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Speaker 1: morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, June
Speaker 1: twenty third. I'm Amy Robach when.
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes on the Run this morning. Iran says
Speaker 2: it will retaliate. Trump says you better not. And now
Speaker 2: the world waits for what's next after the US attack
Speaker 2: on Iran's nuclear program, an attack that we now know
Speaker 2: involved a lot of public deception even from the President.
Speaker 1: Himself and President Trump at odds with his administration regarding
Speaker 1: regime change in Iran, the President saying he wants to
Speaker 1: make Iran great again. Plus nearly two hundred million Americans
Speaker 1: are sweltering in extreme heat the eastern half of the
Speaker 1: United States under a dangerous heat dome.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, a potential mass shooting at a Michigan
Speaker 2: church averted by quick acting parishioners. Also, Texas is now
Speaker 2: legally requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments every school
Speaker 2: and in every single classroom.
Speaker 1: And the Diddy t T trial resumes for its seventh and
Speaker 1: likely last week of testimony, as Diddy's defense is set
Speaker 1: to begin and end this week, And a man whose
Speaker 1: name you may not know but has likely impacted all
Speaker 1: of our lives. Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, has
Speaker 1: passed at the age of eighty.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, Elon Musk finally launches his long awaited
Speaker 2: driverless robo taxi in Austin, Texas, and he promises it's
Speaker 2: coming to a city near you and soon. Plus the
Speaker 2: reviews are good, but the box office was bad, really
Speaker 2: bad for Pixar's Elio actually was the worst ever and
Speaker 2: heartbreak for the Indiana Pacers well before they lost Game
Speaker 2: seven of the NBA Finals last night. Do you want
Speaker 2: to say congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder, but a
Speaker 2: big storyline had to do with the Indiana Pacers Superstar.
Speaker 1: Yeah. How you feeling this morning? I know you stayed
Speaker 1: up late last night.
Speaker 2: I feel like I always do. Ready to go right?
Speaker 1: Well, we begin our run on this Monday with the
Speaker 1: latest on the US attack on Iran. Iran has promised
Speaker 1: retaliation after President Trump ordered those strikes on three nuclear
Speaker 1: sites over the weekend, and now we wait to see
Speaker 1: if they will actually follow through on that threat.
Speaker 2: That President Trump advised against retaliation, reminding Iran that there
Speaker 2: are quote many targets left and that quote any retaliation
Speaker 2: by Iran against the United States of America will be
Speaker 2: met with force far greater than this weekend strikes, which
Speaker 2: Trump claims totally obliterated those nuclear facilities.
Speaker 1: And we've gotten more fascinating details about how the US
Speaker 1: military pulled off this plan completely undetected. According to the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: seven B two bombers flew from Whiteman Air Force Base
Speaker 1: in Missouri heading to Iran.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had to refuel in flight a couple of
Speaker 2: times as they made their way over the Atlantic to Iran.
Speaker 2: This was an eighteen hour flight. This was happening as
Speaker 2: another group of B two bombers was heading west to Guam.
Speaker 2: Those were decoys. Those were the ones that were widely
Speaker 2: reported about in the media. Now, when the bombers reached
Speaker 2: Iranian airspace, they were joined by other US aircraft and
Speaker 2: the first bunker bus were dropped around two ten am
Speaker 2: local time in Iran.
Speaker 1: Eventually, fourteen of those bombs were dropped and the operation
Speaker 1: was over in twenty five minutes. The Pentagon said more
Speaker 1: than one hundred and twenty five US military aircraft were
Speaker 1: part of that operation. We're talking fighter jets, refueling planes,
Speaker 1: surveillance planes. And remember when President Trump said he was
Speaker 1: going to make up his mind in two weeks whether
Speaker 1: to strike Iran.
Speaker 3: Well, apparently that was a ruse.
Speaker 2: Yes, several media outlets are reporting that the President had
Speaker 2: already made up his mind to launch attacks when he
Speaker 2: told the press that he was going to be thinking
Speaker 2: about it for two weeks, and this was also part
Speaker 2: of the deception. Meanwhile, so mixed messages we're getting now
Speaker 2: from President Trump, Vice President of Vance, and Secretary of
Speaker 2: State Marco Rubio about whether or not the US actually
Speaker 2: wants regime change in Iran.
