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Speaker 1: morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is oOoOO Friday,
Speaker 1: February thirteenth. I'm Amy Roboch and I'm TJ Holmes. Why'd
Speaker 1: you say it like that? Because it's Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2: What did I have in the script? You were about
Speaker 2: to make fun of me? I? Well, he something else.
Speaker 1: We wrote Friday February third.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all right, because it's an unlucky day. I
Speaker 2: didn't want to after Friday, but hell, long long week.
Speaker 2: Hey everybody, I guess it's weird. These two days go
Speaker 2: back to back. Friday the thirteenth. Ooh, Saturday the fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Valentine Valentine's Day, a day of love and celebration.
Speaker 2: Some say both of those days are scared horror. Okay,
Speaker 2: there you go, a very scary day wherever you are.
Speaker 2: Hope you're having a good start to or Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2: I want to give you the update right now. The
Speaker 2: US sits in third in the official medal count at
Speaker 2: the Winter Games in Milan, Norway, up top with eight
Speaker 2: gold medals sixteen overall. Italy has six gold medals seventeen. Overall, Italy,
Speaker 2: the host country. We've covered plenty of Olympics. Host country
Speaker 2: does better.
Speaker 1: They always do. They're buoyed up by It's like the
Speaker 1: home court advantage.
Speaker 2: Absolutely is so. Italy has been doing fairly well in
Speaker 2: these games. Germany is in for Sweden in fifth. Both
Speaker 2: of those countries have four gold medals a piece. But
Speaker 2: a lot of good action expected today. The quad god
Speaker 2: is going to be up. But yesterday, I think one
Speaker 2: of the two three biggest stars at the Olympics, Chloe Kim,
Speaker 2: competed yesterday and some people pissed at how it worked
Speaker 2: out for her, but she had another great run.
Speaker 1: She was going for making Olympic history getting a third
Speaker 1: gold medal in a row for halfpipe, but she got silver.
Speaker 1: What I thought was so cool about the story she
Speaker 1: fell and so she what did she do when she
Speaker 1: finished her around and knew she didn't get cold, went
Speaker 1: straight over to the girl who did and gave her
Speaker 1: a hug American, Chinese.
Speaker 2: A protegee, I say, who was going to be up
Speaker 2: and come? Who knew that a twenty five year old
Speaker 2: has a protege.
Speaker 1: She's seventeen. The protege seventeen but yeah, how cool is
Speaker 1: that instead of being upset and being pissed that she
Speaker 1: didn't get gold, she went up straight and hugged and
Speaker 1: congratulated the person who did.
Speaker 2: Again, another one of those sweet moments in these Olympics.
Speaker 2: We can expect plenty more, but I think this would
Speaker 2: be today Robes. The quad God, Ilia Million is the name.
Speaker 2: I think Chloe Kim and the Quad God are like locks.
Speaker 2: There are some people we look at and say, Okay,
Speaker 2: they're gonna get gold. These would be two major disappointments.
Speaker 2: Chloe Kim is a star, don't everybody knows, but nobody's
Speaker 2: expecting gold more than with this quad I know?
Speaker 1: And what that is? So much pressure? And Ilia it's
Speaker 1: melanin right. He even said he felt a little shaky
Speaker 1: because he's feeling the pressure. It's it's the Olympics pressure.
Speaker 1: That makes total sense. You know what I want to watch,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to be around to see it.
Speaker 1: US versus Italy women's hockey quarterfinals. You talked about the
Speaker 1: home court advantage Italy and US team USA and women's
Speaker 1: team has not lost in I don't know how long.
Speaker 1: So this is so good. This is going to be
Speaker 1: I mean they they trounced Canada and that was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a big matchup.
Speaker 2: Never supposed to happen. Those two have been going we're
Speaker 2: the last how many Olympics, those two of the only
Speaker 2: ones have got the gold medals, right, But yeah, they're
Speaker 2: taking on Italy. I want to watch just because I
Speaker 2: am sure the Italian hockey uniforms are going to be
Speaker 2: the best hockey uniforms ever.
Speaker 1: They are killing it with the fashion as always, always
Speaker 1: nail it.
Speaker 2: But all that happening today, we'll keep an eye on it.
Speaker 2: But a number of other things we need to tell
Speaker 2: you about. We're keeping an eye on this morning run.
