(Thursday) Morning Run: 68 Dead in Train Crash, Escaped Murderer Dumps Truck, Trump Wants Candidate Charged, Clemency Denied, Rates Unchanged, Fans Cost Their Team $100k, Brewers Fans, Congrats! & MORE!

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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Thursday, October 29th. I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. We haven't, until this moment, realized we haven't really been talking about Halloween this week. No, we have not.

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Speaker 1: There's been enough.

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Speaker 2: Real world scary stuff. We haven't talked about horror movies.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday.

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Speaker 2: We really haven't.

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Speaker 1: Although I have to say, here in Manhattan, you were out and about yesterday, so was I. People are starting to wear Halloween costumes and not just little kids. So I was reminded of it yesterday when I was actually sitting at dinner with my daughter next to four adult women who were completely dressed up as different characters.

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Speaker 2: 80-20. It's been 80-20 adults to kids I've seen in Halloween costumes.

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Speaker 1: Lots of parties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for the adults. Also for the adults, last night, we need to stop these rallies. I know we got just until a few days, but these things are getting weird. Really, really weird. The president and President Obama are going at it in two different rallies last night. The president said some wild stuff called Ilhan Omar, a fresh little thing. He's bragging about, once again, his passing these three cognitive tests. Perfect score, supreme intelligence. He's repeating that last night. And, Robes, he had a moment that if Joe Biden had done it, they would call this a senior moment and be calling for him to be taken out of office. The president stopped the rally right in the middle of a big punch line and said, everybody have a good night. Walked off and looked lost for a second, realized, oh, crap, I wasn't done with my speech. Came back and delivered another 20 minutes. He didn't introduce the people who he was supposed to introduce. Robes, it was odd.

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Speaker 1: Look, he sounds tired. He looks tired. This is an 80-year-old man who is crisscrossing the country giving, you know what it's like to give a speech, a 30-minute speech. It takes a lot out of you. This is a lot for just about anybody, let alone someone of his age.

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Speaker 2: That was one of the toughest ones. He just looked exhausted. That was a weird moment. He also, it was a funny moment, he pointed out two black guys in the crowd and said, there's only two of you tonight. I laughed.

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Speaker 1: I laughed.

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Speaker 2: I laughed hard. Two black guys in the middle of this crowd with Trump. Blacks for Trump is what it says. He said, oh, it's like my best friends here. I don't even know them. Like my best friends.

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Speaker 1: Oh, my God.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Say hello to everybody and say hello to your friends. Why is it only two of you tonight?

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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.

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Speaker 2: He couldn't spot another black person in the crowd.

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Speaker 1: Could you? No.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. There was one. Dude with a cowboy hat in the back. But anyway, a weird, weird night. That was our entertainment for the night. Sabine and I were watching that while you all were out at dinner seeing grown folks dressed up. The run today is going to take us all over the place. We've got to head up to Alaska for the run today. Also, we're making a stop in Marion, Illinois, Greenville, South Carolina. Make a stop in Ohio, Bakersfield, California, Orlando, Florida, and as well in Tampa. But let's start. Rogues don't know how much higher this death toll might go, but they are really high. In Spain, again, again, another deadly train accident.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the pictures, the video, it's horrifying. We know at least 68 people as of this recording are confirmed dead in that high-speed train collision that happened in Spain yesterday. At least 58 others had to go to the hospital with injuries. This all happened in the central province of Toledo.

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Speaker 2: And you wonder, Rose, how did this happen? I first heard about it and how many people were killed. I thought it was going to be like a head-on situation. It's not what this was. They were actually on the same track going the same direction. And they were going whatever speeds they were going the distance apart. So all this was normal. But then there was some kind of a system malfunction, and they told all the trains on the track, To stop. So everybody, every train just stopped. But then, Robes, inexplicably, they say the second train got an okay from Central Command to take off again. And there were no speed restrictions. So just took off full speed and slammed into the back of the other train that had stopped on the tracks.

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Speaker 1: Wow. The transport minister says the train could have been going up to 125 miles per hour. Yes, these were high-speed trains. This is the second major deadly train crash in Spain this year. In January, 46 people died when a train jumped the track and hit an oncoming train. That is just not okay. I mean, to have it happen once is one thing. Twice in one year and to have that many deaths, this is a massive issue.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know how many train companies they have in Spain or throughout Europe, but this crash involved the exact same two companies involved. in the last crash in January. So we shall see. Continuing on the run here on this Thursday morning, they are still, Robes, looking for this escaped murderer, Jacob Morley. And authorities had to admit yesterday they are not exactly sure where to look.

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Speaker 1: That's right, 28-year-old Morley, who was serving life in prison for first-degree murder, was unaccounted for last Sunday night from the prison in Tiptonville, Tennessee, where, yes, he was serving for the rest of his life behind bars, or at least that was what was supposed to happen. But surveillance video shows him stealing a truck a couple of miles from the prison, and that truck was later found abandoned on Tuesday in Illinois right near a state park. Yes.

