July 10, 2026

(Friday) Morning Run: Deadly Factory Fire, Robinson's Multiple Murder Confessions, Major Lynette Hooker Update, Diarrhea Parasite Spreading, WH Column Renovations and Record World Cup Audience

(Friday) Morning Run: Deadly Factory Fire, Robinson's Multiple Murder Confessions,  Major Lynette Hooker Update, Diarrhea Parasite Spreading, WH Column Renovations and Record World Cup Audience

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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00:00:01
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday, July tenth.

00:00:10
Speaker 2: I me a me robot, and she is not ready for this episode. I literally just had to smack you to get you to start talking with I was watching the weather report.

00:00:20
Speaker 3: I wanted to see how hot it was gonna get today.

00:00:22
Speaker 2: Should we start over?

00:00:23
Speaker 1: No?

00:00:24
Speaker 2: Are you sure?

00:00:25
Speaker 3: I'm positive? I'm totally focused now.

00:00:27
Speaker 2: Okay, folks, I'm TJ Holmes. I was gonna start by saying all is right with the world because finally we got Love Island and World Cup back yesterday, but apparently it didn't do didn't do you any good.

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Speaker 3: I mean we did stay up late, so there's that. But no, I'm ready to go. It's Friday, time to celebrate, time.

00:00:46
Speaker 2: To celebrate, time to possibly see a new movie this weekend. I don't know if we're gonna do this, but it's being talked about Robes. This horror movie is something that's going to be uncomfortable to watch like it is one of the scariest and goorioust and nastiest in the whole Evil Dead franchise coming up as well as out now.

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Speaker 3: That's hard to imagine because obviously that franchise.

00:01:03
Speaker 1: Is known for all of the above. We watched a I forgot which number it was last night.

00:01:08
Speaker 2: It was the one with the Cabin in the Woods.

00:01:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we watched that after we watched Love Island. We stayed up late last night.

00:01:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess we did.

00:01:14
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah we did.

00:01:15
Speaker 2: It's wrong with us.

00:01:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're just enjoying our lives.

00:01:18
Speaker 2: We're enjoying ourselves out wherever you are, you're enjoying yourself and looking forward to your weekend as well. But on the morning run, we got a number of stops to make in China and Michigan, Ohio, Utah, Boston, and the Bahamas. But roads, let's start at the gas pump. We're trying to find ways to keep updating everybody about what's going on with the war of Iran because we can't keep it clear based on what the President is telling us. But one of the best indicators sometimes of how things are going take a look at gas prices.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so, if this is any indication to all of you, gas prices jumped five cents overnight. That is the largest one day jump since the ceasefire in May the average is now at three dollars and eighty four cents.

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Speaker 3: So yes, I think it.

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Speaker 1: Can be concluded that things are not going in the right direction.

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Speaker 2: That is absolutely the case. Look, they have been going down for the most part for a month, Robes. That is great. We're still not at the two ninety eight that we were before the war started. But well, it's not a good sign unless you know how people are feeling about how things are going. So I wanted to give you that quick update. But we'll continue on the run here now and make a stop in China, where twenty eight people have died in a fire at a shoe factory there. According to state media, the factory's owner, Robes has been detained by authorities. We've seen some cases in other countries things like this happened. Folks are in handcuffs before the fire has even put out.

00:02:41
Speaker 1: Side there is like immediate accountability, and so they believe the fire right now started around noon at this factory in the southeastern part of the country.

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Speaker 3: It's a region referred to as the shoe capital of the world.

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Speaker 1: So there were at least two hundred and forty people there on site when the fire broke out.

00:02:58
Speaker 3: Search and rescue efforts are continued.

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Speaker 1: They have not determined the cause of the fire, which is what makes the owners arrest so interesting. If they don't even know how the fire started. To have already detained the factory's owner is just an interesting way of operating.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is something they deal with regularly, there, tragedies having to do because they have factories with so many people in them. They have mass casualty events at factories. The number I saw the day was three thousand people that have died in factory accidents. My goodness this year.