Speaker 2: We're going to be making stops in DC, in South Carolina,
Speaker 2: in Virginia, in LA. We'll dip back into Milan, also
Speaker 2: Cape Canaveral, we're making a stop, but we got to
Speaker 2: start in Tucson once again.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 2: It is day thirteen and the search for eighty four
Speaker 2: year old Nancy Guthrie. And late yesterday the FBI got
Speaker 2: specific about who they're looking for. They put out a
Speaker 2: suspect description. They said the male is five nine to
Speaker 2: five ten as an average build, and they are giving
Speaker 2: a specific description of that backpack we see in those
Speaker 2: surveillance video. It is a black twenty four Leader Ozark
Speaker 2: trail hiker pack backpack. They wanted to get those details out. Also,
Speaker 2: they did increase the reward to one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: It's doubled now and then robes TMZ once again. This
Speaker 2: is like the fourth note. They've gotten the second one
Speaker 2: from someone who says they know who the kidnapper is,
Speaker 2: and they keep demanding one bitcoin. They sent a second
Speaker 2: note and Harvey Levan over there said this one was chilling.
Speaker 1: Ooh, all right, And investigators are now searching the foothills
Speaker 1: around Guthrie's neighborhood and expanding the area where they're asking
Speaker 1: neighbors to check their surveillance footers. They gave some specific dates,
Speaker 1: but they expanded it to a two mile radius around
Speaker 1: Guthrie's home. They also are looking at DNA in those gloves,
Speaker 1: a pair of black gloves they found. They say look
Speaker 1: like the gloves the suspect was wearing in that surveillance video,
Speaker 1: but they can't say for sure. Hopefully we'll get some
Speaker 1: answers on that soon. And then Savannah posted a vintage
Speaker 1: home movie footage of her mom as a young mom,
Speaker 1: with her and her siblings as young kids, just humanizing
Speaker 1: her mind and just saying we'll never give up on her.
Speaker 1: Thanking everyone for their prayers and hope. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if y'all want to check out an episode we did
Speaker 1: right before this this morning, there is a sketch artist,
Speaker 1: a renowned, a Guinness Book World record holder sketch artist.
Speaker 1: From the convictions that she has been able to claim
Speaker 1: as her own based on her sketches, she has now
Speaker 1: created a sketch of the suspect from that surveillance video.
Speaker 1: We will see how police react to that as that
Speaker 1: sketch makes its round today.
Speaker 2: I will continue on this Friday morning run now with
Speaker 2: the Department of Homeland Security. It will shut down at
Speaker 2: midnight tonight if lawmakers can't reach an agreement on tighter
Speaker 2: restrictions for immigration enforcement. Now, while both sides have been negotiating,
Speaker 2: they are also digging in, at least in public, and
Speaker 2: there is no clear way out of this, and it
Speaker 2: looks like we are going to experience a very partial, sure,
Speaker 2: but specific and also possibly impactful shutdown.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we were hopeful because yesterday we heard from
Speaker 1: Borders our Tom Homan announcing ICE is pulling out of Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: Four thousand arrest have been made, there were three thousand
Speaker 1: immigrations on the ground, and of course all of that
Speaker 1: and the killings of Renee Good and Alex pretty led
Speaker 1: to this back and forth as standoff, so to speak,
Speaker 1: about funding the Department of Homeland Security. But if they
Speaker 1: can't find that way forward, lawmakers, by the way, aren't
Speaker 1: going to be back on the job until next Tuesday,
Speaker 1: because oh yeah, it's a holiday weekend. It's President's Day
Speaker 1: on Monday, and so everyone's got a long three day weekend,
Speaker 1: including the congressmen and women who are supposed to be
Speaker 1: making sure that our government runs. But if DHS does
Speaker 1: shut down, remember that means TSA, FEMA Coast Guard employees.
Speaker 1: None of them will be paid until the agency is refunded.
Speaker 1: We are told, as we were the last government shutdown,
Speaker 1: that most of those workers have to show up for
Speaker 1: work because their jobs are considered critical. But this is
Speaker 1: too much back to back, just payment disruptions for these
Speaker 1: folks who are literally protecting us and our safety as
Speaker 1: we make our way in this world from the seas
Speaker 1: to the skies. It's concerning in reminder.
Speaker 2: Just over time, they started calling in sick, trying to
Speaker 2: do other jobs, trying this is what calls disruptions and
Speaker 2: not having enough TSA workers. They say the FAA is
Speaker 2: not going to have They'll be funded, so we'll have
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers at least, but the TSA could be
Speaker 2: an issue. As we continue here on this Friday morning run,
Speaker 2: we want to head to South Carolina where a college
Speaker 2: campus there was in lockdown or was in lockdown around
Speaker 2: nine o'clock last night because there was a shooting on campus.
