and no major crashes working at
this time. So hoping we can
keep that And Lisa. >> All right, Andy, thank you.
>> All right, Andy, thank you.
Spencer Solves as bringing us a
special morning. Addition to.
>> Yes, our buddy Bill Spencer
known for helping folks in the
community. He’s got a massive
project kicking off today in our massive lobby bill, good
our massive lobby bill, good
morning.
>> And Lisa, how you guys do?
And yeah, this is a gigantic
I’ve been working on for months. We’re here in the grand
months. We’re here in the grand
ballroom of KPRC TV for what is
going to be a very, very busy
next 2 days will tell you
what’s happening. We’re going
to be setting up right here in the ballroom. We’re going
in the ballroom. We’re going
to have volunteers and KPRC
insiders joining us here today
and what we’re going to be
doing is building more than 100 brand new bicycles for some
100 brand new bicycles for some
very, very special children.
Now, these children are
actually airlifted from
Afghanistan exactly one year
ago last August to protect
their lives were brought here
to Houston. And we’re going
to be giving them brand new
bicycles. Let me show you how
this all got started. ♪
>> One year ago, August 2021,
chaos and fear. The fall of
Kabul. Thousands of people
desperate trying to get out of
Afghanistan to safety. Some of these people did make it out
these people did make it out
airlifted to the United States
and some we’re brought right
here to Houston. started
getting notifications out to thousands of 5 Afghan refugees.
thousands of 5 Afghan refugees.
They will.
>> You need to be evacuated
from Afghanistan.
>> These are the bravest of
people, Afghans who worked
side-by-side U.S. military forces for years. Most of them
forces for years. Most of them
had to leave everything they
own behind interfaith
Ministries provides housing and
other basic necessities for these people.
these people.
>> OK, and got a dime of these
families earlier this year,
there was one thing missing
something all of the children
were wishing for. They told him we need bikes at the time.
we need bikes at the time.
We did bring them a few bikes
>> question what we needed
more.
>> A lot more. So that’s when I started hunting for a large
started hunting for a large
retailer to help us out.
>> People respond to crisis and
people out of any generals.
>> And in the end, the great
people of Walmart step forward agreed to provide whatever we
agreed to provide whatever we
needed.
>> Bill, it’s going to be about
80 to 100 bikes. We have a lot
of says go and start building
these bikes to be able to get
back to the community. We’re really excited to be able to
really excited to be able to
partner with an organization to
give these bikes away.
>> Now, Ricky Munoz and the
Walmart team will help
volunteers get those bikes road
ready. >> We’re going to show you that
>> We’re going to show you that
a bill, the bikes, not only
which is in the building, but
we’re going to show you how to
secure them so nobody can get
hurt. And we’re going to able
to school you step by step.
So nobody makes him a 6. >> And once built and tested,
>> And once built and tested,
we’ll work with interfaith
ministries to distribute these
brand new beautiful bikes.
The children of these heroes.
these heroes.
>> What makes America great and
what makes us great city and
great people is that a lot of
compassion. And we can how. What about people have gone
What about people have gone
through?
>> Being able to donate and
give that smile to somebody who
doesn’t have the opportunity
like everybody else does really makes you think how the world
makes you think how the world
really is right now.
Yeah, we’ve got some really
incredible people working on
this project. All the folks from Walmart, Ricky Munoz from
from Walmart, Ricky Munoz from
Walmart. He just met.
>> The people at Interfaith
Ministries. Plus, many of you,
many of our KPRC, 2 insiders again, are going to be coming
again, are going to be coming
here to KPRC 2 Once we got all
the bikes set up in stations
are going like 10 different
stations where we’re going to
be putting these bikes together. I’ll be building
together. I’ll be building
them. Lots of KPRC, 2 staff
Amy Davis. I Danielle Guzman,
all these people are going to
be helping us build these beautiful bikes for these
beautiful bikes for these
children who have just been
left out. They came here to the
United States and they’ve been
given the things that they
really needed, the the absolute necessities like food and a
necessities like food and a
place to live. You they’ve been
given English training, but
nobody thought about the fact
that they have no bicycles, all
their friends here in the United States have bikes and
United States have bikes and
they had none. We’re going to
make that cumplir going to
change all that for these
beautiful, beautiful little Afghan children. That’s today
Afghan children. That’s today
and tomorrow. Today we build
tomorrow, we give those bikes
KPRC, 2 ballroom back to you
on it. >> It is. It is great for
>> It is. It is great for
mission Bill. We will be their
buildings will and indeed Zack
Meisel. We have a 10. 30 ships
will see you out there in a