Morning Run: Shutdown Hope, Cancelled Flights, Trump GLP-1 Deal, Nancy Pelosi Retiring, Trillionaire Musk and Farewell Journey Tour

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, November seventh. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's a good way to She forgot to introduce yourself.

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Speaker 1: I forgot that I'm a woman who needs no introduction. Oh wow, No, I forgot to introduce myself.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, hey the folks, I'm TJ and it's you have to give us a little bit of a break. Full disclosure, we are actually recording this morning much earlier than normal, and we're recording from our home studio because Robes. For whatever reason, we just decided to go roll the dice day one of the cutback on flights. And where are we headed?

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Speaker 3: Miami, Warmer Waters.

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Speaker 2: I only meant what airport, but go ahead, you can give out the travel plans. But yeah, we're gonna be flying here in a short time from one of the airports that the government now says is going to be seeing reductions in flights because of the shutdown. And we have a lot to get to this morning, but we do want to actually start there on this Friday with what is now day thirty eight robes of this shutdown.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and we're not sure if it's hope, but Republicans are possibly going to try a new tactic today. Instead of voting on the same temporary short term measure that Democrats have voted down fourteen times before, Republicans are expected to now offer up a bill that would reopen the government keep it funded through January, giving them time to negotiate a longer term deal. In addition, it would also fund food aid programs and veterans programs for a year.

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Speaker 2: I know what you're thinking. Sounds reasonable enough. Surely they'll go for this. Well, I can tell you already the Democrats have signaled that they won't be voting for this. Do not get your hopes up, Republicans just hoping to pick up a few Democrats. There are a lot of conversations going on with centrist Republicans and Democrats you've been hearing about, but it doesn't look like this is going to be the thing that makes the difference. However, they say they are at least robes going to stay and work through the weekend. Finally, Yeah, that's new. Meanwhile, thousands of flights have been canceled today, and they were canceled before the day even started. The FAA has now directed airlines to start cutting flights in hopes of reducing the strain caused by a shortage of air traffic controllers.

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Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced earlier this week that they would have to start reducing air traffic on Friday, that's today, if the shutdown continued. It has, so today is Friday, and the major airlines got the memo. United American Delta have canceled up to two hundred flights each today alone.

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Speaker 2: Not ours as of this recording just yet. But the FAA gave the airline this breakdown for how to handle the coming day. So all the airlines are supposed to do this first supposed to cut their flight schedules by at least four percent today, five percent by tomorrow, six percent by Sunday, and then next week all airlines are supposed to reduce their flights by ten percent. Now, air traffic controllers, as you know, are required to work without pay during the shutdown. It was just yesterday Sean Duffy said they got their second full paycheck zero dollars, and some people were putting them out where it said zero on their check stuffs.

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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, the Trump administration says there's no money.

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Speaker 3: A judge says, go find it. You have until the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Today, the Trump administration has been ordered to fully fund the SNAP food assistance program for the month of November.

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Speaker 2: Ye had a SNAP program, which provides food assistance to forty two million Americans, ran out of money for the month of November because of the shutdown. But last week a judge ordered that the administration tap into a contingency fund to fund SNAP. However, there wasn't enough money in that contingency fund to fully fund the SNAP program.

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Speaker 1: So that same judge has now come back and told the administration to fully fund SNAP and gave them of the deadline today to make it happen. So the administration is appealing. We'll see how that all works out with the timeline.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're looking at couch cushions or what, but the money is dry. But they say if they take it out of this other fund, it's going to hurt another program. But we'll see why they're appealing. They're not gonna put that money in there, we assume. Continuing on the run here now, President Trump held a pretty big deal news conference yesterday announcing a deal with two pharmaceutical companies to lower the cost of those popular GLP ones, those weight loss drugs.

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Speaker 1: Under the deal, as soon as mid next year, GLP one drugs will GOVY and zep bound out of pocket costs, which can now cost well over one thousand dollars a month, will drastically drop. Trump announcing both Medicare and Medicaid will quote finally cover the cost of weight loss drugs from millions of patients suffering from obesity. So Medicare is going to cover the drugs for a fifty dollars copey and people on Medicaid typically don't have a Copey and.

