(Wednesday) Morning Run: Hostage Standoff Continues, Scott Pelley Fired, LA Mayoral Results, Lynette Hooker Search, RIP Peabo Bryson, WHCD July Date, and Knicks Play Tonight!

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for today's morning Running Run. It is Wednesday, June third, and I'm off to an amazing start.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, in your Morning Running, I'm TJ. Holmes. We yes way past bedtime last night, and it was worth it to catch all that tongue on the premiere of Love Island last night. Eh, lots of swalking get it was a little bit a little ew.

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Speaker 1: It was a little ew, especially when you're watching it with your daughters, like they are surrounded by, yes, our daughters and their friends, and just didn't.

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Speaker 2: Think it was going to get that hyper sexualized. They changed some things, it did.

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Speaker 3: They changed some things this year. But yes, it's everybody's talking about it today. You'll probably be talking about it as well, but we need to talk about other things this morning on the run. We're gonna be making stops in several places in California, including Los Angeles and Bakersfield. Will also be making stop in Vegas and DC. But we are going to start with the US and Iran, which are no longer at war and in the middle of a ceasefire, but we're once again firing at each other overnight, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, the US carried out self defense strikes on Iranian targets after Iran fired on its neighbors and US forces in the region. Irani and drones also hit the Kuwait airport.

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Speaker 2: All of this.

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Speaker 1: As Iran says it has now cut off all peace talks with the US, and President Trump says the talks are moving at a rapid pace.

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Speaker 3: So just to clear all that up, continuing here on the run, c B as has fired Scott Pelley. I cannot believe we're here. Things really escalated quickly, didn't they. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You leaned over to me actually during Love Island for the biggest drama of the night, which was to tell me that Scott Pelly had been fired. Yes the longtime face of the network and in particular sixty Minutes, was terminated yesterday, a day after that combative staff meeting that was meant to be an introduction to the new executive producer, Nick Bilton.

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Speaker 3: Pelly challenged Bilton's credentials in front of the staff, said the CBS editor in chief Barry Weiss was quote murdering the show, and a letter to Pelly Bilton said Pelly was being fired for cause Robes after Pelly quote hijacked the staff meeting to disparage me, my qualifications and my intentions with remarkable incibility and contempt.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of true when you read the transcript of what happened back and forth.

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Speaker 3: This was a fireable offense. But Scott Pelley should not have been fired. It was a fireable offense, of course. Of course, cooler heads there come on that Scott Pelley is gone from sixty minutes Robes.

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Speaker 1: Gurrison, Cooper, Scott Pelley, Sharon Alfonsi, and Cecilia Vega.

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Speaker 3: They only have seven correspondence that they keep on the show. Four are gone Robes.

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Speaker 2: That's tough, all right.

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Speaker 1: The next leg of our run takes us to Bakersfield, California, where as of this recording, a standoff continues at Chase Bank Building. This has been going on since one pm Pacific time yesterday.

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Speaker 3: This is in downtown Bakersville. A man went into a bank there, barricaded himself inside, possibly with a bomb strapped to his chest. Unknown number of potential hostages inside with him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the scene right out of a movie. Hostage negotiators, crisis managers. They've been on the scene they're talking to the man on the telephone. We know at least two people released. The last hostage came out around midnight East Coast time nine pm local time.

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Speaker 2: But this is absolutely a developing story.

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Speaker 1: Some family members of the hostages have gathered outside the bank and let's just hope that cooler heads prevailed.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned all what they have the response there, Yeah, they got the bomb squad, they got they are in place and ready. They're not sure what they're it's this has been I thought this'd be wrapped up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what are we now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as of this recording, it's like what fifteen hours in counting?

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Speaker 3: All right, keeping an eye on that when folks. Next leg of our run takes us not too far away from Bakersville to Los Angeles and the race for mayor in the country's second largest city. Mayor Karen bas secured her place in the November runoff. She did that early in the evening. The networks called it for her. They knew at least she was going to be able to make it to the wrong Yes.

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Speaker 1: So the drama though, is for the second spot, and that is between reality show veterans Spencer Pratt and City council member Nitha Rahman, And as of this recording, they have not called that second spot. The latest numbers show it looks like Pratt in the league.

