Nov. 5, 2025

Morning Run: Democrats Win Big, Shutdown Optimism, Air Travel Warning, Deadly Plane Crash, United Bomb Threat, Massive Chrysler Recall and Sir David Beckham

Morning Run: Democrats Win Big, Shutdown Optimism, Air Travel Warning, Deadly Plane Crash, United Bomb Threat, Massive Chrysler Recall and Sir David Beckham

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.

00:00:05
Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It's hump day. It's Wednesday, November fifth. We survived election day everyone here in New York City.

00:00:15
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Survived election day. But some tell you after the results we saw here in New York that we might not survive the city.

00:00:25
Speaker 2: Yes, according to some, according to but yeah.

00:00:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a history making night. No matter what you think. This city just elected its first Muslim mayor. History was made. Politics aside, history was made.

00:00:39
Speaker 2: There you go, and there is a lot of news to get to on this day after election day. The shutdown record keeps growing. Democrats, Yeah, they had a big night last night. Trump, of course, places blame where you might imagine. There was a fiery plane crash in Louisville, a bomb threat for a DC bound flight, a huge vehicle recall, and did you hear that US airspace might have to close? And Scotis has a big day tackling Trump's tariffs, and who knew David Beckham's wife dresses him.

00:01:11
Speaker 1: Hey, some wives do that for their husbands. We will explain but yes, we have to begin this run on this Wednesday with last night. Democrats had a good night period. In all the major closely watched races, last night, Democrats one and one handily.

00:01:26
Speaker 2: That's right. From the governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia to the mayor's race in New York to the redistricting ballot measure in California, Democrats came out on top. But first in New York history was made once unknown Assemblyman zorhanmm Dannie completed his stunning ascension, easily beating Andrew Cuomo. And I'm gonna have to get better at saying his name. I always stumble over it, the first name of the last the Orhan, Zorhan. I always up its hands Orhan, and then I somehow do it in between, and then I get all like flustered, and then I can't say.

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Speaker 1: It'll get easier for you. Mister mayor is going to be what you call him, and he is going to be the first Muslim mayor of New York City. Really an unbelievable story here he was an unknown Now a thirty four year old assemblyman is now making history in New York.

00:02:18
Speaker 2: You forgot TikTok star.

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Speaker 1: TikTok star, who's responsible? Many will tell you for the biggest turnout we've seen in fifty years. Two million people showed up to vote in this election. And that's huge, that's remarkable.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And just across the river in New Jersey, Mikey Cheryl beat Jack Chittarelli. She will be the first Democratic female to become governor of that state.

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Speaker 1: Now, this was one spot that Republicans thought they had a shot. Polls show this race was tightening late. Chittarelli was thought to have a fighting chance going into election day, but Cheryl pulled off a decisive win here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, listening to the pundits, I really thought that Chitdarelli, we both did, had a bill shot at it, but didn't look like that pretty early on in the night. And the race for Virginia governor was also called early in the night, Democrat Abigail Spamberger easily beat her Republican challenger win some earl sears.

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Speaker 1: She was ahead to Spamburger in the polls, but I this was one of the few last night. As soon as the polls closed, you saw projections she was going to win this thing. So she won pretty easily. She's now the first woman to win the race for governor in that state. And then out in California, Gavin Newsom won. Voters there approved Prop fifty. Yes, Newsom's name wasn't on the ballot, but it was on the ballot. If you get with mean, Prop fifty clears the way for the state legislature to redraw their congressional districts. This was an initiative pushed and pushed hard by Governor Newsom to counter the Texas redistricting effort.

00:03:40
Speaker 2: So everything's now pretty much null and void. They've they've canceled each other, voted each other out, canceled each.

00:03:45
Speaker 1: Other, and we can't keep up with the others. Indiana, it was North Carolina's.

