Sept. 14, 2026
(Monday) Morning Run: Another Measles Death, Hanging Death Arrest, Kamala Harris Scare, Gas Prices Jump, Harry Comeback Tour, Celine Comeback Residency,”Mama” Lady Gaga, Practical Magic 2, and 78th Annual Emmys
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, September 14th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Hope you had a good weekend as we get started on what is definitely going to be the best week ever here. Because I said it's going to be. That's how we're going to start. College football well underway. Some things went well for some of us, some didn't.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Of course, NFL is back. It was a big weekend. We were traveling yesterday. It was kind of cool to see everybody in their team uniforms and whatnot at the airport.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's always fun when it's football season. We love it. We had a Saturday of college football.
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Speaker 1: Much to your mom's delight.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we were visiting mom and dad in Atlanta, and yes, one of them likes college football a lot more than the other.
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Speaker 1: It was fun. Great weekend for us wherever you are. Hope you had a good one and getting off to a good start. We're going to be making a number of stops on this morning's run, including in the UK and California and Jackson, Mississippi. A concerning stop in Pennsylvania. Also, we'll make a stop at the gas pump in Paris and Flushing Meadows. Also at the weekend box office, as well as in Hollywood in particular. But Rose, what in the world is going on? We're not... Measles is not supposed to be a thing necessarily anymore, but this is really concerning what we're seeing out of Pennsylvania, nothing showed of an outbreak there.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And Pennsylvania is reporting its third measles-related death, and this is all amid an outbreak that's been going on over the summer. Health officials say a 40-year-old woman died this weekend of complications of the measles. They did say that she was not vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: Rose, they said 99% of the cases... that they're seeing are people who are not vaccinated. I don't know what the rules are, what the standard is anymore. People just were not vaccinated against the measles anymore. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And look, a lot of people are pointing the finger at RFK Jr. and saying that there's been mixed information. People who already might be hesitant to become vaccinated are now feeling empowered not to do so. And there is now a huge warning among officials, specifically in Pennsylvania, saying, please, please, please get vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the numbers are up. There are at least 700, around that number 700 now, and 120 plus people have been hospitalized. Now, it was concerning when just last month, Rose, they said there were two deaths. And you hear a third death, that doesn't necessarily, it's not a way, one death is too much. But the thing is, they haven't had one death in that state in the past 35 years. So here we all have three. This is why it's so concerning at this point.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, you probably noticed if you were out and about this weekend that gas prices are shooting up once again. This is getting very uncomfortable. The national average is now sitting at $ 4. 31 a gallon.
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Speaker 1: Concerning there, because that's $ 0. 15 in a week, that is a big deal. Keep an eye on it. So if you know gas prices are going up and oil prices have been going up, yes, we were talking about it getting closer and closer to that $ 100 mark. It crossed it and now has well surpassed it. $ 108 a gallon is where we were starting off the week. So that's up 3%. So that's something else to keep an eye on. And you know what it is. It's the war in Iran and also some other issues with oil pipelines in that region. But yes, Robes, we are heading the wrong direction.
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Speaker 2: We certainly are. Another place we have our eye on is Jackson, Mississippi. A man has been arrested for the murder of a black woman found hanging from a tree there. He is expected to make his first court appearance today. We're talking about 51-year-old Jacques Ratliff. He is facing a murder charge.
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Speaker 1: Police say he had an association with 29-year-old Tasia Fortune. Now, that's all they would say is that they had an association. We do not know what that means. The mother of four was discovered hanging from a tree behind an abandoned building in early August. That set off, of course, concerns about this is Mississippi and a black woman hanging from a tree. I don't think I need to say much more than that. But it turns out, and they did point out, this is a black man who has been arrested and they do believe more arrests are coming.
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Speaker 2: And yes, we will be keeping our eye on that courtroom to see any more details that may come out from today's hearing. Also next up on the run, Vice President Kamala Harris had an uninvited guest at her Malibu home this weekend. Police were called after a suspicious person was spotted on the property.
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Speaker 1: But Robes, this didn't make sense to me. Police got there, made contact with the woman, and she voluntarily left. And that's the end of the story?
