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A Deadly Day in MKE, Road Rage & Funny Money
Lunchbreak with Ray & Shannon · Tue Aug 18, 2026
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is that the parents do all they can.
But once the kids leave off that door, whatever have you, they make their own decisions.
I don't care if you're nine or 99, it's still your decision about the situations that you get involved yourself in.
Look into their taxes.
Look into this.
We talking about elected officials doing backdoor deals and somehow she still wanna blame immigrants.
That's what we talking about right now.
We following the money and you still wanna blame black people and immigrants and welfare and all of these things for policies and backdoor deals that put poor people in worse position.
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about to say you better watch it, Shannon.
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They don't got stuff like ranch like you ain't gonna be able to get no ranch out there So we are gonna bring some seasonings though We gonna bring the lorries because we gonna be preparing some you know Caribbean food for the for the wedding as well for the reception So we got to bring the carry.
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They were doing that.
I like all kinds of sauces.
Very mindful.
More
Family-sized bag of chips.
We got big gulps.
Like these people come home with diabetes.
Like they were trying to just eat it all.
They were like, you ain't supposed to go to Olive Garden and McDonald's and KFC in one day.
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We got a lot on the menu today.
We got a lot on the menu.
I'm gonna give him a quick skim of the menu, Shannon, and I'm gonna let you get into our appetizer.
All right?
Of course.
So, you know, on the menu today, we're gonna be, you know, diving into a little play to this Penn State frat house.
We got busted for cocaine traffic ring.
Yes, at Penn State, the prestigious Penn State.
I almost wore my pen hoodie today.
Not Penn State, Penn Business School, but you know.
Yo, I
that's
Then we want to get into a scoop of this late night Milwaukee shootings that have been going on where it was a couple people that actually lost their life prayers to the families.
And one person in particular sounds like was very, very dear to the Milwaukee community, especially the music community.
So we'll get into that as well.
Then.
We also want to get into breaking down the case for organ donation in Milwaukee's black community.
It was an article on that talked about that I can't remember whoever sent that but a shout out to ever sent that for us to check into And then we might like I don't know might take this off the menu.
I'm sick of this There's any Trump food.
It just it just stinks, but it's something on there talking about No nukes don't go down.
I mean
and I ran, so we'll see.
But no, we'll see about that.
But then we also have the Waukesha Meyer shooting.
That's Meyer, right?
That's how you say that word?
So we'll get into some of that.
And then we also have not enough babies.
America is falling behind on the baby making.
Maybe it's the music.
They ain't making love no more, man.
And this menu fool, I don't know if we're gonna get to all this food.
Then we got Stephen A. Smith versus the National Association of Black Journalists.
And some things
that was
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This story sounds like something straight out of a movie, okay?
A surrogate mother leaves Alaska, heads to Texas while pregnant, and ends up in the middle of a legal battle over who gets to raise the baby.
So this is what happened.
McKenna West is serving as a surrogate in California for a couple.
During the pregnancy, the doctors discovered that the baby has a heart syndrome, a serious, potentially life-threatening heart condition, actually.
Um, the attendant parents, they said that they discussed terminating the pregnancy after the diagnosis.
West says she was pressured to have an abortion, something that the couple denies.
She ultimately decided to continue the pregnancy, ran off to Texas where she gave birth on August 12th.
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the
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West wanted to keep the baby and has argued that the Texas law gives her parental rights because she gave birth there.
And the intended parents, however, they say their surrogacy agreement in California court ruling established that they are the baby's legal parents.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also stepped into the case arguing that the new board...
newborn-needed, life-saving medical treatment, a Texas judge ordered that the baby receive that care.
The baby got two names at this point.
The parents are calling it Rumi.
The lady that ran away with it is calling it Gabriel.
He underwent a complicated heart surgery and is now in custody of his parents.
Wes has been restricted from seeing the baby so far.
That's what the New York Post is reporting.
And this is raising a huge question It's when a surrogate changes their mind about pregnancy, especially when they there are serious medical conditions or complications involved who gets to decide what happens to the baby So it's now not even just about abortion or surrogacy anymore.
