Morning Run: Rob Reiner and Wife Killed, RI Manhunt Resumes, Brown U Killer At Large, Bondi Beach Attack, Brian Walshe Deliberations and Patrick Mahomes Out

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, December fifteenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. Good morning to you from a the word is it blistery? Should we call Boston a blistery Boston on this Morning Run? Where? How many below?

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Speaker 1: Is it blustery? Said? Blistery? I mean maybe your skin can get blisters if it feels like negative ten outside, which is what the local meteorologists just told us it felt like outside right now.

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Speaker 2: But it is we don't get to come to Boston a whole lot. I'm sure it's a beautiful city, but we ain't see it because it wasn't didn't feel good to be outside yesterday. But good morning, wherever you might be. I always appreciate you going along for a run with us and folks, we really have two pretty big, breaking and shocking stories we need to get to that we're seeing from the overnight hours. One having to do with the absolute Hollywood legend icon and heavyweight Rob Reiner and his wife found dead in their home and an apparent homicide investigation is underway. The other big story, Robes is up in this area where we are, and actually we just passed Providence on our way here to Boston. But a shocking story to say now that a gunman, a murderer, a killer is on the loose this.

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Speaker 1: Morning, after everyone was told to move about freely, that everything was under control, that the suspect or the person who they were seeking was in custody. Turns out wrong person. And so yes, we were passing through we thought everything was calm and safe and great, and turns out they don't even know if he's in the state.

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Speaker 2: And so that is where we'll start this morning, folks. The person detained in connection with that deadly Brown University shooting has been released, so as of this morning, the actual gunman is still on the loose. And that was a scary statement to hear from the mayor of Providence to say that not only do we not know where this person is, said we don't even know. We can't even confirm they've left the state or not.

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Speaker 1: So the investigation is essentially starting over from scratch. The shooting happened on Saturday afternoon on the campus of Brown University there in Providence, and the arrest was made early Sunday morning, they surrounded this person in a hotel near the Providence Airport, and it looked like they had their guy. But now they say that the evidence is sending them in another direction. They claim there's no immediate threat to the community. That's hard to get our head around when you know that you've got a person who walked into a classroom and shot ten people. Eleven people were injured total. But this is a scary situation and it's a little perplexing. And there weren't any videos or there's no shots off it's it was an older campus. They said, there just weren't a lot of cameras on campus, so we don't even know who what this person looks like.

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Speaker 2: And they are not going to put any new shelter in place. They want to reiterate the reason they say there's no threat to the community is because they say there has been nothing, no evidence that there is a threat. They haven't seen anything. There's nothing out there that suggests that there is a threat to the community. And that's why they initially lifted the first shelter in place. They said it wasn't because they had a suspect, it was because they felt there was no longer an actual threat. Those were their words. But as of this morning, this person who killed two students on that campus during final exams and injured another nine is on the loose and they have no idea where.

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Speaker 1: And they had no evidence that something was going to happen beforehand. So for me, that statement falls a little flat. It wasn't as if there were warning signs ahead of time that they knew that something might happen, So how would this time be any different?

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Speaker 2: That's what community members are saying right now. Everybody in the air continue to be on edge. So that was a shocking development overnight. The other one, we actually first started getting word from our people on the West Coast sending us notes last night letting us know that Hollywood a legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle were found dead at their La Area home. This was an apparent homicide. As how it is now being investigated, but Robes the story was developing and it's not even police as of this recording. I'm not sure if police have even said the name Rob Reiner is actually his family, Yes, they did so.

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Speaker 1: It was his family who confirmed that Rob Reiner and his wife passed away. I passed away as a strange term because they died violently. I think the information that's coming at is that they actually suffered stab wounds. So there is a homicide investigation. There is a death investigation. But police are being very cagey about this. They are not saying much. In fact, a press conference that we watched was so they were trying to dance around words so carefully that it became comical because they didn't want to admit what they knew and didn't want to say what they didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it was kg to the point of mockery, and everybody was looking at it and look, we know what they're up against, but they aren't saying much of anything. They were waiting as far as their investigation was to get warrants. They needed search warrants. They said to even go into the house to begin the investigation. So that's what's going on. But we heard from the family we knew the residence at least was connected to Rob Reiner and his wife. So that's why the word first got out. And this is in the very exclusive Brentwood neighborhood of la The family statement saying it is with profound sorrow that we announced the tragic passing of Michelle and Rob Reiner. We are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and we asked for privacy during this unbelievably difficult time. Our authorities found their bodies. It's unclear of what the circumstances were that brought authorities to the house in the first place.

