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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Monday, April seventh. Welcome to your morning Run.
Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robot and.
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. Don't tell us who died on White Lotus.
Speaker 2: We haven't watched it yet, so just keep it to yourselves.
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are going to be
Speaker 2: spending the day doing exactly that, at least the first
Speaker 2: part of the day saying, everybody, don't tell me. The
Speaker 2: finale was last night.
Speaker 1: I had to be very careful as we were researching
Speaker 1: our stories this morning to not hit any page that
Speaker 1: might have a headline that would give away the ending.
Speaker 1: We are very much looking forward to watching the season
Speaker 1: finale of White Lotus later today, so yes, no spoilers
Speaker 1: anyone please.
Speaker 2: At all, and we won't have any in this morning run.
Speaker 2: But on today's Monday Morning Run, we still got Wehather
Speaker 2: to talk about. First that once in a generation storm
Speaker 2: is finally moving out to see later today, but the
Speaker 2: death toll continues.
Speaker 1: To rise and HHAs Secretary RFK Junior attends the funeral
Speaker 1: of a second child who has now died of measles
Speaker 1: in this country plus more than fifty nations want to
Speaker 1: negotiate Trump's tariffs, according to the White House.
Speaker 2: Also this morning, you again ned and Yahoo back at
Speaker 2: the White House already This again, TikTok gets another temporary reprieve.
Speaker 2: Plus brace yourself for another potentially brutal day on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: There are a few things to smile about, though. How
Speaker 1: about a surprise appearance by Pope Francis over the weekend
Speaker 1: and the surprise at the box office from a video
Speaker 1: game movie that no one saw coming. And celebration on
Speaker 1: the ice after a record was set that no one
Speaker 1: thought could be broken.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't competitive, but it was still beautiful to
Speaker 2: watch the Yukon women once again the women's national champions
Speaker 2: and the men's championship game is tonight and Duke Aain
Speaker 2: in it. After a stunning collapse in the final four
Speaker 2: over the weekend.
Speaker 1: It was a reminder not to go to bed early
Speaker 1: like I did, thinking that Duke had won it by
Speaker 1: a landslide, to wake up the next morning to have
Speaker 1: TJ you tell me they.
Speaker 2: Lost and epic epic collapse.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we will get into all of that
Speaker 1: in just a bit, but we begin our morning run
Speaker 1: with that severe weather system that swept the nation over
Speaker 1: the past several days. Well it has now claimed at
Speaker 1: least twenty lives. The slow moving, even at times stationary
Speaker 1: system spawned ninety tornadoes across ten states and dumped rainfall
Speaker 1: amounts that caused flash flooding throughout the Midwest and South.
Speaker 2: Ten of the deaths were in Tennessee. In Kentucky, a
Speaker 2: nine year old boy was swept away by floodwaters as
Speaker 2: he was walking to the school bus. National Weather Service
Speaker 2: has reported that Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee all received more
Speaker 2: than a foot of ranks.
Speaker 1: East Memphis received fifteen inches, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri all got
Speaker 1: more than ten inches. This was significant. Weather forecasters say
Speaker 1: flooding threats are going to continue for the next several days,
Speaker 1: even after the system moves out to sea thankfully later today.
Speaker 1: But they were saying there were at least eight keen
Speaker 1: rivers that are in major flood stages and it's only
Speaker 1: going to get worse over the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: We will continue here on this morning morning run now
Speaker 2: with a second child that has died from measles in
Speaker 2: this country. This happened in Texas, which has been the
Speaker 2: center of that growing outbreak. The Department of Health and
Speaker 2: Human Services has confirmed that an unvaccinated eight year old
Speaker 2: girl died after recently recently being diagnosed.
Speaker 1: That's right. An HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, attended
Speaker 1: the child's funeral yesterday. He spoke to the girl's family privately.
