July 29, 2026
(Wednesday) Morning Run: Cyclospora Hits 18K, Historic Ebola Outbreak, 6th Legionnaires’ Death, Deadly Japan Earthquake, Killer Mom Trial, FL Double Execution, American Airlines Groundstop and BTS Snubs Grammys
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to your morning run. It is Wednesday, July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Once again, Robes. We have another very busy, very active morning run with some pretty difficult stories to get through. What do we call them at the end of a shore, they call it the kicker. Yes, we even struggle to find a kicker these days with all going on in the world. You know that story everybody you watch in your local news and at the end they have a squirrel skiing or something like that. That's called the kicker. They want to leave you with something light. We should start starting with our kicker. Really do it at the top, My goodness. There's just a lot of heavy stuff and a lot going on these days, that's all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And then that is the case, and oftentimes we do like to lighten things up. At the end of this morning run. We actually just have an important, very fascinating story. Didn't really find any light stories.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll try to find some. Yeah. Even our kicker today has a kind of a significant cultural edge to it and controversy attached to it. Damn we got Okay, we'll come up with something fun as we go throughout here. But with that, welcome to this hump day episode, everybody. We're gonna be making run stops in South Carolina at the Grammys, make a stop in New York City, the Congo, Massachusetts, Florida, Georgia, as well as Japan. But let's start robes. We kept saying, Wow, another quiet night, another quiet night, Not so much anymore.
00:01:36
Speaker 1: That's over now. Yes, after a few quiet nights, missiles were once again flying. Last night, US and Saudi forces launched joint strikes against Iranian targets overnight. This time they targeted Iran aligned terrorists in the Region I.
00:01:52
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the US says it thwarted what it called a surprise attack from Iran on US soldiers in the Middle East. This all comes now when there was at least a sliver robes of hope that the peace talks were getting back on track, back on track, because it's been relatively quiet for two three straight nights, no fighting, no major bombings. And now here we go, where does this leave us that any indication oil prices are going back up? If that tells you.
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Speaker 1: Anything, Usually the bellweather of where things stand with the war in Iran. Well. Next up on the run, Senator Lindsay Graham will be laid to rest today in South Carolina. The lad Senator was honored during a funeral service at the National Cathedral yesterday. Trump even gave the eulogy, and today there will be a public service for him in his home state of South Carolina before he is buried in Pickens County, where he was born and raised.
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Speaker 2: It's probably going to be a pretty remarkable and emotional site. I think he's going by the State House taking him by as well. So, I mean, what a guy seventy one years old. That's like we always say, robes pretty young.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, far too young to pass that suddenly and that quickly. But it is wonderful to know how much he is being honored and remembered.
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Speaker 2: All right, Continue on the run here now, President Trump once again trying to get out of paying Egene Carol, the writer who has successfully sued the President twice, has gotten paid only once, and now he's trying to keep from paying her this second time. In one of the cases we're talking about, a jury awarded her eighty three million dollars for defaming her as he repeatedly publicly denied having sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 1: So, after losing his appeals on being or being turned away by Laura Cote courts, the President is now asking, yes, the Supreme Court to step in and vacate that judgment against him. And what is he citing presidential immunity? Carol just recently and finally received the five million dollars she was owed from Trump in another case, and he's been trying to get that money back as a flate.
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Speaker 2: She has it into her account, It wants it back. George ordered it, and now he saying because of this case of the eighty three million, it might change things. So therefore the five million maybe shouldn't have been paid either. It continues, It continues, continuing on this run. The cyclospora outbreak continues, number of cases still going up. CDC now says there at least robes eighteen thousand confirmed and suspected cases across the US.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen thousand and Michigan, by the way, which has been the epicenter of the current large outbreak, is now reporting more than nine thousand cases in that state alone. Iceberg lettuce produced at a Tailor Farms plant in Mexico is believed to be the source of the outbreak. Gotta say, we were out last night. You know I love a wedge salad. Ain't no way I'm ordering that these days. Nobody nobody did. But you know I love a wedge salad with iceberg lettuce and blue cheese and bacon bits. And it's delicious, but it's not going to be consumed by me anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: And mentioned robes. They said, even though the numbers went up in Michigan, they pointed to this as good news. They said the increase in numbers, many of them came from delayed reporting. So what they're saying is some of the new cases that are added to the count aren't brand new new cases that are popping up the last couple of days, but there was a delay. So they're suggesting robes that maybe they have peaked in Michigan.
