Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,
Speaker 1: and welcome to Morning Run. It's Thursday, May seventh.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes on the run
Speaker 2: this morning. I'm going to be making stops in Tennessee
Speaker 2: and Florida at Laurel Park, Maryland, River Oaks, Texas, as
Speaker 2: well as Atlanta. But we need to get to robes.
Speaker 2: Two very important and still developing stories having to do
Speaker 2: of course, one with that hantavirus cruise ship, some significant updates.
Speaker 2: That's a big story. And the other one happens to
Speaker 2: be Iran and the war with Iran. Let's start with
Speaker 2: this one, rose but some significant and even I guess
Speaker 2: confusing development still on what's going on with Iran.
Speaker 1: I feel like that is pretty much every development or
Speaker 1: headline confusing because it's unclear what exactly it means or
Speaker 1: where it's leading to. But as of this recording, the
Speaker 1: United States is reportedly waiting on Iran's response to the
Speaker 1: Trump administration's latest proposal to end the war.
Speaker 2: So that proposal apparently came with a warning, a warning
Speaker 2: from the President who wrote on social media yesterday. Assuming
Speaker 2: Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which
Speaker 2: is perhaps a big assumption. The already legendary epic fury
Speaker 2: will be at an end, and the highly effective blockade
Speaker 2: will allow the horror move straight to open to all,
Speaker 2: including Iran. If they don't agree, the bombing starts, and
Speaker 2: it will be sadly at a much higher level and
Speaker 2: intensity than it was before. And Robe, you could go
Speaker 2: back into that statement and say, when they agree, epic
Speaker 2: fury will be at an end. But of course he's
Speaker 2: already reported to Congress that the war is over.
Speaker 1: That's correct, because you know there was that timeline where
Speaker 1: Congress had to then give approval.
Speaker 3: But yes, and by the way.
Speaker 1: In that same day, the President also said that the
Speaker 1: United States at least are envoys were having very good
Speaker 1: talks with the Iranians. So look, despite the ominous warning
Speaker 1: that bombing would start again, oil prices dropped, stock prices
Speaker 1: are rising, and there seems to be some indications that
Speaker 1: that deal is possibly going.
Speaker 2: Forward and investors apparently believe it, because Robes, the Dow
Speaker 2: is at fifty thousand, that's a big deal, or around
Speaker 2: it to record high. The president is bragging about that
Speaker 2: on social media even this morning, so there's some indications
Speaker 2: somewhere out there folks believe or at least are optimistic
Speaker 2: that this thing is going finally maybe in the right direction.
Speaker 2: We're going the wrong direction in this next leg of
Speaker 2: our run. This is significant. For the first time today
Speaker 2: we are hearing that as many as forty passengers on
Speaker 2: that hantavirus cruise ship have already headed back to their
Speaker 2: home countries. And they did this Robes. They left the
Speaker 2: ship two weeks after the guy that we know died
Speaker 2: on the ship died, so he was dead, and two
Speaker 2: weeks later. These folks were still for two weeks mingling
Speaker 2: on that ship, and then they got off and now
Speaker 2: they're out there.
Speaker 1: Some of them were on this same flight as that
Speaker 1: man's wife, who later collapsed in the Johannesburg airport and
Speaker 1: died in a hospital. So this is deeply concerning. So far,
Speaker 1: a total of three people have died, five others have
Speaker 1: been sickened, and we know several of those passengers who
Speaker 1: left the cruise ship early were Americans. So passengers are
Speaker 1: now reportedly being monitored in the states of Georgia, California,
Speaker 1: and Arizona.
Speaker 2: And right now those Americans at least not reporting feeling
Speaker 2: ill or symptomatic at this point. Right now, though, a
Speaker 2: Swiss Man is hospitalized in Geneva with a confirmed case
Speaker 2: of hantavirus, along with British national who was in South Africa.
Speaker 2: In the hospital there, those two were feeling.
Speaker 1: Ill correct and they both have been confirmed as having
Speaker 1: the Andes strain of this hantavirus. Three others were airlifted
Speaker 1: off the cruise ship yesterday. They're now being treated in
Speaker 1: the Netherlands. In the meantime, the one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: or so other passengers currently quarantined on the ship, they
Speaker 1: are all headed to Spain's Canary Islands, where the plan
Speaker 1: right now is to begin evacuations as early as Monday.