Speaker 1: He didn't say anything publicly at the funeral, but he
Speaker 1: did post this on x My intention was to come
Speaker 1: down here quietly to console the families and to be
Speaker 1: with the community in their moment of grief. The most
Speaker 1: effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the
Speaker 1: MMR vaccine.
Speaker 2: Now, in addition to the deaths of two children, an
Speaker 2: adult in neighboring New Mexico is also believed to have
Speaker 2: died from measles this year. Are these are the first
Speaker 2: deaths from measles in this country in over a decade.
Speaker 2: The outbreak in Texas has infected nearly five hundred people
Speaker 2: so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was even a fourteen percent jump in cases
Speaker 1: in just this past week, and that included six infants
Speaker 1: and toddlers who all tested positive at a day care
Speaker 1: center in Lubbock. So the situation there is not over
Speaker 1: and unfortunately is worsening.
Speaker 2: And the next leg of our run now takes us
Speaker 2: to Washington, DC, and the White House is defending Trump's
Speaker 2: tariffs on US trading partners. After his ten percent tariff
Speaker 2: on all US imports went into effect over the weekend.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration saying more than fifty countries have reached
Speaker 1: out to the President to try and negotiate a deal
Speaker 1: ahead of the next looming deadline. The larger individual tariffs
Speaker 1: on countries goes into effect this Wednesday.
Speaker 2: The White House says countries are coming to the table
Speaker 2: because they understand they bear a lot of the tariffs. Here.
Speaker 2: Trump has imposed tariffs that are essentially half of what
Speaker 2: each country charges the US. Trump says he wants to
Speaker 2: even He wants actually to even the US trading deficit,
Speaker 2: but critics say he's just creating an unnecessary trade war
Speaker 2: that continues to esc and is going to lead to
Speaker 2: higher prices that are going to be passed on to
Speaker 2: you the consumer.
Speaker 1: Next up on our run, Netanyahu is becoming a regular.
Speaker 1: The Israeli Prime Minister is expected to meet with President
Speaker 1: Trump at the White House today.
Speaker 2: He was just there though at the White House in
Speaker 2: early February. He was actually the first foreign leader to
Speaker 2: meet with President Trump after his election. Nen Yahoo is
Speaker 2: now expected to be the first foreign leader to negotiate
Speaker 2: or plead with Trump face to face over the new tariffs.
Speaker 1: Yes, Israel has been slapped with a seventeen percent reciprocal
Speaker 1: tariff as part of Trump's Liberation Day tariffs, which again
Speaker 1: apply to all US trade partners, and of course expect
Speaker 1: the Israel Gaza war to be on the agenda between
Speaker 1: the two leaders today.
Speaker 2: Right continuing on our Monday morning run now, in a
Speaker 2: deal to save TikTok apparently was in place last week,
Speaker 2: but reportedly it all fell apart because of Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 2: The administration had been working, as you might know, to
Speaker 2: find US investors to take over TikTok.
Speaker 1: Bye law, the app cannot have China based owners, and
Speaker 1: it was facing that Saturday deadline to find US owners
Speaker 1: or the app would possibly go dark here in the
Speaker 1: United States. Well, President Trump said he believed they'd have
Speaker 1: a deal in place in time, but the Associated Press
Speaker 1: is now reporting that deal was in fact in the works,
Speaker 1: but China pumped the brakes on moving forward after Trump
Speaker 1: announced his Liberation Day tariffs. On all trade partners, including China.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so China was hit with a thirty four percent tariff.
Speaker 2: They ended up hitting the US with a retaliatory tariff
Speaker 2: as well. So now there's another seventy five day reprieve
Speaker 2: for TikTok and it's one hundred and seventy million US users,
Speaker 2: So it's encouraging that something was being done. It looked
Speaker 2: like there might have been a deal in place. Too
Speaker 2: bad that the tariffs through everything off. So, oh, your
Speaker 2: TikTok users here you are again.
