June 25, 2026

(Thursday) Morning Run: Deadly Venezuela Earthquakes, Ebola In Paris, Ghislaine Wants Out, Trump Headlines Fair, Kennedy Tarp Up, Canada Pilot Incapacitated, France Record Heat and Executive Fired Over Trash Can

(Thursday) Morning Run:   Deadly Venezuela Earthquakes, Ebola In Paris, Ghislaine Wants Out, Trump Headlines Fair, Kennedy Tarp Up,  Canada Pilot Incapacitated, France Record Heat and Executive Fired Over Trash Can

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00:01
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ an iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, welcome to your morning run. It is Thursday, June twenty fifth. I'm Amy Robot.

00:00:12
Speaker 2: You don't do the uh, you don't do the Friday Eve that much anymore? Did I complain about it enough that it's sadia? I'm sorry.

00:00:17
Speaker 1: I just didn't want to do it too much. I don't want to go overplay it.

00:00:20
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's on me. I just hate I hate to be that person to take I put it in your head. Now, that's something that made you so happy you stopped doing just because I was complaining about it. Well, yeah, Hey the fuck, I'm TJ Holmes the complainer. H No, I just give you a hard time about it now I miss it and then always how it goes so funny? A right. Welcome everybody to this Friday Eve Morning Run. Got a bunch of stops to make today, including in Paris and Boston. That stop is an unexpected one. We'll also be making a stop at the National Mall at the Kennedy Center, make a stop in Detroit as well as in Manhattan. But we have to start no doubt in Caracas Road. Who it is a still developing tragedy.

00:00:59
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's right, So we give this number, but it is far from what it's actually going to be. At least thirty two people are dead seven hundred others injured after back to back powerful earthquakes in Venezuela. The first quake, seven point two in magnitude, happened around six pm local time around or Are along the northern coast of that country.

00:01:22
Speaker 2: So that was a seven point two and then about a minute later a seven point five quake hit. Now early images show extensive damages, including yes, collapsed buildings in the capitol of Caracas. Search and rescue has been going on throughout the night. Where you said, you expect that number to go up, but right now, you know what they're doing. They're digging, They're trying to find survivors.

00:01:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're trying to find survivors. According to the Venezuelan president, she said that the hardest hit areas, like the disaster zones, haven't even been accounted for, so we don't even have the beginnings of just understanding the scope of the disaster and damage caused by these two quakes. The next leg of our run, though, takes us to Paris, where the first case of ebola outside of Africa has officially been reported.

00:02:09
Speaker 2: That sentence is alarming, ain't it?

00:02:11
Speaker 1: It is? All right?

00:02:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is held. Officials say this person had been in Africa, honored humanitarian mission, returned to France. They say, this person right now is in stable condition. Makes sense, worlds, You're not giving them a lot about who this person is and the identity right now, but good to hear their stable. Of course. The next questions then come about who this person has been in contact with. And this is the scary thing, right.

00:02:33
Speaker 1: All arrive in France. What plane were they on? All of that? So right now we know in Congo and in the area there that has been affected, there are two hundred and seventy seven confirmed deaths, more than one thousand confirmed cases. But the contact tracing in this case and just in Africa is overwhelming. They're talking about thirty five thousand plus people who have to be identified, notified, monitored. It's out of control.

00:03:02
Speaker 2: All right. Continuing on our run here now, and the next leg takes us down to Texas to camp fed. Is that what it's called?

00:03:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I believe that's what it's called.

00:03:09
Speaker 2: Camp Fed Camp Fed. Yes, convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Glenne Maxwell is in prison down there at Camp Fed and she's still trying to get out of prison. But right now, Rope, she is making a new argument for why Yes.

00:03:21
Speaker 1: In a newly unsealed document, Maxwell argues the newly released Epstein files disclosed new evidence, and if that information had been known during her trial, here's a quote, no reasonable juror would have convicted her. The prosecutors strongly disagreed and called her new claims baseless. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what new evidence somehow exonerated her. They seem to almost laugh at her attempt. She's doing this. Pro say she has no representation, so she is filing all of these legal claims on her own, and it doesn't seem as though the prosecution is concerned whatsoever.

00:04:01
Speaker 2: They gave a long, long response, but it could have just said child please.

00:04:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean best like it? Yeah, next anyway, But Maxwell is serving a twenty year sentence. She has long claimed that she's being made into a scapegoat because Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.

