Dec. 11, 2025
Morning Run: Judges OK Epstein Files Release, Michigan Coach Fired and Arrested, Brian Walshe Defense Begins, Shopaholic Author Dies and $1 Billion Powerball
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everybody, welcome to your Morning Run. It's Thursday, December eleventh. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We got another shot at it. We're up to a billion again, folks. We're doing this again with the Powerball. If you didn't know, nobody won, and last night's drawing so robes this weekend it's up to a billion. Are we going to now get to a point where even a billion isn't exciting enough? They're happening so often that now it's a billion. I'll wait till it gets to one point five? Is that what we're doing?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Not, mek A billion is a billion? A billion is incredible. I'm in. And although I will say we didn't get a ticket us yesterday I was going to our hands were full. We were Christmas shopping, Christmas paper wrapping shopping. We looked hilarious walking back last night. And I did have to stop by a place where we could have gotten a lottery ticket, but did not have hands free.
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Speaker 2: And when you say we look ridiculous, one of us was walking down the street with some very heavy rolls of wrapping paper that we're poking out as if you were impaled. It was a weird situation. Hey, it's New York. We do we got to do with this cold in this rain. But yes, we walked through the streets last night, passed up Powerball opportunities so we could get home and wrap some gifts. But it's a billion now we're all in.
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Speaker 1: The game, yes exactly, and our hands are free, so we can go get some Powerball tickets today. Very excited about that.
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Speaker 2: I will get you some details on those numbers in a second. Or to start wherever you may be on this Friday Eve, hope you are off to a good start. Also, on that phone now top right corner of the Apple podcast app, where you see our show page, click that button that says follow, and then you can get our updates. And there have been a lot lately, from the Brian rothschild trial, to Luigi Mangioni, to a lot of our gift guides, A lot of stuff has been happening quite frankly in the news, So I don't want you to miss any of the.
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Speaker 1: Updates, that's right. But on the run this morning, we're talking about America being accused of piracy Brian Walsh is going to be putting on his defense starting today. The Michigan coach who was fired and then arrested, all happening in a matter of hours, and the shop a Hollock author dies at the young age of fifty five. Luigi Maanngioni is back in court this morning. More judges are okaying the release of Epstein testimony. And we've got another predicted. It was predicted, but another interest rate cut for everybody.
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Speaker 2: Also a very bizarre and quite frankly sad and for some it might even call it funny, but it's not funny about an Indiana player, the number one football team in the country, getting set to play for a national championship and the college football playoff, but one of their players will not be able to compete because of an injury after their last game. You hear what I'm saying, Not during the game, but during a celebration afterwards. We'll explain what happened there. Just heart goes out to this kid.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just like such a sad just oh my god, A split second decision and everything changes, all right. First up, though, talk about the prosecution resting its case yesterday against Brian Walsh. That's the Massachusetts man who has admitted to dismembering and disposing of his wife's body, but says he didn't kill her. Well, this morning, the defense is going to put on its case and the big question here will Brian Walsh testify?
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Speaker 2: The question we don't have the answer to yet, but we're itching to see what they come up with today. Yesterday the prosecution wrapped up its case by putting on in particular two friends, close friends of Anna Walsh's, and one of them was the last guy to see her alive. Was as her husband, of course, but he was there partying with them on New Year's Eve the night that she did die. This friend got up and said, quite frankly, ropes, everything was happy, the mood was festive. So it gave kind of a kind of an impression of what the mood was and it seemed like nothing was wrong that night. Did the bolster the defense case? Did it bolster the prosecution case? We do not know, but fascinating see what happens when that starts up again this morning. Continue on the Run now with the pre trial hearings. Were accused United Healthcare killer Luigi MANGIONI going to continue today. We've been watching this. It was going on all last week and most of this week as attorneys are fighting to get key evidence tossed out, in particular contents of that backpack, which include a gun, notes and whatnot. But this hearing has been going on again since last week. It will continue this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Pretty much all the evidence the prosecution has is hanging in the balance here with these pre trial hearings to see what will be admissible and what will not. All right, Next up on the run, Fired and in jail in just a matter of hours. It was a hell of a day for Sharon Moore, the now former head football coach at the University of Michigan.
