The Megyn Kelly Show - Inside Deadly LGA Crash, Alarming Scientist Deaths, Quadruple Amputee Murder Case： AM Update 3⧸25

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly. It's Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, and this is your

00:00:08.180 AM update. We have to rain in ice and stop the violence. We need reform. Now former Senator

00:00:16.180 Mark Wayne Mullen officially sworn in as Homeland Security Secretary, jumping right into massive

00:00:21.880 headaches at airports and in D.C. As DX did not generate an alert due to the close proximity

00:00:29.640 of vehicles, merging and unmerging, near the runway.

00:00:34.460 New details emerging about multiple breakdowns leading to the deadly Air Canada collision

00:00:39.280 with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport earlier this week.

00:00:42.940 A bizarre series of deaths among scientists working on UFO research and technology has

00:00:49.400 one U.S. congressman asking questions about a possible connection.

00:00:53.500 and a wild story about a quadruple amputee athlete now accused of murder.

00:01:00.080 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:01:53.900 that's firecracker.farm. Attorney General Pam Bondi swearing in now former Republican Senator 1.00

00:02:01.700 from Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullen yesterday as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,

00:02:07.200 stepping into the role as the agency navigates a partial shutdown. Mr. Mullen tapped to replace

00:02:12.460 former Secretary Kristi Noem, whose tenure unraveled amid a series of controversies,

00:02:17.100 including scrutiny over a $220 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign,

00:02:22.940 backlash tied to her handling of a recent ice surge in Minnesota,

00:02:27.040 and allegations of an affair with colleague Corey Lewandowski.

00:02:30.600 Now Secretary Mullen inheriting a department under immense strain,

00:02:34.780 with critical functions like TSA forced to carry on without pay.

00:02:39.180 Secretary Mullen from the Oval after taking the oath.

00:02:42.340 I have made this very clear that I don't care what color your state is.

00:02:45.780 I don't care if you're red or you're blue.

00:02:47.960 At the end of the day, my job is to be Secretary of Homeland and to protect everybody the same, and we will do that.

00:02:54.600 I'll fight every single day.

00:02:56.080 Today I got the privilege of meeting so many of the employees at DHS.

00:03:00.920 These employees have been there for 30 days without pay.

00:03:05.280 And if you need anything to know their dedication to show up and still protect the homeland that you and I enjoy

00:03:12.180 and the freedoms that we're experiencing.

00:03:15.880 They're working for free because of political politics.

00:03:19.640 That's all I need to know.

00:03:21.040 I told them, if you're fighting 365 days,

00:03:23.060 understand I'll be fighting 365 days besides you.

00:03:27.160 DHS funding lapsing in mid-February,

00:03:30.240 Senate Democrats refusing to provide the votes needed

00:03:32.620 to reopen the department without reforms

00:03:34.920 to immigration enforcement,

00:03:37.000 like banning masks on ICE agents in the field

00:03:39.580 and requiring judicial warrants for some arrests.

00:03:43.760 Fox News' Chad Pergram yesterday reporting Senate Republicans working on a deal to fund

00:03:48.200 most of DHS, with the exception of programs under ICE that Democrats find controversial.

00:03:54.980 According to Pergram, the proposal would have funded ICE investigations into groups like

00:03:59.400 cartels, traffickers, and child predators, but would have excluded funding for immigration

00:04:05.380 enforcement and deportations.

00:04:07.020 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer yesterday afternoon throwing cold water on that plan.

00:04:12.740 Look, the bottom line is Democrats, and this is true of just every Democrat in my caucus,

00:04:18.400 has been consistent all along. We have to rein in ICE and stop the violence. We need reform.

00:04:26.400 Every one of my colleagues, everyone, A, believes that we should be unified,

00:04:32.760 and B, we need reforms of ICE, every single one.

00:04:37.820 And so the impasse continues, today marking the 39th day. ICE agents called in to assist

00:04:44.220 overwhelmed TSA officers at airports, yesterday marking day two on the job. Airports around the

00:04:50.340 country seeing some improvements in wait times, here reporting from CNN in Atlanta,

00:04:55.600 ABC in Philly, and NBC in Phoenix.

00:04:58.800 And there seems to be more lines open than normal right now with the TSA workers here

00:05:03.620 breezing people through.

00:05:05.580 And we've also seen those ICE agents moving through today.

00:05:08.520 A lot of folks are saying they're very pleasant.

00:05:10.660 We are standing in the middle where travelers come to check in for TSA.

00:05:14.660 Yesterday, this was all the way back to the garage.

