Nov. 3, 2026
(Tuesday) "Morning Run": Let's Vote!, Manhunt in NY, US Strikes Iran, Teen Arrested for Spirit Halloween Shooting, Deadly CA Beach Shooting, NY's 1st Measles Death in 30Yrs, ESPN Legend Sidelined, NYC Marathon Heartbreak, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Tuesday, November 3rd. It ain't just any Tuesday. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. It's almost over. The midterms.
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Speaker 2: Is it, though? Are we going to get finality?
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Speaker 1: On November 5th, we're going to go, damn, it still ain't over. December 5th. Damn, it still ain't over.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God.
00:00:28
Speaker 1: Just saying. But hey, everybody, welcome. Yes, it's finally midterm day in Rhodes. I am so excited because we've already seen some of the local, the news coverage. Everybody's pulling out all the stops and all of their toys and their tricks and their graphics and their studio stuff. It's going great so far.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got immersive studios that are, they got some kinks to work out still. It's been quite entertaining, actually. watching everyone trying to, yes, show off their bells and whistles, all of the money that the news divisions have put into their, yes, immersive studios, election 2026, and things just start going wrong.
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Speaker 1: We literally just saw them talking about the Michigan Senate race and the state of New York was over Mike Rogers' face. It was just a clown show. Look, we get it. They like their bells and whistles. We're used to seeing this, but it is going to be a very interesting day, not just because of what happens at the ballot box, but Rose, we're going to see some weird stuff on TV today. It's just, it's a big day in the US.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we have been a part of election coverage for most of our careers. And so we understand that. What goes into the planning and the meetings and everyone's dispersed across the country. Yes. Oh, yeah. Things just always go terribly wrong.
00:01:41
Speaker 1: This is a big show.
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Speaker 2: It's fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: It started early. But wherever you may be, we hope you're getting off to a good start on this midterm Tuesday. But we're going to be making stops all over the place today. New York, Monterey, California, the Strait of Hormuz. We'll swing by Indiana, Palm Beach County. Also, we'll make a stop in Massachusetts. There was a highly anticipated moment there yesterday that didn't get us a whole lot. But let's start, yes, Robes with the midterms. They are here. But hey, a lot of folks are voting today. But folks have turned out early. And they say this is a good sign for Democrats. 58 million Americans have already voted via mail-in ballots and early in-person votes.
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Speaker 2: And we know already. This year's elections are especially important because, yes, the control of Congress and the future of President Trump's agenda, all at stake. All 435 seats are up for election in the House. The current breakdown, 219 Republicans versus 214 Democrats. So Democrats need to pick up just three seats to take the majority.
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Speaker 1: Then you turn to the Senate. Republicans hold the majority there, 53 to 47. So they need to pick up four seats to win a majority in Robes. They really think this is possible when you look at what's happening in Texas with Tallarico down there. Keep an eye on Ohio, Kansas. You know the places. You've seen the president a lot lately. Alaska. Who knows with the two Dan Sullivans what's going to happen up there. And then Maine. Is this the time Democrats are finally going to get Susan Collins out of there? Possibly in South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's sister was supposed to have a cakewalk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not so much. Not so much.
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Speaker 1: So this is what we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Control of Congress up for grabs. What we're talking about is how many checks and balances can be put on President Trump. If the Democrats control both houses, he ain't getting any of his agenda through. Nothing.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a very different two years.
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Speaker 1: And keep this in mind. Bit of history. Hakeem Jeffries, if the Democrats win, could become the first black person to be president. the Speaker of the House. Wow. So there is a lot to keep an eye on all over the country today.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and we will be doing that. But in the meantime, and we have not said this for a while, next up on the run, the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran. The Pentagon called them defensive strikes against Iran. a target on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz. They say that these strikes were done in direct response to Iran firing on a U.S.
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Speaker 1: Aircraft. And, of course, the president has said several times that we might start back up after the midterms.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he certainly did.
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Speaker 1: So what does this tell us now? The day of the midterms, we're getting word that we're striking Iran? What does this suggest?
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Speaker 2: I guess they had no other choice but to do so because you would think they would have wanted to wait another 24 hours, but we shall monitor that developing situation. In the meantime, though, a manhunt is underway here in New York for a man who viciously, violently attacked a woman while she was out for a run. This is scary stuff for us runners.
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Speaker 1: Robes, they said this was a random attack, and it doesn't seem like it was no sexual trauma to her. Like, what was the point of this? She clearly was not a threat to whoever this was. We're talking about 28-year-old Katie Suarez, stabbed in the neck, stabbed in the neck. She's now on life support. She had gone out for a run. Robe, this is kind of an idyllic, a beautiful stretch in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2: My daughter, Ava, runs on this stretch all the time. I told you when I saw this last night, I just felt sick because, yes, it's running while being a woman alone is just, unfortunately, something you have to keep in mind.
