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Speaker 1: morning everyone. It's Wednesday, March twelfth, and welcome to Morning
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Speaker 1: every single day, Monday through Friday. I'm Amy Robot.
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. And on this Wednesday Morning Run,
Speaker 2: Good Chat. US and Ukraine emerged from marathon talks with
Speaker 2: a ceasefire proposal on the table and US military aid
Speaker 2: once again flowing to Ukraine.
Speaker 1: New US tariffs start today and Europe immediately announced what
Speaker 1: it calls countermeasures. Yeah, and the markets aren't too happy
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Also, half the US Department of Education just got let
Speaker 2: go and the offices are closed. Do we even still
Speaker 2: have an Apartment of Education?
Speaker 1: And time is running out for Congress to get Trump's
Speaker 1: spending bill passed. Yesterday it cleared the House, but what
Speaker 1: will Senate Democrats do? And President Trump took a break
Speaker 1: from leading the free world to yes go car shopping
Speaker 1: at the White House. He even had his own personal
Speaker 1: car salesman, Elon Musk, on hand to seal the deal.
Speaker 1: And it was a sad display of bad behavior in
Speaker 1: a House committee meeting yesterday targeting the first openly transgender
Speaker 1: member of Congress, while the sky's also just got a
Speaker 1: lot clearer and the hope is safer following a new
Speaker 1: and until further notice ban on helicopters near Reagan National Airport,
Speaker 1: and an airline known for its no frills discount seating
Speaker 1: is now making a big change that will have you
Speaker 1: packing lighter to keep your wallet fuller. And the measles
Speaker 1: outbreak just spread to a third state. The numbers keep growing,
Speaker 1: with more and more cases reported now in Texas, New
Speaker 1: Mexico and Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Also on the run. This morning, the Eagles are going
Speaker 2: to the White House, Tiger suffers a devastating setback that
Speaker 2: is probably going to keep him out of golf the
Speaker 2: entire season, and two astronauts could finally be coming home
Speaker 2: nine months behind schedule.
Speaker 1: I guess that's the case where it's better late than never.
Speaker 1: We begin our run with the word that just keeps
Speaker 1: making headlines these days, tariffs. Today is day one of
Speaker 1: President Trump's twenty five percent tariff on all steel and
Speaker 1: aluminum coming into the United States, and.
Speaker 2: The European Union has already responded, announcing what it called countermeasures.
Speaker 2: The U said it will put tariffs on twenty eight
Speaker 2: billion dollars worth of American goods in retaliation, things like steel, aluminum, yes,
Speaker 2: but also home appliances, agricultural goods and more. Now those
Speaker 2: are expected to go into effect April first.
Speaker 1: Also on the tariff front, yesterday, the President threatened to
Speaker 1: impose a fifty percent tax on all steel and aluminum
Speaker 1: coming from Canada, fifty percent. He made that threat after
Speaker 1: Ontario said it would tax electricity it sends to the
Speaker 1: United States.
Speaker 2: Well, at the end, the Ontario governor backed off, saying,
Speaker 2: and this might have been the best quote in all
Speaker 2: of this melee quote let cooler heads prevail. That was
Speaker 2: his quote. So both sides took back their threats to
Speaker 2: but the country's tariff policy that's giving everybody whipland markets
Speaker 2: are hating it right now. With the President said he
Speaker 2: is doing a lot of this trying to make it
Speaker 2: so expensive for companies to send their goods here that
Speaker 2: they'll eventually just want to produce the goods here, so
Speaker 2: eventually creating American jobs.
Speaker 1: That's a lofty goal, But the markets weren't exactly happy
Speaker 1: about the process. Yesterday was another up and down day
Speaker 1: for the markets, which ultimately ended down once again. The
Speaker 1: Dow dropped about four hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 2: S and p NASDAG both down as well. Yesterday's drop
Speaker 2: off wasn't as extreme as the day before, when the
Speaker 2: markets reacted to what President Trump didn't say in an
Speaker 2: interview when asked whether the US was headed for recession.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't explicitly say no, which then sent investors
Speaker 1: into a tailspin. The President did try to calm things
Speaker 1: down yesterday when he was asked again about a recession.