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Speaker 2: He was fired yesterday. This was a shocking move after the university said it discovered that Moore was having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
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Speaker 1: And if that wasn't shocking enough, hours later, he was arrested in an incident after police say they were called to an alleged assault in Anne Arbor.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of this is still left to be shaken out. This was his second season as head football coach. The team is doing well ninety three this year. Ranked eighteenth in the country. He was the one that took over after Harbor won that national championship. He was an assistant. Everybody was happy they gave him the job, and he has done a really good job. They did not want to fire this man. When you get one that has your team top ranked, you want to hold on to him. So whatever happened was very very serious. Details to come all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, a pretty shocking new revelation related to the bachelism outbreak in by Heart brand baby formula. The company we've been reporting on this recalled formula back in November after dozens of babies were sickened after being given by Heart formula. Well, the FDA has now expanded that recall to include literally every single ounce of formula the company has ever made.
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Speaker 2: You heard that right. Essentially, what they're saying, folks, is that they cannot be sure that any product by Heart ever made was ever safe. It could have all been contaminated. This outbreak now includes illnesses reported since March of twenty twenty two, and that is when the company first started producing formula. We have not had any infant deaths, but at least fifty one kids in nineteen states have been sickened. A reminder, this company is not doesn't have a lot of market share, only one or two percent of the entire formula market. But they've been around for several years. They make organic formula. But obviously this company has to be done. At this point, you're essentially saying you never put a safe product on the market.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, oh, the irony that a lot of parents who sought out this particular brand by heart was they were looking to that organic formula thinking they were giving their children maybe a healthier version of what was out there. And to know now that possibly they were literally feeding their baby's that's got to be just I don't know how you come back from this with the recall has expanded to every product you've ever made. Doesn't seem like can you imagine any parent being willing to gamble and say, oh, they figured it out, let me go ahead and put buyhard organic formula into my baby. That seems unlikely, if not impossible, all right. Next up on the run, the US has seized a major oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. That is a major escalation of tensions between our two countries. According to the White House, the US has been watching this particular tanker for years and says it's been part of an illicit oil shipping network with ties to terrorist organizations.
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Speaker 2: Well, that is not how the Venezuelan government sees it. They say this whole thing is not what the US says, and accused the US of piracy and pushing for regime change. It's a pretty dramatic video that's been playing. It's online, a lot of news outlets are using it, but it shows US Special Forces, elite US forces repelling down from a helicopter onto this ship, guns drawn in a essentially taking it over. Now, this all comes as the US has been targeting drug boats coming out of Venezuela. You've been seeing this video taking out these drug boats. So this is just a build up, another continuation of escalations happening in the region.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, they're using words like catastrophic and historic to describe a flooding event that's going on right now in the Pacific Northwest. The area has been drenched by what meteorologists call an atmospheric river that's going to continue to bring heavy rain today. Evacuation orders and states of emergency are in place around the Seattle area right now. I remember it was about a year ago or so we had some system called an atmospheric river, and you went into a deep dive about what that meant meteorologically. I can't talk from a meteorologist standpoint.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what it sounds like. Instead of water and it just raining over wide swaths of areas, you essentially have a hose, a garden hose of water dumping into one area, this atmospheric river. That's what they've been dealing with for the past several days. And we'll continue for a little while longer, continue on the run here now. The Senate going to vote today on extending those Obamacare subsidies, you know, the very issue that led to that government shut down. But we should not get our hopes up. Even though they are going to vote today and they're voting on two different bills, you would think they have two options, right, We got two chance of this. Yes, one is backed by Republicans, the other is backed by Democrats, and both are expected to fail. So this all but assures that there will not be a solution by January one, the deadline. So those subsidies are going to expire, and there will be increased healthcare costs at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run. As expected, the Federal Reserve cut the key interest rate by a quarter of a point yesterday. This was their third rate cut of the year, which now takes the benchmark interest rate down to its lowest point in three years, three and a half to three point seventy five percent. President Trump presumably is happy that he's finally getting those interest rates cuts he so desperately was asking for.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they didn't come when he wanted, So no, he's not happy. Continuing on the run here now, a judge yesterday signed off on the release of grand jury materials related to Jeffrey Epstein's twenty nineteen federal case, even seeing headlines about judges signing off on the release of materials. This is now the third judge in the past week to grant a Justice Department request to release documents related to Epstein and his accomplished Klain Maxwell. The rulings are in compliance with through recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act in Congress that gave everybody thirty days to release all these documents. So December nineteenth is the deadline circle that on the calendar, that's when all these files are supposed to be released.