00:05:23
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope, all right. Next up on the run, yet another death in a legionnaire's disease outbreak in Manhattan. Health officials now say a sixth person has died. That means there have been at least ninety confirmed cases so far tied to this cluster. It's all on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've tied this now to cooling towers, a dozens of buildings believed to be the source. But city officials say they have eliminated the threat and no new cases have been identified in the past couple of weeks. With Robes, what we're seeing now, several people are still in the hospital, still being treated, but they're saying there are no new cases.
00:05:58
Speaker 1: Okay, let's continue on this medical emergency a part of our morning run. Next up on the Run, an ongoing ebola crisis. Yes, in the Congo is now on pace to become the worst abola outbreak in that country's history. There are now statement that is a big statement, unbelievable. There are now more than thirty two hundred confirmed cases since the current outbreak was identified a few months ago.
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Speaker 2: So thirty two hundred that's just shy of the total number of cases in the twenty eighteen outbreak that was thirty four hundred. So Robes, they're just they're knocking on the door and it looks like this is going to be the worst in that country's history. Health officials say of the thirty two hundred cases confirmed, there have been at least fourteen hundred deaths. Wow among them.
00:06:47
Speaker 1: Wow, those are high numbers, all right. Next up on the Run, that powerful earthquake at Japan. At least thirteen people are confirmed killed in a six point eight magnitude quake. It struck the area yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Buildings brought down, it sparked a lot of fires even because gas lines were busted and whatnot. Derailed trains as well. Desperate search and rescue effort is underway. It's ongoing as crews dig through rubble to find survivors. They keep adjusting ropes to put in their six point eight. I saw an update of even seven point one. Oh wow, since I've been up and working this morning. So a powerful earthquake expect aftershocks, of course, which is always a threat as well. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, The killer Mom trial is back on today. Testimony is set to resume this morning in Massachusetts. This is the trial of thirty five year old mom Lindsey Clancy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, facing three charges of first degree murder and the strangulation deaths of her five year old, three year old and eight month old she has pled not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she was suffering from mental illness or postpartum psychosis. Her now ex husband Patrick Clancy, will return to the stand this morning. They started testimony on Monday. They were off yesterday, but he expected to be back on the stand. And I don't think I have it right here robe. The defense hasn't started with.
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Speaker 1: Him, well, no, and I don't think the prosecution hasn't even finished questioning him. So he'll still face questions from the prosecution. Then he will be cross examined by the defense. But he's been described as yes, one of the star witnesses, but a witness who was testifying for both the prosecution and the defense. All right, Next up on the run. A busy day on death Row. On Tuesday, Florida pulled off two executions in one day, the first time that has happened in more than sixty years, and one of the inmates is now the oldest person to ever be executed in the state of Florida.
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Speaker 2: So first stop was scheduled for noon. James Duckett was pronounced dead just after one o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was a delay because they were waiting on word from the Supreme Court, and word came that they weren't going to intervene, so the execution went forward. He's a former police officer who was convicted for the nineteen eighty seven murder of an eleven year girl.
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Speaker 1: And then just after six pm, Dominic Ochaconi was executed for the nineteen eighty six double murder of his ex fiance's parents. Okachoni, at eighty is the oldest person ever executed in Florida, and he's the second oldest person in modern US history.
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Speaker 2: We did mention that earlier in an earlier episode we had on yesterday talking about Duckett, he was asked if he had any last words. He just said no, sir. However, o Chaconi last night said this Robes sorry for all the hurt I caused. I know it don't mean much, but I'm sorry. I never meant to do what I did, and who knows if that gives any peace, comfort or anything else.
00:09:42
Speaker 1: Apologies are always welcome, always welcome, all right. Next up on the run, Life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sixteen year old Colt Gray was handed that sentence by a judge in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Well that's something to think. To hear that, I don't know what to think.
00:10:01
Speaker 1: They're sixteen years old, life in prison without the possibility of parole.