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Speaker 2: The government's discount platform for buying prescription drugs without insurance. Trump rx dot com. We'll offer the drugs starting it three hundred and fifty dollars a month and then dropped two hundred and fifty dollars within the next couple of years. Both Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. The two companies have voluntarily agreed to reduce the prices in exchange, however, for relief from pharmaceutical tariffs for the next three years.

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

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Speaker 1: Eighty five year old congresswoman and the first and only female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not seek reelection next year. Pelosi has spent nearly forty years representing the San Francisco Bay Area as one of the most powerful Democratic lawmakers in Congress.

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Speaker 2: Grady announcement in a video where she told her constituents that this would be her final year of service. She said, my message to the city I love is this, San Francisco, know your power. We have made history, we have made progress. We've always led the way, and now we must continue to do so by remaining full participants in our democracy and fighting for the American ideals we hold. Dear, she is a people have their opinions about her from political stampoint. This is damn impressive, the career she has put together and what she's done, the power she gained, the influence she gained, It's an impressive career.

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Speaker 1: Yes, she has paved the way for so many other women specifically who have come, but men too. She has paved a very, very incredible road for so many. Now. She was elected to the House in nineteen eighty seven, became Speaker twenty years later in two thousand and seven. She will end her final term in early twenty twenty seven. We know she's been a long adversary to President Trump, so it's no surprise when he had sharp words about the news of her retirement. This is pretty remarkable. This is what President Trump had to say about Pelosi.

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Speaker 3: I think she did the.

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Speaker 1: Country a great service by retiring. I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who costed the country a lot in damages and in reputation.

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Speaker 3: I thought she was terrible.

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Speaker 2: Okay, maybe it is his opinion, Maybe it is just give her the day.

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Speaker 1: It is right well, and names have already begun, so circuling as to who may run for her seat, including her fifty nine year old daughter, Christine Pelosi. She's big in the Democratic politics in California, and she certainly has a name.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that name is shoe In probably in that district. I continue to go on the run here. Now, let's get to Louisville, where the death toll has risen again from that fiery ups cargo plane crash. Authorities now say a total of Thirteen people are confirmed dead when that plane went down just as it was trying to take off from Muhammad Ali International Airport on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: The thirteenth victim had been taken to the hospital but succumbed to their wounds. Officials said yesterday that nine people are still unaccounted for.

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Speaker 3: What a tragedy.

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Speaker 2: I continuing on the run here now to another tragedy as shocking one for the NFL community. Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Marshawn Neelan died yesterday. He was just twenty four years.

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Speaker 1: Old, and police confirmed he died by suicide. This all happened after police say he led them on a high speed chase after they tried to pull him over for a traffic violation. Neeland eventually crashed his car and then fled on foot. As police searched for him, they say they received information that Nland had expressed suicidal ideations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was found a short time later. Neiland was in his second year of his NFL career and Robes is just this week, just this Monday, this was a career milestone for him. He scored his first touchdown. Now that doesn't sound like necessarily a big deal for some, but he's a defensive lineman. These guys don't get an opportunity. The whole career is to score a touchdown. So it was just such a huge, a big moment on Monday night on a blocked punt and go from that to this That was a no doubt, a career highlight for him, and a couple days later, it's hard.

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Speaker 3: To imagine what was going on. That is really sad, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, former NFL superstar Antonio Brown is back in the US to face an attempted murder charge.

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Speaker 3: US Marshalls tracked him down in Dubai.

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Speaker 2: I have Brown, who had an all pro twelve year career in the NFL, was wanted for a May incident in Miami in which police say Brown grabbed a security guards gun and then started shooting at a man he had earlier gotten into a fight with. Now that another man was okay, you only told police the bullet grazed his neck. Now Brown is going to be taken to Miami to face charges.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, a former Virginia teacher who was shot by her six year old student has been awarded ten million dollars Abby's were in her filed suit against her school's assistant principal, claiming she ignored warnings that the child had brought a gun to school.