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Speaker 1: What was it, 8 o'clock at night? It was at night. It was dark at that point now, right? It was dark. She had gone out for this run. Her parents got concerned. She didn't return as scheduled. She texted, said she had a half mile or something left.
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Speaker 2: She said she had a half mile left on her run. And so, I mean, thank God she was in communication with her parents because when she didn't show up, they literally knew where she was running. They got to her and found her bleeding, got her to the hospital. We don't know what's going to happen, but certainly, obviously, it's not good news to hear that she's on life support.
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Speaker 1: This is awful. And just to remind, I don't know, babe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We should be focused on getting criminals off the street. And a woman shouldn't have to worry about going out for a run alone. But, Rose, you just can't do it at night.
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Speaker 2: No. You just can't. It's a reminder. My mom used to send me these texts, please don't run alone. Please don't run at night. You know, I get it. Now I'm sending those same texts to my daughter.
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Speaker 1: And I won't let you. I'm not in control of this woman's body. Your body, your choice. But, okay, you want to go out and run at a certain time? I will do whatever I have to do to make sure I go out there with you or talk you out of going for a run at dusk.
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Speaker 2: With AirPods unusually.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2: It's scary stuff. All right, next up on the run, two people were killed. Another two were injured at a California beach. But police really haven't said any more than that. This is a weird one. It happened yesterday at Moss Landing in Monterey County. Police received reports of gunshots around 2 a.m.
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Speaker 1: So they respond to the beach and they find two victims dead. Then they find a third person who was injured, also located at the beach, then took that person to the hospital. And then later, a fourth victim, who was apparently involved in this, took themselves to the hospital. Those two, at least the injured, aren't described as having life-threatening injuries. But, Rose, we don't know what the hell happened here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need some details filled in here by police. We will be certainly awaiting word on that. Because this just, on a beach, this just doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: But they don't even know, or haven't confirmed, if all the people were injured in the same incident. They were tied together. They do say there's no ongoing threat to the community. How they know that, I don't know. That's strange. Yeah, it was a very strange story out there.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, a 17-year-old. A 17-year-old has been arrested for that deadly shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in California. This happened on Halloween night. Remember, a pregnant woman was killed at the Fairfield, California store on Saturday when a gunman, again, a teenager, opened fire as people were shopping for their last-minute Halloween items.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so six others were injured, and they tell us at least two remain in critical condition as of this recording. Police believe the suspect came into the store targeting somebody in particular. Start shooting up the place, I guess, Rose, and he ended up killing a woman who's pregnant. The name of the suspect has not been released. Why? Because he's a minor. We can't tell you who this is because it's a kid. It's a kid that shot a pregnant woman and killed her.
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Speaker 2: Rose, what are we, If this kid is charged as an adult, we will get this kid's name. 17, I don't know. Look, this kid could possibly face two murder charges, and that makes a lot of sense. All right, next up on the run, the state of New York has just recorded its first measles death in 30 years. Health officials say the child is from a rural county in the northern part of the state.
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Speaker 1: No further details released about the child. You'll know about the age. You'll know about if the child was vaccinated. But New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared an emergency over the measles outbreak in the state. We're neighboring Pennsylvania here, who is really leading the country, as terrible as that sounds. In the measles outbreak this year in Robes, this has a lot to do. They said most of these folks are not vaccinated against the measles.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, we've learned that a family of four, including two small children, were among the passengers on that Learjet that crashed in Florida. It happened on Sunday around 1 o'clock in Palm Beach County. The flight had taken off from Austin, and it was headed to the Bahamas. We're learning a lot of details about who was on the plane and what may have happened.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this, look, the video is all over the place. You've seen it on television in robes. I plead with everyone. I don't know why they're still showing this. This is something we have known, something we do. After the initial story, there's no reason to keep showing that plane crashing to the ground. Because what you're showing is the moment that nine people die. You're showing people get killed on TV repeatedly for the sake, Robes, it seems, of showing murder. video. Robes, I'm a little surprised that they're still showing this video of these people die, right? There's a reason they stopped showing, at some point, the planes going into the towers on 9-11 because you're showing... It's just so... I'm shocked. I don't know why this is different for some reason, but anyway... To the news networks. But yes, aboard was an entrepreneur, a tech entrepreneur, Adam Robinson, his wife Helen, and their two kids, a two-year-old and a four-year-old. Their names, Charlie is a two-year-old, Emma is the four-year-old. Their friends were aboard, Rachel Reed and Charmy Fair. They were also there. And then the nanny for the family, Anita Satina, was also there. The pilot was identified by a former employer as Jeffrey Gregory. And then, of course, I think the first name we heard was, that was on board, was the 20-year-old co-pilot. She was identified as Natalia Figueroas. Some of the pictures and images, they look, part of the plane, the tail is gone, and they say this is what was necessary to control. You can't do anything without that bit. They had no control of that plane.