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Speaker 2: But what is it fifty percent of the precincts recording, so.

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Speaker 3: Who knows as of this recording. As a big state, as of this recording, they only had half of the precincts recording. Let's stay in California. Now, in the crowded race where governor came down to Republican to a Republican and former Fox News contributor Steve Hilton and Democrat and former state Attorney General Xavier Picera.

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Speaker 2: There were sixty candidates on the ballot.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we said that right, six zero the top two advance to that November runoff.

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Speaker 3: They haven't called this one as of this recording.

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Speaker 1: I guess when you have that many candidates, it's incredibly difficult.

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Speaker 3: Sixty yeah, sixty.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's a diluted vote.

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Speaker 1: There was one candidate who was actually named Barack d Obama.

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Speaker 3: Shaw Barack Obama was on the ballot. That is people were going crazy with this.

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Speaker 2: That is crazy.

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Speaker 3: This was a guy who was in the military. Changed his name officially ten plus years ago because he was impressed with Barack Obama. And there you go.

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Speaker 1: That's a red flag, a yellow one, maybe a yellow Okay.

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Speaker 3: Next leg of our run takes us to the Bahamas. We have an update here. Yes, the search for Lynette Hooker is set to risum.

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Speaker 1: She is the Michigan woman who disappeared after, according to her husband, she fell off a dinghy that the two were in that was back in April. NBC is reporting Coastguard divers have arrived to search those new areas that the GPS showed. Brian Hooker's dingy was not where he told police. He said the dingy.

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Speaker 3: Was keeping a close eye on that one. Continuing here on the run now head to Florida, where that stay carried out. It's nation leading eighth execution of the year. Andrew Richard luke Hart was pronounced dead at six nineteen pm Eastern Time after being given a lethal injection.

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Speaker 1: His final words were, I'm sorry, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. He was convicted of the nineteen ninety six murder of a five month old baby.

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Speaker 3: GIRLI continuing on the run. Now. Next leg takes us to DC, where there's confusion, bipartisan confusion, and bipartisan pushback to President Trump's choice for Rector of National Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: So his name is Bill Poulty, and he is the current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Yeah, that's the agency that regulates home loans. So how does that translate to being qualified to lead the country's intelligence agencies.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't, not at all, not even a little bit, according to plenty of folks on Capitol Hill. They say that, including a number of Republicans who called Pulty unqualified. Now because he's being named though Robes, how cute is this. He's just the acting director of National Intelligence, so he doesn't need congressional confirmation to hold the job. That is just terrible, nothing you can do. So why would he pick this guy?

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Speaker 2: He's loyal.

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Speaker 3: I did not realize this was the guy. But every time we heard about an investigation into mortgage fraud or whatever, it was him who was directing that. So he was wing the president's bidding, if you will, And I guess the president likes him, going to reward him.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Well, I guess that is how it works in this White House. And President Trump has made that consistently clear all right, Next up on the run. Oh this is a sad one. Peebo Bryson has passed away at the age of seventy five. His music maybe it was just the time of life I was in, but it was I was just getting out of college.

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Speaker 2: In his music, A.

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Speaker 1: Whole New World, Beauty and the Beast, his family had announced in recent days though he had had a stroke.

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Speaker 3: It didn't sound good from the beginning when that announcement was made. But that's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: If you can't feel something when you hear a whole new world.

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, if ever you're in my arms again. Hey, ROBERTA Flack.

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Speaker 3: He had a lot of hits, and he had a lot of great duets Dion as well. So this is a tough one. Seventy five is young these days, young rozeno. You said you out of monia. You've met with some point.

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Speaker 1: I actually I was in college and he was dating a girl my age, and he came to pick her up. We were both working, and I got so I fangirled. I got so excited. He was so sweet, big old smiles, so nice and kind. But I thought I was gonna faint.

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Speaker 2: I was so excited because he was at the top of his game at that point.

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Speaker 1: So and I was thinking, my god, he was in his forties when I met him.