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Speaker 2: It's weird that she wouldn't have been charged with anything. Like, I don't know, trespassing?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the property of somebody who might be running for president again. But yeah, Harris and her husband were not home at the time. But that's the part, Robes. No harm, no foul. They talked to her and thought it was... She just innocently strolled onto the property of the vice president?
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Speaker 2: Maybe she was just curious and I don't know. Maybe she meant no harm and they.
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Speaker 1: Felt comfortable with that.
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Speaker 2: I agree. It's a little strange that there were no arrests made.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to try that next time. I meant no harm. We good here?
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Prince Harry is getting busy as a non-working royal, making his first appearances since moving to the UK. His first public appearances, we should say. First, later this week, he'll be at two events for the Invictus Games. Those are, of course, the Paralympic-style games he founded for service members more than a decade ago. And then next Monday, he will attend and speak at an event in London for a charity that honors seriously ill children.
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Speaker 1: And the day after that, he'll be in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, that annual meeting that takes place here. He is listed among the featured participants named by the organization. Neither here nor Megan. We haven't seen him in public yet, but what's this? Everybody buzzing about it. I didn't see her Instagram post.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes. It was like life here in the UK, and she had some carefully orchestrated photos where you could see her face and Harry's face, but you couldn't see the faces of the kids. But it looks like wherever they are, if it's their estate, it looks expansive and beautiful in the English countryside. So, yes, she was just sharing a little glimpse of her seemingly perfect life.
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Speaker 1: You lost me at carefully orchestrated photos. I'm serious. Once you said that, I tuned out the rest of it.
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Speaker 2: She's been very careful not to show her kids' faces. We just see their little bodies and their cute little... Heads of hair.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, Celine Dion is on a comeback tour of her own. This is a big deal. Four years after she announced she was battling a rare neurological condition and six years after her last full concert. If you remember, she felt and her fans were afraid that she would never sing again publicly. So she opened up her already sold out 16 show residency in Paris over the weekend and And after the 58-year-old singer performed her opening song, I'm terrible with French, on ne change pas, whatever. It means one doesn't change. She wiped tears of joy. The audience was crying. She was crying. She blew kisses to the crowd of 300,000. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Former First Lady Michelle Obama was also attending, we're told, discreetly. Have you seen an image of her?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Paris even temporarily renamed the train station Stop Serving the Arena. as Celine. She last performed in the City of Lights in 2024 at the Paris Olympic opening ceremonies. That will forever be one of the more memorable moments in ceremony history.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was incredible, but it was a four-minute performance compared to a full concert. And it was back in 2022 that she revealed.
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Speaker 2: She was suffering from stiff person syndrome. It's a rare neurological condition that causes stiff limbs and muscle spasms, making it difficult for her to walk. It impacts the way she sings. And so the crowd was reporting everyone was holding their breath. She was too almost as she hit some of those high notes. All by myself was how she ended it. And people just, I mean, they said, it's not the voice. That she once had, but my God, she nailed it. I have chills just thinking about it, how difficult it is for her to do what she's doing, and she's the best of the best.
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Speaker 1: Even if it's not what it was, it's still better than 99.9% of the best singers on the planet. It's so true. I love some Celine Dion. We've got to put some of her music on today. I love some Celine Dion. And she performed all of.
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Speaker 2: Her favorites and crowd pleasers. Now I'm wishing, I mean, they're sold out. It's too late. But now I'm reading all these stories about people like traveling around the world to see her because this may be it, these 16 concerts. We missed the boat.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the best memories of my career being backstage with her and she stopped an interview so we could all dance to Cher's, Cher was performing on stage. She stopped everything. talking to me and led everybody in backstage and dancing and singing to share songs. I'll never forget that. That woman is freaking special. Not just her voice. That lady is special.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. All right, next up on the run, congratulations to Lady Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polanski. We just learned that the two welcomed their first baby to the world, but here's the deal. We literally don't know anything else, including the baby's name, the baby's sex, the baby's date of birth, or whether or not Lady Gaga was pregnant.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I didn't even know she was engaged. I'm sorry, baby. I am so behind on a lot of this stuff, but she was last publicly seen in August. She stopped take a selfie with a fan. Both she and her fiance have been keeping a low profile over the past few months. Now, is there, we really don't know if she was pregnant?