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Speaker 1: A family member apparently went to go check on them and called police. That's at least some of the initial reports. Around three o'clock local time yesterday afternoon, and that's when police found two deceased victims, but they wouldn't again even say who their names were. And the part that was so strange about the press conferences. They were saying it was a homicide investigation, but they said they were not pursuing any suspects and that the community was safe. So that was very perplexing to a lot of people trying to piece together or connect the dots as to how there could be a violent homicide of two very prominent Hollywood folks who are known and beloved, and yet there's no one that they're actually pursuing.

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Speaker 2: You have to let the community know that there's not a killer running around your neighborhood. They must know or feel pretty good about that person not being a threat to anyone else or not being on the streets. Even so, we shall see that with the press conference, it was a tough one to watch. We went back. I mean, there are certain Rob Ryner movies immediately name, but he became I mean the past several not just years, decades, has been very much a political activist. He's very much known, almost legendary in that space as well. And a lot of the notes and condolences and a public sentiment that was put out there came.

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Speaker 1: From prominent Democrats like Obama, Yes to that level, Yes, President Obama, Gavin Newsom, Karen Vass, the LA mayor, a lot of people thanking him for his service to the community, to the state of California, to fighting for LGBTQ plus rights. He was a staunch supporter of so many marginalized communities and put his money where his mouth was and really did. He actually had a big interview on MSNBC. I guess it's ms now now just last month, but really he is and put himself in the political circles and was outspoken against Trump and really led with his heart and his beliefs in everything he did. But yes, we love his movies so much. A Princess The Princess Bride is probably our favorite shared movie that we've ever seen together, for sure. And he just I've met him once and he was just he seemed as the kindest, a larger than live kind of fellow, just jovial and fun and sweet and big hearted. And you see all of the folks now talking about giving their condolences online, but everyone speaks just about how wonderful and how warming he was to be around.

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Speaker 2: Expecting that to be a developing story throughout today, we do want to continue on the run now, and we had done that awful attack in Australia or police say a father son duo are responsible for the deadly attack in Australia that targeted Jews that were celebrating Hanukkah. Fifteen now killed. I think those numbers went up after the initial war they did. It's right. But there's that Bondai beach. At least forty others were injured, but fifteen now confirmed dead in that attack.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And the attacker is a fifty year old man who was killed and his son who's twenty four is injured. He's in the hospital so he is expected to survive and face some very serious charges. The Prime Minister is already talking about taking on and passing new gun laws in.

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Speaker 2: The vay was given our country.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is incredible, this is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: In a matter of hours, they say, yeah, we gotta do something about this.

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Speaker 1: And they and they will versus yes, us talking about it and never doing anything. But they want to limit the number of guns someone can have. They want to review licenses folks. So they already want to take action to try and make sure something like this doesn't happen. But among those dead, I was reading an eighty seven year old survivor of the Holocaust who shielded his wife from bullets coming at them and he died in the process. Just there are just so many tragic stories coming out of this massacre that, oh.

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Speaker 2: The there's a very very young victim in this as well. Well, Yes, the children were involved and killed as a part of this massacre. And there's some really really chilling video that's making it way around. You know, I said, it's not just making his way on social media. News outlets are airing this stuff of showing this man with a gun essentially in a gun battle with police. It is, it is terrifying.

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Speaker 1: And then there's this unbelievable man who rushed, armed and tackled the guy, kicked the gun out of the way and really put his own life in harm's way to save others. You know, you see these horrific tragedies and then you see these unbelievable acts of bravery and selflessness, and it's beautiful, but it always tends to show up at the worst of times.

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Speaker 2: All right, continuing here on the run on this Monday morning. Something we'll want to let you know we are keeping an eye on, yes, what we call a verdict watch continues now. The jury continues to deliberate today in the trial of Brian Walsh, the Massachusetts man who's admitted to dismembering and disposing of his wife's body, but says he did not kill her. This will be now Robes, their first full day of deliberations after getting the case, and we'd never know how these things are going to go, right.

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Speaker 1: So they can convict him. The prosecution initially brought this first degree murder charge against Brian Walsh, but the jury does have the option of going with second degree if they don't believe the murder was premeditated, and after hearing all the evidence, we've certainly waited on what we think the jury might come back with, but you never know in these things. They had what a couple hours on Friday to deliberate. So yes, today the first full day, and we will be watching and will bring you any developments in our verdict.