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Speaker 3: Wow, we wouldn't that's yeah, that's not sustainable.

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Speaker 2: So this goes in line kind of just another one. But I don't know if I expect that number to go up a number of dad, But it's search and rescues underway.

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Speaker 3: All right.

00:03:41
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Health officials say they still do not know the source of that nasty cyclospora outbreak.

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Speaker 3: This was a big topic of conversation in our house yesterday.

00:03:50
Speaker 2: But there's some reason at lunch.

00:03:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.

00:03:52
Speaker 1: Really ill, ill times. Yes, the number of people sicket has now grown to fourteen hundred.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked was yesterday Rose They said it was about a thousand cases was reported yesterday. Most of those are in Michigan still but now Ohio, Ohio has at least two hundred cases reported, other cases being looked at least two dozen other states. Now Cyclo spur again. You were reminding us that your dad often reminds you of what this is.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's described as a diarrhea causing parasite, and literally if you look it up, it says explosive diarrhea. The good news is it's not typically fatal, but it is spread when someone eats fruits and vegetables that had been washed or rinsed with this contaminated water and they're looking, yeah for this source. Hopefully they find it soon, because this is horrific to have to go through something like that.

00:04:43
Speaker 2: Well, Robes, we have no idea what to pull off a shelf or to change our habits.

00:04:49
Speaker 1: Well, we definitely want to wash your vegetables and fruit with your own water and use a little soap, especially given this outbreak. All right, Next up on the run, Tyler Robinson confessed the killing of Charlie Kirk on.

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Speaker 3: Several occasions and to several people.

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Speaker 1: This according to evidence that was presented at his preliminary hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 2: The hearing has been going all all week. This is for the judge to determine if there is enough evidence to move forward with trial. Widely expected that yes, absolutely, But an interview that investigators did with Robinson's roommate was played in the court room yesterday, and in it, the roommate tells investigators that Robinson confessed to him after the shooting shooting and even started crying and expressed regret for what he had done.

00:05:31
Speaker 1: So. Prosecutors also presented text messages in court in which Robinson tried to convince some skeptical friends that yes, he was actually the shooter and did you see that stuff.

00:05:41
Speaker 2: To where they didn't believe him, and he was saying, no, look at the surveillance video that's being played on the news. That's me, like he was describing, like that looks just like he was trying to.

00:05:49
Speaker 1: Convince them that it's surreal to think that this is just the preliminary hearing. How and the hell is there going to be a defense when trial actually begins, If it begins, given all the evidence we're seeing here, Yes, so the public also is off for the first time. This letter that Robinson left for his roommate, and it read I'm likely dead or facing a lengthy prison sentence. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. There are some media Outlet's say, based on just yesterday's testimony, it looks like he admitted to killing Charlie Kirk at least three times.

00:06:23
Speaker 3: So yeah, this will be an interesting defense.

00:06:25
Speaker 2: So well, I didn't get the word they said it was going to go all week, so I don't know if they feel like it is going to be wrapped up if it's done.

00:06:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's they said five days.

00:06:33
Speaker 1: Today's day five, so it's likely it will be over today and a judge may actually hand down his ruling, which is to determine if there's enough evidence to go to trial. Pretty sure that's been established, and whether or not the death penalty should be on the table.

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Speaker 2: All right, I continue on the run here now. Eight men have been charged for an alleged plot to attack the White House UFC event that took place last month. The government alleges the men planned to target members of the Trump administration attending that eventes this story in this number of indictments has kind of grown been reading the details of this, Robes. This weren't just some guys talking to each other online.

00:07:10
Speaker 3: No, this was serious.

00:07:11
Speaker 1: They actually had a hierarchy in place as to who would be the sniper, who would be putting themselves most at risk.

00:07:17
Speaker 3: I mean, there was an elaborate plan.