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Speaker 2: No, we don't know because she wrapped her latest tour back in April. And look, there were even, there was speculation that there was something wrong with her and Polanski because they hadn't been spotted. People were speculating about their relationship. turns out yes they had something a much bigger project brewing that they didn't want the world to know about but there are now the first photographs of Lady Gaga and she's walking alongside there's a woman and then Polanski and she's got the baby you know in a little carrier around her it's it's Looks brand new and adorable.
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Speaker 1: It looks brand new. I love it.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations to them.
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Speaker 1: We thank, I guess, for whatever happened with whatever you got.
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Speaker 2: Instababy has appeared.
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Speaker 1: Well, stay with us on this Monday morning run when we come back. This really would have blown the roof off of what was already one of the best summers in New York.
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Speaker 2: But.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, fell up short at Flushing Meadows. We'll explain what happened. Also, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman took out Spider-Man. And a big night at the Emmys. And not just about who's going to win. It's about who is going to open that show.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Monday morning run. And the American men's drought at the U.S. Open continues. This was a disappointment, but it was exciting to have him even in the finals.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 1: I would rather lose in the quarters. Really? And then there was so much hope on this. No, this is not a knock against him. Look, Ben Sheldon's going to be fine. And he's going to be a star for a long, long, long, long time. He is the best American men's tennis player we have. But, yes, Andy Roddick was the last American man to hold that trophy. That was 23 years ago. This is New York. This is the U.S. Open. It is one of the coolest events in the city every single year. And we just haven't been able to explode with excitement. This is the marquee. I know. Yes, the Williams sisters have been doing their thing. but we haven't had a guy to root for in a long time. That's true.
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Speaker 2: Well, we can still, I mean, he came close. Very, yeah. Yeah, and so, yes, Alexander Zavrev beat Ben Shelton in four sets yesterday to win the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Open.
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Speaker 2: I love all the pictures today of Trinity Rodman in the stands and her reaction, and it's cute to see the two of them. They're the new, like, it sports couple. Wouldn't you say?
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Speaker 1: They are absolutely it. He's the best we got, and she's the best we got, essentially, in two sports.
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Speaker 2: And they're both just, like, cool.
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Speaker 1: And they're young and fresh. They're cool and they're hip.
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Speaker 2: She had the hat on backwards and jeans. Like, she stood out regardless. Like, everyone else is all in there. You know, they're dressed up in the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Men's.
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Speaker 2: She's like looking cool as all get out.
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Speaker 1: What does she know? He's 23. What is she?
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Speaker 2: I think she's around the same. I don't know her exact age.
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Speaker 1: They're cool.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they're cute and cool. And yes, fun to root for.
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Speaker 1: But this was what I can't remember that we had the World Cup. We had Fourth of July with the flyovers and the boats. We had Taylor Swift's wedding. We had the Knicks winning. New York was on a streak. This could have really capped off the greatest year ever in this city.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Almost, almost. All right, next up on the run, finally, Spider-Man was not number one at the box office, and I love who took him down, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
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Speaker 1: It's just a strange, it's just weird.
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Speaker 2: We have to watch Practical Magic 1. Getting in the spirit of Halloween.
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Speaker 1: October's just around the corner. I think it'd be fun. That original one was a bomb at the box office, but became a cult.
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Speaker 2: Classic exactly it's a cult classic it's kitschy and it's it's not yes it is what it is but practical magic 2 made 30 million dollars at the u.s box office to take the.
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Speaker 1: Top spot but two and three were still spider-man and odyssey so they're still doing the thing do i have i saw what this one was no do i have already i read the synopsis there's a curse in which the men they fall in love with die is that what it.
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Speaker 2: Is sounds right i did not read the synopsis but that sounds right.
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Speaker 1: Okay yeah it sounds like right up my alley let's get on that Well.
