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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Good morning, I'm Amy

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Speaker 1: Morris and I'm Karen Moscow. Here are the stories we're

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Speaker 1: following today.

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Speaker 2: Karen, we begin looking at the life and legacy of

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Speaker 2: Joe Lieberman. The former senator and vice presidential candidate, has

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Speaker 2: passed away at the age of eighty two. His family

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Speaker 2: says he died from complications after a fall. There has

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Speaker 2: been an outpouring of praise from those he worked with

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Speaker 2: in politics, from both sides of the political aisle, a

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Speaker 2: rarity in politics. Republican Lindsay Graham honored him with a

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Speaker 2: lengthy post on X, calling him his dear friend with

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Speaker 2: whom he had traveled the world. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi

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Speaker 2: said Joe Lieberman helped pave the way for Jewish Americans

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Speaker 2: in public service, and Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine

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Speaker 2: just yesterday afternoon at a middle school event, was asked

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Speaker 2: who her favorite person was to work with.

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Speaker 3: I have been fortunate to work with an a lot

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Speaker 3: of people that I really liked, but if I had

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Speaker 3: to pick one person, it would be former Senator Joe Lieberman.

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Speaker 2: In Lieberman's home state, Connecticut, Senator Richard Blumenthal said Lieberman

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Speaker 2: was a courageous leader who worked to bridge gaps and

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Speaker 2: unite people. Al Gore also issued a lengthy statement calling

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Speaker 2: Liberman a man of deep integrity who dedicated his life

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Speaker 2: to his country Milami.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand, Liberman made history as the first Jewish

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Speaker 1: American nominated on a major party ticket when al Gore

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Speaker 1: chose him to be his running made.

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Speaker 4: There are some people who might actually call Al's selection

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Speaker 1: Umberman saw himself as a centrist Democrat, supporting abortion rights,

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Speaker 1: environmental protections, gun control, and gay rights. But he was

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Speaker 1: also a foreign policy hawk, with full throateded support at

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Speaker 1: the two thousand and three invasion of a Rock, which

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Speaker 1: made him less popular with Democratic voters.

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Speaker 4: There is no more faithful, important, or difficult responsibility that

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Speaker 4: the Constitution gives members of Congress than to decide when

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Speaker 4: whether and how to authorize the President and his commander

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Speaker 4: in chief to go to war.

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Speaker 1: Five years later, Lieberman came close to joining the GOP

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Speaker 1: ticket as John McCain's running mate. He eventually left the

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Speaker 1: Democratic Party and finished his career as an independent.

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Speaker 2: Joe Lieberman was also the founding member of the third

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Speaker 2: party group No Labels, and he was a guest on

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Balance of Power one week ago today explaining how

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Speaker 2: Americans are in favor of a third party, this whole.

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Speaker 5: Movement and No Labels to run a third choice Bipartisian unity.

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Speaker 5: Tickets started because our members saw another Trump Biden race

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Speaker 2: Former Senator Joe Lieberman.

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Speaker 1: We want to turn now though, to the latest on

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Speaker 1: the deadly Baltimore A bridge collapse. The Coastguard says the

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Speaker 1: salvage firm resolved Marine is heading to Baltimore begin recovery efforts.

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Speaker 1: It's mobilizing to refloat and remove the ship that hit

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Speaker 1: the bridge, and it comes as surch and recovery efforts continue,

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Speaker 1: with officials saying six are presumed dead. Maryland State Plice

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Speaker 1: Superintendent Colonel Roland Butler Junior says divers found two of

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Speaker 1: the victims who lost their lives.

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Speaker 6: Divers located red pickup truck submerged in approximately twenty five

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Speaker 1: Maryland State Elie Superintendent Colonel Roland Butler Juniors says operations

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Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Pete boodhage Edge says funding the reconstruction of

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Speaker 2: the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is not a

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Speaker 2: political issue. He says the project should not be delayed.

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Speaker 7: This isn't going to happen overnight.

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Speaker 8: The original bridge took about five years to put up,

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Speaker 8: and this isn't going to be cheap either. But we

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Speaker 8: We really cannot yet say what the total price tag

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Speaker 2: Transportation Secretary Pete budaj Edge made those comments in an

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Speaker 1: Melami another major story we're following this morning. New York

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Speaker 1: is on track to become the first US city with

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Speaker 1: congestion tolls on drivers. Members of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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Speaker 4: York has the more traffic than any place in the

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Speaker 1: MTA Chairman General liber says the plan will charge most

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Speaker 1: cars fifteen dollars for entering the borough south of sixtieth

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Speaker 1: Street during peak times. It still faces lawsuits from small

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Speaker 2: The US government had its credit score affirmed by S

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Speaker 2: continues to face fiscal challenges.