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Speaker 2: Watch all right, folks, stay here when we come back. Why you absolutely need to be spending two dollars today. And an awful, awful injury in the NFL. One of the and possibly the biggest star in the league is out for the rest of the season. Statement all right, folks, we continue on this Monday morning run. And no matter what team you for, if you are a sports fan, a football fan, you hate to hear this. This is this is the face of the league in a lot of ways, Patrick Mahomes and even if you don't watch a game, you still see his face.

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Speaker 1: On commercial He's everywhere.

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Speaker 2: You can't get away from him. But he tore his ACL yesterday in a game and is now out for the rest of the year. Look, only a few games left and now they lost this game, so they're out of playoff contention. So they weren't going to go for a Super Bowl anyway, but this was in the last two minutes of the game. This happens, and so now the question is how quickly can he come back? Will he be ready for next season? Wow?

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Speaker 1: So the start of next year is in question right now with his injury.

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Speaker 2: With at ACL these things, everybody knows these things take all right.

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Speaker 1: So yes, so he's exploring his surgical options right now. Hopefully he gets on that soon.

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Speaker 2: But man, he will probably have surgery today.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, yes, why wouldn't you get the best of the best and you get it done quickly. But here's what Patrick Mahomes tweeted after his injury. And this is just so heart hurt rending to hear. Don't know why this had to happen, and not going to lie it hurts. But all we can do now is trust in God and attack every single day over and over again. Thank you, Chiefs Kingdom for always supporting me, and for everyone who has reached out and sad prayers. I will be back stronger than ever. How old is he is?

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Speaker 2: He he's early thirties.

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Speaker 1: Ye, okay, so he's got he's got his side.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he still has that. Oh yeah, he doesn't have that issue. I see you typing over there. Quickly come he's oh.

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Speaker 1: He's only thirty. Yeah, so he's a young guy. Hopefully he'll be back and yeah, stronger than ever. When you're thirty, you can say that and mean it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even check our ticket. We did get a ticket. I didn't see if we checked. I have to. We're in Boston, soult When I get home, I'm going to see we didn't winning. But how do you know that?

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Speaker 2: Because they're drawing again tonight.

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Speaker 1: That I know they didn't win the big thing, but we could have won a couple.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we didn't check that out.

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Speaker 1: I always want to see. I've never won anything like on a scratch off, nothing ever, not a it's probably most people's experience though. But yes, we'll be buying more lottery tickets today. The drawing is tonight five hundred and three point four million. Now, if you take.

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Speaker 2: That cash option, which you all should.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. And now the five in front of that looks a lot better than the four, right, Yeah, it makes a difference. Yeah. I don't know why five hundred and three million is so much better than four hundred and something million, but.

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Speaker 2: It just is. And this is where we are. Well, folks, before we let you go, something we'd like for you to consider it is our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: You seem excited about this because.

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Speaker 2: You will immediately recognize it, and that quote is death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. And we give that, of course, an honor today of Rob Reiner, who is we can say, robes responsible for one of our absolutely favorite movies. Individually and together. It's even more special to us, to the point we have even decorated our home with quotes from this movie.

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Speaker 1: That's right. We have a neon sign in our home that says, as you wish from The Princess Bride, and yes, I love that quote from The Princess Bride. Rob Reiner was the genius behind that movie. I mean, I think about how wonderful you think about combining or meshing genres of movies, and the fact that he could do it so brilliantly. It is a classic. If you've never seen it, please watch it. I saw someone write that that was their Desert Island movie, that if they had to watch one movie on repeat, it would be that one. Because it's a rom com, it's an action comedy. It's good for kids and families. It has heart, it has thrills, it has humor, it's everything.

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Speaker 2: I didn't give him enough credit. I said credit you stop and think how versatile he was from a misery to a few good men, princess bride.

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Speaker 1: American president.

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Speaker 2: How could he pull all the others.

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Speaker 1: Stand by me.

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Speaker 2: That's very versatile.

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Speaker 1: Incredible, that's very versatile.

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Speaker 2: So in honor of him, with that, folks, death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. ALIGNE delivered by Wesley and one of the sweeter moments in what was very funny at times, but that was a sweet and poignant moment he had. So we wanted to share that today. So folks, take that with him wherever you are. I hope you have a good day. Thanks for running with us. I'm T. J.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Roebuck. We'll run with you soon.