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Speaker 2: You do love Snapped, so, you know, Women Who Kill. It's kind of on brand.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the same. No, it's not.
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Speaker 2: All right, for the final leg of our run, it's a reminder. I actually didn't know this, but I'm glad we're reminding all of you because it reminded us that the 78th annual Emmys are this evening. And what's the big deal about tonight? Mariska Harkite is the host. This makes her the first woman to host the ceremony in 15 years. I did not realize that Jane Lynch was the last woman to host the Emmys back in 2011.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it all mixed up with Tina Fey and they've been doing what? The Golden Globes, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that was the Golden Globes.
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Speaker 1: I swear I've been seeing female hosts, and I'm like, really? The Emmys hasn't had one?
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it had been that long as well. And The Pit leads the way with a total of 25 Emmy nominations. I watched a couple episodes on a plane. This is an amazing series. It is so, so good. Followed by Hacks, which received 24. And among some of the first-time nominees, several members of The Pit cast, but loved this one. Love Island USA host Ariana Maddox up for an Emmy this year. That was probably the only TV show we watched religiously.
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Speaker 1: It might be the only one nominated that I watched at all this year. I haven't watched any of this stuff. Hacks, The Pit, never seen a single episode.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's fun to kind of see what to watch. Everyone's looking for what to stream. If you watch the Emmys, you'll see the best of the best. So good luck to everybody out there tonight. But on this Monday, we will leave you with this. It's our quote of the day. What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true.
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Speaker 1: What happened? What was the first part of that?
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Speaker 2: What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I've been telling people for the longest it wasn't my fault. They won't take my word for it.
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Speaker 2: I guess the point is, yes, our past can be, we can reflect on it, but we can't blame it always for who we are now. We have to take responsibility and learn from it and grow.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I apologize. I've told you no more commentary about the quotes of the day, and I messed up.
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Speaker 2: I like your commentary.
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Speaker 1: Oh, no. Sometimes I'm a party pooper when it comes to it, so sorry.
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Speaker 2: It's quite all right. That's just the way it goes. What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, September 14th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Hope you had a good weekend as we get started on what is definitely going to be the best week ever here. Because I said it's going to be. That's how we're going to start. College football well underway. Some things went well for some of us, some didn't.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Of course, NFL is back. It was a big weekend. We were traveling yesterday. It was kind of cool to see everybody in their team uniforms and whatnot at the airport.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's always fun when it's football season. We love it. We had a Saturday of college football.
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Speaker 1: Much to your mom's delight.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we were visiting mom and dad in Atlanta, and yes, one of them likes college football a lot more than the other.
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Speaker 1: It was fun. Great weekend for us wherever you are. Hope you had a good one and getting off to a good start. We're going to be making a number of stops on this morning's run, including in the UK and California and Jackson, Mississippi. A concerning stop in Pennsylvania. Also, we'll make a stop at the gas pump in Paris and Flushing Meadows. Also at the weekend box office, as well as in Hollywood in particular. But Rose, what in the world is going on? We're not... Measles is not supposed to be a thing necessarily anymore, but this is really concerning what we're seeing out of Pennsylvania, nothing showed of an outbreak there.
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Speaker 2: That's right. And Pennsylvania is reporting its third measles-related death, and this is all amid an outbreak that's been going on over the summer. Health officials say a 40-year-old woman died this weekend of complications of the measles. They did say that she was not vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: Rose, they said 99% of the cases... that they're seeing are people who are not vaccinated. I don't know what the rules are, what the standard is anymore. People just were not vaccinated against the measles anymore. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And look, a lot of people are pointing the finger at RFK Jr. and saying that there's been mixed information. People who already might be hesitant to become vaccinated are now feeling empowered not to do so. And there is now a huge warning among officials, specifically in Pennsylvania, saying, please, please, please get vaccinated.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the numbers are up. There are at least 700, around that number 700 now, and 120 plus people have been hospitalized. Now, it was concerning when just last month, Rose, they said there were two deaths. And you hear a third death, that doesn't necessarily, it's not a way, one death is too much. But the thing is, they haven't had one death in that state in the past 35 years. So here we all have three. This is why it's so concerning at this point.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, you probably noticed if you were out and about this weekend that gas prices are shooting up once again. This is getting very uncomfortable. The national average is now sitting at $ 4. 31 a gallon.