00:10:06
Speaker 2: Oh, he's going to live to what eighty five?
00:10:09
Speaker 1: Maybe that is a significant prison.
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Speaker 2: I think seventy the next seventy years behind bars. The team pleaded guilty to fifty five counts against him for the twenty twenty four school shooting there in Georgia. Four people were killed, to teachers, to students. They've had several days of victim impact statements. He was fourteen when this took place, and roads the judge used. She said, this wasn't hatred, this wasn't anger. You can't claim that you got bullied at school. No, you wanted this for infamy, is what she said.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I mean he went in there. It was one of his early days at a new school. And yes, you're right. There were no reports of him being bullied or any issues with him with specific classmates. And there really is no explanation other than the fact that he was troubled. And now his father, Collin Gray, who was found guilty of second degree murder and had an involuntary manslaughter charges as well, he was convicted in the spring because he provided the gun. He gave him the gun for Christmas and knew his son was struggling mentally and still did not do what he should have done to secure that firearm. He is now being sentenced tomorrow. He's facing up to one hundred eighty years behind bars. So both of them may end up spending the rest of their lives in prison.
00:11:30
Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us here on this Wednesday Morning run when we come back you American Airlines customers, how'd that go for you yesterday? With explain why that airline grounded all of its flights and one of the biggest record setting groups in the world. They're currently on a world tour. They have a brand new hit album, and we can tell you for sure they will not be winning a Grammy next year.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Wednesday Morning Run, and next up on the run, American Airlines is flying again. That's a strange statement to make, but it's true. They had a technology issue yesterday, a technology issue that grounded the entire airline for part of the day yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's too vague if you're a customer. We had a technology.
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Speaker 1: Issue I'm not okay with that. I need more details.
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Speaker 2: I have a technology issue every morning with my computer. Some that laughing to shut it down. So I just need to know what we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you need to reboot the system or their problems with the planes in any way, shape or form? And how can you assure me that the technology issue has been fixed and.
00:12:50
Speaker 2: We didn't have anything to do have navigation? Maybe the altitude reading? Well making sure like on my mind is.
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Speaker 1: Tell me we need specific Yes, Yes, the airline did issue a nationwide ground stop that they explained was caused by Yes, the technology issue that quote briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems.
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Speaker 2: GI's vager.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't know you could manage to in an explanation confuse me more. But that's what happened.
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Speaker 2: What connectivity for some of our systems? All right, American Airlines? The ground stole lasted about an hour. Of course it would cause fits of entire airline at the ground with planes, but it didn't last that long. Wor These are complicated systems. I'm amazed every day, Probabe, for assays all the time and the number of planes. If you realized how many were in the air every day and we don't have crashes. It's pretty safe way to travel. However, I don't want to hear about it technology.
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Speaker 1: I don't either. Ah yeah. And for the final leg of our run, let's talk Grammys. So the nominations will be announced in November and the awards show will be next February. But we already know who will not be a Grammy. BTS, please explain this.
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Speaker 2: My hats off to these guys. I applaud them for this. The K pop supergroup announced they will not Robes be submitting any of their music for Grammy consideration this year. This is a group that just came back. Everybody's excited about them. They have a hit, number one hit album, number one hit song. So why in God's good Christ would they not want to be up for a Grammy which they have never won before.
00:14:31
Speaker 1: By the way, I did not know that.
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Speaker 2: This is how they explain. In a coordinated Instagram post, all members put up a statement explaining the decision this way quote. We have decided not to submit for Grammy consideration this year. We hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language. We think the army and everyone who has always stood by us Robes. The Academy announced I think it was five new categories and some diversity, if you will. Were in there, and one of them was Best Asian Pop Music Performance. They don't want to be boxed in. They feel like they are not going to be allowed or considered so much for what they are, which is mainstream music and the major categories, and they're going to get stuck over here. And you just the Asian group.
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Speaker 3: Robes a freaking huge applause to These guys don't do anything controversial, they don't take any political stands, they don't take on For them to take this type of stand for their music and their community, robes love them even more.