Speaker 1: This time he said, I don't see it at all.
Speaker 1: I think this country's going to boom.
Speaker 2: All right. We'll continue our run here in Washington, and
Speaker 2: we wait to see what Senate Democrats are going to do.
Speaker 2: They could get blamed for a government shut down, or
Speaker 2: they could get blamed for not opposing the president's plans
Speaker 2: to continue bulldozing the federal government. That's where we are
Speaker 2: right now. After the House passed a bill, a spending
Speaker 2: bill very much that Trump is in favor of. That
Speaker 2: government is going to avoid a government shutdown that's coming
Speaker 2: later this week. But the vote was two hundred and
Speaker 2: seventeen to two thirteen. All Republicans but one voted for it.
Speaker 2: All Democrats but one voted against it. So now the
Speaker 2: fate is uncertain in the Senate. Are they going to
Speaker 2: be able to withstand a filibuster threat. They're going to
Speaker 2: need at least eight Democrats to get on board to
Speaker 2: do this. And this is a major victory right now,
Speaker 2: at least getting it through the House for Trump and
Speaker 2: the Republicans. This government funding is going to run out
Speaker 2: by the end of the week, I believe midnight on Friday.
Speaker 2: So the Republicans in the House have done their job.
Speaker 2: Senate Democrats, now it was really up to Ropes to
Speaker 2: see what they are going to do. They don't have
Speaker 2: really good options. You pick one, you're going to get criticized.
Speaker 2: You pick the other, you're going to get criticized. They
Speaker 2: don't have a good way forward. So we will see
Speaker 2: what happens now. But the House Republicans the House, they
Speaker 2: actually went home. This is part of their strategy. They
Speaker 2: sent all their people homes say hey, Senate Democrats, y'all
Speaker 2: stay there, y'all figure it out. We ain't around no
Speaker 2: more to even do anything. So we shall see. But
Speaker 2: once again, Robes, we have this story a very single
Speaker 2: well every few months, right government shutdown is coming. Almost
Speaker 2: didn't want to put the story in this morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, and the truth is that they need
Speaker 1: those a Democratics votes, and those if they exist, those
Speaker 1: eight democratic votes will be kind of a damned if
Speaker 1: they do, damned if they don't position. So we will
Speaker 1: see what happens come Friday at midnight.
Speaker 2: So let's head over to Saudi Arabia now, and just
Speaker 2: like that, we are friends again. The US has restarted
Speaker 2: military a to Ukraine after the two sides met face
Speaker 2: to face for the first time since that disastrous Oval
Speaker 2: awful meeting Oval Office meeting last month.
Speaker 1: I think that was an appropriate slip of the tongue there,
Speaker 1: all right. After more than eight hours of negotiations, Secretary
Speaker 1: of State Mark Rubio and his delegation said Ukraine has
Speaker 1: in fact accepted a thirty day ceasefire with Russia. Their
Speaker 1: official announcement said the US will immediately lift the pause
Speaker 1: on intelligent sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.
Speaker 2: That assistance enclosed around about a billion dollars in equipment,
Speaker 2: potentially another three point eight billion in a The question
Speaker 2: now is whether you at the Russia as actually going
Speaker 2: to get on board with this ceasefire. Ribio says, we'll
Speaker 2: take this offer to the Russians and we hope that
Speaker 2: they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. So
Speaker 2: the ball is now in Russia's court. As everybody immediately
Speaker 2: began saying after this deal was announced.
Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run. We all heard
Speaker 1: candidate Trump saying he wanted to eliminate the Department of
Speaker 1: Education on the campaign trail. Well, now President Trump's administration
Speaker 1: is working towards that goal, announcing it is cutting fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the department's workforce.