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Speaker 1: Well, we turned to the markets now, Amy wall Street

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Speaker 1: enters the final day of the first quarter in record territory.

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Speaker 1: The S and P five hundred closed at an all

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Speaker 1: time high yesterday. The indexes up ten percent so far

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Speaker 1: this year and about twenty five percent since late October.

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Speaker 2: And Karen that rally has been fueled in large part

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Speaker 2: by artificial intelligence mania and the optimism the Fed will

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Speaker 2: be cutting rates. One prominent FED official this morning is

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Speaker 2: pushing back on that rates narrative. Reserve Governor Christopher Waller

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Speaker 2: says there's no rush to move on monetary policy.

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Speaker 8: In my view, it is appropriate to reduce the overall

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Speaker 8: number of rate cuts or push them further into the

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Speaker 8: future into response to the recent data.

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Speaker 2: Federal Reserve Governor Christopher used the term no rush four

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Speaker 2: times in his remarks to the Economic Club of New York.

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Speaker 1: Well Amy, the Fed and investors will get a slew

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Speaker 1: of data today ahead of the holiday shortened training week,

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Speaker 1: and we get a preview from Bloomberg's Michael McKee.

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Speaker 9: Initial jobless claims have been running around two hundred and

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Speaker 9: ten thousand or so per week, suggesting companies are not

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Speaker 9: getting rid of workers, a good sign for employment. The

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Speaker 9: University of Michigan Sentiment Index, meanwhile, has seen a bit

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Speaker 9: of a decline in consumer attitudes. It doesn't necessarily mean

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Speaker 9: we stop spending, but another decline would be something to watch.

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Speaker 9: More important is the survey's view of inflation, both in

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Speaker 9: the next year and over the next five years. Consumers

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Speaker 9: haven't seen inflation rising in recent months. That's a good

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Speaker 9: sign for the Fed and the economic outlook. Michael McKee, Bloomberg.

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Speaker 1: Radio Ry Mike, Thanks, and the most important data of

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Speaker 1: the week comes tomorrow when the market's closed. It's the

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Speaker 1: Fed's preferred gauge of inflation, the PCE deflator. Time now

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Speaker 1: for a look at some of the other stories making

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Speaker 1: news in New York and around the world. For that,

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Speaker 1: we're joined by Bloomberg's Michael Barr Michael, good Morning, Good

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Speaker 1: Morning Karen.

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Speaker 10: President Biden will be joined by two former presidents in

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Speaker 10: New York today for a big campaign fundraiser. The President

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Speaker 10: will share a stage with former President Obama and former

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Speaker 10: President Clinton. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre says,

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Speaker 10: this is a one of a kind gathering.

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Speaker 1: These are presidents to former president the current president that

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Speaker 1: believe in what we're trying to do in the Bien

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Speaker 1: Harris administration, trying to move this country forward.

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Speaker 10: The event will be at Radio City Music Hall. Awake

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Speaker 10: will be held today for fall in New York City

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Speaker 10: police officer Jonathan Diller. Last night, vigils were held in

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Speaker 10: Queen's and on Long Island for Diller, who was shot

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Speaker 10: and killed during a traffic stop in Queen's on Monday.

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Speaker 10: Family and friends of Diller, who was thirty one years old,

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Speaker 10: gathered at Brady Park in Massapequa Park, where he lived.

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Speaker 10: Diller's brother in law, Joseph.

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Speaker 7: Leinout family was number one in his life.

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Speaker 8: His sister, his brother, his mother, his wife, and his

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Speaker 8: son Ryan.

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Speaker 7: He taught me how to be a better person.

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Speaker 10: Courtesy of ABC seven. Funeral services for Dillar are on Saturday. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 10: the first of two suspects in Dillar's death has been

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Speaker 10: charged and held without bail. Police say Lindy Jones, who

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Speaker 10: is forty one, was behind the wheel at the time

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Speaker 10: at the deadly shooting. Authority saved the suspected shooter. Thirty

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Speaker 10: four year old Guy Rivera remains in the hospital after

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Speaker 10: he was shot by Diller's partner. Both Rivera and Jones

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Speaker 10: have lengthy criminal records. A California judge says John Eastman

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Speaker 10: should be disbarred for knowingly making bogus, unfounded arguments that

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Speaker 10: alleged election irregularities cost Donald Trump the White House, undermining