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Speaker 1: Concerning there, because that's $ 0. 15 in a week, that is a big deal. Keep an eye on it. So if you know gas prices are going up and oil prices have been going up, yes, we were talking about it getting closer and closer to that $ 100 mark. It crossed it and now has well surpassed it. $ 108 a gallon is where we were starting off the week. So that's up 3%. So that's something else to keep an eye on. And you know what it is. It's the war in Iran and also some other issues with oil pipelines in that region. But yes, Robes, we are heading the wrong direction.
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Speaker 2: We certainly are. Another place we have our eye on is Jackson, Mississippi. A man has been arrested for the murder of a black woman found hanging from a tree there. He is expected to make his first court appearance today. We're talking about 51-year-old Jacques Ratliff. He is facing a murder charge.
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Speaker 1: Police say he had an association with 29-year-old Tasia Fortune. Now, that's all they would say is that they had an association. We do not know what that means. The mother of four was discovered hanging from a tree behind an abandoned building in early August. That set off, of course, concerns about this is Mississippi and a black woman hanging from a tree. I don't think I need to say much more than that. But it turns out, and they did point out, this is a black man who has been arrested and they do believe more arrests are coming.
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Speaker 2: And yes, we will be keeping our eye on that courtroom to see any more details that may come out from today's hearing. Also next up on the run, Vice President Kamala Harris had an uninvited guest at her Malibu home this weekend. Police were called after a suspicious person was spotted on the property.
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Speaker 1: But Robes, this didn't make sense to me. Police got there, made contact with the woman, and she voluntarily left. And that's the end of the story?
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Speaker 2: It's weird that she wouldn't have been charged with anything. Like, I don't know, trespassing?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the property of somebody who might be running for president again. But yeah, Harris and her husband were not home at the time. But that's the part, Robes. No harm, no foul. They talked to her and thought it was... She just innocently strolled onto the property of the vice president?
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Speaker 2: Maybe she was just curious and I don't know. Maybe she meant no harm and they.
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Speaker 1: Felt comfortable with that.
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Speaker 2: I agree. It's a little strange that there were no arrests made.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to try that next time. I meant no harm. We good here?
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Prince Harry is getting busy as a non-working royal, making his first appearances since moving to the UK. His first public appearances, we should say. First, later this week, he'll be at two events for the Invictus Games. Those are, of course, the Paralympic-style games he founded for service members more than a decade ago. And then next Monday, he will attend and speak at an event in London for a charity that honors seriously ill children.
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Speaker 1: And the day after that, he'll be in New York at the Clinton Global Initiative, that annual meeting that takes place here. He is listed among the featured participants named by the organization. Neither here nor Megan. We haven't seen him in public yet, but what's this? Everybody buzzing about it. I didn't see her Instagram post.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes. It was like life here in the UK, and she had some carefully orchestrated photos where you could see her face and Harry's face, but you couldn't see the faces of the kids. But it looks like wherever they are, if it's their estate, it looks expansive and beautiful in the English countryside. So, yes, she was just sharing a little glimpse of her seemingly perfect life.
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Speaker 1: You lost me at carefully orchestrated photos. I'm serious. Once you said that, I tuned out the rest of it.
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Speaker 2: She's been very careful not to show her kids' faces. We just see their little bodies and their cute little... Heads of hair.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, Celine Dion is on a comeback tour of her own. This is a big deal. Four years after she announced she was battling a rare neurological condition and six years after her last full concert. If you remember, she felt and her fans were afraid that she would never sing again publicly. So she opened up her already sold out 16 show residency in Paris over the weekend and And after the 58-year-old singer performed her opening song, I'm terrible with French, on ne change pas, whatever. It means one doesn't change. She wiped tears of joy. The audience was crying. She was crying. She blew kisses to the crowd of 300,000. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Former First Lady Michelle Obama was also attending, we're told, discreetly. Have you seen an image of her?