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Speaker 2: I was in my twenties. He was in his forties. To think, how quickly boom seventy five to this day.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the event I was doing, but I hosted an event in Atlanta and he was the performer for the night.

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Speaker 2: Oh my lucky, you lucky you got to.

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Speaker 3: Do this show together. And at the end he was singing that song the whole New World, and he was walking through the audience. Women were gone crazy, my goodness, and in between singing he would stop and say, still got it.

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Speaker 1: But ever, oh yeah, he was so smooth because by the way, his girlfriend she was gorgeous, like dropped, half Irish half Jamaican like she was.

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Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, his voice, he he got the ladies.

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Speaker 3: Still got it? Yes, rested peace, Peobo Rison. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back and remember the White House Correspondence dinner, Well it is back on the books. We'll explain also a couple of sports notes, one of them really important to the folks here in New York City. We're going to continue here on the morning run. I just realized, Rope, so much of our audience is made up of women, Like wow, I really didn't want them to stick around after the break, But I say, hey, sports next. I mean, I know a lot of women can be into their sports.

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Speaker 1: You know what.

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Speaker 2: I'm good. I think I heard my.

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Speaker 3: Fill already explains it's for everybody, I promise, But yeah, I just realized, what a terrible tease.

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Speaker 2: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, next up on the run, let's talk about the White House Correspondence dinner, because, as promise, it has been rescheduled.

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Speaker 2: It is now going to take place on July twenty fourth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was disrupted, if you will, by a gunman on April twenty fifth. The President said he wanted to do within thirty days, but this is what sixty pretty close? Sixty day, it's pretty close. But he confirmed that he was going to a ten. How do you this is? This is?

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Speaker 2: He stays on brand, doesn't he doesn't?

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Speaker 1: He though, he says, I don't know whether or not I will give the same rather nasty statements at least as it concerns certain people. But we will soon find out. In any event, it will be a hot ticket. Interestingly, the location will be the Waldorf Astoria on Pennsylvania Avenue, a building and ballroom that I built.

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Speaker 3: It's stay on brand. Man. He is all about more disappointed, he eva eva all right? Next up on the run here just a note about the Stanley Cup Game one, five to four. The Vegas Golden Knights are up one game to nothing against the Carolina Hurricanes. Game two is tomorrow night, but just want to put that on your radars. Stanley Cup Final is a big deal. Last leg Robes, who had a late night last night, late night because of Love Island. That was an hour and forty five minute premiere. You all, you you just sank down into the couch when you saw it was an hour and forty five. It was a little long. It was a late night. But it has to be Robes. There are no excuses. Tonight will need to be a late night for you fin on again tonight. You know that run, but that is not going to keep you up late tonight. Why not because the game will finish later. Yes, folks, this game one of the NBA Finals, and the folks here in New York are losing it because it is the first time it's been in the finals in twenty seven years. Yes, Spurs versus Next Game one tonight rematch up the nineteen ninety nine NBA Finals tip off at eight thirty robes, so it's probably eleven eleven.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling I'll be asleep by I'm gonna pre midnight. Oh I was gonna go with nine oh one.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's that's just.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, we can stream Love Island in the mornings the next morning.

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Speaker 1: I just realized, obviously I get it when it's up against the next Yep, we're obviously clearly not going to be watching Love Island.

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Speaker 2: But that's a nice thing about streaming. It's ready for us when we wake up at four am.

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Speaker 3: Yay a quote.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, by quote of the day. I totally forgot about it. I'm just looking at you thinking about Love Island. You know, I get like that. Sometimes. All right, here we go your quote of the day. This is actually for you. I feel like this is one of your mantras.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes people will act like you're hard to deal with because you aren't easy to fool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's usually when somebody tells you you act in a fool or you ain't acting right because you stop acting the way they want you to act, because you're not going along with the program. Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 2: This is you completely summed up.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes people will act like your hard to deal with because you aren't easy to fool.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I love that. That should be at the should be at the front of every restaurant. That's Oh, I love that good.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad. I thought that would get you fired up on this Homepday Wednesday. Yep, all right, and everybody with that. We always appreciate you running with us.

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Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robot, I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll run with you soon.