00:05:16.760 So good news today, lines aren't too bad.

00:05:19.160 When you see ICE agents being deployed, what goes through your mind?

00:05:24.860 I like it.

00:05:25.880 I mean, I think Trump's going to holler it off.

00:05:28.280 TSA agents set to miss their second full paycheck this weekend if a deal is not made on Capitol Hill.

00:05:35.780 The National Transportation Safety Board, or NTSB, shining light on the final moments before

00:05:41.820 the deadly Sunday night runway collision at LaGuardia Airport. An Air Canada regional jet

00:05:47.920 arriving from Montreal, landing just before midnight when it collided with a Port Authority

00:05:53.160 fire truck, crossing the runway to respond to a separate emergency. Video showing the aircraft

00:05:58.780 landing on the runway as the fire truck moves directly into its path. The impact crushing the

00:06:05.040 nose of the plane, killing both pilots, identified as Captain Antoine Forrest and First Officer

00:06:11.400 Mackenzie Gunther. Miraculously, no firefighters and no passengers on board the aircraft were

00:06:18.180 killed. Six remain hospitalized as of last night. Many on board crediting the pilots with preventing

00:06:24.960 an even greater catastrophe, describing an unusually hard landing and aggressive braking

00:06:30.620 in the final seconds before the collision. At least 41 people were injured, including a flight

00:06:36.240 attendant who, according to the New York Post, was thrown roughly 300 feet from the aircraft,

00:06:41.960 found on the tarmac still strapped to her jump seat, suffering only a fractured leg.

00:06:48.180 Audio from the control tower capturing the stunned reaction in the aftermath of the crash.

00:07:04.220 Investigators now focusing on four key areas that may have contributed to the crash,

00:07:09.140 starting with a critical visibility gap on the ground. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy confirming

00:07:15.260 the fire truck that entered the runway did not have a transponder installed, meaning controllers

00:07:20.960 could not see its precise location in real time on their equipment. That lack of clarity compounded

00:07:27.100 by a failure of the airport's runway safety system called Airport Surface Detection Equipment

00:07:33.160 Model X, or ASDX, described here by Homendy. ASDX is a runway safety system which allows

00:07:41.640 air traffic controllers to track surface movement of aircraft and vehicles. Their analysis shows

00:07:48.040 that the ASDX system did not alert. ASDX did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of

00:07:57.420 vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track

00:08:04.560 of high confidence. What it looks like on a replay are two blobs on Taxiway Delta.

00:08:13.580 Hamendy also identifying a possible critical breakdown in radio communications.

00:08:18.440 One minute before the crash, a vehicle at the airport, Hamendy did not make clear which one,

00:08:23.960 making a radio transmission to the air traffic control tower that was reportedly stepped on,

00:08:29.500 meaning interrupted or blocked by another transmission. The NTSB chair also addressing

00:08:34.540 questions about staffing in the air traffic control tower, confirming two controllers were

00:08:39.520 in the tower at the time, handling multiple roles per standard overnight practice.

00:08:45.080 Homindia indicating investigators are working through conflicting reports

00:08:48.760 about who was tasked with tracking each movement on the tarmac.

00:08:53.220 Flight recorder data recovered from the flight, revealing the chaotic final seconds before

00:08:57.500 impact. Within seconds of touching down, Captain Forrest taking control of the aircraft,

00:09:02.380 braking hard. FAA-licensed commercial pilot Anthony Roman yesterday on Fox crediting the

00:09:09.180 pilots for saving the lives of their passengers. I believe they sacrificed themselves by remaining

00:09:16.180 in a straight line. They could have veered the aircraft to the right or left in an attempt to

00:09:24.080 miss that truck, but that would have created a greater problem and probably more passengers 1.00

00:09:31.180 severely injured and or lost.

00:09:35.740 Coming up, a missing Air Force general,

00:09:38.500 a vanished rocket scientist,

00:09:40.420 and several other high-profile deaths

00:09:42.560 in the American scientific community,

00:09:45.000 leading a U.S. congressman to raise questions about a connection.

00:09:48.960 And a bizarre murder case out of Maryland,

00:09:51.720 a quadruple amputee athlete

00:09:54.020 accused of killing a passenger while driving a car.