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Speaker 2: You remember this story, You just I didn't imagine what a six year old is doing with a gun and then pulling a trigger at the teacher in the middle of the classroom. Now, this teacher was shot in her chest and hand. This is a Newport News elementary school in January of twenty twenty three. Now, she argued that the vice principal, the principal, Ebony Parker, was told by several staff members that they'd seen the kid with a gun in his backpack, but those warnings were ignored. There's a criminal case going on here as well. But whatever case she made, the jury, this court certainly bought it because she was awarded ten million dollars. And again, this was a personal suit against Ebony Parker, this vice principal.

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Speaker 3: Wow, yes, well, just so glad that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, she was injured, but the fact that she's okay, and a lot of lessons were hopefully learned.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this very rare early Friday morning run. When we come back what do you give the world's richest man. He has everything, you give him more money. You are not gonna believe how many zeros are involved in his new pay package. And the band is getting back together, Robes, but they're getting back together so that they can break up. We'll tell you what's going on with Journey next year.

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Speaker 1: Stay here, continuing our Friday morning run with news of the rich getting richer. Elon Musk has been given to go ahead to become an even richer man. The Tesla shareholders yesterday voted to approve a new pay package for the already richest man in the world that could make him the first trillionaire the world has ever seen.

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Speaker 2: So this new compensation package, which was approved by a seventy five percent vote of the shareholders, would pay Musk additional shares, and the value of those shares could exceed a trillion dollars over the next ten years. This is a pretty big if. Here, Robes, he would have to help the company hit certain markers and this doesn't sound easy. He would have to raise the company's value to eight point five trillion dollars within the next ten years. Now, we just did a story. What was the is it an Nvidia. Yes, that just hit five trillion, correct, and we've never seen that before. So he's got his work cut out for him. But if he hits those markers, this guy is going to make a one with twelve zeros behind it.

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Speaker 1: I can't million. I can't get my head around any of that dollars. Well, you know what, he's got some incentive for the final leg of our run. The band is finally breaking up after fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Oh I have seen them in concert multiple times.

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Speaker 1: Legendary rock group Journey has announced plans for their final Frontier tour, which is billed as their final and farewell tour.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know you'd seen Journey several times in concert, But it doesn't surprise me one bit.

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Speaker 3: Oh I have.

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Speaker 2: They have sixty dates scheduled for next year that run through July. But they're calling that the first leg of the farewell. Don't exactly know what that means and if they're going to be adding more dates or they want to see how this goes and see how they I don't know, but they just call it the first leg. Maybe it's giving themselves options. Oh so no opening acts here. If you go get a ticket, you are getting all Journey all the time.

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Speaker 1: Oh reallylast time, well, the last time I saw Journey, I was like, I don't know, less than ten years ago death Leopard opened for the house.

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Speaker 3: So it was like a dream come true for me. I was like out of my mind with joy.

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Speaker 2: Oh, imagine that crowd.

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Speaker 3: They look a lot like me. Shocking.

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Speaker 1: All right, on this Friday, we would like to leave you with our quote of the day and we are wrapping up our Mahatma Gandhi week. To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

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Speaker 3: Taking it in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to get the last party. It's better than a thousand What was he saying there?

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Speaker 1: Saying that basically, to do one small act of kindness to one person is more important than other people all bowing their heads in prayer to God or to whoever.

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Speaker 3: You create it.

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Speaker 1: So that it's in terms of trying to do good for the world, good for your soul, good for your spirit, the best thing you could possibly do is to give pleasure to a single heart by a single act.

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Speaker 2: So we too often think that the way to do it go to church every Sunday going here, I pray enough, I did that, But and then go to the grocery store and cut somebody off in line. Yes, that's awesome.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and it's a good thing to remember.

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Speaker 1: So we think by going to church, or by doing our meditation or whatever it is our practice, our spiritual practice, that that's doing good.

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Speaker 3: But no think about those small acts of kindness.

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Speaker 1: So to give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Thank you for that, Mahatma Gandhi, and for all of your words of wisdom, and thank you all for listening to us on this Friday. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes. Right now it's just saying travel alert next to our boarding pass here, but right now it shows our flight. It's still on time. We will keep you posted, let you know how this travel experience goes on. TJ. Holmes, We'll talk to the alls here