Speaker 1: Right, Rubio and Vance were out on the Sunday morning
Speaker 1: shows unequivocally stating that regime change was not the goal
Speaker 1: of the US in this operation. We don't want regime change.
Speaker 1: We want to end the nuclear program. That is what
Speaker 1: Van said on NBC. Rubio was over on CBS saying
Speaker 1: what we are focused on is not changing the regime.
Speaker 2: But Trump said hold my beer because he was singing
Speaker 2: a whole different tune later on social media, writing it's
Speaker 2: not politically correct to use the term regime change, but
Speaker 2: if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran
Speaker 2: great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change, and
Speaker 2: he ended the message with Mega. So he has coined
Speaker 2: a new phrase, Mega, an acronym for make Iran great again.
Speaker 1: All right, next up on Iran. If you live east
Speaker 1: of the Rocky Mountains, you are currently under what weather
Speaker 1: experts are calling a heat dome. Nearly two hundred million
Speaker 1: Americans are sweltering.
Speaker 2: It's hot, it's humid. It's uncomfortable, of course, but it
Speaker 2: is dangerous. Heat, folks, is the number one weather killer
Speaker 2: in the US. Not flaws, not tornadoes, not hurricane Just
Speaker 2: about everybody in the upper eastern half of the US
Speaker 2: will be at one hundred degrees or it's sleeps gonna
Speaker 2: feel like it's one hundred degrees plus today.
Speaker 3: One weather expert put it this way.
Speaker 1: From Minnesota to Maine, there are extreme heat watches and warnings.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The heat dome is a weather phenomenon where high pressure
Speaker 1: in the atmosphere traps both heat and humidity. And unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is not a short term event. It began over
Speaker 1: the weekend and it's gonna be with us through at
Speaker 1: least Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Yeah. On Sunday, the heat index in Chicago reached one
Speaker 2: hundred and three. It was eighty degrees there at seven
Speaker 2: thirty in the morning. Minneapolis meanwhile broke a record going
Speaker 2: back to nineteen ten after they reached a high up
Speaker 2: ninety six with a triple digit heat index. And Madison
Speaker 2: was nasty hot as well, and it was just plain nasty.
Speaker 2: They have this annual naked bike ride that they do
Speaker 2: there and they had to do this in a one
Speaker 2: hundred degree weather pretty much, so yeah, that's just nasty.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was described as a sticky, sweaty affair. I don't
Speaker 1: even want to envision that. And yet, unfortunately, somehow, I
Speaker 1: am all right. Two Major League based while players actually
Speaker 1: became ill from the extreme heat playing their games in
Speaker 1: Saint Louis and in Chicago. And get this, Philly has
Speaker 1: declared a heat emergency with the heat and dex expected
Speaker 1: today to climb as high as one hundred and eight degrees.
Speaker 1: I can't even get my head around that. Here in
Speaker 1: New York City and Boston and DC all expecting triple
Speaker 1: digit heat and deceased today as well. So folks, please
Speaker 1: try to stay cool, stay inside, and drink tons of water.
Speaker 2: And for the next leg of our run. Now, let's
Speaker 2: head up to Michigan, and police say a church security
Speaker 2: guard and church parishioners prevented a large scale mass shooting
Speaker 2: by taking down a gunman at Sunday service. This was
Speaker 2: at the Crossport Community Church in Wayne, Michigan. This is
Speaker 2: just west of Detroit.
Speaker 1: According to police, church service was going on when church
Speaker 1: members notice a man get out of a car in
Speaker 1: tactical gear and carrying two guns. He started shooting outside
Speaker 1: the church, hitting one person in the leg, and was
Speaker 1: making his way towards the church.
Speaker 2: And that's when police say a church member ran him
Speaker 2: down with his pickup truck and that gave church security
Speaker 2: staff enough time to intervene. Security returned fire and killed
Speaker 2: the gunman. The man who polisse was not affiliated with
Speaker 2: the church but was having a severe mental health crisis.
Speaker 2: But the one person who was shot in the leg
Speaker 2: outside the church is believed to have non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 2: So crisis or excuse me, I actould say a major tragedy
Speaker 2: possibly averted here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: That's scary stuff, all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, every public school in Texas
Speaker 1: is now required to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
Speaker 1: The state legislature passed the measure earlier this month, and
Speaker 1: the governor. Governor Greg Abbott signed that bill into law
Speaker 1: over the weekend.
