a bit. live from the world headquarters of r t america in our nation's capital this is the news when rick sanchez everybody i'm rick sanchez and i'm here to welcome all of you who are watching us from all over the world putting those of you who are watching us on the portable t.v. ok so let's get started right now both federal and state officials are warning americans to not panic when it comes to gasoline shortages they say there really isn't a shortage right now but there will be if americans start panic buying the problem with that request is that there really kind of ease a shortage no it's not caused because there just isn't enough gas out there it's caused by a gas line that had to be shut down due to

a hack still i want you to look at this these are images i want you to see this is these are gas stations across the mid atlantic and southern states places like virginia georgia north carolina where motorists are finding pumps that are either covered up or with signs indicating there is no gas to be had out of service so to them anyway it's a shortage especially to those who are having to wait an hour in line to get gas from only one working pump right this shortage is being caused by a group called dark side which allegedly hacked and is now extorting millions of dollars maybe more from a company that operates the colonial pipeline the pipeline has now been shut down since last friday did you know. so how did this how to do this right

how were they hacked so the hackers are using ransomware it's a type of malware to scramble a company's computer data such only holding it hostage and kill a ransom is paid no money no gas or no flow right now both the company and the f.b.i. are involved as we speak can you imagine by the way this is no small pipeline colonial service is a 7 airports operates in 14 states is system and is among the largest in the united states funnels about 100000000 gallons of fuel every single day here's another important question does it have a remedy for this well sort of for now the company is saying it's working with shippers to transport about 41000000 gallons to delivery points along its pipeline as

a makeshift effort to try and supply gas so they're using big trucks. meanwhile will gas prices go up you betcha already have and i bet you have a lot of questions about all of the soda we. so we've invited an energy expert to try and pick us through what's going on here how bad 3 might it get on the news with rick sanchez where we believe it's time to do news again. so here's what we think you'll be wondering after you watch this newscast when is a gas shortage not a gas shortage how might like this thing last why is elam generous sending her long time running talk show get this new study our psychedelic drugs

a new possible treatment for mental illness wow. now to the apparent gas shortage that is not a gas shortages what we know the price of gas has jumped up to above $3.00 a gallon for the 1st time in quite a while this is really a weird development that involves possibly the cia definitely the f.b.i. billions of dollars and more importantly for you your ability to be able to buy gas to get to work at a journalist and boom bust host when one starts to solve. already the lines of cars are absolutely incredible as this shortage of gasoline is impacting the east coast of the united states just for instance here in metro atlanta where i am right now 60 percent of gas stations are reporting outages of gasoline and gas prices jumped just above $3.00 a gallon wednesday and many stations in the southeast were out of fuel the governors of florida north carolina and virginia have declared states of emergency to make sure there are enough supplies of fuel so when we say gas shortage just how

many gas stations are completely out of fuel with the supply crunch appears to be much worse in some major metro areas gas buddy reported outages impacting 71 percent of stations in metro charlotte nearly 60 percent in atlanta 72 percent in raleigh and 73 percent in pensacola. so that is creating huge problems for drivers but what about air traffic because the colonial pipeline carries jet fuel as well american airlines rerouted to long haul flights from charlotte north carolina because of possible shortages southwest and united flights carried extra fuel on flights the nashville tennessee baltimore and some other airports in case jet fuel was unavailable at those airports the f.b.i. has said that an online gang known as the dark side struck the colonial pipeline system with a ransomware attack which takes computerized systems hostage until a payment is made the buy ministration says that it will help to resolve this by getting fuel throughout the east coast and southeast by loosening restrictions on tanker truck travel and moving fuel by rail and even cargo ship but in the short

term the panic may only get worse. yeah and there is a bigger problem here too when we talk about the issue of whether or not there's actually a gas shortage here's the reality on the ground if you go to a gas station in metro atlanta right now you'll see just as we started the show with stickers and sticky notes and papers that say no fuel no gasoline available so even though we're being told there is no gas shortage there is definitely a supply shortage for consumers who are trying to access it the other thing that is causing a lack of confidence for consumers right now is the fact that we are now day 6 into this colonial pipeline shutdown and because we're not hearing any word on whether or not it or a ransom has been paid will be paid whether or not the good guys are able to react to this pipeline and get it back on line consumers and drivers have very little confidence in whether or not this will last another few hours in the few days or