00:04:17
Speaker 2: All right, next leg of our run takes us to the National Mall well, girl, you know it's true. We don't need no Milli Vanilly for a two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. We got Lee Greenwood. Yes, the Great American States Fair officially kicked off with the man himself missed the God Bless the USA. And yes, he sang President Trump into the stage last night for a rally that Rhodes, of course, wasn't originally supposed to happen.

00:04:42
Speaker 1: Don't forget cash. Buttel's girlfriend, she was there singing the national anthem last that last night, she sang the national anthem.

00:04:48
Speaker 2: Well it is a family affair.

00:04:49
Speaker 1: It was. They had the best and yeah, they might not be headliners so to speak, currently, but they did usher President Trump on to the stage, and he was unusually brief. He basically made himself the headliner after all of those artists started canceling. The rally was the opening event of the Great American State Fair, which runs through July tenth on the National Mall. Yeah, he only spoke for thirty minutes. That is incredibly swift when it comes to the President, he usually spends hours.

00:05:21
Speaker 2: Shocked on the stage.

00:05:23
Speaker 1: I was shocked this moment he stayed on script.

00:05:27
Speaker 2: I thought he would take this opportunity to do all kinds. He did not. What was that about?

00:05:32
Speaker 1: That might just show that he is actually I think he's still pissed about the whole thing. He can act as if it's no big deal and this is what it was meant to be, But he just I.

00:05:42
Speaker 2: Think, get me out of here.

00:05:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did what he had to do and then left.

00:05:47
Speaker 2: Well, he didn't talk much on the rallies days last night, but apparently he was doing a lot of talking at an earlier meeting. Yes, our next leg of our run is pretty much a meeting that didn't seem to go so well. This was between robes the President and Senate Republicans. It reportedly got heated, and the President reportedly even called one senator a lunatic.

00:06:07
Speaker 1: That sounds about right. The meeting came at a tense time between the President and Senate Republicans. Remember the Senate this week passed that War Powers resolution, which was a rebuke to the president, and then yesterday the President abruptly canceled plans to sign a bipartisan landmark housing bill because he was pissed at the Senate for not passing his election reform bill.

00:06:29
Speaker 2: Nan, you not going to do what I want, So I am not going to sign this housing bill that both Republicans and Democrats have passed and agreed to. Now. In this meeting, in particular, he clashed with Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. This was the guy he targeted in the primary and actually lost his primary. Bill Cassidy did. But Cassidy afterwards was telling reporters or describing how it went, said he was trying to question the president on Iran. The President essentially shut him down, told him to sit down and shut up. He said he wasn't going to be bullied. So they had this back and forth until Casside said he decided on his own to sit down.

00:07:05
Speaker 1: Uh wow, And they reversed the rebuke.

00:07:08
Speaker 2: Correct, Yes, the next day.

00:07:09
Speaker 1: Yes, because the President said that that was undermining the negotiations, the ongoing negotiations with Iran. That was his big argument against the Republicans who jumped ship.

00:07:19
Speaker 2: They rebuked him one day and the next day they took it back.

00:07:23
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's see if the tarp is going to come down next step on the run that tarp, you know, that tarp they put over the Kennedy Center to I don't know why protect What was their actual reasoning other than not wanting anyone to get a shot of Trump's name coming off of the Kennedy Center.

00:07:42
Speaker 2: Said conditioning the marble. It had something to do with renovation, had some protection.

00:07:47
Speaker 1: Some sort of okay, but the tarp's still still there, and the judge wants to know why.

00:07:53
Speaker 2: We all would like to know this. Of course, the President's name was ordered remove from the front of the Kennedy Center. A cruise left up this giant tarp. What was it June thirteenth, the saturday it officially all came down. It has still remained there. The public still has not actually seen robes the front of the building without Trump's name on Where.

00:08:11
Speaker 1: Did I see a picture? Was it the Washington Post? Someone sneaked aside view to see that. Yes, it's the Name's gone, but you're not getting that money shot that everybody wants of the Kennedy Center returned to its original signage. I guess so. A judge yesterday ordered the center to give him a status update on renovations and in particular, explain why that damn tarp is still there. They still have a couple of weeks to officially file an answer with the courts. So presumably that tarp is going to stay.

00:08:42
Speaker 2: It's going to stay up through the come on, that's pride. Really, it's just the name of the center. It just goes back to the earth. It's not a come on, man. See these are the things, ropes, the reflecting pool. This is not a big deal until you make it one by saying, oh, it's vandals, took a big knife, all these things. It's okay, it's down. Just take the tarp down, let's move on. This would have been over.

