All right. Good morning everyone.

Sorry about the long wait. As you can see, I got the old mic from the old studio here. We had some sound issues. So thank you so much for sticking around.

Real quick, did all of you see the new special feature we had up on Appalachia?

I think I call it Appalachia, but people there say it's Appalachia, I believe.

We talked about, of course, I was on the ground in North Carolina and people I talked to there.

Incredible, incredible stories.

Let me know what you all think of it.

Again, it's on Crossroads now, so if you haven't watched it yet, you can go there and see it.

Again, thank you so much for being here, folks.

Sorry about the wait.

I appreciate you all sticking around.

I got my coffee here, luckily.

Anyways, everyone, we have some good topics lined up. I want to go into Trenda,

a gang we should not be dealing with, but we're dealing with nonetheless.

That gang, that Venezuelan gang, has been recruiting underage people in New York City and other places.

But there's actually stories that are even going and recruiting like kids from high school.

They say as young as 11 years old.

And the problem we have with that is that in some

cities like New York where they've changed the laws on crime so that if you're under 18, it's

kind of a slap on the wrist unless you do something really serious. These kids are basically

getting away with crime. And so the gangs are using children and teenagers to commit their crimes for them,

and they're kind of terrorizing New York right now.

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