Speaker 2: And the first pink slips went out last night. The
Speaker 2: department told employees that the offices would be closed starting
Speaker 2: at six pm last night and all day today because
Speaker 2: of security reasons. The White House did say that they
Speaker 2: are preparing an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon
Speaker 2: to start the process of dismantling the department altogether. Yeah.
Speaker 1: McMahon has said that President Trump's goal is to make
Speaker 1: sure education is back at the state level where it belongs.
Speaker 1: But of course, any move like that would require congressional approval,
Speaker 1: and it's unlikely at this point that the administration could
Speaker 1: get the sixty Senate votes, it would need to yes,
Speaker 1: in fact, eliminate the Department of Education.
Speaker 2: I'm going to continue now our run here in d
Speaker 2: C with a story from Capitol Hill that fills wrong, mean, unnecessary,
Speaker 2: and it was just sad and it was uncomfortable. This
Speaker 2: exchange that took place among yes elected representatives and a
Speaker 2: House committee meeting yesterday.
Speaker 1: Texas Republican Keith self was recognizing fellow committee member and
Speaker 1: Congress's first openly transgender Congresswoman Sarah mcride from Delaware. Self said,
Speaker 1: I now recognized the representative from Dellah, Aware, mister McBride. Well,
Speaker 1: McBride quipped back pretty quickly, thanking him and referring to
Speaker 1: self as Madam chair.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that is when Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Bill Keating
Speaker 2: stepped in and asked self to repeat what he just
Speaker 2: said and asked him essentially to introduce the congresswoman again.
Speaker 2: So self called McBride, mister McBride once again and added,
Speaker 2: we have set the standard on the House floor. Keating
Speaker 2: then replied by telling selfie was out of order, saying,
Speaker 2: mister chairman, have you no decency? I mean, I have
Speaker 2: come to know you a little bit, but this is.
Speaker 1: Not decent, and when Self tried to continue the hearing,
Speaker 1: Keating interrupted again and said the meeting would not continue
Speaker 1: until the chairman introduced McBride. He said the right way,
Speaker 1: and that is when Chairman Self abruptly adjourned the meeting.
Speaker 1: And after a video clip of that exchange ended up
Speaker 1: on x surprising right, Congressman Self wrote this, it is
Speaker 1: the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes,
Speaker 1: male and female.
Speaker 2: So McBride released a statement last night saying I was
Speaker 2: disappointed that the chair decided to end the committee hearing early.
Speaker 2: I was prepared to move forward with my questions for
Speaker 2: the subcommittee on Nuclear non proliferation and US support for
Speaker 2: democratic allies in Europe. This isn't, of course, the first
Speaker 2: time McBride has faced challenges, if you will, on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1: Yeah, last month another Republican congress woman referred to her
Speaker 1: as the gentleman from Delaware, and before that, before she
Speaker 1: was even sworn in, we all remember Congresswoman Nancy Mace
Speaker 1: introducing that resolution to ban transgender women from using female
Speaker 1: bathrooms in the Capitol. That was a policy that House
Speaker 1: Speaker Mike Johnson enacted in November and renewed at the
Speaker 1: start of this Congress in January. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it just unnecessary and means spirited.
Speaker 2: That's the way.
Speaker 1: That's just the best way for me to describe it.
Speaker 2: That was just mean. That just feels mean. And I
Speaker 2: give Congress Holman McBride credit for not necessarily taking it
Speaker 2: on or getting upset or saying, hey, refer to me
Speaker 2: the right way, which is not the first time she's
Speaker 2: experienced this, but just said thank you, Madam chair. I mean,
Speaker 2: that was actually the perfect way. And then her statement afterwards,
Speaker 2: what is she talking about, Hey, I want to talk
Speaker 2: about nuclear non proliferation. She hasn't taken the bait. I
Speaker 2: give her credit. She's trying to do a job up there.
