Yeah, okay. Hi, welcome to another day Friday, February 18th, 2022. It's first thing with Kevin Mano.

It's been a big week for Dr. Dre. Just five days after he put on one of the better half time shows we've seen in some time.

The guy is celebrating his birthday. He's 57 today.

Vanna White, John Travolta, Molly Ringwald, and Jay Hope from BTS are also celebrating today. Happy birthday to them too.

But mostly to Dr. Dre. All right, we start with those top stories. Still Russia number one. I feel like a broken record here, but according to US officials, it's not if they will invade. It's when President Biden said there is a very high risk of their invasion of Ukraine in the next several days.

It is believed that if Russia does in fact invade, it will begin with cyber attacks and missiles and bombs fired across the border. And the Justice Department actually issued a warning to US companies as well saying that we will most definitely be on the receiving end of those cyber attacks. So shore up your cyber security now.

Some COVID news here cases across the country are way down. That's great. There's been a 64% drop over the past two weeks. Some are saying the actual end of the pandemic is in sight.

This hope comes as the CDC released new data that states the US recorded more than 1 million excess deaths since the start of the pandemic. That means a million more deaths than we would typically see in a two year period. That's a big number.

Okay, getting into sports. We slipped again. Your daily Olympic update. Team USA is now fifth in the metal count. Speed skater Brittany Bo did get a bronze yesterday in the women's 1000 meters. That was actually the first Olympic medal of her career.

Congrats. We still have a few chances to medal this weekend, but it's going to be hard to catch Norway. They are crushing it.

The 2022 Daytona 500 is happening this Sunday. Michael McDowell won it last year after a last lap crash open that door form. He's in it again this year. Will he repeat?

We'll see the great American race will be broadcast on Fox on Sunday. I should make it clear that everything I know about auto racing. I learned from the cars movies.

I have another update on that Rams victory parade that happened Wednesday. This one isn't so great. A photographer named Kelly Smiley took a step backwards and fell off of a pretty big stage during the event and she fractured her spine.

Matt and Kelly Stafford and the Rams are going to cover her medical bills and replace her broken cameras. I have a video of the fall in our Instagram stories right now.

I don't know what was going through the guys head, but it's not a good look for Matthew Stafford. This video he he watches her fall and then he turns and just walks away. Maybe there were paramedic standing right there and he knew he wouldn't be any help. You know,

he's saying so he'd been drinking all day. I don't know. The video is posted in our Instagram stories. I hope she's okay. Okay, okay. We turn now to entertainment news. More of the same for Kanye yesterday. He just kept going after Pete Davidson. He called him out for mental health jokes.

The Pete made on SNL in the past and then he went after Lauren Michaels of SNL and even Perez Hilton got dragged into it somehow and then Kim Kardashian unfollowed Kanye on Instagram. Kanye started following Pete Davidson's new account.

It feels like I'm talking about high school drama here sometimes, but these are these are grown-ups. Hey, everybody say hello to Kelly Brienne. Hi, Kelly Brienne. That will soon be the new name of the artist currently known as Kelly Clarkson.

She's been going through a divorce in six months ago. She has to judge to restore her maiden name and now she's changing it again.

Brienne is actually her middle name. Her birth name is Kelly Brienne Clarkson and she wants to go by Kelly Brienne. Now you do you Kelly. Sounds good to me.

She said her new name quote fully reflects who I am. So Fiat Giroud just made history. She is a 24 year old model from Puerto Rico.

And she just became the first Victoria Secret model with Down syndrome. She said quote, thank you Victoria Secret for seeing me as a model who has no limits.

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