Speaker 1: No certainty, Yeah, but a seventy five day reprieve and
Speaker 1: continuing our tariff flock here on the morning run. Next
Speaker 1: up on the run, markets around the world continue to
Speaker 1: react sharply and negatively to President Trump's new tariffs. Asian
Speaker 1: and European markets all took a dive at their openings today,
Speaker 1: dropping between five and ten percent in most cases, and
Speaker 1: that certainly is significant.
Speaker 2: Embrace yourself, folks, because as of this recording, US stock
Speaker 2: futures are down significantly. They are signaling that we could
Speaker 2: be in for another brutal day on Wall Street when
Speaker 2: those markets to officially open at nine thirty am Eastern time.
Speaker 2: We will continue here on our run and head over
Speaker 2: to Rome. And look who showed up at Saint Peter Square.
Speaker 1: What a moment, what a sight, and what a big
Speaker 1: surprise for the faithful to see Pope Francis yesterday make
Speaker 1: an unannounced appearance at the Vatican. This is the first
Speaker 1: time we've seen him since he left the hospital two
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was in a wheelchair, but he was smiling
Speaker 2: at times, he was waving at times. He was wearing
Speaker 2: an apparatus also that helped him breathe. But we saw
Speaker 2: him when he left the hospital a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: and he did he raised his arm a little bit
Speaker 2: and waved, had a little smile. He clearly was a
Speaker 2: little more mobile and looked in better shape this time around.
Speaker 2: Said a few words to the crowd, but very significant words.
Speaker 2: He said happy Sunday, and he also said thank you
Speaker 2: to the rest on.
Speaker 1: The eighty eight year old spent more than a month
Speaker 1: in the hospital after bronchitis turned into double pneumonia. His
Speaker 1: doctors only revealed last night that the pontiff came on
Speaker 1: two occasions, came close to death. But certainly good to
Speaker 1: see him not only out of the hospital but smiling
Speaker 1: and waving and speaking it's all good news.
Speaker 2: Yes, that was a surprise of appearance that we've been
Speaker 2: talking about. We talked about the Pope every single day here,
Speaker 2: it's well, yeah, for a full month. Yeah, because he
Speaker 2: was in the hospital and we kept saying, man, what
Speaker 2: a sight when he gets out of the hospital, What
Speaker 2: a sight when he goes back. And that was the
Speaker 2: sight that many people didn't even think we would ever
Speaker 2: get to see. Well, stay with us here on this
Speaker 2: Monday Morning, Ron, when we come back, a much needed
Speaker 2: boost for the box office, and it came courtesy of Minecraft.
Speaker 2: And then we could not believe what we were seeing
Speaker 2: in the Women's National Championship game yesterday. And then we
Speaker 2: saw something last night a lot of people thought we
Speaker 2: would never see. But this was an hockey The next
Speaker 2: leg of our Monday Morning Ron takes us to Hollywood
Speaker 2: as we continue now, and a big sigh of relief
Speaker 2: in Hollywood as a Minecraft movie unexpectedly breaks a major
Speaker 2: dry spell and did it in a major way.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The film was only expected to gross around sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars on its opening weekend, but instead it officially
Speaker 1: marked the biggest opening weekend of the year. Grossing one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven million dollars domestically. A lot of
Speaker 1: experts believe this could be because college students and teenagers
Speaker 1: were on spring break this weekend and that boosted sales
Speaker 1: certainly in some markets, but they also say it was
Speaker 1: word of mouth. It's spread very quickly online. People loved
Speaker 1: this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen some recent hits when it comes to
Speaker 2: video game movies. There was Five Nights at Freddy's and
Speaker 2: then of course you had Super Mario Brothers that did
Speaker 2: gangbusters at the box office. But this movie, now a
Speaker 2: Minecraft movie, is the biggest domestic opening weekend ever or
Speaker 2: the genre. The movie significantly helped box office numbers, which
Speaker 2: were down thirteen percent so far this year, so the
Speaker 2: industry is getting a much needed boost. This is one
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily the kids playing Minecraft. But this wasn't
Speaker 2: necessarily on our radar to go watch. But now I'm
Speaker 2: curious interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so good for them, and certainly they all the
Speaker 1: movie experts said they were concerned after March's numbers. They
Speaker 1: were so bad. So this movie did a lot to
Speaker 1: give the industry some relief, thinking, Okay, people will go
Speaker 1: to the movie theaters just for the right movie. All Right,
Speaker 1: next up on our run. A new record was set
Speaker 1: last night in the National Hockey League, and it was
Speaker 1: a record that stood for thirty one years and one
Speaker 1: that many thought would never be broken.