Speaker 2: And this bill not only says the Ten Commandments should
Speaker 2: be displayed in every classroom, it gives specifics about the
Speaker 2: size of the display in order to make sure that
Speaker 2: Ten Commandments are visible from anywhere in the classroom. Yes,
Speaker 2: the bill actually says that the Ten Commandments must be
Speaker 2: displayed on quote durable poster or framed copy on display,
Speaker 2: and even gives the minimum size requirement. It has to
Speaker 2: be sixteen inches wide and twenty inches tall.
Speaker 3: That is specific.
Speaker 1: Indeed, the law also addresses the possibility of schools saying
Speaker 1: we don't have the money to pay for this display,
Speaker 1: so if they can afford it, the law says schools
Speaker 1: are required to accept any offer of privately donated Ten
Speaker 1: Commandment displays. And well, you might not be surprised here,
Speaker 1: but this is fully expected to get a legal challenge and.
Speaker 2: Almost fully expected to lose. Similar laws have been tried
Speaker 2: in Arkansas and Louisiana. A court rule just friday that
Speaker 2: Louisiana's law was unconstitutional, and Arkansas's law is being challenged
Speaker 2: as we speak. Also, the Supreme Court decades ago struck
Speaker 2: down a ten commandments law in Kentucky, but the court's
Speaker 2: current conservative lean is giving some proponents hope.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, this is the seventh and
Speaker 1: possibly final week of testimony in the Diddy trial. The
Speaker 1: jury deciding Sean Comb's fate could begin deliberating in a
Speaker 1: matter of days. The trial resumes this morning in Lower Manhattan,
Speaker 1: with the prosecution expected to rest its case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have their so called summary witness on the
Speaker 2: stand at Homeland Security Agent. He's going to continue to
Speaker 2: his testimony this morning. He was up there on Friday.
Speaker 2: He's going through text timelines, travel receipts, other documents, trying
Speaker 2: to connect all the dots for the jury and show
Speaker 2: that Combs was the one organizing and paying for all
Speaker 2: these so called freakfs. The defense has said last week
Speaker 2: that it only needs one to two days to put
Speaker 2: on its case, so the judge said that closing arguments
Speaker 2: are tentatively scheduled for this Thursday.
Speaker 3: Wow, hard to believe it's almost over all right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, Fred Smith has died at
Speaker 1: the age of eighty. You might not know his name,
Speaker 1: but you have undoubtedly depended on him at some point
Speaker 1: in your life to get your Christmas gifts, your tax returns,
Speaker 1: or merchandise delivered on time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Smith is the founder of fed X. He
Speaker 2: died over the weekend of natural causes. According to the company,
Speaker 2: Smith was a visionary who created a whole new industry
Speaker 2: of express delivery. Is a Yale grad and a decorated
Speaker 2: Marine Corpvette. He started the company in nineteen seventy three
Speaker 2: in Memphis, promising to deliver parcels faster than the Post Office.
Speaker 2: He started with fourteen planes flying to twenty five cities.
Speaker 1: Today, the company has five hundred thousand employees, serves two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty countries, and delivers seventeen million packages a day.
Speaker 1: Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen put it this way, Memphis has
Speaker 1: lost its most important citizen. I love what you added
Speaker 1: here at the end of the story, TJ. This is
Speaker 1: what you found out.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 1: He called his company Federal Express because he thought it
Speaker 1: made his little company sound like a big deal.
Speaker 2: And it worked. It's just FedEx now it works so perfectly.
Speaker 2: What a visionary. I mean, what he did nobody was doing,
Speaker 2: and he changed an industry. Everybody's trying to do what
Speaker 2: they're doing now ups and all these other delivery services.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely incredible. He has had such a common name, Fredsmith,
Speaker 2: changed the world fred Smith. But yeah, what a what
Speaker 2: a guy. And this is somebody I grew up knowing
Speaker 2: so much about because I grew up there in the
Speaker 2: Memphis area. So yeah, he talked about this being such
Speaker 2: a success story or something we were proud of there.
Speaker 3: That's really cool.
