But what say you?
Well, I say I agree wholeheartedly because Omar is America last. Right. Correl. And Tennesseans are America first or Tennessee first. I mean, look at the fraud, the abuse, the waste.
That's happened in that state. We can't let Nashville, we can't let Memphis turn into what Minneapolis has turned into. I mean, you know, six, eight months ago, the mayor of Nashville was so adamant about doxing, identifying ICE agents, and basically working against what our federal law enforcements are trying to do to clean up our streets with criminal, illegal aliens of the worst of the worst. And so, we cannot have that type of uncooperation with trying to make sure people are safe in their communities. And we have this example right here in one of the highest offices in the land in Minneapolis.
And our goal, along, I believe, with Senator Taylor, is to make sure that Tennessee does not turn into a Minnesota, that Nashville or Memphis does not turn into a Minneapolis. This Garrett Omar bill is going to take care of that particular circumstance to protect. kind of thing. Um and that's that's that's why I'm that's why I'm running. That's why I'm doing what I'm doing to make sure what I've learned as a state representative.
That I can take it to Congress and support President Trump and make sure that he can govern. The way that he's been governing, the way that he's been communicating, the way that he's been cooperating. And look, look, I'd go back to looking at Memphis and how well. Look what he's done in DC. Look what he's done in places that are one, ruled by the Democratic Party.
For the most part, they don't want to cooperate at all with law enforcement. Look what happens. I mean, now they've actually, you know, it's my understanding, President Trump and Governor Waltz have talked. They should have talked two or three months ago. This should have happened long ago before the rhetoric got heated by the other side.
And they tried to find a boogeyman, right, by the ICE agents trying to enforce the law and and they're distracting from the real problem. That's what President Trump's not going to succumb to. He is going to make sure he protects Americans. He's going to make sure that America is first. And that's exactly what I'm doing here for Tennesseans because Tennesseans wants Tennessee money to go to Tennesseans.
And not and not to some Fraud-based group like the Somalians in Minneapolis. We cannot have that happen here. Senator Taylor and I believe that. I think the General Assembly believes that. And that's part of what I believe this bill is going to take care of.
And that's, again, one of the reasons why I'm going to be the strongest candidate in the sixth congressional race because I'm doing this now. I've been doing it in the State House for the past seven years that I've been a state representative, and I'm looking forward to take that same drive, that same commitment and bring a little Tennessee to DC.
So, folks, we are talking with Representative Garrett. He is a Tennessee House member, also running for Congress in Middle Tennessee in the 6th congressional district. You tweeted yesterday: we will never have a fraud first, America last member of Congress representing Tennessee. And I think that this bill we're talking about will help preclude that from happening. Before we go, Representative.
You're talking about you want to be an America first member of Congress rather than an America last member of Congress like Elon Omar. What does. being America first mean to you?
Well, the first thing that comes to my mind is Being proud to be an American, right? And making sure that we hold our values first. that we want to make sure that Americans, that Tennesseans, can prosper. The more money that you have in your pocket, the more money you have to do things at home. The less the government spends, the more money that you have at home.
And so therefore, with Doge, with all the cuts that we've seen that President Trump has unveiled for what we spend again for Somalia, that's not even for Americans, that has to stop. We have to look to ourselves, look to what America stands for and make sure we protect Americans and make sure we lift those Americans and Tennesseans up. Post. I believe that's what the America First Agenda, and I believe that's what President Trump has been doing, even in his first term. In this past year, that he's been president.
He's been the most consequential president, I believe, in generations. And I can't wait to help him pass his agenda that will ultimately help Tennesseans in the long run. And that's why I'm running for Congress, because that's what I've been doing for the past seven years in the State House.
Well, Representative Garrett, we appreciate you spending time with us today. If folks want to learn more about you and about your congressional race, where can they go? They can go to John and Garrett for Congress.com. Johnny Garrett for Congress on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. We've got all the socials, but Johnny Garrett for Congress.com is my website.
I would enjoy them to go there, learn about me and support me and secure their vote. All right, Representative.
Well, thank you for spending time with us this morning. We hope that you stay warm and that those roads clear in Middle Tennessee and power is restored. Luke, thank you very much. Have a great day. You too.
Senator Taylor, I said hello. Will do. Will do. Oh, folks. That is Representative Garrett.
It is nice to hear.
Somebody running for Congress who's America first and can articulate it and is introducing a bill with Senator Brent Taylor in the Tennessee legislature to make sure that Americans are elected to Congress and not. Foreign actors by this bill essentially will require political parties, so that's Democrat and Republicans, typically, right? We're typically a two-party Two-party country, that they can only nominate natural-born citizens for the role of Congress. Do you think that's a good idea? 901-260-5926.
We have a caller. We have Mike from Memphis calling in about the roads. Hey, Mike. Hey, greetings. But first, I'm going to comment on that last guy.