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Speaker 1: It's you know what, It's so interesting because the Grammys, I'm imagining, created this category and they've created other categories similar to that, just to and the idea was to bring in diversity, right. The idea was to acknowledge groups and music from all walks of life. And yet at the same time you were pigeonholing them. You're not allowing them to be considered with the rest. And in a way, although yes, the decision was made to create this subcategory in honor of diversity, it actually creates division.
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Speaker 2: I get what they're saying. I get what the Academy was trying to do. Robes, they're the best Rap album, right then their best Country album and whatnot. But you're still eligible for the biggest award they could still get. But for whatever reason, Ropes, they decided to take this stand. And this is absolutely being viewed as a protest of sorts with the Grammys. They've been nominated a few times number one, and people thought this is gonna be the year they're doing it. There is that never mind, don't even bother. Wow. I thought that was interesting. I know what the Academy was trying to do, and it doesn't mean these guys wouldn't get the big award, but they felt strongly enough about it to where Robes, they just came back from four years off.
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Speaker 1: It is four years military service, yes, and then we saw them at the at the World Cups show. So yeah, they're they're killing it. They're putting out great music and look they have the platform, and look it's still that takes a lot to say they are opting out of becoming Grammy award winners, because most certainly they would have a very significant high probability of winning that category at the very least, and certainly be up for others.
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Speaker 2: They would definitely have been asked to perform at the show this year, definitely because they just had They've had one of the biggest years. And wow, all the music so good on them, Good on them. You know, our Grammy's not going to be important anymore. This is a shot against like how valuable having a Grammy is. If these guys making this public of a standard, Eh, we're good without it.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that is significant, indeed, But yes, that is remarkable. I do appreciate people who put their money where their mouth is, and they are certainly doing that. All right, And for this Wednesday, we will leave you with our quote of the day. When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter.
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Speaker 2: Man, that it is a little too early, if we might get my head all the way around that one. I get where they're trying to suggest how we view everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got another day, one day more, we got another day. We'll do it tomorrow. Do it the next day. Yes, when we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter. And with that everyone, we hope you enjoy your Wednesday, no matter where you are.
00:18:39
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll run with you soon
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everyone, and welcome to your morning run. It is Wednesday, July twenty ninth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. Once again, Robes. We have another very busy, very active morning run with some pretty difficult stories to get through. What do we call them at the end of a shore, they call it the kicker. Yes, we even struggle to find a kicker these days with all going on in the world. You know that story everybody you watch in your local news and at the end they have a squirrel skiing or something like that. That's called the kicker. They want to leave you with something light. We should start starting with our kicker. Really do it at the top, My goodness. There's just a lot of heavy stuff and a lot going on these days, that's all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And then that is the case, and oftentimes we do like to lighten things up. At the end of this morning run. We actually just have an important, very fascinating story. Didn't really find any light stories.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll try to find some. Yeah. Even our kicker today has a kind of a significant cultural edge to it and controversy attached to it. Damn we got Okay, we'll come up with something fun as we go throughout here. But with that, welcome to this hump day episode, everybody. We're gonna be making run stops in South Carolina at the Grammys, make a stop in New York City, the Congo, Massachusetts, Florida, Georgia, as well as Japan. But let's start robes. We kept saying, Wow, another quiet night, another quiet night, Not so much anymore.
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Speaker 1: That's over now. Yes, after a few quiet nights, missiles were once again flying. Last night, US and Saudi forces launched joint strikes against Iranian targets overnight. This time they targeted Iran aligned terrorists in the Region I.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the US says it thwarted what it called a surprise attack from Iran on US soldiers in the Middle East. This all comes now when there was at least a sliver robes of hope that the peace talks were getting back on track, back on track, because it's been relatively quiet for two three straight nights, no fighting, no major bombings. And now here we go, where does this leave us that any indication oil prices are going back up? If that tells you.
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Speaker 1: Anything, Usually the bellweather of where things stand with the war in Iran. Well. Next up on the run, Senator Lindsay Graham will be laid to rest today in South Carolina. The lad Senator was honored during a funeral service at the National Cathedral yesterday. Trump even gave the eulogy, and today there will be a public service for him in his home state of South Carolina before he is buried in Pickens County, where he was born and raised.