00:09:06
Speaker 1: He creates controversy. He creates it, just like he creates the war that he then claims he ended. Whatever. Next up on the Run Detroit Lions cornerbark cour I can't talk. Detroit Lions cornerback terry On Arnold has been arrested and is facing multiple felony charges in a bizarre robbery and kidnapping case, which could land him in prison for the rest of his life.

00:09:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arnold is a very young player. He was drafted in the first round just two years ago by the Detroit Lions, and he does play roles. He is a very much an active and important member of their defense, but Prosecutors say he coordinated and directed his co defendants to lure three men to an apartment where they robbed, beat, and held the men at gunpoint. Why was this happening, Well, apparently, or allegedly, these men had robbed Arnold some house that he owned as an airbnb. They took his stuff, and he took matters into his own hands, according to prosecutors, leading to all, this is a very young cat facing all this time in prison.

00:10:10
Speaker 1: I know, when you see Detroit lyons cornerback, you know, facing kidnapping charges, you think, what is what am I reading? So right now he's being held without bond. Not that I'm like comparing him at all to O. J. Simpson, but it reminds me of OJ Simpson ending up going to prison for stealing back his own stuff.

00:10:30
Speaker 2: That's you're on the saying, you're exactly That's one of the first thoughts I had, and just you can't take the law into your own hands again. Allegedly allegedly all right.

00:10:39
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, A flight from Newark to Nova, Scotia had to be diverted to Boston after the pilot became incapacitated. Eric Canada says the pilot experienced a medical emergency that required him to be removed from the flight deck.

00:10:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was only about an hour after the flight took off. The coal pilot took over safely diverted the plane to Boston. Images rope. You see the ambulance come out there onto the tarmac and he's taken away in a stretcher. We don't have an update on the condition of that pilot, book Braves. This is why there's two I was.

00:11:10
Speaker 1: Just thinking the same thing. Thank God for co pilots. But yes, we don't have an update on the pilot's condition right now. But glad that that plane was able to land safely and that pilot was able to get to the hospital.

00:11:21
Speaker 2: You know, there was an expert that wanted to point out when you hear co pilot, it's not a less than an apprentice of some kind. Please, it's a reason that person is just as capable and can fly and at some point was a pilot, and they just go back and forth. But this is why it's not like you had some rookie having to fly the plane.

00:11:41
Speaker 1: Oh no, what do I do now? No, they know what they're doing.

00:11:43
Speaker 2: They were in good hands, all right. We'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve run. When we come back. It is hot in Europe. It is record hot in Europe. In fact, we saw one spot have the hottest day the country has ever recorded. We'll explain what's going on. Also, US men's national team will be back in action today. However, it doesn't really matter that much. We'll explain why. And the craziest story of the week probably a viral video of a woman dumping trash and stealing a trash ben Well, she has now lost her job. We'll explain.

00:12:30
Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Friday Eve run. And next up on the run, France just recorded its hottest day ever. And when we say ever, we mean like as in its entire history.

00:12:41
Speaker 2: This is crazy. When you hear that a country like France had its hottest day ever recorded. What temperature would you even think about? Now we have it here in front of us. But I'm trying to think. If somebody told me, what do you think the hottest day on record ever was in France, I don't know what I would be doing.

00:12:56
Speaker 1: I'd guessed like maybe one hundred and five or something like that.

00:12:59
Speaker 2: Well, wow, okay, well it was one hundred and eleven. The southwest part of the country, they recorded a temperature of one hundred and eleven and that is Robes, the hottest temperature that that country has ever seen. This is part of a heat wave you've been seeing there in Europe. It is sweltering Robes. I guess we got out of there just in time.

00:13:16
Speaker 1: Yeah. Although I was going to say, you love this hot weather, You're probably thinking, where was this when we were there last week? It was a little cool and we were wearing jackets. Yeah, or at least in at least three of the countries we were in.

00:13:28
Speaker 2: It's hot and the obviously I go right back to Rome last year year before it was hot as hell. But to walk down this there was a big street. We're all walking down this pedestrian street, big wide street, all this space, yes, all this wide space, and I'm the only one walking in the middle of this wide street and everybody else is packed onto this little bitty scene.

00:13:53
Speaker 1: You at the time, girlfriend, I was I was not walking with you. You were right, That's why I was saying that.

00:14:00
Speaker 2: And I couldn't figure out, like, what is everybody doing? Why are they walking over there? And you have to break it down for me.