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00:11:20.080 Congressman Tim Burchett, Republican from Tennessee, raising concern about a disturbing

00:11:26.940 potential pattern after a string of disappearances and deaths involving high-level scientists and

00:11:33.000 military researchers. 68-year-old retired Air Force Major General William Neal McCasland,

00:11:38.760 long connected to UFO programs, spent years overseeing highly classified research programs

00:11:45.240 reported missing in late February after leaving his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. McCaslin's

00:11:51.620 wife telling authorities he left home on foot with only a backpack and a revolver. According

00:11:57.420 to his bio, McCaslin worked on a number of advanced defense and space programs, including

00:12:03.120 serving as commander of the Air Force's $2.2 billion science and technology research lab

00:12:09.800 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, a facility where he is believed to have overseen

00:12:15.480 the Air Force Space Weapons Program and UFO research, though the military denies it.

00:12:21.720 Post-retirement, McCaslin briefly consulting with musician and co-founder of the band Blink-182,

00:12:28.120 Tom DeLonge, as DeLonge began investigating how to push for more government transparency on UFOs.

00:12:34.400 Eight months before McCaslin's disappearance in New Mexico, another rocket scientist vanishing

00:12:40.860 from California, 60-year-old Monica Jacinto Reza, reported missing on June 22nd after setting out

00:12:48.600 on a hike in the Angeles National Forest. According to the New York Post, Reza hiking

00:12:54.500 with two companions who say she disappeared during the outing, prompting a months-long

00:12:59.740 search ultimately turning up, no trace of her. Reza previously working as a materials scientist

00:13:06.100 at a company called Aerojet Rocketdyne, where she helped invent a new kind of metal used in

00:13:12.520 advanced propulsion rocket engines, the kind that are crucial for, you know, space travel.

00:13:19.440 That research reportedly funded for years in part by the Air Force Research Laboratory overseen by

00:13:25.760 General McCasland. Now, it remains unclear whether the two ever knew each other. In addition to these

00:13:32.580 two disappearances, though, three more cases involving scientists in the fields of chemical

00:13:37.980 biology, nuclear fusion, and astrophysics who were recently murdered or found dead also now

00:13:45.500 drawing attention. In December, 47-year-old MIT physicist Nuno Loreiro shot and killed in

00:13:52.840 Massachusetts. You may remember this case. Authorities identified the suspect as the man

00:13:58.180 who also committed the mass shooting at Brown University. The suspect discovered days later

00:14:03.820 dead in a storage unit of an apparent suicide. According to the Daily Mail,

00:14:08.980 Lorero had recently been named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

00:14:15.420 In mid-February, 67-year-old astrophysicist Carl Grillmeier fatally shot outside his Yano,

00:14:22.260 California home in the early morning hours. Police later arresting a man named Freddy Snyder

00:14:28.120 for carjacking and then linking him to the shooting of Grillmire. The Daily Mail reporting

00:14:33.320 Grillmire played a key role in the discovery of water on a faraway planet, potentially pointing

00:14:38.880 to signs of life 160 light-years away from Earth. On March 17th in Massachusetts, the body of 45-year-old

00:14:48.020 pharmaceutical scientist Jason Thomas found in a lake. People magazine reporting Thomas had been

00:14:53.660 struggling with the recent deaths of both of his parents, who reportedly died within one hour of

00:14:58.500 each other. Thomas, the assistant director of chemical biology at Novartis, reported missing

00:15:04.020 in December of last year. Thomas was reportedly working on using chemistry and biology to create

00:15:10.120 new medicines, including for cancer. Novartis, his employer, has active contracts with the Pentagon.

00:15:17.480 Local police noting there is no evidence of foul play,

00:15:20.300 but not releasing a cause of death for Thomas.

00:15:23.480 The growing number of disappearances and deaths

00:15:25.780 now prompting questions about whether these cases

00:15:28.020 are isolated or possibly connected.

00:15:31.320 Congressman Burchett, one of the leading voices in Congress

00:15:33.760 pushing for transparency on UFOs,

00:15:36.180 now referred to as UAPs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,

00:15:41.100 telling the Daily Mail the incidents

00:15:42.700 are worth paying attention to.

00:15:44.380 The numbers seem very high in these certain areas of research. I think we'd better be paying

00:15:50.180 attention, and I don't think we should trust our government. The congressman also criticizing

00:15:55.220 federal agencies, including the FBI, for what he describes as a lack of transparency on the

00:16:00.520 missing scientists. Mr. Burchett describing General McCaslin's disappearance in February

00:16:05.560 as a national security issue due to the general's past defense work. Congressman Burchett yesterday

00:16:12.060 on The Benny Johnson Show, saying the timing of these events raises the possibility of a conspiracy.