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Speaker 2: They think it broke apart in weather is where they're headed right now because there was this cell right around them, and we listened to the back and forth on the air traffic control. It was heartbreaking because they, yes, I actually am so upset. I heard it.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe they played it.
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Speaker 2: It was, it was Natalia. She was actually so professional and she was trying to get above, they were trying to get above the weather and it just unfortunately did not happen. But yes, again, like to your point, they played this audio. I should not have heard that. Can you imagine if a young kid heard that? It is, it is traumatizing to hear what was happening in that In that cockpit.
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Speaker 1: You think about her parents. You think about her family. Think about anybody who cares. What was in the words? She was texting her boyfriend. Did he listen to that audio? It is horrific. These are the last moments of this young lady's life. All of their lives, but she's the one you hear communicating it. It is awful stuff. Awful, awful stuff.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, the governor of Indiana has made his decision. He will not spare the life of death row inmate convicted of killing two children. We're talking about Jeffrey Weisheit. He is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her 5-year-old brother, Caleb.
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Speaker 1: Evidence in this one showed that Weisheit bound Caleb with his hands behind his back and gagged him before intentionally setting the fire. A couple other details will spare you. This was an awful, awful crime. The kids were his girlfriend's kids. He was supposed to be watching them at the time.
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Speaker 2: The parole board last week voted unanimously to deny clemency for Weisheit and urged, almost begged the governor, please, whatever you do, do not grant clemency to this man. We should note the father of those two kids, however, did ask for his life to be spared, which was pretty remarkable. Weisheit is one of three executions scheduled for November 5th. That happens on Thursday in Indiana, Alabama, and Florida.
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Speaker 1: Continue on the run here now. Let's turn to Massachusetts. Lindsay Clancy back in court yesterday for a highly anticipated hearing. Robes, I needed you earlier as I was writing this. You had a description for what this was. The hearing is described. I got a big fat nothing burger. That was something else. I heated something. You had another line or something for this yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Because it was it was heated. There was a lot of back and forth. There was a lot of. tense moments that amounted to absolutely nothing. There were no rulings, no judgments, no trial date, no charges, like literally nothing. So the judge, yes, heard more arguments on several motions, including one from the defense to dismiss the case, which thought he already heard, but guess he needed to hear more. So instead of ruling on the motions, we kicked the can to another hearing for November 16th. And that's when The judge said he would rule, and he's also looking at a possible retrial in March if he doesn't dismiss the case.
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Speaker 1: So we'll check back in two weeks. Let's stay with this on this midterm morning run. When we come back, word from a legendary ESPN broadcaster having to take an indefinite leave for health issues. And a reminder, a reminder of just how dangerous the marathon can be.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Tuesday midterm morning run. And next up on the run, longtime ESPN broadcaster Mike Wilbon is taking an indefinite leave of absence, and he cited multiple health issues. That's all we got from him.
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Speaker 1: Robes, I'm very curious to hear about this, because he was being a little honest, didn't go too far in details, but he said in his announcement that people closest to him have been warning him for years... that they saw some worrisome signs and he didn't listen. And he put in his statement, now the bill has come due. So don't know what's going on, but he has hosted PTI for the past 25 years. You know his face and know him well because you've seen me in my routine, watch that show for years and years, but Robes, all the NBA finals and just us broadcasters, certainly black broadcasters, we all know each other and I've known this brother for a long time. So Hope he's okay, going to be okay, but he's a big part of their NBA coverage, and the season just started.
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Speaker 2: So it's serious enough where he is having to take a pause at not a time you would ever expect someone in his role to do.
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Speaker 1: It's not like he's being forced to, like his body is forcing him to. It's one of those things. You listen to people around you, pay attention. But to hear that, Robeson, Lord knows... I don't know. You say to me all the time.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: You say to me all the time about sleep and sleep habits and all.
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Speaker 2: Kinds of stuff. And when's the last time you've had an annual checkup? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing to say to defend where I sit and how we behave sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And especially if it ain't bleeding, ain't broken, we ain't going. to the doctor.
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Speaker 2: But when you get to a certain age, you've got to. And you're sitting across from a cancer survivor.
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Speaker 1: There's no pushback from me on anything you're saying.
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Speaker 2: None. If anything else, I do believe when people do express or share stories like this, and maybe we'll get some more information, it does remind people to take care of their own health. There is a positive that comes out of people being transparent. I do believe that.
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Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at it.
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Speaker 2: All right. For the final leg of our run, this one gutted me today. And I just wanted... folks to understand, look, we kind of, we, we actually did a, uh, an episode yesterday about the marathon and time.
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Speaker 1: Do we post that one?