Speaker 2: Fet like you put that the plan right now, because
Speaker 2: the plan in this story keeps changing. The reason they're
Speaker 2: or rope of just saying the plan is that right
Speaker 2: now is because there's confusion whether or not these folks
Speaker 2: will be allowed even to get off. There's some I
Speaker 2: just heard a reporter on CNN. I wanted to give
Speaker 2: her credit. She said there's some wrangling going on.
Speaker 1: Yes between Spain and the Canary Islands. Obviously, the Spanish
Speaker 1: government in charge of the Canary Islands. But the local
Speaker 1: government there in the Canary Islands is saying yet, no,
Speaker 1: we don't want these people coming on to our land.
Speaker 2: Well, they're only way. They're heading to the Canary Islands.
Speaker 2: Supposed to get there sometime maybe over the weekend on Mondays.
Speaker 2: Start getting these people off the ship. We do not know,
Speaker 2: and this is concerning, and you can understand why no
Speaker 2: one would want this ship right now. Roads we're talking
Speaker 2: about a virus we don't know a lot about, and
Speaker 2: a strain of the virus we know even less about.
Speaker 2: But it goes from human to human now and rode
Speaker 2: the death rate. Look, we think about COVID, the death
Speaker 2: ray for COVID, a lot of people died, but a
Speaker 2: lot of people had it, and the percentage of the
Speaker 2: death ray was one two percent for COVID. This one
Speaker 2: is ropes in a way incomprehensible when you talk about
Speaker 2: forty percent of people who get haunted virus die.
Speaker 1: Incredibly scary and no known cure for this virus. So
Speaker 1: we'll keep our eye on that developing story in the meantime, though.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Democrats and Republicans emerged from
Speaker 1: the closed door hearing with two very different takes on
Speaker 1: how Howard Lutnick answered questions about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: Republicans called him forthcoming, Democrats called him evasive and his
Speaker 2: testimonies so embarrassing that if President Trump had seen it,
Speaker 2: he would fire him on the spot.
Speaker 1: Some Democrats actually flat out accused the Commerce Secretary of lying.
Speaker 1: But you see, I guess either way it wouldn't matter
Speaker 1: because he wasn't under oath. Lutnik was voluntarily answering questions
Speaker 1: before the House Oversight Committee about his years long personal
Speaker 1: and professional relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is the same committee that holed in the
Speaker 2: Clintons previously for testimony. However, do not be standing by
Speaker 2: waiting to see video of Howard Lutnik's testimony like you
Speaker 2: saw the Clintons. We're told Robes we will get a transcript.
Speaker 2: But I did not fully understand going in he wasn't
Speaker 2: under oath. Why he voluntarily said he would come in
Speaker 2: and answer questions.
Speaker 1: Is that how you avoid having to testify under oath.
Speaker 1: I'll just do it because I am agreeing to versus
Speaker 1: being compelled to.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it was part of some negotiation and back
Speaker 2: and forth. Say, hey, you don't have to subpoenat me.
Speaker 2: I'll come in. But I want this, I want this,
Speaker 2: and I want this. But who knows?
Speaker 3: That's deeply concerning. Why wouldn't you want to testify under oath?
Speaker 2: They say, still roads, it's a crime to lie to Congress.
Speaker 2: But he was not under oath.
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, that clears up nothing. Then, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we are getting our first
Speaker 1: look at a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: The note had been under court seals since twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: when Epstein's cellmate claims he found it tucked inside a
Speaker 1: book in their cellf.
Speaker 2: And the DOJ claims they were even unaware of the
Speaker 2: note until recently. The New York Times fouled a request
Speaker 2: to have the note released, and yesterday a judge gave you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's what the note says. They investigated me
Speaker 1: for a month, found nothing. So sixteen year old charges
Speaker 1: it is a treat to be able to choose one's
Speaker 1: time to say goodbye? What you want me to do?
Speaker 1: Bust out crying, no fun, not worth it. Lots of
Speaker 1: exclamation points in there so, yes, and it's been noted.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been formally or officially authenticated, but the way
Speaker 1: the phrases he used, the handwriting all seems to read
Speaker 1: very Jeffrey Epstein like and.
Speaker 2: The context there, rope is a big deal. That's a
Speaker 2: big part of that story is whether or not he
Speaker 2: was killed by someone that was set up so he
Speaker 2: could protect a bunch of powerful people ropes. This could
Speaker 2: go a long way and kind of tamping down that conspiracy.