will it go weeks or even months on in that rig more than anything else is causing a lack of confidence from drivers who are simultaneously being told don't panic there's no shortage but from a hacking perspective this is fascinating the fact that some company is. asked to pay a ransom and until they pay that ransom we are essentially all being held hostage do we know is is the f.b.i. ok with them paying the ransom. so the position that's being taken right now by the by the administration is that this is a private company and so they're not going to weigh in on it which indicates to me just knowing how these things have worked in the past typically you know governments will say we don't support pain or ransom they actually hear the biden ministries and say well this is a private company and they can decide what they want to do about a ransom indicates that this is going to be a much harder issue to deal with if you don't pay the ransom this is happened by

the way because you know to a lot of municipalities where their systems are shut down what we don't know about this group the dark side they're out of the former soviet union soviet republic and so these guys who kind of came on the scene last fall seem to be very sophisticated in what they're doing they could have these systems tied up for weeks or even months at a time and that's way way too long and i imagine it's going to be an issue about just one for the f.b.i. but for the cia to try and find out who these folks are what they're doing and maybe not pay them or pay them we'll just have to wait and see if the gas starts flowing once again good stuff great report i want to bring in an expert on this now his name is todd horwitz he's the founder and c.e.o. of aptly named bubba trading i've always wanted to say that in a report. bubba thanks so much for joining us i certainly appreciate you being the kid you want your perspective on all of the mean i don't even bigger question is do here i just want to hear your wisdom. and creativity with your record i think the

1st thing you want to look at is of course as usual 'd americans are but are panicking ok now there is going to be a little bit of a shortage here but you know it does not help that everybody is running to the gas station and filling up everything and cans tanks and topping everything off this is you know it's interesting because we've had sure it is over the years and i actually gas for one in the seventy's and the problem is is that people will not sit back and be. com about this we just came out of a pandemic where we were not even able to go outside so maybe if we relaxed we would allow the flow of gas in the go and then of course you've got the dark side of the world where some of the stations that probably still have fuel are holding off until they can jack their prices and increase profit but overall i believe this will be solved and i think the bigger question the bigger problem that needs to be addressed here is how did a hack in and how can

a country and anybody in the united states allow anybody to hack into our systems period and by you should be involved because about it's a private company or a public company and this is affecting americans and that's what needs to be taken care of by the president not in states but the more immediate question is when are we going to get our gas i don't know how these pipelines work i just read to go to our viewers that colonial says they're hiring trucks to try and get at least 43 percent of the area covered by getting the gas out there that way will that work. are sure that all work i mean you know they will be able to you know i don't know if oh say massively apis applied especially because we're going into more of a driving season right now as yet we approach the summer but i think that this will be 1st of all resolved and they will use trucks and as you heard they lifted the restrictions off of the trucking which will allow us to get more there and you know

this is there's a lot of areas in this country that depend on trucking and so we will be able to supply those in need but what i would bet you is going to happen if this continues is there will be a restriction on how often you can get gas because other that people will wait in line for hours to keep filling up everything they can do you expect these folks that kolo deal will actually. pay out this ransom. i don't think so i don't think they will i think we were. well figure it out i mean seriously we have we do have the the smartest people in the world here they should be able to figure it out or i would suspect they get replace the system that has been hacked now again i am not a computer expert i don't want to get into that part of it but i would suspect we could replace it now i'm just wondering if at this point you heard what i said at the beginning of the newscast when when is a shortage not a shortage would you characterize this as

a shortage of this point even though the companies are telling us no it's not. no of course is a short look at the end of the day you can't hide that we're not pumping in more supply you can't hide that we're not going to get what we've been getting on a daily basis through colonial however again a lot of the shortage goes back to the americans panicking we were toilet paper we watched it with the towels you know people get in knots and they go crazy over this shortage and they can't put themselves in mind the same that they do in markets themselves if you look at the oil markets themselves they're not exploding like this is going to be a major problem yes prices are going to go higher but there is a slight shortage but i think we can resolve it but we really need the help of the american people to sit back and not panic and run to the station and go as needed not just to get it they'll be going out there topping off your tank every time