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Speaker 1: So eight days from now that means Friday, next Friday, that's about the right day to drop a bunch of documents that now journalists are going to have to work on a weekend, the weekend before Christmas. That actually is so cruel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, folks, expect our Epstein File episode sometime in the new year.
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Speaker 1: Really seriously, Everyone's like trying to go away for the holidays and now all these journalists are gonna have to sit there and pour through all these documents to try and find something significant. Woo all right. Next up on the run, best selling author Sophie Kinsella has passed away at the age of fifty five. You know her from the wildly popular Chopaholic book series. Two of those books turned into movies. Isla Fisher, I remember Confessions of a Chappaholic My Girls and I love, love, love that movie. And just if you get a chance to read about Sophie Cansella's life, it is worth it. She was diagnosed with a geoblastoma that's an aggressive form of brain cancer three years ago November of twenty twenty two, she said she outlived longer than she thought, but she has five kids, a loving husband, had a beautiful life in so many incredible works. I just loved her story about how she leaned into the chick lit thing when she was a financial journy in a list, and just to see how she reinvented herself throughout the years to create and become this like incredibly renowned and best selling author. It's just so sad that her life was cut so short.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but meaningful. I love at the same time right to do so much in such a short time and the impact she had which will last for quite some time. But stay with us, folks here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, the Nobel Peace Prize winner misses the ceremony but still makes an appearance. We'll explain. Also, CBS has a Cronkite replacement. Finally, also, terrible, terrible, terrible news from a player from the number one ranked Indiana Hoosier's football team. An injury after a game is going to knock him out of national championship contingent. And yes, power Ball is at a billion Stay here we continue you on this Friday Eve run now with Nobel PRIs Prize Peace Prize winner Maria Karina Machado. She appeared in public yesterday for the first time in eleven months, but it wasn't at the Nobel ceremony.
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Speaker 1: Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has been in hiding since January, but there was a lot of anticipation that she would appear in person to receive this significant award.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the ceremony came and she wasn't there. Her daughter was there, accepting on her mom's behalf at the official ceremony, but a short time later, Machado herself appeared from the balcony of a hotel in Oslo and briefly wave to support her.
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Speaker 1: She said in a recorded message that she tried to make it to the ceremony but she couldn't make it in time because of the difficulty in safely traveling. And here's what she said. She said, people, actually, and this is something to consider, had to put themselves in harm's way, at risk in order to even facilitate her journey to Norway. It's unimaginable to be that fearful of your life and that fearful of your safe but to show up anyway, and at least in a I guess lesser version than she would have liked. But my goodness, just to be under that kind of threat all the time is remarkable.
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Speaker 2: But it was cool moment. It didn't last long, but she stepped out and way look first time. All year, for the most part, we've seen her continue on the run here now back here in the US, from krung Kite to the Coppel. CBS has named a new anchor of its flagship CBS Evening News.
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Speaker 1: The new anchor is not new to CBS. It's Tony Dkoppel, who has anchored the CBS Early Morning show since twenty nineteen, sitting right there next to Gail King most mornings. Just saw him this morning, but he's going to start in his new evening role next month. All right, Next up on the run, A key player for the number one ranked, undefeated Indiana Hoosiers football team is going to miss the college football playoff because of his injury, an injury that came not during the game, but after his team won in the conference championship on Saturday against Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this defensive lineman, Stephen Daily, he suffered with the school is only describing right now as a serious leg injury, but they do say it's going to keep him out of the college football playoff. Now, this injury, how did he do it? He was trying to high five a fan. He's going around. You've seen this play out plenty of times after a game, certainly a championship game. The guys kind of just run around the whole stadium and the fans are still in the stand. They're leaning down trying to get a high five. And he jumped up to get a high five, and you see him come down awkwardly. He's limping. It's it's it's just a freak thing. He ended up having to leave the field in a cart. But this guy, he's actually been playing because of an injury to the starter, and then he had a hell of a year. He's their leading pass rusher and this has happened to him. It sucks. We've seen this over the I'm surprised coaches don't tell them you've seeing guys chair acls doing high fives before.
