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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

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Speaker 1: Seems like every time we go out on break, something

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Speaker 1: dastardly happened, something awful, and good things happen to Let's

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Speaker 1: not forget those, but I tell you, one of the

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Speaker 1: most awful, awful stories that broke while we were out is,

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Speaker 1: of course, the tragedy that happened in New Orleans. New

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Speaker 1: Orleans a city that we know and love. I lived

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Speaker 1: there for a little while, and my good friend Mark Lunison,

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Speaker 1: who's in radio, has been there for like fifty years.

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with him about how the city

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Speaker 1: was doing, and he's like, gosh, you know, it seems

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Speaker 1: like as every hour passes, it gets worse with more

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Speaker 1: news coming out. Hopefully, I'm hoping that we'll level off,

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Speaker 1: because I tell you, if you've never been to New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: you need to understand the spirit and the God. Let's

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Speaker 1: just leave it at that. The spirit of the people

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Speaker 1: who live in New Orleans is unbelievable. It's unusual. You

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Speaker 1: can't really find a city of people like that, such

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Speaker 1: creative and quirky and brilliant and soft and warm people

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Speaker 1: who really enjoy living life. To the fullest, and so

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Speaker 1: when something like that happens, especially in the heart of

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Speaker 1: the quarter, it's crazy. Cilia is entering Celia in she

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Speaker 1: isy Cilia, good morning, Thanks for coming on with using.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. I know this is really rough. You you well,

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Speaker 1: tell everyone about your experience in New Orleans and how

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Speaker 1: long you've actually experienced New Orleans in your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I'm twenty two, so I am born and

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Speaker 2: raised there. My parents are from there, my grandparents are

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Speaker 2: from there. I'm sorry. It's really like my heart and

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Speaker 2: soul and this was just heartbreaking, an awful way to

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Speaker 2: start the year. And we're really lucky we come from

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Speaker 2: such a strong community and such a resilient community, and

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Speaker 2: you know, this didn't this won't break us, and we

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Speaker 2: can come back from this. But we just have to

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Speaker 2: really honor these victims and work together to keep a

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Speaker 2: safe place. And you know, this rocked our world. It

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Speaker 2: really did all of our business is I mean, where

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Speaker 2: I used to play as a kid was just it's

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Speaker 2: ruined right now, you know. And it was just really

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Speaker 2: awful and I am praying praying for these victims. As

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Speaker 2: I was driving to the airport yesterday, I saw a

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Speaker 2: highway closed down with three hundred plus people doing a

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Speaker 2: second line, singing and holding hands and holding candles. And

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Speaker 2: you know, my mom and I stopped by the vigil

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Speaker 2: on Bourbon Street and you can just feel it in

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Speaker 2: the air. We are grieving and we're really working together

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Speaker 2: to make this. You know, people shouldn't be scared of

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Speaker 2: New Orleans. People shouldn't be scared to go in public places.

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Speaker 2: This is not how the world should work. You shouldn't

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Speaker 2: be scared to go out on New Year.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, just for the record, Cilia, we

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Speaker 1: call her intern Cilia even though she has been an

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Speaker 1: intern for like fifteen years. Look, you know how you

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Speaker 1: weren't even born in two thousand and five, were you?

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Speaker 1: I don't think, Yes I was. I was wanting to Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm talking about hurricane when Hurricane Katrina

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Speaker 1: rolled through there and it devastated the city, and there

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Speaker 1: were a lot of people there as citizens, and here

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Speaker 1: in New York after nine to eleven, people look back

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Speaker 1: after the tragedy and talk about how much stronger they

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Speaker 1: are because of the tragedy and because of everything you

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Speaker 1: have to do to move on. And so it's way

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Speaker 1: too early for that right now, for you and your

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Speaker 1: family and everyone lives in New Orleans. I know that,

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Speaker 1: but I you will actually as tragic as it was

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Speaker 1: being there, you one day look at me and go Elvis.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy I was there when all this went

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Speaker 1: down to be a part of because it's the healing

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Speaker 1: begins as soon as the tragedy begins, exactly, And you know,

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Speaker 1: love you, Celia.

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Speaker 2: I have some that I have for to donate if

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Speaker 2: anyone is willing or and if not, you know, donate

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Speaker 2: your love and prayers. But these victims need help, Their

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Speaker 2: families need help. They can't afford all of these funeral expenses.

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Speaker 2: Our city needs help. And I can share some links

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Speaker 2: with y'all if you're willing, and I would be so

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Speaker 2: happy and if we could share them, you know, we

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Speaker 2: can use all the help we need.

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Speaker 1: What do you have?

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Speaker 2: So? I have a go fundme for all of the

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Speaker 2: victims that actually go fund me themselves put together. It

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Speaker 2: goes to all fourteen victims families and also I have

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Speaker 2: the Greater New Orleans area the fund and that all

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Speaker 2: helps with victims as well as small businesses who have

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Speaker 2: had to close because of this. And anything helps you

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Speaker 2: know we've all been donating. Cam Jordan, an amazing Saints player,

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Speaker 2: donated a million dollars, which was I mean life changing.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Celia, Because people are driving and they

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Speaker 1: can't really write things down or they can't head to

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Speaker 1: the phone right now to punch this in. We can.

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Speaker 1: Let's post this on our Elvis Durand Morning show Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: We'll get that done right now. If it is. Can

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Speaker 1: we have everyone in to do this? Oh it's oh

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Speaker 1: my god, it's happening now. But you know what I

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Speaker 1: said before we started talking about this about the citizens

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Speaker 1: of New Orleans, and you're from there, you may not

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Speaker 1: see it as much as the outsider see. New Orleans

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Speaker 1: people are quirky and fun, strong and soft. They're hard

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Speaker 1: and they're to the point and yet subdued like good Southerners.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you New Orleans people, you're just incredible. And

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Speaker 1: I know that right now it's way too wrong, way

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Speaker 1: too early. But Celia, it's going to be okay. And

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Speaker 1: you know the fact that you came in and spent

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Speaker 1: time with us to talk about it, I love that

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Speaker 1: and I love you for that, and a big hug

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Thank y'all. For having me in shedding light on this.

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Speaker 2: It means a.

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Speaker 1: Lot, really, absolutely, and I love you, know you not you,

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Speaker 1: Me and Froggy are the only three people that can

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Speaker 1: use the word y'all. You know what I'm saying. We're

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Speaker 1: allowed to do that anyway, Celia, we love you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for coming on so much. It's happening now.

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Speaker 1: We're posting at Elvis Durant on Instagram at Elvis durand show.

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Speaker 1: If it's not there now, it will be there momentarily.

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Speaker 1: If you can donate, as Cilia as talking about, please do.

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Speaker 1: I know I plan on doing it, but anyway, there

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Speaker 1: you go. The stories, these are the things that shape

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Speaker 1: our lives. The good, but don't forget the good. But

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Speaker 1: don't forget the bad.

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Speaker 2: No, they do