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

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Speaker 1: morning everybody. It is Wednesday, January eighth. Welcome to Morning Run.

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Speaker 1: I'm TJ. Holmes and we are down one runner today.

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Speaker 1: My partner Amy Robot won't be running with us today.

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Speaker 1: She's off and very very good and very sweet reason

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Speaker 1: that we'll be telling you about later. But on today's run,

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Speaker 1: Southern California is on fire this morning, residents are on

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Speaker 1: the run. Also, it was a win some lose, some

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Speaker 1: kind of day in court for President elect Trump. Plus

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Speaker 1: a jet blue flight lands with dead bodies in the

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Speaker 1: landing gear. Panama. We just meant you could borrow the canal.

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Speaker 1: Get ready to book your next vacation to the Gulf

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Speaker 1: of America. Also the chances Canada will become the fifty

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Speaker 1: first Saint plus lawmakers past the first piece of legislation

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Speaker 1: of the new Congress. Who needs fact checkers, not Facebook

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Speaker 1: or Instagram? And death Row inmates say no thanks to

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Speaker 1: President Biden. Not a lot to get into this morning.

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Speaker 1: But the first leg of our run takes us to

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Speaker 1: southern California, where several wildfires exploded yesterday in the hills

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Speaker 1: surrounding Los Angeles and had people on the run. At

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Speaker 1: least thirty thousand people have been forced to evacuate after

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Speaker 1: high winds fueled fires that erupted and threatened areas including

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Speaker 1: Santa Monica and Malibu. There are three significant fires going

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Speaker 1: right now, the Palisades Fire, the Eden Fire, and the

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Speaker 1: Hurst Fire. The Palisades Fire the largest among them, estimated

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Speaker 1: around three thousand acres and as of this recording, each

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Speaker 1: of these fires zero percent contained. These areas have not

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Speaker 1: seen relevant rain in recent months. Those dry conditions, combined

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Speaker 1: with those high winds, including wind gusts over sixty miles

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Speaker 1: per hour, are now feeding the fires. Winds were expected

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Speaker 1: to pick up overnight and firefighters were expected to be

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Speaker 1: in a fight through the day today before winds finally

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Speaker 1: do die down tomorrow. A number of structures, including homes businesses,

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Speaker 1: have been destroyed. At one point there was a main

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Speaker 1: road being used for evacuations out of the Palisades. It

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Speaker 1: became a parking lot because motorists got out freaked out,

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Speaker 1: understandably so, and abandoned their cars and decided to flee

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Speaker 1: So authorities actually brought in bulldozers and had to bulldoze

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Speaker 1: cars out of the roadway in order to clear a path. Also,

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Speaker 1: President Biden happens to be in southern California right now.

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Speaker 1: He was there to dedicate two national monuments, but those

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Speaker 1: events were canceled because of the fires. State of emergency

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Speaker 1: has been declared. We are starting to get reports of injuries. Also,

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Speaker 1: the folks in Malibu have been put on notice, put

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Speaker 1: orders could be coming from some perspective here. When we

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Speaker 1: talk about the wind gusts that are few these fires,

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Speaker 1: they are hitting at places up to one hundred miles

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Speaker 1: or tornado that's whipping around fire. That is what the

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Speaker 1: police chief says. Essentially, they're dealing without there. So please

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Speaker 1: anybody out there, be careful, be safe, listen, and evacuate.

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Speaker 1: Please check on your folks in southern California. But they

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Speaker 1: Run this morning, we had tomorrow Lago where President elect

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Speaker 1: Trump held his second press conference since winning the election,

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Speaker 1: you a more interesting and noteworthying of what some call

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Speaker 1: alarming headline. So, first, Trump would not rule out using

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Speaker 1: military force to seize Greenland and to take the Panama Canal. Also,

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Speaker 1: Trump says he's going to change the name of the

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Speaker 1: Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Trump warned

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Speaker 1: time he's inaugurated. Trump also said the Biden administration is

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Speaker 1: Trump also suggested economic force could be used to make

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Speaker 1: Canada the fifty first state. Obviously a lot to unpack.

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Speaker 1: There a lot of headlines there, but even by Trump's standards,

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Speaker 1: this was a pretty wild and wide ranging news conference.

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Speaker 1: While some would be quick to dismiss some of his ideas,

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Speaker 1: he'd rule out using military force to take Greenland and

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Speaker 1: was his answer. Now, why Greenland, Why are we talking

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Speaker 1: about that? Well, it's a resource rich island, relatively close

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Speaker 1: Trump can't officially do that unilaterally. I mean, we can

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Speaker 1: different things, and that's okay, But you can't just officially

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Speaker 1: one of Trump's close allies in the House, Representative of

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Speaker 1: shall see next up on our run now. A Jet

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Speaker 1: Blue Araa Airlines flight from New York landed Monday in

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Speaker 1: around eleven o'clock Monday night. Authorities are trying to identify

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Speaker 1: the bodies were badly decomposed. This incident did not disrupt

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Speaker 1: the flight or the passengers, who had already deplaned before

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Speaker 1: the discovery was made. This is the second time in

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Speaker 1: recent weeks, though, that we have seen such an incident.

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Speaker 1: A United Airlines flight landed in Maui this is around

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Speaker 1: with a major reversal from Meta that even founder Mark

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Speaker 1: to more harmful content. Zuckerberg says his company will stop

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Speaker 1: Now that sounded like a good thing, but the criticism

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Speaker 1: The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point

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Speaker 1: where the House of Representatives has passed the first bill

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Speaker 1: crimes like theft, burglary, and so on. The bill is named,

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Speaker 1: our run now with what was a mixed bag of

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Speaker 1: court decisions for President elect Trump yesterday. First, the one

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Speaker 1: When we come back. You know that the president commuted

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Speaker 1: who have now turned down President Biden's pardon, effectively rejecting

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Speaker 1: his offer to spare their lives. The President commuted the

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Speaker 1: them Shannon Ougofski and Lynn Davis. Both of these men

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Speaker 1: Quit stumbling over what's behind you. It's over. It happened,

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Speaker 1: Know a lot of you going through it, but please

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Speaker 1: please be safe. But for now, I am PJ. Holmes

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Speaker 1: for Amy Robot. Thank you so much for running with

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