they're ready every half hour that is the advice that we get from from bubba the last day i really enjoyed talking to you you're a smart guy i can't wait to get you back we'll be watching this and hopefully you'll be able to take thank you rick appreciate it. and we have a development on that particular story breaking news folks this is going to make a lot of you very happy you will soon get your gas colonial pipeline has just announced within the hour that they're going to be restarting that gasoline delivery for 5 days as we just mentioned in these stories of being. shutdown probably a couple of days to get the supply flowing to back to where it was but we thought you should know once again colonial says they have apparently come to terms whatever that means don't know at this point by the way whether they actually paid the ransom or not i'm not sure they'd be willing to admit that this is the news of rick sanchez when we come back there is dr bob are not who's going to be joining us

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and others it is official helen generous is calling it quits she says after a long conversation with her wife that they decided that it was time to take a break but of course the talk in hollywood and in other circles is that she's really stepping down because of accusations that her workplace and as a result the staff had to be shaken up some people were fired a sign that well the accusations were most likely true which she kind of admits she said problem is i hired people who were running things for me and i didn't pay enough attention to what they were doing. what's the real story here and what's it mean joining us is one of my favorite colleagues the host of watching the hawks let me share cross what do you what do you thoughts on this story of me you know i've been thinking about it myself and trying to put it in its proper perspective what's

yours. first of all i'm glad to be here waiting and i think that the story has been developing for a while now and we went and i mean a while i mean over a decade the allegations against the island's generous staff has been one that has been covered now for about 13 years a largely ignored by major media and cell last year in the middle of the pandemic when she decided to fire all of her all of her crew in order to get a nonunion crew to work at her house and at that point all of these other allegations came forth as well and they were allegations like you mention a toxic work environment part of that was individuals who said that they were fired while they were pregnant people who said that they were fired while on people whose racist comments the slurs that were being made there on a regular basis and just the amount of fear and toxicity that was provided throughout that environment and it was it was crazy i think that it was very explosive was released but to be honest i was most shocked by the celebrity class

that stood by her during that time we had kevin hart we had katy perry you had so many people totally ignored the fact that ellen staff and it was stood by and watched it happen and they were so abusive to those who work under them and again this isn't new information isn't it going on while our show had a 19 year run and almost since the inception of this show these abuses were happening that you know i'm glad you said that because there's a part of me you know listen i think she's a great talent she puts on a great show but there does seem to be a double standard out there and there are some people who are media darlings the ellen the generous as the anderson cooper's i could go on and win these folks make a mistake it's treated differently than what other folks make mistakes and there should be one set of rules not too right. you're absolutely correct and i think that for someone who i was a huge element in to see her be someone who leaned in all civil rights and justice

who leaned in all social movements and you know because i wanted my former roommates in college actually worked for the ellen show to know the time the scenes of what individuals working for were going through it was very frustrating to see her stand out and call out other shows even she called out was news host of things they were accused of meanwhile she had. was no once again extremely aggressive and you know commit evil see my least an event and i think that really over the years and over time she would shield it from a lot of the damage because there were so many people who are elite in hollywood who happen to protect or i want to read the quote that she used to explain what happened with her staff i've not been able to stay on top of everything and relied on others to do their jobs as they knew i'd want them done clearly some didn't i mean for most people 1st of all that's an admission of guilt and ignorance is not an excuse sorry. you're absolutely right here rick she i know she initially

apologized after basically ignoring these allegations for years she initially apologized on the show but i think that was the 1st the 1st dagger in her coffin at the point where she finally admitted there were issues but tried to kind of distance 1st from them and that was the beginning of the point she argues that she's basically letting this show go on to other things it's basically run its course we all know what rain it's course was her getting in hiding but these allegations yeah yeah it seems that way as well and i think that's a fair assessment you know what we wish her well we hope she does well in whatever endeavor she does hey that's great thanks so much we certainly appreciate your time and come visit more often will you. absolutely their information here's a story for you this one weird too it's been the story of we are the newscast filled with kind of bizarre stories today millions of americans are suffering from mental illness right we know that p.t.s.d.