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Speaker 2: That was around noon on yesterday. And, and we actually, I relate a story about two women again, not meaning any harm, but laughing and saying, Oh wow, this looks like so much fun. We should do this. We could do this. I mean, I know it's hard, but it doesn't look that hard. Look how great everybody looks crossing the finish line. This is a story about just how serious it is to run a marathon and how you should never take an endeavor like this lightly. This is a tragic story coming out of Sunday's New York City Marathon. A 24-year-old beautiful Pennsylvania woman collapsed and died just two miles from the finish line. Her name was Rachel Appa. She was about to complete her very first marathon. She'd been training for months. And look, she was, her dad described her as in perfect health. She had been a Division I athlete. She had recently graduated. She was a field hockey player for Bucknell University. And if you look at her pictures, this girl was fit. She looked like almost a model runner.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm looking at the pictures of her now. What did you say, 24? 24 years old. Years old. Her mom said that her daughter was all smiles at mile 14, but she texted her family around mile 18, and what that message said was, ow, ow, ow, right? I don't know exactly what that meant, but that was it. O-W-O-W-O-W. That's all it said.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I read the story, she said ow at 18. So her mom was here running around like I was trying to find her at different miles, and her dad was back in Pennsylvania sending the text like, final stretch, you got this girl, way to go. And he says that she said ow at mile 18, and then at mile 19 said ow, ow. And then that was the last they heard from her. And her mom went from 14 to 25 to go meet her daughter right before the finish line. And they're tracking her and they see her get to mile 24 and she stops moving. And at mile 24, that's when she collapsed. And there were medics on the scene. They had CPR on her. They were actually, they had defibrillators on her. Um, and she was rushed to the hospital and for six hours they worked on her. She died at 9 40 PM from a, a rare condition called, have you've heard of this? Rhabdomyolysis, rhabdomyolysis. It's a, it's a condition that's brought on by extreme exertion where your muscles break down and start to poison your body.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. That is unbelievable. But no, I've never heard of that. And, um, it's, and if you do get a chance to look up this young lady, Rachel Appa, it's APA. That's how you spell her last name. And it is, babe. We, we, Talk about injuries and pain and the glory and how much fun it is. And people see on social media some dude twerking in the middle of the race or somebody running in a clown costume and people hugging and kissing. Robes, this is serious and dangerous stuff. It is not something the body is meant to do. And this woman trained, right? But even when you do everything perfectly, it's just so much on the body, baby. And so please, as a reminder here, and this is why, Robes, it's concerning and disturbing and offensive when folks just say, I got it. It's easy. Oh, I'll do it. And Or say, I don't need to train. That is just, it's disrespectful to the body, to the event, to other runners. And it is dangerous. Damn, baby, this is awful for this young lady and this family.
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Speaker 2: I know, my heart breaks for this family.
00:20:21
Speaker 1: Because we know what that day is. And I'm going to go back and look, babe. I told you in that last stretch, I saw two things I hadn't seen before. And I was running in the right lane and emergency vehicles were coming towards me. I saw at least two people on stretchers. One of them, though, Robes, I had to jump out of the way because they had the sirens on like an emergency ambulance and this thing rushing. I've never seen that in a race.
00:20:49
Speaker 2: Babe, that was her.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen that in a race.
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Speaker 2: I know when you finished and this happened, okay, at 1.30 p.m. she collapsed.
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Speaker 1: I crossed at what?
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Speaker 2: You crossed at 1.40, somewhere around there.
00:21:03
Speaker 1: We were in the same stretch.
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Speaker 2: You literally would have... I'm almost certain you passed her.
00:21:08
Speaker 1: But babe, that was a concern. I'd never seen emergency lights on that thing before. Then I saw two other people. One was on the stretcher and then I saw one other person laid out on the ground being tended to.
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Speaker 2: I think that was her.
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Speaker 1: That was her, babe.
00:21:20
Speaker 2: Because seriously, you crossed the finish line. If she was at mile 24 at 130, that's almost exactly, you would have been coming up.
00:21:28
Speaker 1: Right behind her.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God.
00:21:29
Speaker 1: It's just, this is the second time now I've had a race and somebody died and I passed them at the end of the race. The other one was the Brooklyn half marathon. This is so just, man, please people respect that race and respect those runners. It, it, everybody out there ropes that wants to do this. I, your hat goes off to them, but just this 24 years old fit as fuck.
00:21:51
Speaker 2: Yeah. If you look at her, he wouldn't use, she looks like that, like beautiful, perfect runner, like a model runner, but our hearts go out to her family, to the upper family. This has got to be just beyond devastating, but, And a reminder to live, a reminder we just don't know what the next day brings. We don't know. And it's just we're constantly being reminded of this, and I try to always look at that as the lesson. That's the lesson you take away from these types of stories. And so for your quote of the day on this Tuesday, yeah, get it done. Your dreams don't care what mood you're in, so stop letting how you feel decide whether or not you do the work. And that is from the late and great Kobe Bryant. Another life cut too short. So everybody, just get out there and live and love. And with that, everyone, on this Tuesday, I'm Amy Robach.
