caller: good morning, mr. quinn. as they understand it, the coal industry has made great strides in emissions. all that you get out of it now is water vapor. here is something, if you could shed some light on -- if you were to go to your computer and search "free energy suppression," you would get over two million pages on suppression of free energy of the past 100 years, going back to where magnetic energy, drying energy from the eye on this atmosphere, suppression comes from many forms. when companies buy up the patents or buy up -- or even inventors have been killed -- there are free energy machines out there. but the big energy governments own the media and have suppressed this technology. i don't know if you can shed any light on that. kohl is in there also trying to suppress this. you would be out of a job. if you could go ahead and shed any light on this, it seems impossible for me to believe that, over a hundred years, our technology and science has not come up with something better than fossil fuels. and the

mr. lonnie quinn to tell us about the weather. >> yes. first i got to give a shoutout to my nephew who works on the curiosity project. my nephew johnny, way to go, buddy. here's the news about the wildfires. the wildfire threat continues from washington state all the way to portions of utah. the problem is lightning. take a look at the satellite and radar picture. a lot of times you think of lightning associated with a norm and a lot of rain. this is dry lightning. the rain is all part of a big old front exiting new england and sweeps off shore. then it hooks back around to the southern plains. the tropics, we have hurricane gordon as of 5:00 a.m. the good news is that gordon is pushing into the middle of the ocean. it's moving more towards spain thant u.s. closer to home. it's more of a storm for mexico. tropical storm helene. this will push to the mexican shoreline but it's a weak tropical storm. that's a quick look at the national picture. little look at the international picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >

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