Si at Six, The Top Six Stories For March 17th | 3-17-26

0:00Every day, excessive delays and denials from big insurers keep patients from accessing the care they need. And when care is urgent, these delays can be disastrous. These practices cost billions in wasteful spending, driving up costs for American families. But while big insurers put up barriers, America's hospitals and health systems are in your corner, navigating endless reviews and appeals to get you the care you need when you need it most. It's time to curb these harmful practices and put the focus back on patients. Brought to you by the Coalition to Strength in America's Health Care. Number one, well, we've got the same Patrick's Day parades.

1:02Of course, the big one going to be right in Kansas City. Look forward to that one getting underway this morning. Michael Mahoney is going to be here on the show to talk about it at 820 in about an hour and a half. Do not miss it. KCMO, but you got to bundle up this morning. It's going to be cold down there in Westport. So make sure you are ready. Kelly's Westport expecting more than 2,000 people to come to the doors today. What they didn't say is that half of them are coming just to warm up for a couple of minutes. My goodness, it'll kick off in midtown 1130 a.m. and the festivities will continue throughout the day. So it's going to be a good St. Patrick's Day, even though it's going to be a chilly St. Patrick's Day here across Kansas City. All right. Next up in our six at six. Number two. There we go. All right. Let's go to mission where a burglary suspect who is shot after allegedly opening fire on

2:03a mission. Kansas police officer on Sunday is now facing an attempted capital murder charge. William Parker Henry III was charged on Monday in Johnson County with attempted capital murder interference with law enforcement and burglary of a structure according to mission police at about 440 in the morning on Sunday officers were called to the target near Johnson Drive and Metcalf on a reported burglary in progress. When police arrived, they surrounded the store and quickly spotted the suspect near the back of the target carrying double bags. One of the responding officers attempted to confront the suspect, but the suspect ran away. As the chase ensued, investigators said the suspect reportedly grabbed a gun fired multiple rounds at the officer. The officer then returned fire hitting the suspect. The suspect was then driven into the hospital. No officers were hurt in the incident and Parker's being held on a $1 million cash only bond

3:04in Johnson County. That's a good job. Good job by Johnson County D.A. Steve Howell. Number three. How about the world baseball classic tonight's man, we've got the finals happening. It is team USA. And they will be taking on tonight, Venezuela, that is happening at seven o'clock on Fox, Venezuela, beating Italy last night in the semi finals. So going to be a good game, Mark. Have you scope this one out yet and made a little wager on this one yet or no? Not yet. A little bit later today, but just seeing the the Royals in it, you know, Michael Garcia and Salve on Venezuela, Bobby, of course, being a star free team USA, it's going to be a fun game. And is it Nolan McLean? I see who's getting the start tonight. Look at that. Yeah. New York Metz picture. Mm-hmm. So they're definitely going to lose. Oh, I'm just saying, man, you're putting a Metz picture on the mound for a world baseball classic. That's suicide.

4:04You're doing a relief like every like other inning, they'll just switch pictures. So could be a high scoring game, though. That's fine. That's that's probably the play. He may get a couple of innings to then move on very quickly. Don't leave them in too long like he did Matt Harvey in the 2015 World Series in game five. That man was snuffed out in that one. That's right. That was not good. That was not good at all. Well, I can't wait. It's going to be a great scene tonight. Kansas City has been one of the highest rated television markets for the world base ball classic. So people are going to be locked in in this town to that event tonight. Number four. All right. Next up, let's go to the White House where Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was diagnosed with early stage press cancer. The president made the announcement and talked about it yesterday. Wiles has an excellent prognosis according to the president and will be virtually full time at the White House. So Susie Wiles, she is 68 years old.

5:04The first ever female chief of staff for any president. I feel like that that's not getting a lot of attention or of course because it's Trump and doesn't get as much attention. But she is the first ever female chief of staff for any president. And now she's going to be dealing and battling breast cancer. The prognosis is excellent in the words of president Trump and we will send our prayers and we'll wishes to Susie Wiles as she starts her journey through breast cancer. Number five. In our six at six about this, let's go to thousands of workers striking at one of the largest meat packing plants in the United States. This is in Greeley, Colorado. So the first walk out at a USB slaughterhouse in four decades follows accusations from union officials that the company retaliated against workers and committed other unfair labor practices. They said the company offered wage increases of less than two percent annually, which is below Colorado's inflation rate.

6:07Employees were picketing outside of the Swift Beef Company plant in Greeley, one of the largest slaughterhouses in the nation. Union officials said 99% of the plant's 3,800 unionized workers voted to strike. More than 2600 showed up at the picket line by early yesterday afternoon and others were expected to check in over the coming days. So at a time when you've got beef prices obviously already sky high, there's some concern that this could make things worse, which is not what anybody wants to be dealing with right now. They note here the strike comes at a 75 year low in US cattle numbers with a January one inventory of 86.2 million animals down 1% from last year. But the client has largely been driven by drought and then low prices offered to ranchers and then beef prices have since soared to record levels. So just something to keep an eye on there in Colorado.

7:08And last but certainly not least number six, well, an update top Iranian officials. Two of them were killed overnight according to the Israeli defense minister. So these were both done by Israeli strikes yesterday and the news broke during the overnight hours. The killings come more than two weeks into the war effort against Iran that of course has been waged by the United States and by Israel. So two more leaders in Iran taken out by Israel during the overnight hours. There is your six at six top six stories in the six o'clock hour here on KCMO talk radio. Every day excessive delays and denials from big insurers keep patients from accessing the care they need. And when care is urgent, these delays can be disastrous. These practices cost billions in wasteful spending, driving up costs for American families. But while big insurers put up barriers, America's hospitals and health systems are in your corner. Navigating endless reviews and appeals to get you the care you need when you need it most.

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