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Speaker 1: Really see, I was not aware of this. So this is something that's known.
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Speaker 2: This has happened before, and it just a freak thing. You're being athletic and you jump up or do something suddenly, the risk of injury is there, and this, Oh I hate it for him to hate it, hate.
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Speaker 1: It for ah. It sucks like if you did that catching a pass and you'll land it like that's one thing, but to do it just high five, you know. And you think about these guys. They just played their hearts out. Hey, they're excited, there's tons of adrenaline, but they're tired. Their muscles are tired. It's not he wasn't jumping on a fresh leg. This is after the game, so you can see why you'd be more prone to injury than at any other time.
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Speaker 2: Probably a reliever from the Yankees years ago. He was out just catching balls in the outfield, the reliever and towards ACL doing something, just messing around before. Yeah, I hate that for him.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run though, well we could love it for us if we get lucky. Right, powerball back and play. Let's try this again. We've been talking about it, and yes, the jackpot is now at one billion dollars after no one matched all the numbers and the power ball last night. So what's the cash payout? If you take get you win on Saturday four hundred and sixty one point three million dollars. And again, yes, that next drawing is Saturday night, so you got a couple days to pick up a couple of those two dollars powerball tickets that I have learned must be purchased with cash, and.
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Speaker 2: A reminder, folks, as the reason this keeps happening, they did change the rules a few years ago to make the odds more difficult so they could get the jackpots up higher. So what you're seeing is not necessarily an anomaly. It's exactly what they designed the game to do, to get bigger jackpots, to get you to spend more money so they can make more money. Period. And with that, I used to hate, you know, I used to get in trouble all the time. GMA hated me for this because they just wanted to do Hey, it's so much fun and lottery, and I tried to give a little context to it, and they hated that.
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Speaker 1: It's always about money. How can everyone else make more? They just want to be exactly what the pretty much the motive for most things are.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, before we let you go on this Thursday Eve, something we would like for you to consider. It is our quote of the day, and our quote of the day comes to us from Miss Madeline Wickham. That was her real name, folks, Sophie Kinsella. Yes, her pen name was Sophie Canzeller, but her real name Madeline Wickham, of course, the author of the Chappaholic series, who passed away at the age of fifty five. This quote is from her. Just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that you should do it. Changing course was the best thing I've ever done. Really, I'm not sure what age she was when she gave that, but she talked about how she was being trained as a kid. She played the piano and I think the violin is what it was. She said, you get on a course, it's almost like a conveyor belt. You do this, you do this, you do this, you do this, you do this, And she was on her path as a musician, got to college, start to learn other things. She says, the best thing she ever did was changed course because there was something that she was good at being trained for and getting ready for a career in and she completely changed and look what happened. I loved that part of the story. I think that quote needed a little context, but the quote itself stands or all of us.
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Speaker 1: It's cool. Yes, agreed, And not only did she go from thinking she was going to be a musician to becoming a journalist, a financial journalist, and then quit that and became an author of fiction. I just think that she reinvented herself multiple times. And it's another and even with her life cut short at fifty five, the fact that she was able to do so much in so little, it's just a reminder to all of us that we have the opportunity each and every day to decide who we want to be and what we want to do. And that's pretty cool. So thank you to I want to say Sophie, but her that was her middle name. Her name was Madeline. So thank you to Madeline and may she rest in peace.
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Speaker 2: And her words and her life or inspiring us to live and love and play and party and enjoy and appreciate today more than we would have I think when we first welcome. So thank you Madeline. With them again, just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that you should do it. Changing course was the best thing I have ever done, really, and that folks always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 1: I'm t J Holk and I'm Amy Robot. Have a great day everyone. We'll see you on the run tomorrow
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everybody, welcome to your Morning Run. It's Thursday, December eleventh. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes.