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Speaker 2: They don't know why he's there or why he would have gone there. They say that how many ties to the area doesn't seem to have any reason. There have been no confirmed sightings, but they say, Robes, that so far everything they've gathered leads them in the direction that he is not still in that area where they found the truck. And all this was is now Thursday. Yeah, he's been on the run all week. Wow, Robes, that's not to be complimentary to a murderer, but Robes, it's hard to get away when Everybody's looking for you. And he is almost a week coming up on Ben Luce. That's right. Got out by a breach in the fence wearing his inmate uniform. That was it.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And can you imagine his victims, family members? They have been speaking out and they are terrified, as you might imagine, about just the fact that he's on the loose. I mean, you wouldn't even be able to sleep at night. Yes, maybe he was last seen in Illinois, but my God, when you don't know where he is or how long he may be gone or what he's doing, that's a frightening, frightening thought. All right, next up on the run, yes, that rally in Ohio last night, President Trump told the crowd that the Democratic Senate nominee in Alaska should get out of the race and resign. face criminal charges. If you haven't heard this story, it's a doozy. There was a bombshell New York Times report that showed Democrat Nancy, um, um, Paltola, sorry, Paltola staff and national Democrats collaborated on this plan. where they would recruit bogus candidates in the hopes of peeling votes from Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, who, yes, has a common name.

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Speaker 2: Dan Sullivan is the senator from Alaska. So according to The Times, Democrats here recruited another man, also named Dan Sullivan, to run for the seat, and they say they did it for the sole purpose of confusing the voters. Polta has denied that her campaign had anything to do with recruiting any other candidates, including the other Dan Sullivan. But, Rose, this is the Times we're talking about first. But despite what you hear the president say, this is a longtime reputable newspaper. Rose, they had 12 sources, they say, on this thing.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure Trump appreciates the report this time around. Loving it.

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Speaker 2: They're the greatest newspaper ever.

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Nobel Prize for this in-depth reporting.

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Speaker 1: But 12 sources, that's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they sourced this thing. And, babe, if this comes back that she... I mean, in the reporting that one of her staffers said, yeah, she wasn't active in it, but of course she was well aware.

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Speaker 1: Of course she greenlit it, I'm sure, but that's just, I mean, that's a tough thing to explain or to defend. So, yes, the denying is taking place. All right, next up on the run, the police investigation into the death of actress Hayden Penny at Panettiere is officially closed. Greenville police made the announcement yesterday based on the coroner's ruling of an accidental overdose, plus the findings from their investigation. Police say, yes, they will not be pursuing charges against anyone, and they say the investigation is complete.

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Speaker 2: You'll remember Panettiere died August 16th after being found unresponsive at a home in Greenville, South Carolina, where she was there with her on-again, on-again boyfriend. The coroner later determined that she had several drugs in her system, including fentanyl. This is wrapping up that local investigation, but Robes Feds could possibly still pursue something having to do with the drugs that they can track down how she got it.

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Speaker 1: Yes. All right. So that is still TBD. All right. Next up on the run, the governor of Indiana has a decision to make whether or not to spare the life of a death row inmate who was convicted of killing two children. Jeffrey Weishite. is scheduled to be executed next week for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her 5-year-old brother Caleb. Look, it's bad enough to say you murdered two kids, but the details from this murder or these murders is beyond comprehension.

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Speaker 2: Okay, he was babysitting, essentially, his girlfriend's kids. They all lived there at the house. Babysitting, he's there living in the house, Rose, and she's gone to work. And the evidence now shows that he tied up five-year-old Caleb, tied his hands behind his back, gagged him, and then intentionally set the fire. Now, the parole board this week voted... unanimously to deny clemency for Weisheit and urged the governor not to grant clemency as well. Robes, they're trying to make some arguments about his mental health, but Robes, he stuck, just a bizarre detail, he put fire flares, he put flares on In the boy's underwear and under his body.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: Man, this is, he's going to have a hard, hard time explaining or trying to get some sympathy for this guy. Well, this was intentionally done. It wasn't an accident. He didn't just throw gas and light a match. He gagged the kid, put a piece of cloth in his mouth and duct tape him and then tied his hands up behind his back and put a flare in his underwear.

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Speaker 1: That is as cruel and as heinous as you can possibly imagine. And interestingly, I did read that the children's dad said that he would be okay if he served life in prison and was not executed, which is pretty remarkable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're only speaking about this one a little more today. I don't know what the governor is going to do, but you can look for that in our feed. I should mention as well yesterday, some.

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Speaker 2: Kind of expected news, but Wall Street certainly loved it. The Fed voted to keep interest rates unchanged. They didn't all agree, though. You'll remember just last month they voted to raise the key interest rate a quarter percentage point, and that was the first rate hike they'd seen in three years.