00:22:42
Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Tuesday, November 3rd. It ain't just any Tuesday. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. It's almost over. The midterms.
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Speaker 2: Is it, though? Are we going to get finality?
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Speaker 1: On November 5th, we're going to go, damn, it still ain't over. December 5th. Damn, it still ain't over.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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Speaker 1: Just saying. But hey, everybody, welcome. Yes, it's finally midterm day in Rhodes. I am so excited because we've already seen some of the local, the news coverage. Everybody's pulling out all the stops and all of their toys and their tricks and their graphics and their studio stuff. It's going great so far.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got immersive studios that are, they got some kinks to work out still. It's been quite entertaining, actually. watching everyone trying to, yes, show off their bells and whistles, all of the money that the news divisions have put into their, yes, immersive studios, election 2026, and things just start going wrong.
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Speaker 1: We literally just saw them talking about the Michigan Senate race and the state of New York was over Mike Rogers' face. It was just a clown show. Look, we get it. They like their bells and whistles. We're used to seeing this, but it is going to be a very interesting day, not just because of what happens at the ballot box, but Rose, we're going to see some weird stuff on TV today. It's just, it's a big day in the US.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we have been a part of election coverage for most of our careers. And so we understand that. What goes into the planning and the meetings and everyone's dispersed across the country. Yes. Oh, yeah. Things just always go terribly wrong.
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Speaker 1: This is a big show.
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Speaker 2: It's fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: It started early. But wherever you may be, we hope you're getting off to a good start on this midterm Tuesday. But we're going to be making stops all over the place today. New York, Monterey, California, the Strait of Hormuz. We'll swing by Indiana, Palm Beach County. Also, we'll make a stop in Massachusetts. There was a highly anticipated moment there yesterday that didn't get us a whole lot. But let's start, yes, Robes with the midterms. They are here. But hey, a lot of folks are voting today. But folks have turned out early. And they say this is a good sign for Democrats. 58 million Americans have already voted via mail-in ballots and early in-person votes.
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Speaker 2: And we know already. This year's elections are especially important because, yes, the control of Congress and the future of President Trump's agenda, all at stake. All 435 seats are up for election in the House. The current breakdown, 219 Republicans versus 214 Democrats. So Democrats need to pick up just three seats to take the majority.
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Speaker 1: Then you turn to the Senate. Republicans hold the majority there, 53 to 47. So they need to pick up four seats to win a majority in Robes. They really think this is possible when you look at what's happening in Texas with Tallarico down there. Keep an eye on Ohio, Kansas. You know the places. You've seen the president a lot lately. Alaska. Who knows with the two Dan Sullivans what's going to happen up there. And then Maine. Is this the time Democrats are finally going to get Susan Collins out of there? Possibly in South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's sister was supposed to have a cakewalk.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, not so much. Not so much.
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Speaker 1: So this is what we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Control of Congress up for grabs. What we're talking about is how many checks and balances can be put on President Trump. If the Democrats control both houses, he ain't getting any of his agenda through. Nothing.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a very different two years.
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Speaker 1: And keep this in mind. Bit of history. Hakeem Jeffries, if the Democrats win, could become the first black person to be president. the Speaker of the House. Wow. So there is a lot to keep an eye on all over the country today.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and we will be doing that. But in the meantime, and we have not said this for a while, next up on the run, the U.S. has launched new strikes against Iran. The Pentagon called them defensive strikes against Iran. a target on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz. They say that these strikes were done in direct response to Iran firing on a U.S.
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Speaker 1: Aircraft. And, of course, the president has said several times that we might start back up after the midterms.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he certainly did.
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Speaker 1: So what does this tell us now? The day of the midterms, we're getting word that we're striking Iran? What does this suggest?
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Speaker 2: I guess they had no other choice but to do so because you would think they would have wanted to wait another 24 hours, but we shall monitor that developing situation. In the meantime, though, a manhunt is underway here in New York for a man who viciously, violently attacked a woman while she was out for a run. This is scary stuff for us runners.
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Speaker 1: Robes, they said this was a random attack, and it doesn't seem like it was no sexual trauma to her. Like, what was the point of this? She clearly was not a threat to whoever this was. We're talking about 28-year-old Katie Suarez, stabbed in the neck, stabbed in the neck. She's now on life support. She had gone out for a run. Robe, this is kind of an idyllic, a beautiful stretch in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 2: My daughter, Ava, runs on this stretch all the time. I told you when I saw this last night, I just felt sick because, yes, it's running while being a woman alone is just, unfortunately, something you have to keep in mind.
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Speaker 1: What was it, 8 o'clock at night? It was at night. It was dark at that point now, right? It was dark. She had gone out for this run. Her parents got concerned. She didn't return as scheduled. She texted, said she had a half mile or something left.