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Speaker 2: We got another shot at it. We're up to a billion again, folks. We're doing this again with the Powerball. If you didn't know, nobody won, and last night's drawing so robes this weekend it's up to a billion. Are we going to now get to a point where even a billion isn't exciting enough? They're happening so often that now it's a billion. I'll wait till it gets to one point five? Is that what we're doing?
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Speaker 1: Oh? Not, mek A billion is a billion? A billion is incredible. I'm in. And although I will say we didn't get a ticket us yesterday I was going to our hands were full. We were Christmas shopping, Christmas paper wrapping shopping. We looked hilarious walking back last night. And I did have to stop by a place where we could have gotten a lottery ticket, but did not have hands free.
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Speaker 2: And when you say we look ridiculous, one of us was walking down the street with some very heavy rolls of wrapping paper that we're poking out as if you were impaled. It was a weird situation. Hey, it's New York. We do we got to do with this cold in this rain. But yes, we walked through the streets last night, passed up Powerball opportunities so we could get home and wrap some gifts. But it's a billion now we're all in.
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Speaker 1: The game, yes exactly, and our hands are free, so we can go get some Powerball tickets today. Very excited about that.
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Speaker 2: I will get you some details on those numbers in a second. Or to start wherever you may be on this Friday Eve, hope you are off to a good start. Also, on that phone now top right corner of the Apple podcast app, where you see our show page, click that button that says follow, and then you can get our updates. And there have been a lot lately, from the Brian rothschild trial, to Luigi Mangioni, to a lot of our gift guides, A lot of stuff has been happening quite frankly in the news, So I don't want you to miss any of the.
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Speaker 1: Updates, that's right. But on the run this morning, we're talking about America being accused of piracy Brian Walsh is going to be putting on his defense starting today. The Michigan coach who was fired and then arrested, all happening in a matter of hours, and the shop a Hollock author dies at the young age of fifty five. Luigi Maanngioni is back in court this morning. More judges are okaying the release of Epstein testimony. And we've got another predicted. It was predicted, but another interest rate cut for everybody.
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Speaker 2: Also a very bizarre and quite frankly sad and for some it might even call it funny, but it's not funny about an Indiana player, the number one football team in the country, getting set to play for a national championship and the college football playoff, but one of their players will not be able to compete because of an injury after their last game. You hear what I'm saying, Not during the game, but during a celebration afterwards. We'll explain what happened there. Just heart goes out to this kid.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's just like such a sad just oh my god, A split second decision and everything changes, all right. First up, though, talk about the prosecution resting its case yesterday against Brian Walsh. That's the Massachusetts man who has admitted to dismembering and disposing of his wife's body, but says he didn't kill her. Well, this morning, the defense is going to put on its case and the big question here will Brian Walsh testify?
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Speaker 2: The question we don't have the answer to yet, but we're itching to see what they come up with today. Yesterday the prosecution wrapped up its case by putting on in particular two friends, close friends of Anna Walsh's, and one of them was the last guy to see her alive. Was as her husband, of course, but he was there partying with them on New Year's Eve the night that she did die. This friend got up and said, quite frankly, ropes, everything was happy, the mood was festive. So it gave kind of a kind of an impression of what the mood was and it seemed like nothing was wrong that night. Did the bolster the defense case? Did it bolster the prosecution case? We do not know, but fascinating see what happens when that starts up again this morning. Continue on the Run now with the pre trial hearings. Were accused United Healthcare killer Luigi MANGIONI going to continue today. We've been watching this. It was going on all last week and most of this week as attorneys are fighting to get key evidence tossed out, in particular contents of that backpack, which include a gun, notes and whatnot. But this hearing has been going on again since last week. It will continue this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Pretty much all the evidence the prosecution has is hanging in the balance here with these pre trial hearings to see what will be admissible and what will not. All right, Next up on the run, Fired and in jail in just a matter of hours. It was a hell of a day for Sharon Moore, the now former head football coach at the University of Michigan.
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Speaker 2: He was fired yesterday. This was a shocking move after the university said it discovered that Moore was having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member.