00:03:49
Speaker 2: It matters though others are doing it, but it's very confusing and it's growing. Unfortunately. President Trump gave a short, sweet, and pretty unsurprising response to last night's election results. There was a question mark after the suite, you wrote.

00:04:02
Speaker 1: That you didn't you didn't like that, So how we talked?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, short, We had to say short and sweet because yeah, they're rarely sweet.

00:04:08
Speaker 1: Okay, it was short, So okay, I get what you're saying. I should have gone short and sweet and pretty unsurprising. You are so correct, man Comma's Matt.

00:04:17
Speaker 2: All right, they do, and in a social media posts, here's what the president said. He wrote, Trump wasn't on the ballot and shut down were the two reasons that Republicans lost elections tonight, according to pollsters.

00:04:27
Speaker 1: It's like see what you do, see what happens when you don't have me? Was his response. Love it. We will continue here on this morning's run. With the shutdown now officially the longest in US history. We are on day thirty six of this shutdown, but there is some degree of ever so slight optimism that maybe, just maybe there's a way out of this, even by the end of the week.

00:04:50
Speaker 2: World say what. Senators are reporting an uptick in the pace and intensity of talks between rank and file senators as of late, and now that the elections are over, both sides might have more of an appetite for making a deal. President Trump is scheduled to meet with Republican senators this morning, but still no plan meetings between Republican and Democratic leaders, which we would like to see.

00:05:13
Speaker 1: That drives me the suggestion that they wanted to get past the election, so they'd still have the talking point of the shutdown, still using it as leverage, like people can't eat, and we're going to play this game and draw it out. Now that this is over, we'll go woo.

00:05:28
Speaker 2: US politics at their worst, at their worst.

00:05:31
Speaker 1: All right. The Transportation secretary meanwhile, gave out one of the most dire warnings yet about the impact of the shutdown on air Tribal Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said yesterday that the government might have to take the extreme step of closing some parts of US airspace if the shutdown continues into next week.

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Speaker 2: I just did the math before year's endbabe. We have three round trip tickets, so six flights we will be taking. This should be interesting. So, Duffy said this at a press conference yesterday, They might have to do this. In fact, can close parts of US airspace because quote, we just cannot manage it because we don't have the air traffic controllers. Duffy said, forty six percent of delays at US airports one day this week were caused simply because of staffing shortages. Normally, that's about five percent of delays caused by staffing shortages. You know, when your crew doesn't make the plane or they time out. We've all seen that happen. This is completely something different.

00:06:36
Speaker 1: ROAs. This is they don't want this on their hands. A shutdown, God forbid, there's an accident and somebody gets killed in some plane crash, over us not having controllers and over this shutdown. They do not want. They are going to get blamed in DC. This is scary.

00:06:58
Speaker 2: People are hungry and unsafe.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is scary. Talking about airspace. For it's one thing to cancel a flight, and we have delays because we don't have enough people. We don't have enough people to cover a section of the country's air Yeah, okay, that one, all right, Sorry, continuing now. And oh yeah, you're good news. Okay. I should have looked at it.

00:07:22
Speaker 2: I know I was waiting for you to look down your next line in your script.

00:07:25
Speaker 1: You should have stopped me waiting for you, let me get worked up, and knowing I was going to get even more worked up. Because folks, all this, all these issues we're talking about with air travel, throw in a bomb threat. Yesterday, a ground stop at Reaga National Airport after authorities say a threat against a specific incoming flight was called it.

00:07:46
Speaker 2: This is crazy. You'll have to listen to this because I cannot imagine being on this flight. Here's the flight, United Airlines, flight number five twelve, traveling from Houston to DC. Eighty nine passengers and six crew members on board. Here is what air traffic control audio said to the plane crew. I'm sorry to have to do this to you. We've got to turn you again. We have an unconfirmed bomb report for your flight, and we've got to get you away from the airport. We don't want you guys to blow us up.