Speaker 3: Theory could is the operative word.
Speaker 2: Sorry, my bad, all right. Continuing on the run here now.
Speaker 2: Five day man hunting Tennessee for a former Special Forces
Speaker 2: sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife has ended.
Speaker 2: Police say they found Craig Berry dead yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Berry disappeared May first into a wooded area near the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Kentucky border. After police say he beat, strangled and
Speaker 1: then shot his wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had given us a heads up that this
Speaker 2: might take a while. There's going to be difficult finding
Speaker 2: him because he does have Special Forces training. He served
Speaker 2: four tours in Iraq. He was a Special Forces medical sergeant.
Speaker 2: They do say he died of a self inflicted gunshot wound.
Speaker 2: The wife we mentioned or ropes. He didn't know her
Speaker 2: condition earlier on, but she has been released from the
Speaker 2: hospital they called it. She sustained life threatening injuries but
Speaker 2: pulled through it and came through just fine. But she's
Speaker 2: already out of the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, according to police, he actually shot her in the
Speaker 1: next so it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 3: She is alive and out of the hospital and recovery
Speaker 3: all right. Next up on the run.
Speaker 1: Police in Texas have identified the victims of a triple
Speaker 1: murder suicide. They say a husband shot and killed his
Speaker 1: wife and two young children before then turning the gun
Speaker 1: on himself. And their pictures are everywhere of just this beautiful,
Speaker 1: smiling family. The victim's thirty nine year old Ty Mitchell,
Speaker 1: eight year old Maya, and four year old Maxwell.
Speaker 2: They were found earlier this week dead at a home
Speaker 2: in an upscale neighborhood just west of Houston after the
Speaker 2: babysitter called police said hadn't heard from the family in
Speaker 2: twenty four hours, and they did a welfare check where
Speaker 2: they found these three shots. And police believe the husband
Speaker 2: fifty three year old. I think they don't have his
Speaker 2: age right as well, fifty fifty two or fifty three,
Speaker 2: but shot his wife and the two kids before killing himself.
Speaker 2: Ropes don't know why they owned a restaurant there. This
Speaker 2: is as upscale as it gets in the Houston area.
Speaker 2: This is a really affluent neighborhood. It ROAs hoop. What
Speaker 2: the hell?
Speaker 1: This is a huge question, right, It's unbelievable tragedy. But
Speaker 1: everyone who said they knew this family are stunned.
Speaker 2: What the hell?
Speaker 3: Stunned that this could have happened.
Speaker 2: We've heard a few stories where it has to do
Speaker 2: with children being killed or shot. He's not accidents like
Speaker 2: people intentionally and sometimes family members, sometimes the uncle or
Speaker 2: the yes, the dad strangling or shooting or stabbing. There
Speaker 2: was a kid to it. You see this show kild
Speaker 2: You can't. I'm we're talking to you and saying this
Speaker 2: stuff to our listeners. Now, you can't imagine a four
Speaker 2: and eight year old, a parent shooting their own kid.
Speaker 3: That's unthinkable.
Speaker 2: When you see the picture, it'll make this story worse.
Speaker 2: You see these kids' pictures.
Speaker 1: Geez, they're adorable. The family is gorgeous. This is just
Speaker 1: unthinkable and unlike there is no explanation if one comes up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll make anything better, but at
Speaker 1: least people always want to understand. All right, next up
Speaker 1: on the run. You may have seen the news this
Speaker 1: is this is a big headline. Ted Turner died at
Speaker 1: the age of eighty seven. He is being remembered as, yes,
Speaker 1: one of the most influential people in the history of media.
Speaker 2: We can't overstate his influence. We're sitting at this morning.
Speaker 2: Every morning we watch news or cable news, have it on.
Speaker 2: He's the guy. He's the guy that set this whole
Speaker 2: thing in motion. It's unbelievable. He kind of invented the
Speaker 2: type of news you are watching every day to this day.
Speaker 2: Twenty four hour news is the norm now. But when
Speaker 2: he launched it in nineteen eighty and CNN in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: they're like this crazy dude, what is he doing? And
Speaker 2: now look.
Speaker 1: Look at it now, CNN, TNT, TBS, Turner Classic Movies,
Speaker 1: Cartoon Network, and he's even credited with making the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves the just the organization that it is.