Speaker 2: Good God. That was just that's so mean. I feel
Speaker 2: to do it. I hated that story this morning to
Speaker 2: see it, and the video was out there, so you
Speaker 2: will check it out. If this is not a matter
Speaker 2: of transgender and what you feel about an issue, when
Speaker 2: we're another robes, it's just like, this is a human
Speaker 2: being in front of you.
Speaker 1: It's about treating people with respect. You can disagree with them.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to like what they stand for
Speaker 1: or what they represent. But you can still, at least
Speaker 1: especially in the halls of Congress, with the world watching
Speaker 1: and our children watching, treat one another with respect.
Speaker 2: That's it, all right, folks. We're going to continue here
Speaker 2: on the Wednesday morning run. When we come back, Trump
Speaker 2: goes car shopping, but the dealership comes to him also.
Speaker 2: After all that turns out the Eagles actually are going
Speaker 2: to be coming to the White House and a couple
Speaker 2: of astronauts are finally coming home. It was only supposed
Speaker 2: to be a three hour tour. We continue here on
Speaker 2: this Wednesday morning at the White House, where the driveway
Speaker 2: looked like a Tesla dealership yesterday, complete with a car
Speaker 2: salesman and the potential car buyer. The salesman was Elon.
Speaker 1: Musk, the shopper was President Trump, and would you believe
Speaker 1: Elon closed the deal. Several Tesla models were lined up
Speaker 1: outside the White House. Trump and Musk walked around the
Speaker 1: cars and even got into one.
Speaker 2: So what as was was a very public and very
Speaker 2: showy endorsement by President Trump of Musk's company, which has
Speaker 2: lost nearly half of its market values since Trump was elected.
Speaker 2: In fact, just Monday, Tesla stocked fifteen percent that's about
Speaker 2: eight hundred billion dollars in value. It's largest drop in
Speaker 2: five years. And it wasn't just for show here out
Speaker 2: here with Trump. He actually did buy a car yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a red model s It retails for
Speaker 1: about eighty grand President Trump said he would write a
Speaker 1: personal check for the car. But yeah, he's not going
Speaker 1: to be hitting the corners in Georgetown on the weekends.
Speaker 1: Presidents generally are not allowed to drive, or at least
Speaker 1: it's highly discouraged. So he says he's going to leave
Speaker 1: it for his staff to drive.
Speaker 2: What's kind of coolp would love What story is going
Speaker 2: to come out of that some staffer to take the
Speaker 2: president's car for a spin? But this blurs the lines.
Speaker 2: This was an incredible show to see our public or
Speaker 2: someone from the public office gives such an endorsement of
Speaker 2: a private company in such a way. It just blurs
Speaker 2: the lines. And then Elon Musk works for the government.
Speaker 2: Now he's out there at the White House selling a
Speaker 2: product from his personal private company.
Speaker 1: This is it's urd lines. Is a very kind and
Speaker 1: soft way to put it. Okay, some would call it inappropriate.
Speaker 2: I'm just unseen before let's go with that. For now
Speaker 2: in this morning run, which will continue you now with
Speaker 2: some big changes coming to Washington, DC, at least in
Speaker 2: the skies, the National Transportation Safety Board has called for
Speaker 2: a permanent ban on certain helicopter flights near Reagan National Airport.
Speaker 1: That's right. The NTSP says the current helicopter routes quote
Speaker 1: pose an intolerable risk to aviation safety. This all comes
Speaker 1: after January's deadly mid air collision between the American Airlines
Speaker 1: plane and that US Army Black Hall helicopter that killed
Speaker 1: all sixty seven people on board both aircrafts, and within
Speaker 1: ninety minutes of releasing its recommendations, while the Department of
Speaker 1: Transportation responded announcing it would make those temporary helicopter restrictions
Speaker 1: that were put in place after the crash permanent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were supposed to expire at the end of
Speaker 2: this month. Of families of the victims of January crash
Speaker 2: it applaud the move, releasing a statement saying this was
Speaker 2: not an isolated incident, but a symptom of broader failures
Speaker 2: in our aviation safety system. If the necessary reforms had
Speaker 2: been implemented sooner, Flight five three four to two likely
Speaker 2: would have landed safely and our family members would be
Speaker 2: home with us.