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Speaker 1: But the board voted 10-2 in favor of keeping rates the same, and guess who was one of the two people who wanted to raise those interest rates? Lisa Cook. Yes, that is the board member that the president has been trying to fire now for quite some time and has been unsuccessful to date. The board meets again next month and now is widely expected to raise interest rates again at that meeting, but at least it'll be after the midterms.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Fed said we took that into consideration. Things could move around. But, Rose, Wall Street loves it because now that they didn't raise it on this one, they are sure they're going to do so on the next. So what do they like, Rose? They like being able to predict.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: They like stability.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: They, for the next couple of months, know what's going to be going on. They can plan for it. Stay here on this Thursday morning run. When we come back, college football fans have cost their own team a six-figure amount based on a chant that they said to the opposing team. We will explain. Also last night, Will Walker, you've been waiting for this forever. Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Thursday morning run. And next up on the run, what an incredible life. The lady who coined the phrase that became a rallying cry, si se puede, has passed away at the age of 96. We're talking, of course, about Dolores Huerta, who kept fighting for workers' rights, women's rights, LGBTQ plus rights, well into her 90s.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they show up. I didn't realize. They said, well, she was keeping a busy schedule, still showing up at marches and protests. That is awesome. She found it. The United Farm Workers Union, yes, alongside Cesar Chavez, they fought to bring attention to and improve working condition for migrant workers. And yes, that was the yes we can before yes we can. Si se puede. I mean, it's part of her legacy now. Was it just the past few years, Robe? She came out and talked about the abuse, actually, she suffered at the hands of this hero, Chavez. That was one thing, baby. And then I guess people kind of did come down on her because it seemed like she might have protected some of the people in there who might have been harming other women. So that was a big part of, what was it, the last couple years?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and she admitted to the world that she actually birthed two children of Cesar Chavez and gave them up for adoption and that she's since been able to reconnect with them and share with them about their past. Look, she was able to do so much, but she lived through quite a bit. And yes, she did describe one of those sexual encounters with Chavez as rape, but she admired him. She worshipped him. He was godlike to so many.

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Speaker 2: 96, baby. What a life.

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Speaker 1: 96. All right. Next up on the run, University of Central Florida football fans just cost their own school $ 100, 000. And that $ 100, 000 fine was issued by the Big 12 Conference for what it calls discriminatory chants against UCF's Saturday opponent, who was BYU.

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Speaker 2: Now, this was a big deal, bro. BYU was number two. That was the highest ranking they'd had since 1984, so it was kind of a big weekend. Look, everybody was excited, is what I'm saying, and they were playing at the UCF home. So the conference acknowledged that the school kicked some people out of the game and appeared to follow protocols when this unsavory chant was being said, but they still didn't let the school off the hook. Robes, we watch a lot of college football. We've been to a lot of college football games. And when I first saw this story, I'm like, some vulgar language. Sometimes you hear some profanity in chants. Comes across on TV sometimes. I didn't know. My mind didn't go here.

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Speaker 1: No, this is actually, it's way worse than I even thought it would have been. So what did they chant to the players of BYU, the most prominent school for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

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Speaker 2: You see where we're going with this.

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Speaker 1: Fuck the Mormons. Yes, that's what they were chanting. The conference also announced a new policy in which your team can get an in-game unsportsmanlike conduct penalty if the crowd misbehaves. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love it. What if your team is driving to score, about to win the game, is going to put them in the next round of the playoffs, and yo, idiot's up there chanting, and the player, the referee gives the crowd a penalty? And your team takes 15 yards. That'll keep them quiet.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: The day that happens, I cannot wait. Finally here, ropes. I was up late with this one last night. I had to see when a championship is on the line and history is on the line. But, yeah, the good folks in Milwaukee, congratulations. Y'all have been waiting forever to win a World Series. Happened last night. The Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 to win game five. They now win the World Series four games to one. uh uh what was it 1982 was the last time they were actually in a world series first ever title for them it's just a special moment to see that last out and to see that place was buzzing with brewer fans even though the game was in tampa i.

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Speaker 1: Know i was thinking can you imagine if the game had been in milwaukee oh my goodness but still they had a blast celebrating congrats yes and that is awesome you gotta love that they've never won a championship before or never won a World Series before, so that's amazing. All right, quote of the day here on your Thursday. No amount of anxiety is going to make any difference to anything that is going to happen.

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Speaker 2: No, it's completely pointless. It's a waste of time. Situation is the same.

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Speaker 1: All the what-ifs and should-haves and... All of that, all it does is make you miserable. It doesn't change anything. It's always just a good reminder. I know we know this, but I always like hearing it, reading it and saying, oh my gosh, yes, please. No amount of anxiety is going to make any difference to anything that is going to happen. So, yes.

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Speaker 2: That is so funny. Just to say that thing, your situation. doesn't change just because you're crying about it or because you have anxiety about it or because you're being a jerk about it or being mean to other people.

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Speaker 1: Or you're overthinking it.

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Speaker 2: It's the exact same situation.

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Speaker 1: It's a good reminder for everybody. All right. So we always appreciate you running with us on this Thursday. Hope you have a wonderful one. I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holm. Be running with you soon.