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Speaker 2: It's probably going to be a pretty remarkable and emotional site. I think he's going by the State House taking him by as well. So, I mean, what a guy seventy one years old. That's like we always say, robes pretty young.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, far too young to pass that suddenly and that quickly. But it is wonderful to know how much he is being honored and remembered.
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Speaker 2: All right, Continue on the run here now, President Trump once again trying to get out of paying Egene Carol, the writer who has successfully sued the President twice, has gotten paid only once, and now he's trying to keep from paying her this second time. In one of the cases we're talking about, a jury awarded her eighty three million dollars for defaming her as he repeatedly publicly denied having sexually abused her in a department store dressing room in nineteen ninety six.
00:03:31
Speaker 1: So, after losing his appeals on being or being turned away by Laura Cote courts, the President is now asking, yes, the Supreme Court to step in and vacate that judgment against him. And what is he citing presidential immunity? Carol just recently and finally received the five million dollars she was owed from Trump in another case, and he's been trying to get that money back as a flate.
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Speaker 2: She has it into her account, It wants it back. George ordered it, and now he saying because of this case of the eighty three million, it might change things. So therefore the five million maybe shouldn't have been paid either. It continues, It continues, continuing on this run. The cyclospora outbreak continues, number of cases still going up. CDC now says there at least robes eighteen thousand confirmed and suspected cases across the US.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen thousand and Michigan, by the way, which has been the epicenter of the current large outbreak, is now reporting more than nine thousand cases in that state alone. Iceberg lettuce produced at a Tailor Farms plant in Mexico is believed to be the source of the outbreak. Gotta say, we were out last night. You know I love a wedge salad. Ain't no way I'm ordering that these days. Nobody nobody did. But you know I love a wedge salad with iceberg lettuce and blue cheese and bacon bits. And it's delicious, but it's not going to be consumed by me anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: And mentioned robes. They said, even though the numbers went up in Michigan, they pointed to this as good news. They said the increase in numbers, many of them came from delayed reporting. So what they're saying is some of the new cases that are added to the count aren't brand new new cases that are popping up the last couple of days, but there was a delay. So they're suggesting robes that maybe they have peaked in Michigan.
00:05:23
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope, all right. Next up on the run, yet another death in a legionnaire's disease outbreak in Manhattan. Health officials now say a sixth person has died. That means there have been at least ninety confirmed cases so far tied to this cluster. It's all on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've tied this now to cooling towers, a dozens of buildings believed to be the source. But city officials say they have eliminated the threat and no new cases have been identified in the past couple of weeks. With Robes, what we're seeing now, several people are still in the hospital, still being treated, but they're saying there are no new cases.
00:05:58
Speaker 1: Okay, let's continue on this medical emergency a part of our morning run. Next up on the Run, an ongoing ebola crisis. Yes, in the Congo is now on pace to become the worst abola outbreak in that country's history. There are now statement that is a big statement, unbelievable. There are now more than thirty two hundred confirmed cases since the current outbreak was identified a few months ago.
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Speaker 2: So thirty two hundred that's just shy of the total number of cases in the twenty eighteen outbreak that was thirty four hundred. So Robes, they're just they're knocking on the door and it looks like this is going to be the worst in that country's history. Health officials say of the thirty two hundred cases confirmed, there have been at least fourteen hundred deaths. Wow among them.
00:06:47
Speaker 1: Wow, those are high numbers, all right. Next up on the Run, that powerful earthquake at Japan. At least thirteen people are confirmed killed in a six point eight magnitude quake. It struck the area yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Buildings brought down, it sparked a lot of fires even because gas lines were busted and whatnot. Derailed trains as well. Desperate search and rescue effort is underway. It's ongoing as crews dig through rubble to find survivors. They keep adjusting ropes to put in their six point eight. I saw an update of even seven point one. Oh wow, since I've been up and working this morning. So a powerful earthquake expect aftershocks, of course, which is always a threat as well. All right.
00:07:26
Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, The killer Mom trial is back on today. Testimony is set to resume this morning in Massachusetts. This is the trial of thirty five year old mom Lindsey Clancy.