Speaker 1: That's so sad to think about. Some of the family
Speaker 1: members were saying that they thought this was just a
Speaker 1: tragic accident, but now they're feeling like it's even worse
Speaker 1: because this was something that was known and could have
Speaker 1: been avoided, and that's just got to be so heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: The NTSB released a twenty page report detailing eighty five
Speaker 1: close calls just between October of twenty twenty one and
Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty four where helicopters and planes came
Speaker 1: within two hundred feet of each other vertically, that is remarkable,
Speaker 1: and then just fifteen hundred feet of one another latterally,
Speaker 1: so some close calls that they were pointing out. In fact,
Speaker 1: there was something between twenty eleven. There was at least
Speaker 1: one incident where there was a report that a helicopter
Speaker 1: and a plane we're too close to each other. That's scary.
Speaker 2: It just sucks a tragedy. People had to die for
Speaker 2: you to make a change that you are already aware of.
Speaker 2: That is tough for the family to stomach. We will
Speaker 2: continue here on the run. We will continue with a
Speaker 2: story having to do with commercial air travel, but a
Speaker 2: much different one for you here, and you're probably not
Speaker 2: gonna like it. Your bags. It's gonna cost you, at
Speaker 2: least when you travel on Southwest Airlines a major departure
Speaker 2: now from its long standing tradition of giving customers two
Speaker 2: free checked bags. Southwest Airlines will now only extend that
Speaker 2: courtesy to Rapid Rewards, a List, preferred members, and business
Speaker 2: class ticket holders. So that essentially means most ages.
Speaker 1: Right, I've never even heard of rapid rewards, a list
Speaker 1: preferred members. But for those of you who are lucky,
Speaker 1: you a list members and select customers will also receive
Speaker 1: one free checked bag, but everyone else will have to
Speaker 1: pay for their first and second ones. The new changes
Speaker 1: take effect after Memorial Day weekend on May twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: and the new fees are part of a larger move
Speaker 1: to what they say will boost profitability and attract new customers.
Speaker 2: Wow, how are you attracting new customers by saying we're
Speaker 2: going to charge you for your check bags? Now?
Speaker 1: Well, they're going to give you more points if you're
Speaker 1: a business traveler, so you can rack up those frequent
Speaker 1: flyer miles. And they're also going to create more Uh,
Speaker 1: They're going to keep create cheaper seats. They're calling that
Speaker 1: for the budget conscious traveler and allow for a sign,
Speaker 1: sitting and extra leg room options if you want to
Speaker 1: pay a little more. So they're just giving people more
Speaker 1: options and they're trying to get some more money out
Speaker 1: of it all.
Speaker 2: Generally speaking, checked bags or fifty twenty five bucks, what
Speaker 2: are they fifty?
Speaker 1: It depends because when my children fly, they tend to
Speaker 1: be heavier than usual, so they end up costing even more.
Speaker 1: But yes, we shall see what those bag prices are.
Speaker 1: They did not detail that. Next up on our run.
Speaker 1: US outbreaks has now spread, unfortunately to a third state.
Speaker 1: Health officials in Oklahoma have confirmed two measles cases and
Speaker 1: they say it's probable that they're connected to the outbreak
Speaker 1: in West Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these two people are isolated and experiencing symptoms, health
Speaker 2: officials say. In West Texas, which has been the epicenter
Speaker 2: of the current outbreak, there are now two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty three confirmed cases. There are also thirty three confirmed
Speaker 2: measles cases in New Mexico and that county there that's
Speaker 2: neighboring West Texas where the outbreak has been centered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cases are mostly among unvaccinated children and teenagers.