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Paris even temporarily renamed the train station Stop Serving the Arena. as Celine. She last performed in the City of Lights in 2024 at the Paris Olympic opening ceremonies. That will forever be one of the more memorable moments in ceremony history.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it was incredible, but it was a four-minute performance compared to a full concert. And it was back in 2022 that she revealed.
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Speaker 2: She was suffering from stiff person syndrome. It's a rare neurological condition that causes stiff limbs and muscle spasms, making it difficult for her to walk. It impacts the way she sings. And so the crowd was reporting everyone was holding their breath. She was too almost as she hit some of those high notes. All by myself was how she ended it. And people just, I mean, they said, it's not the voice. That she once had, but my God, she nailed it. I have chills just thinking about it, how difficult it is for her to do what she's doing, and she's the best of the best.
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Speaker 1: Even if it's not what it was, it's still better than 99.9% of the best singers on the planet. It's so true. I love some Celine Dion. We've got to put some of her music on today. I love some Celine Dion. And she performed all of.
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Speaker 2: Her favorites and crowd pleasers. Now I'm wishing, I mean, they're sold out. It's too late. But now I'm reading all these stories about people like traveling around the world to see her because this may be it, these 16 concerts. We missed the boat.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the best memories of my career being backstage with her and she stopped an interview so we could all dance to Cher's, Cher was performing on stage. She stopped everything. talking to me and led everybody in backstage and dancing and singing to share songs. I'll never forget that. That woman is freaking special. Not just her voice. That lady is special.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. All right, next up on the run, congratulations to Lady Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polanski. We just learned that the two welcomed their first baby to the world, but here's the deal. We literally don't know anything else, including the baby's name, the baby's sex, the baby's date of birth, or whether or not Lady Gaga was pregnant.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I didn't even know she was engaged. I'm sorry, baby. I am so behind on a lot of this stuff, but she was last publicly seen in August. She stopped take a selfie with a fan. Both she and her fiance have been keeping a low profile over the past few months. Now, is there, we really don't know if she was pregnant?
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Speaker 2: No, we don't know because she wrapped her latest tour back in April. And look, there were even, there was speculation that there was something wrong with her and Polanski because they hadn't been spotted. People were speculating about their relationship. turns out yes they had something a much bigger project brewing that they didn't want the world to know about but there are now the first photographs of Lady Gaga and she's walking alongside there's a woman and then Polanski and she's got the baby you know in a little carrier around her it's it's Looks brand new and adorable.
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Speaker 1: It looks brand new. I love it.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations to them.
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Speaker 1: We thank, I guess, for whatever happened with whatever you got.
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Speaker 2: Instababy has appeared.
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Speaker 1: Well, stay with us on this Monday morning run when we come back. This really would have blown the roof off of what was already one of the best summers in New York.
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Speaker 2: But.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, fell up short at Flushing Meadows. We'll explain what happened. Also, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman took out Spider-Man. And a big night at the Emmys. And not just about who's going to win. It's about who is going to open that show.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Monday morning run. And the American men's drought at the U.S. Open continues. This was a disappointment, but it was exciting to have him even in the finals.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 1: I would rather lose in the quarters. Really? And then there was so much hope on this. No, this is not a knock against him. Look, Ben Sheldon's going to be fine. And he's going to be a star for a long, long, long, long time. He is the best American men's tennis player we have. But, yes, Andy Roddick was the last American man to hold that trophy. That was 23 years ago. This is New York. This is the U.S. Open. It is one of the coolest events in the city every single year. And we just haven't been able to explode with excitement. This is the marquee. I know. Yes, the Williams sisters have been doing their thing. but we haven't had a guy to root for in a long time. That's true.
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Speaker 2: Well, we can still, I mean, he came close. Very, yeah. Yeah, and so, yes, Alexander Zavrev beat Ben Shelton in four sets yesterday to win the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Open.
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Speaker 2: I love all the pictures today of Trinity Rodman in the stands and her reaction, and it's cute to see the two of them. They're the new, like, it sports couple. Wouldn't you say?