Speaker 1: And I didn't know he hailed from Memphis, So that's
Speaker 1: a nice note to know about your hometown.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here, folks on this
Speaker 2: Monday morning run. When we come back, folks in Austin
Speaker 2: have a new option for getting to and from places
Speaker 2: and it won't be a driver behind the wheel. Also
Speaker 2: coming up, how is it possible that a movie that
Speaker 2: made twenty one million dollars is deemed a historic disappointment
Speaker 2: and a disappointment in the NBA Finals last night not
Speaker 2: just because the Pacers lost, but because of what they
Speaker 2: lost in the first quarter. We continue on this Monday
Speaker 2: morning run in Austin, Texas, where Elon Musk has launched
Speaker 2: his first robo taxi ridse. He did this on Sunday
Speaker 2: and the ride will cost you flat fee of four
Speaker 2: dollars and twenty cents.
Speaker 1: A lot of people say he deliberately chose that price
Speaker 1: point as a nod to marijuana, but we digress anyway.
Speaker 1: The Guinea Pigs, a group of social media influencers and
Speaker 1: Tesla investors, many of whom as you might expected, posted
Speaker 1: videos about their rides on social media, and they were
Speaker 1: mostly described as uneventful. Some people talked about how cool
Speaker 1: it was, but uneventful is certainly the way you want
Speaker 1: this type of ride to go. While no one was
Speaker 1: driving the vehicles, there was a human safety monitor on
Speaker 1: the passenger side where there were no pedals or steering wheels.
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound fun. For now, there are just a
Speaker 2: dozen robotaxis and service in Austin. Musk says that will
Speaker 2: grow to hundreds of thousands of vehicles next year. This
Speaker 2: has been a decade long drink from Musk, whose ultimate
Speaker 2: division is to launch his futuristic cyber cab without a
Speaker 2: steering wheel or pedals. He's calling this a lounge on wheels.
Speaker 2: He wants to launch this in the next few years.
Speaker 2: While this is Tesla's official in into autonomous rides, Google
Speaker 2: already has it's Weimo vehicles. Is that what they're calling it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Weimo vehicles in place in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, in LA.
Speaker 2: It's testing its vehicles with safety monitors in DC and
Speaker 2: plans to expand to New York, Atlanta, and Miami.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I had not heard anything of Weimo,
Speaker 1: heard tons about robotaxis. But Weimo just completed its tenth
Speaker 1: million paid ride. That's incredible. Well, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about getting into a robo.
Speaker 2: Not getting into a vehicle that does not have a
Speaker 2: driver behind the wheel. That's just it, And I'm not
Speaker 2: going to come around on that. That's just me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I don't know how I feel about
Speaker 1: it yet. I'm going to give it some time and
Speaker 1: some years of being tested before I agree to do that.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Next up on our morning run, a movie that made
Speaker 1: twenty one million dollars at the box office this weekend
Speaker 1: is being called a huge disappointment. Not by us, This
Speaker 1: is by people who rate these standards and what their
Speaker 1: expectations are in the box office. Why was it such
Speaker 1: a disappointment because it was the worst opening for a
Speaker 1: Pixar movie ever.
Speaker 2: This is lio I would say maybe you saw it
Speaker 2: this weekend, but apparently a lot of you did not.
Speaker 2: It's about a boy who dreams of meeting aliens. It
Speaker 2: finished third at the box office despite positive reviews. So
Speaker 2: we got positive reviews and twenty one million doesn't sound terrible.
Speaker 2: But this movie is from Pixar, the storied animation studio
Speaker 2: that set really high expectations for its films over the
Speaker 2: years with the likes of mega hits like Toy Story,
Speaker 2: The Incredibles, Cars, and Inside Out. In fact, Inside Out
Speaker 2: Too just may one point seven billion dollars last year,
Speaker 2: so they have a high standard that they've set for themselves. Now,
Speaker 2: Ilo cost an estimated one hundred and fifty million dollars
Speaker 2: to make, so it's not off to a good start.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a lot of making up to do.
Speaker 1: The live action How to Train Your Dragon was on
Speaker 1: top at the box office for a second straight weekend
Speaker 1: and has now made an estimated three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars worldwide.
Speaker 3: The new release, The One I'm.
Speaker 1: Dying to See twenty eight years later, came in second
Speaker 1: with a very respectable thirty million dollars, so we'll have
Speaker 1: to add to that number soon.
Speaker 2: Well reviewed as well, that one is very well reviewed.