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Speaker 1: And if that wasn't shocking enough, hours later, he was arrested in an incident after police say they were called to an alleged assault in Anne Arbor.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of this is still left to be shaken out. This was his second season as head football coach. The team is doing well ninety three this year. Ranked eighteenth in the country. He was the one that took over after Harbor won that national championship. He was an assistant. Everybody was happy they gave him the job, and he has done a really good job. They did not want to fire this man. When you get one that has your team top ranked, you want to hold on to him. So whatever happened was very very serious. Details to come all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, a pretty shocking new revelation related to the bachelism outbreak in by Heart brand baby formula. The company we've been reporting on this recalled formula back in November after dozens of babies were sickened after being given by Heart formula. Well, the FDA has now expanded that recall to include literally every single ounce of formula the company has ever made.
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Speaker 2: You heard that right. Essentially, what they're saying, folks, is that they cannot be sure that any product by Heart ever made was ever safe. It could have all been contaminated. This outbreak now includes illnesses reported since March of twenty twenty two, and that is when the company first started producing formula. We have not had any infant deaths, but at least fifty one kids in nineteen states have been sickened. A reminder, this company is not doesn't have a lot of market share, only one or two percent of the entire formula market. But they've been around for several years. They make organic formula. But obviously this company has to be done. At this point, you're essentially saying you never put a safe product on the market.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, oh, the irony that a lot of parents who sought out this particular brand by heart was they were looking to that organic formula thinking they were giving their children maybe a healthier version of what was out there. And to know now that possibly they were literally feeding their baby's that's got to be just I don't know how you come back from this with the recall has expanded to every product you've ever made. Doesn't seem like can you imagine any parent being willing to gamble and say, oh, they figured it out, let me go ahead and put buyhard organic formula into my baby. That seems unlikely, if not impossible, all right. Next up on the run, the US has seized a major oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. That is a major escalation of tensions between our two countries. According to the White House, the US has been watching this particular tanker for years and says it's been part of an illicit oil shipping network with ties to terrorist organizations.
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Speaker 2: Well, that is not how the Venezuelan government sees it. They say this whole thing is not what the US says, and accused the US of piracy and pushing for regime change. It's a pretty dramatic video that's been playing. It's online, a lot of news outlets are using it, but it shows US Special Forces, elite US forces repelling down from a helicopter onto this ship, guns drawn in a essentially taking it over. Now, this all comes as the US has been targeting drug boats coming out of Venezuela. You've been seeing this video taking out these drug boats. So this is just a build up, another continuation of escalations happening in the region.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the Run, they're using words like catastrophic and historic to describe a flooding event that's going on right now in the Pacific Northwest. The area has been drenched by what meteorologists call an atmospheric river that's going to continue to bring heavy rain today. Evacuation orders and states of emergency are in place around the Seattle area right now. I remember it was about a year ago or so we had some system called an atmospheric river, and you went into a deep dive about what that meant meteorologically. I can't talk from a meteorologist standpoint.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's what it sounds like. Instead of water and it just raining over wide swaths of areas, you essentially have a hose, a garden hose of water dumping into one area, this atmospheric river. That's what they've been dealing with for the past several days. And we'll continue for a little while longer, continue on the run here now. The Senate going to vote today on extending those Obamacare subsidies, you know, the very issue that led to that government shut down. But we should not get our hopes up. Even though they are going to vote today and they're voting on two different bills, you would think they have two options, right, We got two chance of this. Yes, one is backed by Republicans, the other is backed by Democrats, and both are expected to fail. So this all but assures that there will not be a solution by January one, the deadline. So those subsidies are going to expire, and there will be increased healthcare costs at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run. As expected, the Federal Reserve cut the key interest rate by a quarter of a point yesterday. This was their third rate cut of the year, which now takes the benchmark interest rate down to its lowest point in three years, three and a half to three point seventy five percent. President Trump presumably is happy that he's finally getting those interest rates cuts he so desperately was asking for.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but they didn't come when he wanted, So no, he's not happy. Continuing on the run here now, a judge yesterday signed off on the release of grand jury materials related to Jeffrey Epstein's twenty nineteen federal case, even seeing headlines about judges signing off on the release of materials. This is now the third judge in the past week to grant a Justice Department request to release documents related to Epstein and his accomplished Klain Maxwell. The rulings are in compliance with through recently passed Epstein Files Transparency Act in Congress that gave everybody thirty days to release all these documents. So December nineteenth is the deadline circle that on the calendar, that's when all these files are supposed to be released.