Speaker 2: He bought the team they won a championship in ninety five,
Speaker 2: but Robes his strategy was to buy the team to
Speaker 2: improve his TV business. Because he bought the team and
Speaker 2: then he can make a deal with his own TV
Speaker 2: station to broadcast the games. Everybody in Atlanta wants to
Speaker 2: see Atlanta Braves games. What they're available, all of them
Speaker 2: on a local channel. Sure, I'll watch that. That kind
Speaker 2: of brilliance's business acumen is impressive.
Speaker 3: And it was. It was sweet.
Speaker 1: It made me chuckle to see Jane Fondas say he
Speaker 1: was her favorite ex husband.
Speaker 2: Even that it kind of sums up what their relationship was.
Speaker 2: They always even though they divorced, and seem they see
Speaker 2: that a unique relationship where they respected that the two
Speaker 2: of them were kind of full of crap.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I liked them together.
Speaker 1: I was sad when they when they split, but it
Speaker 1: seems like there's there was still love between the two
Speaker 1: of them.
Speaker 3: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But he had Louis body dementia. It's a brain disorder
Speaker 1: that affects the memory. We hadn't seen much of him
Speaker 1: in recent years.
Speaker 2: But but yeah, he was He was an American original,
Speaker 2: no doubt. We'll stay with us here on this Thursday
Speaker 2: morning run when we come back. We got a quick
Speaker 2: update on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who's
Speaker 2: been in the hospital hospitalizing critical condition. Earlier this week.
Speaker 2: Also we got an update about the Triple Crown. We
Speaker 2: will not have a Triple Crown winner. How do we
Speaker 2: know that already? And you got an iPhone out there,
Speaker 2: SURF thirty seven thirty seven million of you are eligible
Speaker 2: possibly for a refund from Apple. We'll explain it. Stare.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to this Thursday morning Run. And next
Speaker 1: up on the Run, we have an update for you
Speaker 1: on former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. He was
Speaker 1: hospitalized in critical condition this week in Florida. While his
Speaker 1: spokesperson says, the eighty one year old is now out
Speaker 1: of intensive care, but we'll spend some time recovering before
Speaker 1: he actually leaves the hospital.
Speaker 2: But that's a good sign. They expect him to be leaving.
Speaker 1: And these yes, they said, at one point they were
Speaker 1: reading him his last rites.
Speaker 3: That's how serious this was.
Speaker 2: But I mean, this reminded me of Pope Francis. You
Speaker 2: got somebody that age and they talking about respiratory issues,
Speaker 2: and go, what the hell? But he seemed to be recovering.
Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting. They say, his condition now
Speaker 2: you could trace back to nine eleven because he has
Speaker 2: this condition restrictive airway disease that they say as a
Speaker 2: result of him spending so much time at ground zero
Speaker 2: after nine to eleven. Wow, who knew? And that is
Speaker 2: having an impact. Spokesperson said, this condition adds complications to
Speaker 2: any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body,
Speaker 2: requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition.
Speaker 2: I thought that was wow, incredible. We live here in
Speaker 2: New York Roads. We still see probably daily some kind
Speaker 2: of commercial on local news saying if you were at
Speaker 2: ground zero, yeah, still people are having impacts. And I
Speaker 2: thought that was why I never yeah, crossed my mind.
Speaker 3: I never even thought to connect those dots. All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we will not have a
Speaker 1: Triple Crown winner this year because Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo,
Speaker 1: will not to participate in the Preakness Steaks.
Speaker 2: Yes, as we know, Triple Crown made up of the
Speaker 2: three big races, Kentucky Derby, Preakness Steakes, and the Belmont Stakes.
Speaker 2: The first two races, though robes are only two weeks apart,
Speaker 2: and you have a lot of trainers that do say
Speaker 2: this is too much for a three year old to
Speaker 2: be out there running two weeks apart. So Golden Tempo's
Speaker 2: trainers that they prefer to give the horse a little
Speaker 2: more time after such a quote tremendous effort at the
Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby. That tremendous effort robes included being last in
Speaker 2: the Kentucky Derby and ending up first might have taken
Speaker 2: a lot out.
Speaker 1: Of the word. Yes, I can imagine. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we even had a triple Crown winner since twenty eighteen, Justify,
Speaker 1: So it's been a while.