00:08:14
Speaker 1: Can you imagine being the crew hearing that again. The passengers aren't aware of all this as it's going on, but another air traffic control audio message saying, we have an unconfirmed bomb report. I mean I can confirm someone called. Someone called and said there was a bomb on five twelve. They said if it landed, it would explode. Well it landed, My goodness, gracious. They are still trying to figure out where this threat came from. No arrest, anything like that maye. But the flight was stopped on the rung way away from the terminal. Passengers were removed safely.

00:08:52
Speaker 2: No bomb found, but how scary for the flight crew. The only ones presumably who knew on board the plane that if they landed they could explode.

00:09:01
Speaker 1: That that was chilling.

00:09:03
Speaker 2: Audio was actually found hearing that that's just sick. Actually all right. Next up on the run. Seven people died and eleven others were injured in a fiery plane crash that happened yesterday at the Louisville Airport. The crash happened as the UPS cargo plane was taking off from Muhammad Ali International Airport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the plane slightly gets off the ground during takeoff before crashing down and exploding in a massive fireball. And this was caught on camera. The video is out there. But this was a massive explosion. I mean, it was Hollywood esque type stuff that you see. And of the seven people that were killed, four of them were not on that aircraft. But that was an incredibly don't know what happened there, but it was barely getting off the ground when right back down. Well, folks, stay with us here on this Wednesday morning when we come back, is a very big day at the Supreme Court that could shape the future of the US and the world economy. Also, a massive car recall, and folks are being told don't part too close to the building. And for the guys out there whose wives dress them, You're not alone. David Beckham's wife dresses him too.

00:10:21
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to this Wednesday morning run. And next up on the run, it's a big day at the Supreme Court today. At ten am Eastern time, the nine Justices will begin to hear oral arguments on President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs. This is the most significant case affecting the US and global economy in years, and it's in the hands of these nine justices. Tens of billions of dollars in revenue we've already taken in for this country are at stake, as well as potentially trillions more than the Trump administration hopes to secure.

00:10:54
Speaker 1: Now the other major issue at hand, presidential power. What are the limits? What is the reach? Court of course, has a six to three conservative majority, is repeatedly cited with Trump since he took office.

00:11:05
Speaker 2: All right, Next up on the run, a massive Chrysler recall to tell you about. After the company says it's received nineteen reports of fires linked to its vehicle batteries. The company is recalling more than three hundred and twenty thousand jeep wranglers and Grand Cherokees, because yeah, the plug in hybrid's batteries could fail, potentially causing a fire while the vehicle is parked or.

00:11:29
Speaker 1: In motion, so you can't do anything with it safely.

00:11:32
Speaker 2: Correct.

00:11:33
Speaker 1: Okay. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is instructing owners of the recalled vehicles to park their cars outside and away from structures.

00:11:42
Speaker 2: No garage parking.

00:11:43
Speaker 1: Okay, give me my money back. I'm you sold me a threat.

00:11:48
Speaker 2: Why do you sleep at night?

00:11:50
Speaker 1: You're being told by the government. Don't park close to anything, just at a big empty lot if you can. Oh my god. The agency's also telling owners to not charge the vehicles until the fix for the issue is available. So how can you drive the thing?

00:12:03
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a hybrid, so they have gas options to you just can't use the electric function of it.

00:12:07
Speaker 1: But you drive to work and park way out. I guess right, that's the only.

00:12:13
Speaker 2: Way if it can if it can explode or catch on fire while it's in motion, how are you driving the vehicle and feeling safe?

00:12:19
Speaker 1: Oh ye, you make a good point. Okay, right now, Chrysler, this is the best part of the story. What's the fix? It is currently under development, but they want us to know it's imminent.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I put that in quotes because that was the word they use, that the fix is under development and imminent. Okay. The recalled vehicles include Jeep Wrangle, Sorry, Jeep Wrangler's model years twenty twenty through twenty twenty five, and yeah, and Jeep Brand Cherokees WHOA twenty twenty two through twenty twenty six, all.