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Speaker 2: Yes, facing three charges of first degree murder and the strangulation deaths of her five year old, three year old and eight month old she has pled not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she was suffering from mental illness or postpartum psychosis. Her now ex husband Patrick Clancy, will return to the stand this morning. They started testimony on Monday. They were off yesterday, but he expected to be back on the stand. And I don't think I have it right here robe. The defense hasn't started with.
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Speaker 1: Him, well, no, and I don't think the prosecution hasn't even finished questioning him. So he'll still face questions from the prosecution. Then he will be cross examined by the defense. But he's been described as yes, one of the star witnesses, but a witness who was testifying for both the prosecution and the defense. All right, Next up on the run. A busy day on death Row. On Tuesday, Florida pulled off two executions in one day, the first time that has happened in more than sixty years, and one of the inmates is now the oldest person to ever be executed in the state of Florida.
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Speaker 2: So first stop was scheduled for noon. James Duckett was pronounced dead just after one o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was a delay because they were waiting on word from the Supreme Court, and word came that they weren't going to intervene, so the execution went forward. He's a former police officer who was convicted for the nineteen eighty seven murder of an eleven year girl.
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Speaker 1: And then just after six pm, Dominic Ochaconi was executed for the nineteen eighty six double murder of his ex fiance's parents. Okachoni, at eighty is the oldest person ever executed in Florida, and he's the second oldest person in modern US history.
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Speaker 2: We did mention that earlier in an earlier episode we had on yesterday talking about Duckett, he was asked if he had any last words. He just said no, sir. However, o Chaconi last night said this Robes sorry for all the hurt I caused. I know it don't mean much, but I'm sorry. I never meant to do what I did, and who knows if that gives any peace, comfort or anything else.
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Speaker 1: Apologies are always welcome, always welcome, all right. Next up on the run, Life in prison without the possibility of parole. Sixteen year old Colt Gray was handed that sentence by a judge in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Well that's something to think. To hear that, I don't know what to think.
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Speaker 1: They're sixteen years old, life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's going to live to what eighty five?
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Speaker 1: Maybe that is a significant prison.
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Speaker 2: I think seventy the next seventy years behind bars. The team pleaded guilty to fifty five counts against him for the twenty twenty four school shooting there in Georgia. Four people were killed, to teachers, to students. They've had several days of victim impact statements. He was fourteen when this took place, and roads the judge used. She said, this wasn't hatred, this wasn't anger. You can't claim that you got bullied at school. No, you wanted this for infamy, is what she said.
00:10:43
Speaker 1: Wow, I mean he went in there. It was one of his early days at a new school. And yes, you're right. There were no reports of him being bullied or any issues with him with specific classmates. And there really is no explanation other than the fact that he was troubled. And now his father, Collin Gray, who was found guilty of second degree murder and had an involuntary manslaughter charges as well, he was convicted in the spring because he provided the gun. He gave him the gun for Christmas and knew his son was struggling mentally and still did not do what he should have done to secure that firearm. He is now being sentenced tomorrow. He's facing up to one hundred eighty years behind bars. So both of them may end up spending the rest of their lives in prison.
00:11:30
Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us here on this Wednesday Morning run when we come back you American Airlines customers, how'd that go for you yesterday? With explain why that airline grounded all of its flights and one of the biggest record setting groups in the world. They're currently on a world tour. They have a brand new hit album, and we can tell you for sure they will not be winning a Grammy next year.
00:12:06
Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Wednesday Morning Run, and next up on the run, American Airlines is flying again. That's a strange statement to make, but it's true. They had a technology issue yesterday, a technology issue that grounded the entire airline for part of the day yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It's too vague if you're a customer. We had a technology.
00:12:31
Speaker 1: Issue I'm not okay with that. I need more details.
00:12:34
Speaker 2: I have a technology issue every morning with my computer. Some that laughing to shut it down. So I just need to know what we're talking about.
00:12:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you need to reboot the system or their problems with the planes in any way, shape or form? And how can you assure me that the technology issue has been fixed and.
00:12:50
Speaker 2: We didn't have anything to do have navigation? Maybe the altitude reading? Well making sure like on my mind is.
00:12:56
Speaker 1: Tell me we need specific Yes, Yes, the airline did issue a nationwide ground stop that they explained was caused by Yes, the technology issue that quote briefly impacted connectivity for some of our systems.