00:07:20
Speaker 1: All of the men are between the ages of nineteen and thirty two. We don't know how close they came to pulling this off, but authorities alleged the men had collected.

00:07:28
Speaker 3: Weapons and tactical gear.

00:07:30
Speaker 1: It was one of their moms who made a phone call that foiled the plot.

00:07:34
Speaker 2: Good old mama, she loves you. Mama loves you, but she ain't gonna let you.

00:07:37
Speaker 3: Do wrong exactly.

00:07:38
Speaker 2: I mean, good for her, all right. Continuing on the run. Here now a potentially significant and case altering update on the case of Lynette Hooker, the Michigan woman who went missing in the Bahamas in April. Robes. I didn't see this one coming.

00:07:55
Speaker 1: I did not either, so her husband Brian claimed at the time she fell off this dinghy, they were writing it and they got separated.

00:08:02
Speaker 3: Well, now investigators.

00:08:03
Speaker 1: Are considering a completely different scenario that she actually never fell off the dinghy in the first place. CBS News, citing law enforcement sources, is reporting that Lynette may have actually returned to their sailboat and then had an altercation with her husband on the boat before she disappeared.

00:08:26
Speaker 2: In all this we've been talking about this case, I never thought about, well, maybe that happened. I always just considered, yes, she went off into the water, or.

00:08:34
Speaker 1: He pushed her, or yes, or there was some sort of altercation on the dinghy. I never thought about he just made the whole dinghy thing up.

00:08:40
Speaker 2: What the hell I did not. So, yes, they were supposed to be in the dinghy going to the sailboat, and the word is that maybe she made it back. But here's the thing worlds. At the same time as CBS is reporting sources telling them that they're looking into this theory, Lynette's own mother has been doing interviews out there in which she is saying the same thing that her daughter made it back to the sailboat. End quote. There was foul play. She did not elaborate on why she believes that, but instead offered this quote as a mother, It takes longer than I would anticipate. But that's what the coastguard told me to say, that's all I'm saying.

00:09:20
Speaker 3: What sounds like charges are coming?

00:09:22
Speaker 2: What in the actual hell it.

00:09:25
Speaker 3: Sounds like we're going to be getting a big, big, big updates. Wow, all right?

00:09:28
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Former Olympian David Hearn pleaded not guilty yesterday to federal vandalism charges. He is accused of damaging the reflecting Pool. Hearn, who represented the US as a canoeist in three Olympics, was indicted on one count of destruction of property resulting in more than one thousand dollars in damage. While the administration calls him a vandal, he's being called a scapegoat among supporters, who say this administration is just looking for someone to take the fall for its crappy repair job, but the reflecting pool. When he came out of court yesterday after pleading not guilty, people were waiting outside for him, cheering.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that, sweetheart? I saw that, and I saw him wearing khakis and a navy jacket, looking like the simplest little dude, like wouldn't bother anybody. And I'm trying to label him as a vandal facing.

00:10:21
Speaker 3: A felony in ten years behind bars?

00:10:24
Speaker 2: Okay, violently right, I keep going back to Jeanie Shapiro two.

00:10:27
Speaker 3: By two violently pulling. I mean this is where we are.

00:10:31
Speaker 2: Well, stay with us on this Friday Morning run when we come back. Oh yeah, the President has another major construction project underway at another historic site in DC. Also coming up. We know it was bad, how bad we lost to Belgium. Well we got some new numbers in and it actually is worse sticking.

00:11:01
Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Friday Morning Ron and next up on the run. Yes, another construction project is underway.

00:11:08
Speaker 3: At the White House.

00:11:09
Speaker 1: This time it's the iconic columns at the front entrance.

00:11:13
Speaker 2: Don't you get nervous when you hear I mean, is he tearing down the White House?

00:11:16
Speaker 1: And Bill don't have to get permission from anyone before he does this?

00:11:21
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, you're serious? Yeah, seeart, what has he gotten permission to do?