Speaker 2: Alex Ovechkin has now surpassed the great one, Wayne Gretzky
Speaker 2: to become the all time scoring leader in hockey a
Speaker 2: Vetchkin scored goal number eight hundred and ninety five last
Speaker 2: night against the New York Islanders and was immediately mobbed
Speaker 2: by his teammate. The game stopped for a ceremony that
Speaker 2: included speeches, tears, presentations. Gretzki himself was there, but the
Speaker 2: I think I'll have to start all this off. After
Speaker 2: he made the goal, he looked like a kid in
Speaker 2: the front yard on a slipping slide. He just went
Speaker 2: did a big old belly flop. It's just cool to
Speaker 2: see a grown man have that kind of joy and
Speaker 2: playing a game. It was cool. I hear you.
Speaker 1: That is very cool. Ivechkin had been in the NHL
Speaker 1: for twenty years, all of them with the same team,
Speaker 1: the Washington Capitals. He's been MVP. He's led the Capitals
Speaker 1: to their first championship. That happened in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: A weird stat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is okay, this is an interesting stat. This
Speaker 1: was Avenchkin's one wait, one four hundred and eighty seventh game.
Speaker 1: Gretzky's record was set after one thy four hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven games.
Speaker 2: That is weird that happened. But they have been watching
Speaker 2: this for the past several games, so the commissioner and
Speaker 2: Gretzky have been traveling around. You have to be there
Speaker 2: in case he breaks it, so they were there for
Speaker 2: this one last night. His family is boy, it was
Speaker 2: just a wonderful moment. They lost the game. Who cares?
Speaker 1: Who cares? And it was cool the Kretzky's there. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: it's not something that you probably are excited about someone
Speaker 1: breaking your record, but it was cool that he was
Speaker 1: there to help him celebrate and to honor him.
Speaker 2: Those guys have been good athletes. Kareem was there for
Speaker 2: Lebron setting the scoring record, and you see this these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, none of these guys want their records broken.
Speaker 2: What is the part of history? Yo it to the game.
Speaker 2: We would continue here next up on this morning's run.
Speaker 2: This leg of our run takes us to Tampa where
Speaker 2: the women's National Championship game was played yesterday, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't down to the wire. It wasn't even close. It
Speaker 2: wasn't even competitive for the most part. But still it
Speaker 2: was impressive to watch.
Speaker 1: You always say this about the women's games, that it's
Speaker 1: just a beautiful game to watch. The Yukon Huskies thoroughly
Speaker 1: and masterfully dismantled the South Carolina game Cocks eighty two
Speaker 1: to fifty nine. So yeah, they won by twenty three points.
Speaker 1: That is the third largest blowout in championship game history.
Speaker 1: That's not one you want to be on the other
Speaker 1: side of. Right, only behind Yukon on.
Speaker 2: The list, Yeah, the only This is the third largest
Speaker 2: blowout in championship game history. The other two biggest blowouts
Speaker 2: were done by Yukon. They did it to somebody. This
Speaker 2: is an unbelievable franchise, if you will. At this point,
Speaker 2: Yukon has been to sixteen of the last seventeen final fours.