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Speaker 2: GI's vager.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't know you could manage to in an explanation confuse me more. But that's what happened.
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Speaker 2: What connectivity for some of our systems? All right, American Airlines? The ground stole lasted about an hour. Of course it would cause fits of entire airline at the ground with planes, but it didn't last that long. Wor These are complicated systems. I'm amazed every day, Probabe, for assays all the time and the number of planes. If you realized how many were in the air every day and we don't have crashes. It's pretty safe way to travel. However, I don't want to hear about it technology.
00:13:45
Speaker 1: I don't either. Ah yeah. And for the final leg of our run, let's talk Grammys. So the nominations will be announced in November and the awards show will be next February. But we already know who will not be a Grammy. BTS, please explain this.
00:14:05
Speaker 2: My hats off to these guys. I applaud them for this. The K pop supergroup announced they will not Robes be submitting any of their music for Grammy consideration this year. This is a group that just came back. Everybody's excited about them. They have a hit, number one hit album, number one hit song. So why in God's good Christ would they not want to be up for a Grammy which they have never won before.
00:14:31
Speaker 1: By the way, I did not know that.
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Speaker 2: This is how they explain. In a coordinated Instagram post, all members put up a statement explaining the decision this way quote. We have decided not to submit for Grammy consideration this year. We hope our music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language. We think the army and everyone who has always stood by us Robes. The Academy announced I think it was five new categories and some diversity, if you will. Were in there, and one of them was Best Asian Pop Music Performance. They don't want to be boxed in. They feel like they are not going to be allowed or considered so much for what they are, which is mainstream music and the major categories, and they're going to get stuck over here. And you just the Asian group.
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Speaker 3: Robes a freaking huge applause to These guys don't do anything controversial, they don't take any political stands, they don't take on For them to take this type of stand for their music and their community, robes love them even more.
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Speaker 1: It's you know what, It's so interesting because the Grammys, I'm imagining, created this category and they've created other categories similar to that, just to and the idea was to bring in diversity, right. The idea was to acknowledge groups and music from all walks of life. And yet at the same time you were pigeonholing them. You're not allowing them to be considered with the rest. And in a way, although yes, the decision was made to create this subcategory in honor of diversity, it actually creates division.
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Speaker 2: I get what they're saying. I get what the Academy was trying to do. Robes, they're the best Rap album, right then their best Country album and whatnot. But you're still eligible for the biggest award they could still get. But for whatever reason, Ropes, they decided to take this stand. And this is absolutely being viewed as a protest of sorts with the Grammys. They've been nominated a few times number one, and people thought this is gonna be the year they're doing it. There is that never mind, don't even bother. Wow. I thought that was interesting. I know what the Academy was trying to do, and it doesn't mean these guys wouldn't get the big award, but they felt strongly enough about it to where Robes, they just came back from four years off.
00:16:51
Speaker 1: It is four years military service, yes, and then we saw them at the at the World Cups show. So yeah, they're they're killing it. They're putting out great music and look they have the platform, and look it's still that takes a lot to say they are opting out of becoming Grammy award winners, because most certainly they would have a very significant high probability of winning that category at the very least, and certainly be up for others.
00:17:24
Speaker 2: They would definitely have been asked to perform at the show this year, definitely because they just had They've had one of the biggest years. And wow, all the music so good on them, Good on them. You know, our Grammy's not going to be important anymore. This is a shot against like how valuable having a Grammy is. If these guys making this public of a standard, Eh, we're good without it.
00:17:47
Speaker 1: Wow, that is significant, indeed, But yes, that is remarkable. I do appreciate people who put their money where their mouth is, and they are certainly doing that. All right, And for this Wednesday, we will leave you with our quote of the day. When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter.
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Speaker 2: Man, that it is a little too early, if we might get my head all the way around that one. I get where they're trying to suggest how we view everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got another day, one day more, we got another day. We'll do it tomorrow. Do it the next day. Yes, when we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we'll start giving more value to the things that truly matter. And with that everyone, we hope you enjoy your Wednesday, no matter where you are.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll run with you soon