Ryan Wrecker reports on local gas prices and news stories on WORD.

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Full Transcript Ryan Wrecker: And welcome back. Thank you for spending time with us. I'm looking at some of the text messages, and I'm a little bit envious. Some people say average price is about 3.69. Here's one that says they're in Simpsonville paying 3.50 to 3.70. Here's another one, 3.62 a gallon. Much better than what I'm paying up here. One said diesel is about 5.89. All right. Well, enjoy your cheap gas in South Carolina, ya lucky people, you. If you want to reach me online and brag about how cheap your gas is, @RyanWrecker on Twitter. Thank you for rubbing it in my face. Saw a couple of other stories here that I wanted to bring up, and there's one from Fox Carolina, and a real sad story, honestly. I see that a 24-year-old pregnant woman lost her life after her hair got stuck in a go-kart sprocket. And when I heard that, I thought, man, that is a new way. I have never considered that. I've been on go-karts before, but I don't have long hair. My wife has long hair. My daughter has long hair. And now when I see this, this is terrifying to me, because if your hair is flying around or whatever, how easy is it to get caught up on something, and then what happens if it doesn't rip out? She was 15 weeks pregnant when she was injured. She and her boyfriend just learned they were having a baby boy, and she was taken to the hospital for injuries, but ultimately died about 7 days later after her hair got caught in the go-kart. Absolutely terrible in South Carolina; this is in Sumter. Real sad to see that happen. I'm sorry that you have to deal with these sort of things, these freak accidents. How does that even happen? That breaks my heart when I see things like that. Another story, and we have a couple of minutes here. This is another story I don't understand. So, TMZ has given an update onto ex-Wheel of Fortune announcer Jim Thornton. So, the Wheel announcer was on a plane, and apparently people observed him on his phone—which, you know, these phones have giant screens on it—and they saw him looking at chat rooms that discuss pedophilia. So, at first he was dismissed from the show real quick, and then people wondered what happened, and then the story started to come out. Well, people saw this, and they had to alert police. And it says they're worried that he was online in these chat rooms. TMZ posted a photo of a pic taken in May by a passenger seated near Thornton on the American Airlines flight. The passenger grew concerned after seeing chat room messages on Thornton's laptop about, quote, "cute boys" and quote, "hot little girls" at a restaurant, so she reported it to a flight attendant. So now they're using the photos... you know, when someone saw this, they snapped a quick photo like, "I got to get evidence of this because it's my word against his word. I need some evidence because this is something you should not do." So they posted the photo of him looking at it, and apparently, they used AI to try to enhance the photo to see what he was Googling at the time. In the photo, it shows Jim on his phone reading results for a Google AI search. Shortly after, the flight attendant, who spoke about being concerned, forced him to close his laptop. The question that this guy asked AI was something along the lines of, "I think someone saw me looking at this chat room. Should I be concerned?" It said AI searches unclear, but we can see from the screen, reads quote, "No link to your room unless you explicitly told someone I am hosting a specific chat room on... for right now nobody's [blank] at the internet [blank] your link..." People can't see the whole screen. But it seemed like he understood people saw him. He was asked to close his laptop, and then he posted and looked at his phone, "How concerned should I be if people see this? Should I panic?" First thing I thought of when I heard this story—and please bear with me because I'm just going to give you my raw emotion on this, and I understand that this is probably not the f ...

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