Speaker 2: Two people dead, another injured. This happened at South Carolina
Speaker 2: State University and HBCU there in the state. Happened at
Speaker 2: a residence hall. Officials have not released any details really
Speaker 2: about the shooting, no identities of the sus excuse me,
Speaker 2: the victims, and we don't know anything about the suspect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this happened late last night, but it
Speaker 1: is deeply concerning. Can you imagine a shooting of murders
Speaker 1: in a dorm room and your kids are at school.
Speaker 1: That's deeply concerning. There's about three thousand students enrolled on campus. Classes,
Speaker 1: as you might imagine, are canceled for the day. To day.
Speaker 1: But this is one of two HBCUs in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: That's because the first thing, you might have fat killer
Speaker 2: on your campus. Yes, living in a dorm, yes say yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a concerning one for that campus.
Speaker 1: Right, It's scary stuff, all right. Next up on the run,
Speaker 1: a federal judge has blocked Pete Hegseth's efforts to punish
Speaker 1: Senator Mark Kelly for participating in that video reminding members
Speaker 1: of the military they can refuse illegal orders. The judge
Speaker 1: didn't just make his ruling, though, and move on. He
Speaker 1: gave a tongue lashing to the Trump administration. He suggested
Speaker 1: that the Trump administration should be grateful to Kelly and
Speaker 1: other retired members of the military, rather than trampling on
Speaker 1: Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms.
Speaker 2: All right, this is District Judge Richard Leon, he said,
Speaker 2: and I'm quoting here. Rather than trying to shrink the
Speaker 2: First Amendment liberties of a retired service members, Secretary Hegseth
Speaker 2: and his fellow defendants might reflect and be grateful for
Speaker 2: the wisdom and ex expertise that retired service members have
Speaker 2: brought to public discussions and debate on military matters in
Speaker 2: our nation over the past two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 2: If so, they will be more fully appreciative why the
Speaker 2: founding paupers made free speech the first amendment in the
Speaker 2: Bill of Rights.
Speaker 1: That was a lot, he put an exclamation point to
Speaker 1: a very trump of him. I mean, that was a lot.
Speaker 1: That was more than a ruling. It seemed personal. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong.
Speaker 2: We've seen judges and they can make determinations this like
Speaker 2: he was personally attacking, and this is why they call
Speaker 2: them acts of as judges, they have the right, I
Speaker 2: guess to do this Rose, but he is putting himself
Speaker 2: right in the middle for criticism. However, we always have
Speaker 2: to report he was appointed by a Republican I hate
Speaker 2: doing that because judges aren't supposed to be this.
Speaker 1: Or that, and yet we constant point fingers at them,
Speaker 1: and when they do step in and give opinions, which
Speaker 1: I guess that is still a part of their job.
Speaker 1: But yes, he was appointed by George W. Bush, so
Speaker 1: he wasn't a democratic appointed judge.
Speaker 2: But he spanked Hexas intentionally and he knew what he
Speaker 2: was doing here. And Hexith said that this will be
Speaker 2: appealed immediately and added that sedition is sedition, Captain Woof.
Speaker 1: All right, and heg Seth said the Pentagon, by the way,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to know what this was all about.
Speaker 1: They were taking steps to downgrade Kelly's military retirement rank
Speaker 1: to reduce his pay, and so Kelly sued in January,
Speaker 1: saying that hexa's actions violated his First Amendment rights. And
Speaker 1: of course this judge agreed with Kelly and ruled against Hegseth.
Speaker 1: And this is also of note. This week, a grand
Speaker 1: jury refused to indict Kelly in the five other Democrats
Speaker 1: in that video. As the Trump administration was hoping they
Speaker 1: wanted to bring criminal charges against these lawmakers. A grand
Speaker 1: jury and reportedly unanimously decided not to hand down any indictments.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Next up on the run here, Golvin Sachs, top lawyer
Speaker 2: and former counsel for the Obama administration, is stepping down
Speaker 2: from her position after the DOJ's latest drop of Epstein files.
Speaker 2: The sky has been dead for how many years? And
Speaker 2: still has had a wide impact on our society, The
Speaker 2: powerful in our society. Emails, messages and photos between fifty
Speaker 2: four year old Katherine Rimmler and Jeffrey Epstein reveal a
Speaker 2: years long friendship. Problem here is that Rmler had previously
Speaker 2: insisted her relationship with Epstein was strictly professional, but the
Speaker 2: documents clearly show something else.
Speaker 1: Clearly, in them, Remler advises Epstein on how to respond
Speaker 1: to questions about his sex crimes, how to avoid media scrutiny.
Speaker 1: She talks about her dating life with him and refers
Speaker 1: to him as sweetie and uncle Jeffrey. In return, the
Speaker 1: documents show that Epstein introduced her to well known business people,
Speaker 1: gifted her with expensive spa treatments, luxury items, high end travel.