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Speaker 1: They are absolutely it. He's the best we got, and she's the best we got, essentially, in two sports.
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Speaker 2: And they're both just, like, cool.
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Speaker 1: And they're young and fresh. They're cool and they're hip.
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Speaker 2: She had the hat on backwards and jeans. Like, she stood out regardless. Like, everyone else is all in there. You know, they're dressed up in the U.S.
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Speaker 1: Men's.
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Speaker 2: She's like looking cool as all get out.
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Speaker 1: What does she know? He's 23. What is she?
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Speaker 2: I think she's around the same. I don't know her exact age.
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Speaker 1: They're cool.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they're cute and cool. And yes, fun to root for.
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Speaker 1: But this was what I can't remember that we had the World Cup. We had Fourth of July with the flyovers and the boats. We had Taylor Swift's wedding. We had the Knicks winning. New York was on a streak. This could have really capped off the greatest year ever in this city.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. Almost, almost. All right, next up on the run, finally, Spider-Man was not number one at the box office, and I love who took him down, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.
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Speaker 1: It's just a strange, it's just weird.
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Speaker 2: We have to watch Practical Magic 1. Getting in the spirit of Halloween.
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Speaker 1: October's just around the corner. I think it'd be fun. That original one was a bomb at the box office, but became a cult.
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Speaker 2: Classic exactly it's a cult classic it's kitschy and it's it's not yes it is what it is but practical magic 2 made 30 million dollars at the u.s box office to take the.
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Speaker 1: Top spot but two and three were still spider-man and odyssey so they're still doing the thing do i have i saw what this one was no do i have already i read the synopsis there's a curse in which the men they fall in love with die is that what it.
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Speaker 2: Is sounds right i did not read the synopsis but that sounds right.
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Speaker 1: Okay yeah it sounds like right up my alley let's get on that Well.
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Speaker 2: You do love Snapped, so, you know, Women Who Kill. It's kind of on brand.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's the same. No, it's not.
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Speaker 2: All right, for the final leg of our run, it's a reminder. I actually didn't know this, but I'm glad we're reminding all of you because it reminded us that the 78th annual Emmys are this evening. And what's the big deal about tonight? Mariska Harkite is the host. This makes her the first woman to host the ceremony in 15 years. I did not realize that Jane Lynch was the last woman to host the Emmys back in 2011.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it all mixed up with Tina Fey and they've been doing what? The Golden Globes, right?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that was the Golden Globes.
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Speaker 1: I swear I've been seeing female hosts, and I'm like, really? The Emmys hasn't had one?
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize it had been that long as well. And The Pit leads the way with a total of 25 Emmy nominations. I watched a couple episodes on a plane. This is an amazing series. It is so, so good. Followed by Hacks, which received 24. And among some of the first-time nominees, several members of The Pit cast, but loved this one. Love Island USA host Ariana Maddox up for an Emmy this year. That was probably the only TV show we watched religiously.
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Speaker 1: It might be the only one nominated that I watched at all this year. I haven't watched any of this stuff. Hacks, The Pit, never seen a single episode.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's fun to kind of see what to watch. Everyone's looking for what to stream. If you watch the Emmys, you'll see the best of the best. So good luck to everybody out there tonight. But on this Monday, we will leave you with this. It's our quote of the day. What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true.
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Speaker 1: What happened? What was the first part of that?
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Speaker 2: What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I've been telling people for the longest it wasn't my fault. They won't take my word for it.
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Speaker 2: I guess the point is, yes, our past can be, we can reflect on it, but we can't blame it always for who we are now. We have to take responsibility and learn from it and grow.
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Speaker 1: You know what? I apologize. I've told you no more commentary about the quotes of the day, and I messed up.
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Speaker 2: I like your commentary.
00:16:03
Speaker 1: Oh, no. Sometimes I'm a party pooper when it comes to it, so sorry.
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Speaker 2: It's quite all right. That's just the way it goes. What happened wasn't your fault. Who you become is still your responsibility. Both are true. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.