and depression you name it right it's gotten especially bad to the code pandemic for for a lot of people well drug companies and other professionals are now thinking that they have arrived at a new cutting edge way of treating these conditions are not going to believe this especially those of you who have you know memories of the sixty's or lived through the psychedelic drugs what they include l.s.d. more famously known as acid and psychedelic mushrooms and other things like m.d.m.a. which who knew that's the active ingredient in ecstasy so far there's some clinical research leading to these to to this formulation of this idea but there's also a lot of pushback right societal pushback given the negative image of the drugs in the popular imagination so for more on this the 1st thing we want to do is go to our television doctor dr bob arnot standing by to tackle this this cm's really strange and certainly counterintuitive my good friend. it does you

know so interesting records is this is one of these stories that you say are at the top don't try this at home although you may have it because. you know these psychedelic drugs tend to have amazing properties for instance they used to psilocybin with depression and now they found that you know head to head against a standard anti-depressant we call s s r i's as an example but it did as well but there was more of a sense the well be near you know. during this whole pandemic you had a massive decrease to monitor oppression inside 2030 percent of the population to it so amazing is that there's been so little progress in terms of you know new pharmaceutical agents over over decades very very little progress so this looks very promising but there are there are cardiacs side effects which some of the thing is you know you could have a psychotic break so these patients were very carefully screened studies that the

general population starts to you see you can imagine you know acute psychosis and terrible illness and bring out here and it's you know years away from from f.d.a. approval for most of this keeping are easier to keep category c.n.n. and v.a. which it's very easy for a post-traumatic stress disorder and the psilocybin for depression the 2 most recent studies well look to fix a i do believe there's a place for drugs that we as a society or maybe our government has have told us are completely evil obviously you shouldn't take them without some recommendation or some help from a doctor but i think there is potential out there for some of these things that have not been explored because they're just considered to to move 2nd point i want to make i want to do that i wanted you to react to is at the same time bob you know i have taken hitters and some of the other meds that people go on they can be pretty harmful i've seen people do some strange stuff and react in very negative

waves as a result of those 'd so i guess what i'm suggesting is there may be a place in the middle for this there may be a compromise. the other is you know it's a win to feel he was caught by richard nixon i think the most dangerous man in america so there's definitely you know the government is very you know hard out against that with good reason because you know all these toxic side effects here as you point out you know the s.s. our eyes they start to reach up to can be a better is yes in our eyes or what not. you know when you fall a real big bag and look at the published once published studies you know there's not a tremendous amount of that gets you there and there are side effects there so we are on the hunt for these new medications what i think is interesting is that you have what we call these does so sheet of states which is why people would use these drugs you know for a creational purposes reckon it takes you away takes you if your own body gets you to see things in a different kind of way so it's super interesting stuff a long way off and i can't emphasize should help don't go out and buy some

mushrooms or buy yourself for this free but the most interesting of all these new system pioneered of the best uses general hospital boston they say ketamine you know ketamine is a drug that people have used in the past it's phenomenal in terms of pain because it's a particular receptor. ward actually where they have tried this a top hospital in new york but it's now used for depression and for people with very severe depression you know nasal spray ketamine has been quite promising in quite useful so you know very careful studies very very tight in terms of the criterion that patients are made of the study with you know the scary careful with just what it is what it what it was what if the how when you're late but it's a little bit of the. that's exactly right but that's part of the fight of it is that it pulls people away from reality and you know the reality isn't that great.

you made a great point especially after going through ko bit of everything else we've got not to mention the politics of our nation and some of the economic woes maybe getting into a different mind or phase would be had by not recommending it. i mean i'd as soon as you said i went to the googles can't i mean 1st thing is loose an agenda in some form of course not compared to like drop acid or something like that that's fascinating that's good stuff well great conversation always good to see bob thanks for your wisdom so much you really appreciate it we appreciate it and that's our news thanks so much for being with us some fascinating stories today i think i've characterized some of them as weird because they kind of have been we'll continue to look for the stories that affect your lives. obviously we think that's probably one of the most important promises of why we choose the stories that we share with you whether they're happening here or in china or in vietnam or across the street i'm rick sanchez i want to thank you so much for being with us

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