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Speaker 1: So eight days from now that means Friday, next Friday, that's about the right day to drop a bunch of documents that now journalists are going to have to work on a weekend, the weekend before Christmas. That actually is so cruel.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, folks, expect our Epstein File episode sometime in the new year.
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Speaker 1: Really seriously, Everyone's like trying to go away for the holidays and now all these journalists are gonna have to sit there and pour through all these documents to try and find something significant. Woo all right. Next up on the run, best selling author Sophie Kinsella has passed away at the age of fifty five. You know her from the wildly popular Chopaholic book series. Two of those books turned into movies. Isla Fisher, I remember Confessions of a Chappaholic My Girls and I love, love, love that movie. And just if you get a chance to read about Sophie Cansella's life, it is worth it. She was diagnosed with a geoblastoma that's an aggressive form of brain cancer three years ago November of twenty twenty two, she said she outlived longer than she thought, but she has five kids, a loving husband, had a beautiful life in so many incredible works. I just loved her story about how she leaned into the chick lit thing when she was a financial journy in a list, and just to see how she reinvented herself throughout the years to create and become this like incredibly renowned and best selling author. It's just so sad that her life was cut so short.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but meaningful. I love at the same time right to do so much in such a short time and the impact she had which will last for quite some time. But stay with us, folks here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, the Nobel Peace Prize winner misses the ceremony but still makes an appearance. We'll explain. Also, CBS has a Cronkite replacement. Finally, also, terrible, terrible, terrible news from a player from the number one ranked Indiana Hoosier's football team. An injury after a game is going to knock him out of national championship contingent. And yes, power Ball is at a billion Stay here we continue you on this Friday Eve run now with Nobel PRIs Prize Peace Prize winner Maria Karina Machado. She appeared in public yesterday for the first time in eleven months, but it wasn't at the Nobel ceremony.
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Speaker 1: Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, has been in hiding since January, but there was a lot of anticipation that she would appear in person to receive this significant award.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but the ceremony came and she wasn't there. Her daughter was there, accepting on her mom's behalf at the official ceremony, but a short time later, Machado herself appeared from the balcony of a hotel in Oslo and briefly wave to support her.
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Speaker 1: She said in a recorded message that she tried to make it to the ceremony but she couldn't make it in time because of the difficulty in safely traveling. And here's what she said. She said, people, actually, and this is something to consider, had to put themselves in harm's way, at risk in order to even facilitate her journey to Norway. It's unimaginable to be that fearful of your life and that fearful of your safe but to show up anyway, and at least in a I guess lesser version than she would have liked. But my goodness, just to be under that kind of threat all the time is remarkable.
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Speaker 2: But it was cool moment. It didn't last long, but she stepped out and way look first time. All year, for the most part, we've seen her continue on the run here now back here in the US, from krung Kite to the Coppel. CBS has named a new anchor of its flagship CBS Evening News.
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Speaker 1: The new anchor is not new to CBS. It's Tony Dkoppel, who has anchored the CBS Early Morning show since twenty nineteen, sitting right there next to Gail King most mornings. Just saw him this morning, but he's going to start in his new evening role next month. All right, Next up on the run, A key player for the number one ranked, undefeated Indiana Hoosiers football team is going to miss the college football playoff because of his injury, an injury that came not during the game, but after his team won in the conference championship on Saturday against Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this defensive lineman, Stephen Daily, he suffered with the school is only describing right now as a serious leg injury, but they do say it's going to keep him out of the college football playoff. Now, this injury, how did he do it? He was trying to high five a fan. He's going around. You've seen this play out plenty of times after a game, certainly a championship game. The guys kind of just run around the whole stadium and the fans are still in the stand. They're leaning down trying to get a high five. And he jumped up to get a high five, and you see him come down awkwardly. He's limping. It's it's it's just a freak thing. He ended up having to leave the field in a cart. But this guy, he's actually been playing because of an injury to the starter, and then he had a hell of a year. He's their leading pass rusher and this has happened to him. It sucks. We've seen this over the I'm surprised coaches don't tell them you've seeing guys chair acls doing high fives before.