Speaker 1: In total, this is pretty significant. Remler was mentioned in
Speaker 1: more than ten thousand of the documents released late last month,
Speaker 1: and she just couldn't escape the scrutiny. She kept having
Speaker 1: headline after headline, so in announcing her resignation, she said,
Speaker 1: my responsibility is to put Goldman sachs interest first. But
Speaker 1: this was a shocker to a lot of people. They said,
Speaker 1: up until like a day ago, Goldman Sachs was vehemently
Speaker 1: defending her, and it didn't seem as though she was
Speaker 1: going anywhere. So she made a very big about face,
Speaker 1: much to the shock of her just folks in the industry, Uncle.
Speaker 2: Jeffrey, you continuing on the run here now. It is
Speaker 2: sentencing day today for the pair in the O Pair
Speaker 2: affair double murdered trial, twenty five year old Juliana Magahalas
Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to manslaughter for her role in scheming with
Speaker 2: her boss turned lover Brendan Banfield to kill his wife,
Speaker 2: Christine and another man. Magalas was allowed to plead to
Speaker 2: a lesser charge, even though she admitted to fatally shooting
Speaker 2: the man in exchange for her testimony against Banfield.
Speaker 1: So Banfield, as you may remember, was found guilty on
Speaker 1: all counts earlier this month and is facing life in
Speaker 1: prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors struck that deal
Speaker 1: with Maglais that she would be released after her sentencing
Speaker 1: hearing with credit for time already served. However, the judge
Speaker 1: today could still reject that agreement. Manslaughter in the state
Speaker 1: of Virginia is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
Speaker 1: Magli Is, by the way, spent a little over two
Speaker 1: years behind bars, but it is widely believed she will
Speaker 1: be set free today and heading home. Banfield is going
Speaker 1: to be sentenced in May and heads.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you all can hear it, but
Speaker 2: we're out in the middle of the jungle right now,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what animal that is.
Speaker 1: A large bird, very large bird.
Speaker 2: We feel like we're being circled. They look like they
Speaker 2: have a plan.
Speaker 1: It's like a Hitchcock movie right now. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, we're in a serious subject, so I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like I could reference it. But thank you for
Speaker 1: doing so, because we don't know if you all can
Speaker 1: hear it. But it is exceptionally loud. Some angry birds,
Speaker 1: you know what.
Speaker 2: They can hear it. I'm looking at our monitor. He
Speaker 2: they can hear it all right. Next up on the
Speaker 2: run here three two one, and we had lyft off
Speaker 2: this morning. We watched very early four new crew members
Speaker 2: take off heading out into outer space, heading to the
Speaker 2: International Space Station. The NASA astronauts are expected to have
Speaker 2: a Valentine's Day hook up.
Speaker 1: They're going to be docking tomorrow. But I'm bump.
Speaker 2: They'll bring the space station back up to speed after
Speaker 2: the previous group had to leave early left a month early, remember,
Speaker 2: because of a medical issue with one of the crew members.
Speaker 1: So this new four person crew is expected to remain
Speaker 1: on the space station for about eight months. They say
Speaker 1: they're going to do a bunch of scientific experiments. They're
Speaker 1: going to research food production in space, along with other
Speaker 1: studies that NASA says will advance research and technology for
Speaker 1: future Moon and Mars missions and benefit humanity back on Earth.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Two men and two women. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it was so fun to watch the launch. I love launches.
Speaker 2: Sorry, stay with us here on this Friday morning run.
Speaker 2: When we come back, Lebron has added something else to
Speaker 2: his record books, and this record has to do with
Speaker 2: how old he is. Also coming up gold metal diamond ring.
Speaker 2: We continue here on this Friday morning run roboc and
Speaker 2: I is still under assault from some birds we can't
Speaker 2: readily identify, but they seem angry. But we continue here
Speaker 2: on the run talking about Lebron James the storied long
Speaker 2: NBA career. He's forty one years old in his twenty
Speaker 2: third season, and he became now the oldest player to
Speaker 2: have a triple double. This in last night's victory over
Speaker 2: the Mavericks a little two minutes to go in the game,
Speaker 2: he had twenty eight points twelve assists.
Speaker 1: Then he got his tenth rebound, and after that tenth
Speaker 1: rebound he got a standing o from the crowd. It
Speaker 1: was one. It was his one hundred and twenty third
Speaker 1: career triple double and that is the fifth most in
Speaker 1: the in NBA history. So he could still probably get
Speaker 1: up there, right, He's got some time. He might be
Speaker 1: able to inch up there now. He's also heading to
Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game this weekend, so he was
Speaker 1: having quite the time here this week. And the record
Speaker 1: was previously held in case you were wondering, by Carl Malone.