If I was running for Congress, what I would do is make it so that no one who receives aid or any kind of funding from a foreign country or has dual citizenship could be any member of Congress. Because right now, the problem is that we've got so many people that are knee-deep in lobbyist money from Israel, they can't see straight. It's an Israel-first country. Yeah, yeah. You know, I hear you.
And I think that what this bill does is basically say: if you're a dual citizen, you have to be a natural-born citizen to be nominated by a party. And if you're a dual citizen, you can't run. And it's true. You know, you can't have allegiances no matter what country you have a dual citizenship with. That implies that you have a certain allegiance to that other country.
And we need American first folks representing us in Congress. But you have a comment now about citizens should be able to clear the roads. Tell us about that quickly. We only have a few seconds left.
Okay. We have an adopt the highway, adopt the road program throughout many of the country. And right now, we can't afford it's not practical to have snowplows in every neighborhood.
So what we need to do is have it so that your local guy that's got a tractor and a blade can go through his neighborhood Clear the road for his neighborhood so everybody can get to work, and he pays no taxes for that year. And it happens, what, once every 15, 20 years? It's a win-win because we have people that are ready to line up to clear the roads and take care of their own communities. My half mile driveway is clear because I've got the equipment to do it. But you know, that's an interesting idea, Mike.
Mike's proposal is we should allow citizens to use their own equipment to help clear the roads in their communities in exchange for a reduction in taxes. Interesting idea. You know, that's kind of going back to the good old country roots. I grew up in a rural area in New York, and we actually it was on a gravel road over the summer, and the folks would get out with their shovels and and and Smooth out the gravel road, and the neighbors were kind of responsible for the road in front of their property. And that's kind of an interesting idea, Mike.
We certainly have an issue now with the roads not being clear, particularly in North Mississippi. We started the show this morning telling you that interstates 55, 22, 269, and Highway 78. Mississippi Department of Transportation is asking folks not to use those interstates, folks stranded overnight because of the road conditions. The National Guard is working on clearing those cars and getting those people to safety, but it is not a good situation. out there.
We will continue that story. On the other side of the break.
So stay tuned. We're going to get a quick traffic and weather update, and we will continue telling you about the situation in Mississippi on the other side. Yeah. Well, uh, KWAM audience. Luke Symbol here, filling in for Todd Starnes.
I'm in the principal toy at a Memphis studio. You are listening to Starn's country. It's been fun getting to spend the past couple of mornings with you all. I know a lot of folks are at home. They're not traveling, maybe working from home, or the kids are off.
School, and so we've spent our mornings together the past couple mornings sipping coffee. I hope you're in your PJs. If you recall, yesterday I had to pick up. Helen, uh, who whose car wouldn't start.
So you got to see me kind of in my PJs and a beanie, which is quite rare. I'm back to uh my normal self this morning. I like to at least have, you know, a button up on or something for you all who are watching on the live stream so I don't look like a complete wreck, but it's been fun. Spending the past couple mornings with you. And this morning, a heavier show with that breaking news in out of North Mississippi with motorists stranded overnight in DeSoto and Marshall counties.
Those are our friends and neighbors. A lot of folks either travel through those counties to get to work in Memphis, or if you live in Memphis or Collierville or Germantown, you work in Holly Springs or Hernando. You travel these interstates every single day, and they're just impassable right now. Shelby County Sheriff's Office just issued an update on roads in Cordova in East Shelby County. The sheriff's office is saying due to overnight low temperatures, black ice has once again formed on roadways in many areas.
Where some roads have improved, others have worsened, especially at intersections. The Shelby County Sheriff's Office is urging everyone to stay off the roads unless you absolutely have to travel. This is a real mess, folks, and I know it's supposed to be a little bit warmer. Tomorrow, maybe temperature is finally getting up to like 40 degrees, maybe a couple degrees warmer than that. But what happens is That ice and snow will start to melt, and then it gets frigid cold again overnight, and it And it turns into black ice on the roadways.
And I'll tell you, on my way into the studio this morning, the roads were worse this morning than they were yesterday morning because of that ice. They were really, really slick.
So please be careful. If you have to go out, use extreme caution. And again, if you are in North Mississippi, use that m.traffic.com. Lots of cameras available to you to check out the road conditions and the interstates right now. The governor of Mississippi is asking you, please do not use those North Mississippi.
Highways. You know, we didn't get to touch a whole lot on this because of the breaking news this morning, but there were some reports yesterday that Trump was pulling back on immigration enforcement in Minnesota. I just don't think that's the case. I think Governor Waltz and the mayor have finally come to terms that maybe these riots are not a good thing for them and their communities. And Donald Trump is kind of getting what he's asking for, which is more enforcement of the local officials there.
Stay tuned on that. Todd Starnes is back tomorrow morning on Starnes Country again. Thank you for spending the past couple of mornings with me. I really enjoyed it. I hope you all are staying warm, and we will see you tomorrow.