It's about parental rights Contracts state law and who gets to the final say about a child's medical care.
We also have a clip for you guys
life-threatening heart defect they asked her to get an abortion But the surrogate said no and ran to Texas and now the attorney general is involved.
Let's get into it So hypo plastic left heart syndrome or HLHS is a condition where the left side of the heart never forms properly and without treatment a baby can die just hours or a few days after birth now standard treatment not always a cure and the treatment consists of three open heart surgeries starting with the Norwood procedure within days of the baby being born now even with the best care
Survival is still uncertain.
About 70% make it to age five, but that number drops to just 31% by age 35.
The oldest person to survive HLHS is in their 30s.
So for many parents, choosing abortion after this diagnosis is a medically sound decision.
And that's exactly what Intendant Parents Nishan Gilkar and Omar Ahmed had decided.
Now, their surrogate McKenna West signed a binding contract granting them full authority over fetal medical decisions.
And when they asked
her to terminate the pregnancy based on the HLHS diagnosis, she refused and fled to Texas where abortion is outlawed and is now using the state's restrictive laws to force the intended parents into a medical pathway that they never consented to.
Now, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson has intervened.
Ken Paxson is demanding that hospitals perform these surgeries against the intended parents' explicit wishes.
He also wants to strip the intended parents of their parental rights and void the contractual agreement they made.
with the surrogate.
Now, McKenna-Wess surrogate is in a difficult position, right?
She doesn't wanna get an abortion and would rather the fetus have the surgeries, right?
However, some people are arguing that her wishes should not matter since she did enter into a clear legal agreement.
And her personal thoughts are now overriding what the intended parents see as a deeply considered evidence-based decision.
Now, the intended parents are seeking to have the fetus transported to California after birth.
So here's the question I want to ask y'all.
Should a surrogate's personal beliefs override a signed contract and the medical judgment of the intended parents, especially when the fetus has been diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition?
Or does the person that's carrying the fetus have the final
That's not
Now it's super political and that that's exactly why she ran off to Texas But we'll be right back after these messages.
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Yes.
We're talking about that surrogate situation.
We just talked about how that Alaska woman ran off with the California people baby to Texas.
And there's a lot of talk online about who should be, I mean, who gets the baby because she wants to fight for the baby.
They called it a fetus after it was born.
That should tell you a lot of where they're coming from.
is there is their world where like, you know the The surrogate like the parents who were expecting to take ownership of the baby or raise the kid right not the birthing I know that sound crazy
It might be time to send this back to the kitchen.
But like, is there a word?
Because the people that were expecting it, they said they wanted her to abort the kid, right?
So we're like, that's an interesting conversation.
If they like, nah, we don't want to go ahead abort the baby.
And this person is like, nah, I'm not doing that.
I'll take care of the baby.
Is that not a conversation worth having or?
And this is just me asking a question because I think it's a very important one to ask and and quite frankly The most important thing I ain't even hearing none of them consider is like yo Like what's what's gonna happen with this kid?
You know what I mean?
Like God's God's willing on this kid grows up to be happy and healthy, you know
Like,
Yeah.
And then on top of that, like, I think the biggest issue is like the last reporter said was like this.
Whatever her condition it is.
I think it comes along with a lifetime of medical issues.
So I would think she'd be Responsible for the medical expenses personally like we could take our baby, but you you responsible like something needs to be I think the biggest issue here is that When it was a fetus that was determined that there are some medical issues and they wanted to abort and she took it upon herself to run off to Texas and
Deliver this baby that indeed like the doctor said needed a lot of medical attention and all these things So it is it said the seric Lucretia says the serigate is saying possession it nine-tenths of the loss of the baby is hers wait, what?
That's not like a football thing But um, yeah, so I think the biggest thing is
I see a lot of people saying, well, they didn't want it at first.
They shouldn't want it now.
And it's like, that is different when it's like a fetus.
Now the baby is here and that's our baby.
Let's do what we got to do.
So it's just a lot of back and forth and a lot of conversations coming from that.
And like, even with the legalities of it all, they said that it was in plain writing.
When you're a surrogate and I've seen a lot of videos like about actual surrogates, it's very plain and clear.