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Speaker 2: She said she had a half mile left on her run. And so, I mean, thank God she was in communication with her parents because when she didn't show up, they literally knew where she was running. They got to her and found her bleeding, got her to the hospital. We don't know what's going to happen, but certainly, obviously, it's not good news to hear that she's on life support.
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Speaker 1: This is awful. And just to remind, I don't know, babe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We should be focused on getting criminals off the street. And a woman shouldn't have to worry about going out for a run alone. But, Rose, you just can't do it at night.
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Speaker 2: No. You just can't. It's a reminder. My mom used to send me these texts, please don't run alone. Please don't run at night. You know, I get it. Now I'm sending those same texts to my daughter.
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Speaker 1: And I won't let you. I'm not in control of this woman's body. Your body, your choice. But, okay, you want to go out and run at a certain time? I will do whatever I have to do to make sure I go out there with you or talk you out of going for a run at dusk.
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Speaker 2: With AirPods unusually.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 2: It's scary stuff. All right, next up on the run, two people were killed. Another two were injured at a California beach. But police really haven't said any more than that. This is a weird one. It happened yesterday at Moss Landing in Monterey County. Police received reports of gunshots around 2 a.m.
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Speaker 1: So they respond to the beach and they find two victims dead. Then they find a third person who was injured, also located at the beach, then took that person to the hospital. And then later, a fourth victim, who was apparently involved in this, took themselves to the hospital. Those two, at least the injured, aren't described as having life-threatening injuries. But, Rose, we don't know what the hell happened here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need some details filled in here by police. We will be certainly awaiting word on that. Because this just, on a beach, this just doesn't happen.
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Speaker 1: But they don't even know, or haven't confirmed, if all the people were injured in the same incident. They were tied together. They do say there's no ongoing threat to the community. How they know that, I don't know. That's strange. Yeah, it was a very strange story out there.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, a 17-year-old. A 17-year-old has been arrested for that deadly shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in California. This happened on Halloween night. Remember, a pregnant woman was killed at the Fairfield, California store on Saturday when a gunman, again, a teenager, opened fire as people were shopping for their last-minute Halloween items.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so six others were injured, and they tell us at least two remain in critical condition as of this recording. Police believe the suspect came into the store targeting somebody in particular. Start shooting up the place, I guess, Rose, and he ended up killing a woman who's pregnant. The name of the suspect has not been released. Why? Because he's a minor. We can't tell you who this is because it's a kid. It's a kid that shot a pregnant woman and killed her.
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Speaker 2: Rose, what are we, If this kid is charged as an adult, we will get this kid's name. 17, I don't know. Look, this kid could possibly face two murder charges, and that makes a lot of sense. All right, next up on the run, the state of New York has just recorded its first measles death in 30 years. Health officials say the child is from a rural county in the northern part of the state.
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Speaker 1: No further details released about the child. You'll know about the age. You'll know about if the child was vaccinated. But New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared an emergency over the measles outbreak in the state. We're neighboring Pennsylvania here, who is really leading the country, as terrible as that sounds. In the measles outbreak this year in Robes, this has a lot to do. They said most of these folks are not vaccinated against the measles.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, we've learned that a family of four, including two small children, were among the passengers on that Learjet that crashed in Florida. It happened on Sunday around 1 o'clock in Palm Beach County. The flight had taken off from Austin, and it was headed to the Bahamas. We're learning a lot of details about who was on the plane and what may have happened.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this, look, the video is all over the place. You've seen it on television in robes. I plead with everyone. I don't know why they're still showing this. This is something we have known, something we do. After the initial story, there's no reason to keep showing that plane crashing to the ground. Because what you're showing is the moment that nine people die. You're showing people get killed on TV repeatedly for the sake, Robes, it seems, of showing murder. video. Robes, I'm a little surprised that they're still showing this video of these people die, right? There's a reason they stopped showing, at some point, the planes going into the towers on 9-11 because you're showing... It's just so... I'm shocked. I don't know why this is different for some reason, but anyway... To the news networks. But yes, aboard was an entrepreneur, a tech entrepreneur, Adam Robinson, his wife Helen, and their two kids, a two-year-old and a four-year-old. Their names, Charlie is a two-year-old, Emma is the four-year-old. Their friends were aboard, Rachel Reed and Charmy Fair. They were also there. And then the nanny for the family, Anita Satina, was also there. The pilot was identified by a former employer as Jeffrey Gregory. And then, of course, I think the first name we heard was, that was on board, was the 20-year-old co-pilot. She was identified as Natalia Figueroas. Some of the pictures and images, they look, part of the plane, the tail is gone, and they say this is what was necessary to control. You can't do anything without that bit. They had no control of that plane.