Speaker 1: One school aged child died last month, marking the first
Speaker 1: measles death in the US in ten years, and an
Speaker 1: adult died last week in New Mexico. He also tested
Speaker 1: They also tested positive for measles, So this is something
Speaker 1: that a lot of health officials are keeping their eye on.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll continue here on our run now with
Speaker 2: another major health setback for Tiger Woods, and this one
Speaker 2: is pretty much going to guarantee we are not going
Speaker 2: to see him playing this season. Tiger announced yesterday that
Speaker 2: he ruptured his achilles and has already undergone surgery to
Speaker 2: repair it.
Speaker 1: Though he said the surgery went well and he's expected
Speaker 1: to make a full recovery. Recovery for an injury like
Speaker 1: that can take up to six months, and he said
Speaker 1: he suffered it at home while he was doing some
Speaker 1: training and some practice. He hasn't played an official tour
Speaker 1: event since last summer, but he's been playing in his
Speaker 1: newly launched golf simulator League. You might have seen some
Speaker 1: of those matches on ESPN.
Speaker 2: Then he looked pretty good and he was smiling. He
Speaker 2: was happy, having a good time. So we were looking
Speaker 2: forward and then the Masters is next month, so we
Speaker 2: were looking forward to that, but we will not be
Speaker 2: seeing Tiger anytime soon out there. He is forty nine
Speaker 2: years old. Now. He has had some catastrophic injuries, but
Speaker 2: he has suffered really to stay healthy. The back issues,
Speaker 2: and then you remember the car accident in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: His leg was damaged so bad he said they might
Speaker 2: have to amputate it, they thought, the doctors, but he
Speaker 2: made a recovery from that. Then he was supposed to
Speaker 2: play in the Genesis Invitational last month, but it wasn't
Speaker 2: a health issue of his but the death of his
Speaker 2: mother that happened previous just near the time of that tournament,
Speaker 2: and he thought he was gonna play, and he just
Speaker 2: finally think a day or two before, said you do, guys,
Speaker 2: I'm just not mentally ready. So Tiger, we just love
Speaker 2: seeing him play, and he has done so much for golf,
Speaker 2: but over the years, he just hasn't the past several years,
Speaker 2: hasn't been able to stay out there and stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough, but we hope these next six months
Speaker 1: will fly by all right. Next up on our run,
Speaker 1: guess who's coming to the White House? The Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was widely rumored and even widely reported by
Speaker 2: some that the team would not go to the White
Speaker 2: House with a traditional champions visit, But yesterday the White
Speaker 2: House confirmed that an invitation had been extended to the
Speaker 2: team and that they enthusiastically accepted.
Speaker 1: The visit is scheduled for April twenty eighth. Hopefully the
Speaker 1: visit does happen, because the last time the Eagles were
Speaker 1: invited to the White House, they were quickly uninvited. Philly
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl back in twenty eighteen, during Trump's
Speaker 1: first term.
Speaker 2: But during that time, you might member, there was so
Speaker 2: much going on controversy around players kneeling during the national
Speaker 2: anthem at NFL game, so several Eagles players expressed hesitation
Speaker 2: about going to the White House at that point, and
Speaker 2: of course visiting President Trump, who was against players kneeling.
Speaker 2: So President Trump at that time rescinded their invitation, so
Speaker 2: they did not go a lot of questions if it
Speaker 2: was going to happen this time, and it appears it will.
Speaker 2: So that's awesome.
Speaker 1: All right, that's fantastic. Some more good news, How about
Speaker 1: this for the final leg of our run, We're going
Speaker 1: to head to space, where two astronauts are finally getting
Speaker 1: their ride home, just about nine months later than anticipated.