What you're signing is very plain and clear.
What you're expected to do is very clean and clear.
We are we are basically the ones that make these decisions So for her to run off like it does sound like she is mentally unstable like if you're gonna be a surrogate I You know, I feel like you you probably have to be ready for whatever situation arises.
Hmm Yeah, a three three two one two ten seventeen is the number to dial we'd like to know is she wrong for running off with the baby after
They said they wanted to abort it.
So she's like, no, I'm keeping it.
And then she probably went to this.
I don't think that was just random.
I think she picked Texas.
Oh no.
But she ran off on the plug, man.
She ran off on the plug.
if you're signing paperwork that says like these people can like They have all the means to tell you to abort a baby Why would you sign that contract to begin with like I don't like no I can't be a surrogate because there's an off chance that they might say never mind eat this like
It's just so many crazy situations that this made me think about.
Like, um, and maybe they start adding this to, um, contracts.
I don't know what a surrogacy contract looks like.
I don't know what.
that process is like, I know some people that have been surrogates before or used surrogates.
Sure, you could like customize your own contract.
know, maybe that's something
Because I feel like it has to be understood that it wasn't from a place of like, we just don't want that baby.
We don't like that baby.
It was from a place of medical like standpoint.
Like they had all this.
Like with all the facts that baby is going to have a lot of surgeries and it's going to be very expensive It's gonna be very medically draining for like they said what open heart surgery or something
for a baby
Yeah, I feel like I'm doing just fine.
You
Yeah, I had it as a one-year-old.
I had VFD repair.
It was torn and I had two holes in it.
So you look at that.
I
DJ.
I mean, open heart surgery is open heart surgery at this point.
It don't matter what it is.
It's open heart surgery.
they would
have been accountable for the bill if like it was agreed upon like hey Yeah, we going through with this pregnancy.
I'm sure that's always in the once a night, but you can't just
in the contract, not the what's-a-name, you can't just make up your own rules and be like, all right, y'all don't want it, I'ma keep it, and I'm outta here.
you
how
Getting our terminology up, y'all.
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When we come back, we will be getting into something else on the menu.
Penn State frat houses busted.
in cocaine trafficking ring.
Yes, the prestigious Penn State Frat House busted for that cocaine.
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This is the award-winning one-on-one, seven-to-truth lunch break crew with Ray Nitty, maybe Shannon, DJ, Brother Z. Don't go anywhere.
To other news tonight, two fraternities at Penn State University are at the center of a highly profitable cocaine ring, according to state prosecutors, who say the drugs were cut and packaged right there in the frat houses sometimes by pledges.
Among those charged, 13 current and former students and one student's father.
More now from CBS's Michael George.
Investigators say all but one of the 14 charged were Penn State students at the time of the alleged criminal conduct.
Pennsylvania's Attorney General Dave Sunday says the drug operation was run inside two fraternity houses in 2023 and 2024.
Cocaine was primarily packaged at the fraternity houses and in fact we found a pattern of events that showed cutting and bagging cocaine was for some pledges an indoctrination
into the Delta, Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities.
Authorities say the two main dealers were senior members of the fraternities.
Agostino Abatiello was at the very top of the chain.
Thomas Robinson was a rung below that on the ladder.
According to the criminal complaint, the drugs were sold at parties and other college social events.
One defendant is accused of buying more than five pounds of cocaine in a nine
month
period.
Six defendants are facing felony charges.
Eight others are charged with misdemeanors.
Penn State says it's placing Delta Upsilon on interim suspension pending an investigation.
It says Sigma Chi isn't recognized by the university.
The packaging happened at off-campus fraternity houses.
And there was one non-student charged, Paul Robinson, the father of one of the suspects.
Authorities say he concealed evidence, including a safe containing drugs and cash.
Tony?
because let it have been like hazing like yo hate first of all, you know what I gotta watch how I phrase this But they play
They pledges might be up through the roof next time they got a line.
Hear me.
Introduce them to the plug.
What you mean?
Man, what?
They over there getting money, man.
I'm trying to be down with them.
or five.
They got pounds of cocaine
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