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Speaker 2: They think it broke apart in weather is where they're headed right now because there was this cell right around them, and we listened to the back and forth on the air traffic control. It was heartbreaking because they, yes, I actually am so upset. I heard it.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe they played it.
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Speaker 2: It was, it was Natalia. She was actually so professional and she was trying to get above, they were trying to get above the weather and it just unfortunately did not happen. But yes, again, like to your point, they played this audio. I should not have heard that. Can you imagine if a young kid heard that? It is, it is traumatizing to hear what was happening in that In that cockpit.
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Speaker 1: You think about her parents. You think about her family. Think about anybody who cares. What was in the words? She was texting her boyfriend. Did he listen to that audio? It is horrific. These are the last moments of this young lady's life. All of their lives, but she's the one you hear communicating it. It is awful stuff. Awful, awful stuff.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, the governor of Indiana has made his decision. He will not spare the life of death row inmate convicted of killing two children. We're talking about Jeffrey Weisheit. He is scheduled to be executed on Thursday for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her 5-year-old brother, Caleb.
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Speaker 1: Evidence in this one showed that Weisheit bound Caleb with his hands behind his back and gagged him before intentionally setting the fire. A couple other details will spare you. This was an awful, awful crime. The kids were his girlfriend's kids. He was supposed to be watching them at the time.
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Speaker 2: The parole board last week voted unanimously to deny clemency for Weisheit and urged, almost begged the governor, please, whatever you do, do not grant clemency to this man. We should note the father of those two kids, however, did ask for his life to be spared, which was pretty remarkable. Weisheit is one of three executions scheduled for November 5th. That happens on Thursday in Indiana, Alabama, and Florida.
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Speaker 1: Continue on the run here now. Let's turn to Massachusetts. Lindsay Clancy back in court yesterday for a highly anticipated hearing. Robes, I needed you earlier as I was writing this. You had a description for what this was. The hearing is described. I got a big fat nothing burger. That was something else. I heated something. You had another line or something for this yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Because it was it was heated. There was a lot of back and forth. There was a lot of. tense moments that amounted to absolutely nothing. There were no rulings, no judgments, no trial date, no charges, like literally nothing. So the judge, yes, heard more arguments on several motions, including one from the defense to dismiss the case, which thought he already heard, but guess he needed to hear more. So instead of ruling on the motions, we kicked the can to another hearing for November 16th. And that's when The judge said he would rule, and he's also looking at a possible retrial in March if he doesn't dismiss the case.
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Speaker 1: So we'll check back in two weeks. Let's stay with this on this midterm morning run. When we come back, word from a legendary ESPN broadcaster having to take an indefinite leave for health issues. And a reminder, a reminder of just how dangerous the marathon can be.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, to your Tuesday midterm morning run. And next up on the run, longtime ESPN broadcaster Mike Wilbon is taking an indefinite leave of absence, and he cited multiple health issues. That's all we got from him.
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Speaker 1: Robes, I'm very curious to hear about this, because he was being a little honest, didn't go too far in details, but he said in his announcement that people closest to him have been warning him for years... that they saw some worrisome signs and he didn't listen. And he put in his statement, now the bill has come due. So don't know what's going on, but he has hosted PTI for the past 25 years. You know his face and know him well because you've seen me in my routine, watch that show for years and years, but Robes, all the NBA finals and just us broadcasters, certainly black broadcasters, we all know each other and I've known this brother for a long time. So Hope he's okay, going to be okay, but he's a big part of their NBA coverage, and the season just started.
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Speaker 2: So it's serious enough where he is having to take a pause at not a time you would ever expect someone in his role to do.
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Speaker 1: It's not like he's being forced to, like his body is forcing him to. It's one of those things. You listen to people around you, pay attention. But to hear that, Robeson, Lord knows... I don't know. You say to me all the time.
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 1: You say to me all the time about sleep and sleep habits and all.
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Speaker 2: Kinds of stuff. And when's the last time you've had an annual checkup? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing to say to defend where I sit and how we behave sometimes.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And especially if it ain't bleeding, ain't broken, we ain't going. to the doctor.
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Speaker 2: But when you get to a certain age, you've got to. And you're sitting across from a cancer survivor.
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Speaker 1: There's no pushback from me on anything you're saying.
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Speaker 2: None. If anything else, I do believe when people do express or share stories like this, and maybe we'll get some more information, it does remind people to take care of their own health. There is a positive that comes out of people being transparent. I do believe that.
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Speaker 1: That's a good way to look at it.
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Speaker 2: All right. For the final leg of our run, this one gutted me today. And I just wanted... folks to understand, look, we kind of, we, we actually did a, uh, an episode yesterday about the marathon and time.
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Speaker 1: Do we post that one?