Speaker 2: In fact, one of the commercials they have been showing
Speaker 2: as a quote from a creek that said, this is
Speaker 2: the best film of the year. Wow, eight years later,
Speaker 2: that's exciting. Well, final leg of our run this morning,
Speaker 2: and it was heartbreak in the NBA Finals last night,
Speaker 2: and it came long before a winner or a loser
Speaker 2: was determined. At the final buzzer, Indiana Pacers superstar Tyrese
Speaker 2: Haliburton went down to the floor in agony in the
Speaker 2: first quarter and immediately began slapping the floor and with
Speaker 2: emotion evident on his face, you could see him screaming, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: he knew it was over, and by us looking at
Speaker 2: him and his reaction, we knew it was over. Just
Speaker 2: like that, the PACER's best player was out and they'd
Speaker 2: have to try to win Game seven and the NBA
Speaker 2: Championship without him. He of course, had been hampered by
Speaker 2: a calf strain in his right leg, and it looks
Speaker 2: like now something happened to where he popped his achilles oh,
Speaker 2: possibly in that same right leg, reminiscent of something that
Speaker 2: happened to Kevin Durant in twenty nineteen in the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: He was out there, he was gonna try. It was
Speaker 2: no way. They were not gonna let this kid play,
Speaker 2: and he wasn't gonna play. But there was risk involved,
Speaker 2: and sure enough, first quarter, the worst nightmare happened.
Speaker 1: That is just so heartbreaking that despite hanging tough and
Speaker 1: even having a slight lead at halftime, the Pacers were
Speaker 1: not able to keep pace with the Oklahoma City Thunder
Speaker 1: and n League MVP.
Speaker 2: Shay Gilgos Alexander, Kid, why did you give yourself out?
Speaker 3: I don't know, of course, I don't know how to
Speaker 3: say that. Geez, I'm so.
Speaker 1: Okay, Shay Gilgious Alexander, Jay Gilgius Alexander, think about gorgeous.
Speaker 2: He's not gorgeous, He's Gilgeous, all.
Speaker 1: Right, I'll just call him Gilgious from now on. So
Speaker 1: the Thunder one game seven, one oh three to ninety one, and.
Speaker 2: They win the NBA title for twenty twenty five. This
Speaker 2: is the first title for Oklahoma City, which won with
Speaker 2: one of the youngest teams in league history. I believe
Speaker 2: this is the second youngest team to ever make an
Speaker 2: NBA Finals. Guldas Alexander was named MVP of the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: He has now won just a handful of players to
Speaker 2: ever win League MVP and Finals MVP in the same year.
Speaker 2: The other people who do who've done this go by
Speaker 2: just one name, lebron Kareem Shack, Magic Jordan. Jordan in
Speaker 2: fact did it four times, but a few others on
Speaker 2: that list. But this was an incredible year, a historic
Speaker 2: year for that team. Congrats to them, and just you
Speaker 2: just hate You want everybody to be full strength and
Speaker 2: everybody to be at their best, and you hate to
Speaker 2: see an injury like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's tough to watch, but yes, congratulations to Oklahoma City. Well,
Speaker 1: as you go about your Monday, we would like you
Speaker 1: to consider this.
Speaker 3: This is your quote of the day.
Speaker 2: Doubt kills more dreams than failure. Ever will. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure where you pluck the American poet I don't know.
Speaker 3: The name, No, Susie Cassim.
Speaker 1: I don't know who she is either, But I found
Speaker 1: this quote and it stood out to me because I
Speaker 1: hadn't thought about it like that. Everyone is concerned or
Speaker 1: worried about failing everyone. No one wants to think about
Speaker 1: not succeeding, and that ends up being the dream killer.
Speaker 1: It's not the failure. It's the doubt. It's the thought
Speaker 1: that you can't do it, that you can't make it,
Speaker 1: that you can't achieve it. I just thought that was
Speaker 1: a really cool way to approach things and to maybe
Speaker 1: rejigger your thinking. When you're trying to go for something
Speaker 1: or achieve something, it's your doubt that's going to be
Speaker 1: the dream killer, not the failure itself.
Speaker 2: So i'd take that with you today on this Monday, folks,
Speaker 2: Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Speaker 1: And with that, we want to thank you for listening
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes, we'll see you soon.