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Speaker 10: the constitution and faith in the electoral process. California State

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Speaker 10: Bar Court Judge Evett Roland rejected Eastman's contentions that he

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Speaker 10: was acting in good faith in advising a client and

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Speaker 10: was exercising his First Amendment rights in the comments he

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Speaker 10: made at the January sixth, twenty twenty one rally at

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Speaker 10: the National Mall just before the sold upon the US

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Speaker 10: Capitol this morning in Manhattan. Sam Bankman Freed will be

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Speaker 10: sentenced for what's been called one of the biggest financial

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Speaker 10: frauds in US history. Global news twenty four hours a

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Speaker 1: All right, Michael Barr, thank you. It's time now for

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg Sports Update, brought to you by Tri State Audie,

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Speaker 1: and here's John Stenshower.

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Speaker 7: John, Thanks Karin.

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Speaker 11: It's Opening day. All thirty teams were scheduled to play.

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Speaker 11: The Mets game at City Field with Milwaukee was to

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Speaker 11: be the first game of the day, but the decision

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Speaker 11: for new manager Carlos Mendozo will be tomorrow. Yankees will

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Speaker 11: play four o'clock in Houston. With the Garrett Cole injury,

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Speaker 11: it's Nestor Cortes on the map. DJ LeMay, who also

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Speaker 11: just acquired and infielder johns Bertie from Miami Shoeotani's first

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Speaker 11: Dodger home game. His deal is for seven hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 11: ten more seasons. NCAA tournament back tonight with double headers

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Speaker 11: in Boston and La. Yukon takes on San Diego State.

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Speaker 11: That's the team they beat in last year's championship game.

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Speaker 11: Iowa State meets Illinois. That's a game between the winners

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Speaker 11: of the recent Big Twelve and Big Ten tourneys. Arizona

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Speaker 11: takes on Clemson. North Carolina meets Alabama. Seaton Hall got

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Speaker 11: headed to Indianapolis for next week's Final four. The Pirates

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Speaker 11: blew out UNLV by twenty three, also a blowout in Toronto.

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Speaker 11: Knicks put up forty five points in the first quarter

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Speaker 11: lost twelve in a row, one forty five to one

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Speaker 2: And we continue our coverage off the Baltimore Bridge collapse,

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Speaker 2: our conversation with Transportation Secretary Pete Boodhage Edge. He joined

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg's Joe Matthew to talk about the timetable for rebuilding

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Speaker 2: the bridge, engaging lawmakers on the emergency funding request, and

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Speaker 2: freeing those ships still trapped in the Baltimore Port. Let's

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Speaker 8: Unfortunately, recovery is not easy. There is poor visibility, there

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Speaker 13: You have now received an emergency funding request, Secretary from

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Speaker 8: We're going to process this request immediately. We've got to

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Speaker 8: in getting to work. And our Federal Highways Administration team

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Speaker 13: This may not go easily on Capitol Hill. Have you

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Speaker 13: begun engaging lawmakers already on what will be your emergency

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Speaker 7: Yes.

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Speaker 8: We had a conversation yesterday with members of the Maryland delegation,

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Speaker 8: that politics are divisive right now, but this can't be

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Speaker 7: This can be a part of an issue.

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Speaker 8: And to anybody who's on the fence on that, when

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Speaker 8: the time comes, I would just say, you know, this

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Speaker 8: and we always do best when we pulled together and

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Speaker 13: You said earlier in the White House briefing, the most

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Speaker 13: immediate jobs are channel cleanup and reopening. Part of that,

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Speaker 13: which I know is a very delicate matter. Do you

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Speaker 8: I think it will take a while. And those are

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Speaker 8: how long it's going to take to clear that channel.

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Speaker 8: We do know that there are other ports that are

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Speaker 13: You talk to the about the Freight office that you

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Speaker 13: Do you have a plan now for cars for coal

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: What we're seeing right now is other ports are preparing

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Speaker 8: this is also a significant port for sugar. There are

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Speaker 8: we're tracking to. That's exactly why we're so glad that

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Speaker 13: You said earlier, this is not going to be simple,

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Speaker 13: years it will be before vehicles are crossing a new

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Speaker 7: It's simply too soon to say. But what I will

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Speaker 7: say is.

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Speaker 8: We are going to work aggressively to support Maryland doing

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Speaker 8: that as quickly as they safely and responsibly can. We

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Speaker 8: should learn more very soon about the condition of the

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Speaker 7: That is below the waterline.

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Speaker 8: That will help to inform an estimate of what it's

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