00:12:49
Speaker 1: The new stuff. These are popular, their most popular models probably, Oh my goodness, all right, final leg of the run here now, Sir David Beckham. That's what we call them from now on. King Charles Knight at Beckham yesterday, excuse me, Sir Beckham yesterday at a ceremony at Windsor Castle for his services to sport and charity. It was an honor fourteen years in the making.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't realize this. He was nominated for knighthood back in twenty eleven, after Queen Elizabeth appointed him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In two thousand and three. Beckham told reporters this quote, I've been very obviously lucky in my career to have won what I've won and done what I've done, but to receive an honor like this of a night is beyond everything that I ever thought that I would receive. A young boy from the East End of London being honored by his Majesty, the King, the most important and most respected institution in the world that could be up for debate. It's quite a moment.

00:13:45
Speaker 1: What's the delay? Why was there a delay of all this time? Not sure he was nominated in twenty eleven because, to be honest, when I heard he was just knighted like he hasn't been already.

00:13:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure why the delay, but hey, better late than ever.

00:13:57
Speaker 1: Hi well by his side with the event, his parents and his wife, Victoria, who will now be referred to as Lady Beckham. I thought we already were supposed to call her.

00:14:06
Speaker 2: I mean, she's push spy, so it fits.

00:14:08
Speaker 1: Lady Beckham pay tribute to Sir David by making him the first ever tailored menswear piece from her fashion label That's Cool, charcoal gray three piece so British Morning Suit crafted from British wool, inspired by King Charles. I love that. Yes, I didn't see the suits.

00:14:27
Speaker 2: It's really nice, Sir David said, yes, and it does look very royal. I guess it's a good way to put it. The King Charles even commented on how much he loved the suit and he said it was inspired by you, King Charles. But you know, look Beckham what he did in terms of service to sport and charity. He has done a lot. He actually represented England in one hundred and fifteen International Games one League titles in four different countries. He's a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador. He has his own charity that helps young folks, young children actually dangerous such as the Ebola crisis. So yeah, he has done a lot and continues to do a lot with the platform that he has.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, the of all he's done and I've admired and watched is a sport and everything he's done. The biggest compliment I could give him, And the thing I respected him most for Queen Elizabeth's funeral when the q was fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen hours, he stood in that line with every other British citizen to honor her. You know, he could have gotten, of course he could, of course, but to see him do that I applauded and that was the greatest respect I've ever had for him and anything he's done.

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Speaker 2: You remember that, so like I had forgotten about it until you just said that. And I remember watching him when we were over there were like, look at David Beckham, just waiting in line like everybody else. He did not cash in his privilege, which I thought was really cool.

00:15:54
Speaker 1: All right.

00:15:54
Speaker 2: Quote of the day. This was inspired by you because this sounds like something that you would write down and keep close to you. And it also I was inspired to use this quote because of a show we watched last night that we actually are gonna have a podcast on later. Okay, all right, here's the quote. Again. It's a Gandhi inspired week, So these are all quotes from Gandhi.

00:16:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, Gandhi and I are on the same wavelengths, So yes, I could see this.

00:16:20
Speaker 2: A no, uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse? To avoid trouble?

00:16:30
Speaker 1: Preach brother, Oh my god, yes, yes, thank you, thank you.

00:16:36
Speaker 2: And I have to remind myself of this because I do think that and I think a lot of women are like this. We're people pleasers. No, it's okay to say no and actually to it. It's kind to say no, sometimes not sometimes most of the time, if you're being honest.

00:16:50
Speaker 1: To be clear is being kind. Yes, yes, I.

00:16:54
Speaker 2: Agree, And I've never heard this from Gandhi and I obviously we've heard the sentiment before, but I loved how he put it. A no, uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse to avoid trouble. I love that. Thank you, Gandhi, and with that everyone, thank you for listening to this Wednesday edition of Morning Run.

00:17:16
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes to be running with you all soon.