00:14:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were walking in a very narrow shadow from another building that provided shade because we were all hot, and apparently you were just you say, when you have like direct hot sun hitting your life, it charges you up, like Mario, yeh, super Mario Brothers. I was like, it depletes me. I have to go see shade.

00:14:24
Speaker 2: I love it. That was a funny, funny moment. But imagine a twenty fit feet across the street. I'm the only one walking in it, a two foot across sidewalk, all the y'all.

00:14:36
Speaker 1: When you say all y'all, you mean all the white people.

00:14:37
Speaker 2: And well whatever, whoever needs shade at the moment.

00:14:40
Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run. The US men's national team will be back in action for the World Cup today, but they don't really have that much to play for, which is a good thing.

00:14:50
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they already secured first place from their group. They've already won the group. But they're playing Turkey A's ten o'clock Eastern time tonight. We that's gonna be tough to start to watch when there's not much online.

00:15:01
Speaker 1: So it's so funny. When I first saw you put the story and I was like, oh no, they play at ten pm, because obviously we're gonna watch, and I obviously want to sleep and make sure that we're just ready to go in the morning. And then I saw we don't need to win, so then I thought, I don't need to watch, which means I will be asleep.

00:15:19
Speaker 2: It's worth watching the team always, but hey, they're probably going to rest some of their players, and right now we need rest as well so we can root for them the.

00:15:27
Speaker 1: Next exactly, all right, and for the final leg of our run. This is TJ's favorite story of the day.

00:15:34
Speaker 2: For good and bad reasons.

00:15:35
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, you have strong feelings. A video recently went viral showing a woman stealing a trashman off the streets of Manhattan. Why would she do this, well, because it was painted blue and orange. It was all a part of the NIXT Championship celebration.

00:15:54
Speaker 2: They look, the city showed out for this parade they put up. Was there still say champions Way and blue and orange under all the street signs on Broadway right now? And look, they had these special edition trash bins that were they looked really cool. Look, but they lined the streets with them for the parade. Rhodes. There is a plane as day clear video. Why would she do this? But a woman completely decked out in Nick's gear, picks up a trash can on the street, dumps all of the track.

00:16:27
Speaker 1: That's the worst part. Which it was full, that's the worst part. Dumps all of the track city on.

00:16:34
Speaker 2: To the street, and then makes off with the trash bean.

00:16:38
Speaker 1: All right, So here's the problem. That woman in the video has now been identified and she has lost her job. Where did she work? JP Morgan Chase? This is an executive, a forty year old woman. Her name is Angie Baiez. She worked as Yes, an executive director of Community and Industry Engagement. But JP Morgan Chase is confirming that since this video has been posted, she no longer works with the company.

00:17:07
Speaker 2: And they wouldn't say in particular why she left. Maybe whatever I llegal issue having to do with personnel and whatnot, but she is no longer with the company. Now to add, let's give the let's give the New York City Sanitation Department some credit for adding I guess the right tone a little levity to this whole situation.

00:17:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, they said we would reiterate previous comments that dumping trash onto the street and stealing public property for your own personal use are both illegal, anti social behaviors, and now what New Yorkers and not what New Yorkers do. On top of that, doing both of it on camera is incredibly stupid. Now, the bin has since been returned to the city, we should point out, and the woman who took the video has gone online and said she feels so bad because she was like, I never meant for this woman to lose her job. Holy hell, So she's now feeling awful that her video has resulted in someone losing their job.

00:18:06
Speaker 2: This is Yeah, we're gonna talk about this when more. There's so much here with this story, robes about fandom, about forgiveness, about bad moments, about you know, I just I don't know, I feel all kinds of ways about this one. So we'll get into this more throughout the day.

00:18:21
Speaker 1: All right, And on this Friday Eve, we're gonna lead you leave you with our quote of the day. We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

00:18:33
Speaker 2: Relax with the folk. Yeah, we're never getting anywhere.

00:18:37
Speaker 1: We're never gonna always changing. They never stay the same Change is hard. Change creates so much anxiety, the what ifs and what will happen? And oh no, But just if you just accept the fact that we are always in transition. Physically, our bodies, everything around us, We're always in transition. So if we can just relax with that, you'll have no problem. I always love that reminder and what we're we are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem. And with that, everyone, thank you so much for running with us. I'm Amy Robi.

00:19:13
Speaker 2: Why the pause with Amy there? I wondered we'll get into that later. Maybe you were transitioning. I'm TJ. We'll run soon.