Speaker 3: It's always something too.
Speaker 1: I guess it's exciting to get and certainly a horse
Speaker 1: owner would love, but it does put the horse through
Speaker 1: tremendous stress.
Speaker 2: Roads. We watch one horse race a year, it's the
Speaker 2: Kentucky Dirty that's true, and the only way we'll watch
Speaker 2: two is that the Kentucky Derby winner is in the breakness.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 2: So we've kind of checked out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of people do. But it's being not
Speaker 2: being rude there. It's just you're excited about the idea
Speaker 2: of a triple cren.
Speaker 3: We don't have a horse in the race now, damn Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, next up, on the run, and actually this
Speaker 1: is the final leg of the run. Millions of iPhone
Speaker 1: owners could now be eligible to get up to ninety
Speaker 1: five dollars back from Apple. The company settled a class
Speaker 1: action lawsuit for two hundred and fifty million dollars that
Speaker 1: accused the company of misleading customers.
Speaker 2: How why what Apple? Apple would never do such a thing,
Speaker 2: But how did they do this? Well, allegedly, they marketed
Speaker 2: advanced AI features of their phones before the features were
Speaker 2: even ready to be released. In other words, people ran
Speaker 2: out and bought these new iPhones because they kept hearing
Speaker 2: about the advertisements about there's some new AI technologies going
Speaker 2: to be in Siri, but it wasn't in that modl
Speaker 2: So that's the argument. They kind of got duped with
Speaker 2: the bait and switch. But yeah, but this is coming later,
Speaker 2: but people ran out and got the phone now, and
Speaker 2: so that's what they're arguing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the judge says, well, this judge still has
Speaker 1: to officially sign off on this settlement. But here's who
Speaker 1: would be eligible, and this is very specific. People who
Speaker 1: bought iPhone sixteen models or the iPhone fifteen Pro, which
Speaker 1: I believe I have, or the iPhone fifteen pro max
Speaker 1: and you had to have purchased the phone between June
Speaker 1: tenth of twenty twenty four and March twenty ninth of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Very specific, but that means thirty seven
Speaker 1: million people are eligible.
Speaker 2: They are thirty seven million out there, and you are
Speaker 2: eligible for the higher amount. The most you could get
Speaker 2: is ninety five bucks. But they have to seeropes how
Speaker 2: many people actually apply to see how much money would
Speaker 2: be left over, so you might end up getting.
Speaker 3: Less or more. If people say, can't be bothered, Yeah,
Speaker 3: which is me. People don't care.
Speaker 1: There's absolutely no way I'm looking up to see if
Speaker 1: I purchased my I have no no recollection nice, nor.
Speaker 3: Do I care to try to figure it out.
Speaker 1: All right, And here is your quote of the day
Speaker 1: on this Oh, this is the first time we're saying it.
Speaker 1: Friday Eve. This is Friday Eve. This one I really liked.
Speaker 1: Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary.
Speaker 1: Only the love in your heart will last forever.
Speaker 2: Wow, you know what, This one's almost cheesy and cliche like,
Speaker 2: but it makes perfect sense and it makes the point.
Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we all think the whole. You can't take it
Speaker 3: with you. Sometimes.
Speaker 1: Look, we all get into this. You have a new car,
Speaker 1: you have a new couch, you have a whatever, or
Speaker 1: you want to get that new purse or that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all assign all this value to things. And if
Speaker 1: anything happens to them, or they get a scratch on them,
Speaker 1: or they get we get so upset. And then you
Speaker 1: just remember, wait, this isn't actually really even the land
Speaker 1: or the apartment you have, or the home you own,
Speaker 1: it's not actually really yours can't take it with you.
Speaker 1: The only thing that matters is the relationships you have
Speaker 1: that stays with you forever. Right, So, once again for everybody,
Speaker 1: just a lovely little bit of perspective here on this Thursday.
Speaker 1: Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary.
Speaker 1: Only the love in your heart will last forever. So
Speaker 1: go do some loving today everyone, and thank you for
Speaker 1: running with us.
Speaker 3: I'm Ami Roboch.
Speaker 2: Did you just say go do some love? And now
Speaker 2: I did? Hey, you know what, folks, she left that
Speaker 2: for interpretation. However you want to do that today night yourself.
Speaker 2: Adding with that, we appreciate it. I'm DJ as well.
Speaker 2: Run soon