00:11:26
Speaker 3: Exactly? I mean, I just feel like this is bizarre, so cool? You paint them gold or something, you know what.

00:11:31
Speaker 2: We didn't get word on that, but we're talking about the iconic columns in front of the White House. Now, scaffolding has been put up and a tarp like thing went up yesterday and they're starting what they're calling repairs. So what needs to be repaired? Robes they say, or at least the Interior secretary said. This all came about because the President noticed he would go outside to the front and Greek world leaders who had to get out of their cars, and he noticed some door dings on the scaffolding. So he's on the columns on what I say, scaffolding on the couns. Yes, so he wants them replastered and okay, all of it being done. So hey, let's let's he's improving the house.

00:12:10
Speaker 1: He lives there, all right, making some renovations, tearing.

00:12:14
Speaker 2: It down like these wings.

00:12:15
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean he's already got that huge project going on right now.

00:12:18
Speaker 3: All right, Next up on the run.

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Speaker 1: As if the four to one loss to Belgium and the World Cup wasn't bad enough, we're now getting word that a record number of people saw this game.

00:12:29
Speaker 2: This makes it work.

00:12:30
Speaker 1: Yes, the US versus Belgium match on Monday was watched by thirty three million people. That is the largest US audience ever for a soccer match.

00:12:39
Speaker 3: That's remarkable.

00:12:41
Speaker 2: We had all the eyes that this is when we needed to put on a good show, right and that just sucks to hear the game. Sucking to hear the most people ever saw you have the worst performance. Maybe, yeah, that's ever when it counts, that's that is just guess supposed to be excited that that many people were excited to watch? Should we take that as a.

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Speaker 3: We looked so terrible though, Yes, that's the word.

00:13:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, the record before this one was the game before this one, right, they set the record for the most watched soccer game in the match they played before this one, and then they set a whole new one. So yeah, well we're still enjoying World Cup. Finally here France first team to secure places in the World Cup semi finals beat Morocco to Neil yesterday. I thought this was going to be a closer, tighter, more competitive game. But Imbape and crew looked ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: And Bobbe afterwards looked like he hadn't even like he had just gotten up from the couch. He didn't look text or like he had just been running ten miles probably up and down that field.

00:13:43
Speaker 3: He looked cool as a cucumber. I was impressed.

00:13:46
Speaker 2: He is must see TV folks, if you I'm sure you have by now, but do not miss another match he plays.

00:13:51
Speaker 3: In exactly so and that comes I believe next week.

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Speaker 1: Right, But we've got Belgium and versus Spain today at three pm. Two games on Saturday, Norway versus England and Argentina versus Switzerland. So a lot of fun World Cup action this weekend. But before we let you go, we will give you your quote of the day on this Friday life.

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Speaker 3: This is an honor of Sincere, I figured I.

00:14:15
Speaker 2: Do a metaphor. Oh my god, it's just a metaphor.

00:14:21
Speaker 1: That's all that's It's not as nothing else, since you're other than the fact that it's a metaphor. As I started it, I started laughing thinking about him.

00:14:28
Speaker 3: All right. Life is like a camera.

00:14:31
Speaker 1: Focus on what's important, Capture from the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don't work out, take another shot.

00:14:44
Speaker 2: Okay, that was you know what we needed that. I get it. Sometimes it's simple and it can be silly, but these things work if you take a piece by piece. Hey, maybe you don't need a Buddhist monk. Today is not the day. Maybe this is the way it gets through to you.

00:14:59
Speaker 3: This is your Friday Day quote of the day. We don't have to be so serious. Life is like a camera.

00:15:03
Speaker 1: Focus on what's important, capture from the good times, develop from the negatives, and.

00:15:09
Speaker 3: If things don't work out, take another shot.

00:15:11
Speaker 2: This obviously, those quote is from before iPhones.

00:15:16
Speaker 1: All right with that, everyone, we hope you have a picture perfect day today.

00:15:20
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm DJ Olmes. Always appreciate you're running with us. We'll talk so