00:16:18.580 The OB suggests there might be a conspiracy to play. Well, they ought to start thinking there

00:16:21.880 is because the FBI shows up when the guy's missing. He had some, everybody's thinking it's UFO,

00:16:28.060 but he had some nuclear secrets. There's just too many of them disappearing, Benny. I'm just,

00:16:33.140 nothing happens by coincidence in this town or around this town. Something's going on. It was

00:16:39.360 the week after president announced he was going to start releasing some of those files too so

00:16:44.020 america needs to start paying attention some of the some of the ufo files yep yeah and that may

00:16:50.820 be coincidental but we had several folks who have uh left this earth or disappeared that had some

00:16:59.520 close proximity to a lot of that and that's been going on for a while that's nothing new this is

00:17:04.660 the most bizarre story I've ever heard of, except for this next one. This next headline sounds more

00:17:11.840 like a twisted game of Mad Libs than news. A quadruple amputee cornhole champion now charged

00:17:18.400 with murder, and it only gets stranger from there. According to the Charles County Sheriff's Office

00:17:23.440 in La Plata, Maryland, 27-year-old Dayton James Weber is accused of fatally shooting a passenger

00:17:30.220 in his own vehicle Sunday night during an argument. Weber, who lost all four limbs as an

00:17:35.940 infant after a severe bacterial infection, led to sepsis, later becoming a competitive

00:17:41.400 cornhole player. Because why not? Earning national attention, including a 2023 ESPN profile.

00:17:49.320 I'm thankful for the Lord and giving those surgeons the power that he did that day

00:17:54.620 to be able to make such a miracle happen.

00:17:58.040 Everybody's got their reasons for being here,

00:18:00.660 but my reason, I feel like, is to inspire other people

00:18:04.160 just by me doing my daily tasks.

00:18:07.400 Investigators say Weber, the quadruple amputee,

00:18:10.420 was driving a car when he picked up

00:18:12.840 27-year-old Bradrick Michael Wells,

00:18:15.760 along with two additional passengers from work on Sunday,

00:18:19.580 with Wells riding in the front seat.

00:18:21.900 At some point, an argument broke out,

00:18:23.840 and witnesses say Weber pulled a gun.

00:18:26.880 How? We don't know.

00:18:28.480 Shooting passenger Wells twice in the head.

00:18:31.120 He then allegedly pulled over the vehicle,

00:18:33.060 asking the other passengers for their help

00:18:35.200 in removing Wells from the front seat.

00:18:37.840 The two witnesses reportedly refused,

00:18:40.240 then exited the vehicle as Weber drove away

00:18:42.820 with Wells still in the front seat.

00:18:45.180 The witnesses then flagging down police

00:18:47.000 reporting the incident just before 10.30 p.m.

00:18:49.920 About two hours later,

00:18:51.160 a nearby resident calling 911

00:18:53.140 to report a body located in a yard.

00:18:56.700 Wells pronounced dead at the scene.

00:18:59.400 Weber's car, located by the Albemarle County Police Department

00:19:03.200 in Charlottesville, Virginia, about 140 miles away,

00:19:07.220 the suspect found at a nearby hospital

00:19:09.860 where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical issue.

00:19:14.760 There must have been many.

00:19:16.860 He was taken into custody upon release from the hospital,

00:19:19.900 with authorities charging him as a fugitive from justice.

00:19:23.140 Weber now facing first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and additional charges awaiting extradition

00:19:29.840 back to Maryland. The case raising a central question, how did he do this? Authorities have

00:19:36.820 not detailed how Weber was able to both operate the vehicle and carry out the shooting, you know,

00:19:42.600 without any arms or legs. But social media videos posted by Weber show him to be an extremely

00:19:49.020 capable person, shooting handguns, rifles, even climbing a ladder without assistance.

00:19:55.280 How, you might ask? He has no prosthetics, but he does have stumps where his limbs used to be,

00:20:01.820 and he's very good at using them. Charles County Sheriff's Office Media Relations Officer Diane

00:20:07.820 Richardson releasing a statement that reads, quote, it's early in the investigation, but there's no

00:20:12.420 evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the shooting and that he acted alone. The defendant

00:20:18.580 has yet to enter a plea, but as of now, we don't expect him to point the finger at anyone else.

00:20:25.880 And that'll do it for your AM update. I'm Megan Kelly. Join me back here for the MK show

00:20:30.360 live on Sirius XM's The Megan Kelly Channel 111 at noon east on youtube.com slash Megan Kelly

00:20:36.120 and on all podcast platforms.

The Megyn Kelly Show - March 25, 2026

Inside Deadly LGA Crash, Alarming Scientist Deaths, Quadruple Amputee Murder Case： AM Update 3⧸25

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