Lawmakers Push to Keep AM Radio in Cars

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox. ] Randy Brooks will never forget the day he had to break the news — live on the air — to a woman that her husband had perished in a tornado. The KIXQ country music radio host had been tapped to help with 24-hour news coverage in the wake of a massive tornado that decimated Joplin, Mo. , in 2011.