Speaker 1: Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams have been stranded in space
Speaker 1: since last June, when they left for a mission that
Speaker 1: was supposed to last just about a week. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, there were issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft which carried
Speaker 2: them to space. NASA was nervous about putting them back
Speaker 2: in that thing and flying them back to Earth in it,
Speaker 2: so they just brought the Starline or spacecraft back to
Speaker 2: Earth with no one in it. It made it back safely,
Speaker 2: so meaning the astronauts would have made it back safely,
Speaker 2: but it was too much of a risk at the time,
Speaker 2: so NASA made a decision at the time to just
Speaker 2: leave them up there until the next scheduled mission to
Speaker 2: the space station. But Robe's problem with that is the
Speaker 2: next scheduled one wasn't for another nine months, which is
Speaker 2: today now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what I think, if you're the astronaut,
Speaker 1: you're like, cool, I think I'll take the nine months
Speaker 1: versus risking my life. That is a safe bet. So
Speaker 1: tonight SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft it
Speaker 1: will drop off four astronauts to the space station and
Speaker 1: then pick up Wilmore and Williams and bring them all
Speaker 1: back to Earth. And if it all goes as planned,
Speaker 1: they actually could be back on Earth as early as Sunday.
Speaker 1: That's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: It's remark just but to think you're going to be
Speaker 2: gone for a week and you end up for nine months,
Speaker 2: and how tough that is for your family to unexpectedly
Speaker 2: have to be without the member of your family for
Speaker 2: nine months. That this was probably wildly disruptive. It sounded
Speaker 2: like a fun and a cool story to a certain degree,
Speaker 2: but this had to be wildly disruptive.
Speaker 1: Oh, that has real life implications in so many ways.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was just thinking, you know, on this
Speaker 1: so many selfish levels. How many times have you had
Speaker 1: to go somewhere for work and then it gets extended
Speaker 1: and you have to run around and buy things like
Speaker 1: from underware to socks to I was just thinking like
Speaker 1: that had to be quite a journey for them with
Speaker 1: one week of supplies. Maybe they brought a few extra
Speaker 1: pairs of this or that. I'm not really sure how
Speaker 1: that works. How does laundry even work in space? I'm
Speaker 1: sure they've got it all figured out.
Speaker 2: You know, they always say pack extra underwear. I never
Speaker 2: packed enough to last me another month anywhere I was
Speaker 2: ever going. And the other part of this story now
Speaker 2: is they need to get them out of there because
Speaker 2: they're using up supply. They plan on having an extra
Speaker 2: two bodies up there for nine months, so they're going
Speaker 2: through stuff that was meant for astronauts on later missions
Speaker 2: so we could see them. Although they launched tonight, seven
Speaker 2: twenty six is when it takes all from Kennedy's Space Center.
Speaker 2: They will have live streams online if you'd like to
Speaker 2: check it out, But starting at seven twenty six is
Speaker 2: when that launch is supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: To me, all right, that's amazing, and we are going
Speaker 1: to now leave you with our quote of the day
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday. It is only when we take chances
Speaker 1: that our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult
Speaker 1: risk we need to take is to become honest. I
Speaker 1: thought that was a really uh that was one that
Speaker 1: made you think a little. So, yes, we want to
Speaker 1: take chances, we want to improve our lives, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the hardest thing is to be honest with ourselves and
Speaker 1: with others. It's something that we tell ourselves a lot
Speaker 1: of stories, but we have to be honest before we
Speaker 1: can start to make real changes.
Speaker 2: There's you know, I'm glad you said there's something I've
Speaker 2: been meaning to tell y'all. As soon as we get
Speaker 2: off recording here, I'm going to be honest with you
Speaker 2: about something. So give them the quote one more time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here it is. Can't wait as my heart is pounding.
Speaker 1: It is only when we take chances that our lives improve.
Speaker 1: The initial and most difficult risk we need to take
Speaker 1: is to be come honest. And with that, everyone, we
Speaker 1: hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. Thank you for running
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach and I'm TJ. Holmes. Gonna head off
Speaker 2: and be honest with Roebock and we'll see if we're
Speaker 2: running together tomorrow or not. You'll have a go with season.
Speaker 1: You're so dramatic.