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Speaker 1: Really see, I was not aware of this. So this is something that's known.
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Speaker 2: This has happened before, and it just a freak thing. You're being athletic and you jump up or do something suddenly, the risk of injury is there, and this, Oh I hate it for him to hate it, hate.
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Speaker 1: It for ah. It sucks like if you did that catching a pass and you'll land it like that's one thing, but to do it just high five, you know. And you think about these guys. They just played their hearts out. Hey, they're excited, there's tons of adrenaline, but they're tired. Their muscles are tired. It's not he wasn't jumping on a fresh leg. This is after the game, so you can see why you'd be more prone to injury than at any other time.
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Speaker 2: Probably a reliever from the Yankees years ago. He was out just catching balls in the outfield, the reliever and towards ACL doing something, just messing around before. Yeah, I hate that for him.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run though, well we could love it for us if we get lucky. Right, powerball back and play. Let's try this again. We've been talking about it, and yes, the jackpot is now at one billion dollars after no one matched all the numbers and the power ball last night. So what's the cash payout? If you take get you win on Saturday four hundred and sixty one point three million dollars. And again, yes, that next drawing is Saturday night, so you got a couple days to pick up a couple of those two dollars powerball tickets that I have learned must be purchased with cash, and.
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Speaker 2: A reminder, folks, as the reason this keeps happening, they did change the rules a few years ago to make the odds more difficult so they could get the jackpots up higher. So what you're seeing is not necessarily an anomaly. It's exactly what they designed the game to do, to get bigger jackpots, to get you to spend more money so they can make more money. Period. And with that, I used to hate, you know, I used to get in trouble all the time. GMA hated me for this because they just wanted to do Hey, it's so much fun and lottery, and I tried to give a little context to it, and they hated that.
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Speaker 1: It's always about money. How can everyone else make more? They just want to be exactly what the pretty much the motive for most things are.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, before we let you go on this Thursday Eve, something we would like for you to consider. It is our quote of the day, and our quote of the day comes to us from Miss Madeline Wickham. That was her real name, folks, Sophie Kinsella. Yes, her pen name was Sophie Canzeller, but her real name Madeline Wickham, of course, the author of the Chappaholic series, who passed away at the age of fifty five. This quote is from her. Just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that you should do it. Changing course was the best thing I've ever done. Really, I'm not sure what age she was when she gave that, but she talked about how she was being trained as a kid. She played the piano and I think the violin is what it was. She said, you get on a course, it's almost like a conveyor belt. You do this, you do this, you do this, you do this, you do this, And she was on her path as a musician, got to college, start to learn other things. She says, the best thing she ever did was changed course because there was something that she was good at being trained for and getting ready for a career in and she completely changed and look what happened. I loved that part of the story. I think that quote needed a little context, but the quote itself stands or all of us.
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Speaker 1: It's cool. Yes, agreed, And not only did she go from thinking she was going to be a musician to becoming a journalist, a financial journalist, and then quit that and became an author of fiction. I just think that she reinvented herself multiple times. And it's another and even with her life cut short at fifty five, the fact that she was able to do so much in so little, it's just a reminder to all of us that we have the opportunity each and every day to decide who we want to be and what we want to do. And that's pretty cool. So thank you to I want to say Sophie, but her that was her middle name. Her name was Madeline. So thank you to Madeline and may she rest in peace.
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Speaker 2: And her words and her life or inspiring us to live and love and play and party and enjoy and appreciate today more than we would have I think when we first welcome. So thank you Madeline. With them again, just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that you should do it. Changing course was the best thing I have ever done, really, and that folks always appreciate you running with us.
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Speaker 1: I'm t J Holk and I'm Amy Robot. Have a great day everyone. We'll see you on the run tomorrow