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Speaker 2: That was around noon on yesterday. And, and we actually, I relate a story about two women again, not meaning any harm, but laughing and saying, Oh wow, this looks like so much fun. We should do this. We could do this. I mean, I know it's hard, but it doesn't look that hard. Look how great everybody looks crossing the finish line. This is a story about just how serious it is to run a marathon and how you should never take an endeavor like this lightly. This is a tragic story coming out of Sunday's New York City Marathon. A 24-year-old beautiful Pennsylvania woman collapsed and died just two miles from the finish line. Her name was Rachel Appa. She was about to complete her very first marathon. She'd been training for months. And look, she was, her dad described her as in perfect health. She had been a Division I athlete. She had recently graduated. She was a field hockey player for Bucknell University. And if you look at her pictures, this girl was fit. She looked like almost a model runner.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm looking at the pictures of her now. What did you say, 24? 24 years old. Years old. Her mom said that her daughter was all smiles at mile 14, but she texted her family around mile 18, and what that message said was, ow, ow, ow, right? I don't know exactly what that meant, but that was it. O-W-O-W-O-W. That's all it said.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when I read the story, she said ow at 18. So her mom was here running around like I was trying to find her at different miles, and her dad was back in Pennsylvania sending the text like, final stretch, you got this girl, way to go. And he says that she said ow at mile 18, and then at mile 19 said ow, ow. And then that was the last they heard from her. And her mom went from 14 to 25 to go meet her daughter right before the finish line. And they're tracking her and they see her get to mile 24 and she stops moving. And at mile 24, that's when she collapsed. And there were medics on the scene. They had CPR on her. They were actually, they had defibrillators on her. Um, and she was rushed to the hospital and for six hours they worked on her. She died at 9 40 PM from a, a rare condition called, have you've heard of this? Rhabdomyolysis, rhabdomyolysis. It's a, it's a condition that's brought on by extreme exertion where your muscles break down and start to poison your body.
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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. That is unbelievable. But no, I've never heard of that. And, um, it's, and if you do get a chance to look up this young lady, Rachel Appa, it's APA. That's how you spell her last name. And it is, babe. We, we, Talk about injuries and pain and the glory and how much fun it is. And people see on social media some dude twerking in the middle of the race or somebody running in a clown costume and people hugging and kissing. Robes, this is serious and dangerous stuff. It is not something the body is meant to do. And this woman trained, right? But even when you do everything perfectly, it's just so much on the body, baby. And so please, as a reminder here, and this is why, Robes, it's concerning and disturbing and offensive when folks just say, I got it. It's easy. Oh, I'll do it. And Or say, I don't need to train. That is just, it's disrespectful to the body, to the event, to other runners. And it is dangerous. Damn, baby, this is awful for this young lady and this family.
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Speaker 2: I know, my heart breaks for this family.
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Speaker 1: Because we know what that day is. And I'm going to go back and look, babe. I told you in that last stretch, I saw two things I hadn't seen before. And I was running in the right lane and emergency vehicles were coming towards me. I saw at least two people on stretchers. One of them, though, Robes, I had to jump out of the way because they had the sirens on like an emergency ambulance and this thing rushing. I've never seen that in a race.
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Speaker 2: Babe, that was her.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen that in a race.
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Speaker 2: I know when you finished and this happened, okay, at 1.30 p.m. she collapsed.
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Speaker 1: I crossed at what?
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Speaker 2: You crossed at 1.40, somewhere around there.
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Speaker 1: We were in the same stretch.
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Speaker 2: You literally would have... I'm almost certain you passed her.
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Speaker 1: But babe, that was a concern. I'd never seen emergency lights on that thing before. Then I saw two other people. One was on the stretcher and then I saw one other person laid out on the ground being tended to.
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Speaker 2: I think that was her.
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Speaker 1: That was her, babe.
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Speaker 2: Because seriously, you crossed the finish line. If she was at mile 24 at 130, that's almost exactly, you would have been coming up.
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Speaker 1: Right behind her.
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Speaker 2: Oh my God.
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Speaker 1: It's just, this is the second time now I've had a race and somebody died and I passed them at the end of the race. The other one was the Brooklyn half marathon. This is so just, man, please people respect that race and respect those runners. It, it, everybody out there ropes that wants to do this. I, your hat goes off to them, but just this 24 years old fit as fuck.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. If you look at her, he wouldn't use, she looks like that, like beautiful, perfect runner, like a model runner, but our hearts go out to her family, to the upper family. This has got to be just beyond devastating, but, And a reminder to live, a reminder we just don't know what the next day brings. We don't know. And it's just we're constantly being reminded of this, and I try to always look at that as the lesson. That's the lesson you take away from these types of stories. And so for your quote of the day on this Tuesday, yeah, get it done. Your dreams don't care what mood you're in, so stop letting how you feel decide whether or not you do the work. And that is from the late and great Kobe Bryant. Another life cut too short. So everybody, just get out there and live and love. And with that, everyone, on this Tuesday, I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.