Speaker 1: He had a triple double at the age of forty.
Speaker 1: So good for these guys. This is crazy.
Speaker 2: My whole time watching growing up watching basketball, I always
Speaker 2: Carl Malon always seemed like an old man to me. No,
Speaker 2: if it is Carl, I'm just saying he was all
Speaker 2: like a forty year old guy. I'm forty eight. Then
Speaker 2: Carmelo used was an old man to me.
Speaker 1: Now Lebron James perspective is everything, isn't it? Last leg
Speaker 1: of our run? Here? Now she wins goal, she gets
Speaker 1: a ring. He put a ring on it.
Speaker 2: Olympic skier Breezy Johnson is engaged. Boyfriend was waiting for
Speaker 2: her at the bottom of her super g run.
Speaker 1: Yep, he got down on one knee in front of
Speaker 1: all the other skiers and proposed, and Johnson tearfully said yes.
Speaker 1: Apparently he had been planning this moment for a year.
Speaker 1: But this is hilarious, Johnson told reporters afterwards. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: kind of knew this was gonna happen because quote, I
Speaker 1: may have told him that I just always kind of
Speaker 1: had the dream of getting engaged at the Olympics. So
Speaker 1: she was like doing heavy hints, and it's funny, I was,
Speaker 1: I wrote this story heavy hints. Those were instructions. That's fair.
Speaker 1: We like to call them pints. You accept them as
Speaker 1: what they really are, which is instructions. But it was funny.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, yes, what you did teasing
Speaker 1: this that he she got gold and then she got
Speaker 1: a diamond. It actually was diamond. I had to change
Speaker 1: the script because she ended up getting it looked like
Speaker 1: they didn't say what it was a bluestone, but it
Speaker 1: looked like tanzanite to me. Maybe it was a sapphire.
Speaker 1: But it was beautiful and very unique and very cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's possible too. A better tease to say gold, And
Speaker 1: I know I will see, and I had written it
Speaker 1: like that that I had to go back and scrap
Speaker 1: my plans because I saw, Oh, it wasn't technically a diamond.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's a trend. You were setting it
Speaker 1: to get engaged without just a different stone. It's kind
Speaker 1: of cool, right, I was following. I love that, all right,
Speaker 1: and I love what she said. She said there is
Speaker 1: nothing better than doing well and having someone to share
Speaker 1: it with. I thought that was pretty pretty cool. Dude
Speaker 1: of Norway. Ooh, too soon, too soon? All right? As
Speaker 1: we leave you on this Friday the thirteenth, it is
Speaker 1: important to remember, as we pointed out at the beginning
Speaker 1: of this episode, that it is Valentine's Day tomorrow. It
Speaker 1: is a day of love. And so I found a
Speaker 1: quote that you and I both love from one of
Speaker 1: our favorite romantic movies. Ever, death cannot stop true love.
Speaker 1: All it can do is delay it for a while.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you pulled that out today. We could
Speaker 2: have nothing but Princess Bride Wesley quotes for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year, and we wouldn't have to go looking
Speaker 2: because we know that movie line by line. But yes,
Speaker 2: that is one of a sweeter kind of a cheesy moment,
Speaker 2: but it was a sweet kind and it is a reminder.
Speaker 2: It is a sweet line.
Speaker 1: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is
Speaker 1: delay it for a while. I think that's beautiful. And guys,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you want to have a beautiful,
Speaker 1: beautiful Valentine's Day tomorrow, you can take another quote from
Speaker 1: the movie Princess Bride as you wish. It works every time.
Speaker 1: And with that, we always appreciate you running with us.
Speaker 2: Oh now I am CJ. Holmes certainly look forward to
Speaker 2: it running with you soon. But you really it's a
Speaker 2: special day. We've done some talk to some Valentine's Day stuff,
Speaker 2: but it's always a if you need an excuse, take
Speaker 2: advantage of this one and let somebody know you care
Speaker 2: about them. It's not just a matter of who you
Speaker 2: might be dating. That's a family member's friends all around.
Speaker 2: It's a sweet day. So I look forward to getting
Speaker 2: back to New York and seeing the men rushing up
Speaker 2: and down the street and out of Dwayne Reed with
Speaker 2: the flowers and the chalkings.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is one of our favorite people watching days
Speaker 1: of the year, so we will be actively engaged in that.
Speaker 1: But we hope you all have a beautiful Valentine's Day,
Speaker 1: a wonderful weekend, and we will run with you soon