Speaker 2: This is their twelfth championship. It's their first championship though
Speaker 2: since twenty sixteen for them, that seems like a drought.
Speaker 2: Everybody's like, what's happening to the program. They haven't won
Speaker 2: one in nine years, but here they are and you
Speaker 2: watch this entire game with me as well, even though
Speaker 2: it wasn't competitive kinetic, they look unbelievable and Paige Becker's
Speaker 2: congratulates to her finally getting a championship. But our favorite
Speaker 2: Aisy Fudd, Yes, Azy Fudd was the most outstanding player
Speaker 2: of the final four. So just another impressive run by
Speaker 2: these women. They run well.
Speaker 1: It was very fun to watch, and that's it's interesting
Speaker 1: for me to say, who I haven't normally watched women's basketball,
Speaker 1: and also to watch a blowout and yet to have
Speaker 1: it still be in a containing. It was really fun
Speaker 1: watching you enjoying the game too, like that was part
Speaker 1: of the fun, all right. So the men's championship game
Speaker 1: is going to be played tonight, and to the shock
Speaker 1: of a lot of people, including me, Duke ain't in
Speaker 1: it after an absolutely stunning meltown Saturday in its final
Speaker 1: four matchup against Houston.
Speaker 2: So you would have been justified if you were like
Speaker 2: roboch on Saturday night, Duke was up by fourteen points,
Speaker 2: it was eight minutes to play. They seemed to be
Speaker 2: in command. She called it a night. A lot of
Speaker 2: people did, and then Duke was up by nine points
Speaker 2: with just three minutes to play, and yes, they lost.
Speaker 2: Houston scored nine points in the final thirty five seconds
Speaker 2: of that game. They capitalized on Duke's mishaps, some fouls, mishots,
Speaker 2: and turnovers. So now Houston is going to play Florida tonight.
Speaker 2: Florida had its own the Thriller against Auburn on on Saturday.
Speaker 2: The game is at eight fifty Eastern time tonight on
Speaker 2: c b S. But don't stop watching, folks, you might
Speaker 2: miss it.
Speaker 1: I know that I won't. I learned my lesson, but
Speaker 1: it was really late, like it was almost midnight. In
Speaker 1: de of my decision, I say this all the time.
Speaker 2: You can't because you miss history, lose a little sleep.
Speaker 2: But something happened on Saturday night that you will never
Speaker 2: see again. I'm glad you got that extra thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: But folks, as you go about your day to day
Speaker 2: getting started on this Monday, something we'd like for you
Speaker 2: to consider it is our quote of the day.
Speaker 1: Yes, fear has two meanings forget everything and run, or
Speaker 1: face everything and rise. The choice is yours. I love
Speaker 1: that we're ruled so often by fear. If you think
Speaker 1: about it, so I just like turning fea r on
Speaker 1: its head and to face everything and rise.
Speaker 2: Forget everything and run sounds funny, though I'm picturing somebody.
Speaker 2: I think you really do that. When you have fear,
Speaker 2: you forget everything and run.
Speaker 1: I mean run away from the problem, run away from
Speaker 1: the person, run away from the experience. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of folks do that.
Speaker 2: It sounds so pathetic that nobody wants to be that
Speaker 2: forget everything and run. That's not me.
Speaker 1: Well if you tell yourself that right when you're feeling fearful,
Speaker 1: do I want to do this? Hell no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do this. I want to face everything and rise.
Speaker 1: So let's do that on this Monday. Fear has two meanings.
Speaker 1: Forget everything and run or face everything and rise. The
Speaker 1: choice is yours. Those last four words are important. The
Speaker 1: choice is yours. Thanks for running with us, everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and on TJ. Holmes. Remember we don't
Speaker 2: want to hear anything about White Lotus until we tell
Speaker 2: you we've seen the episode. And don't miss the National
Speaker 2: Championship game tonight and stick with it through the end. Folks,
Speaker 2: you might miss something special. Talk to you sooner