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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Israel's war is not with you, It's with hesblah. For
too long, Hesbela has been using you as human shields.
That from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, addressing the
Lebanese people before launching a series of new and deadly attacks.
Hello everyone, I'm Amy Roboch.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And I'm PJ. Holmes, and it is Tuesday, September twenty fourth.
And on today's morning run, growing fears of all out
war after the deadliest day in Lebanon in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Also, President Biden is in New York for a farewell,
and the would be Trump assassin left a chilling letter
detailing his plan.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also on this morning's run, even the prosecutors say he's innocent,
but Missouri is set to execute a man tonight anyway,
And a state of emergency in Florida for a storm
that hasn't even formed yet.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Plus Diddy's music gets a bump, and a last of
its kind kmart is about to close. Also eight new
emojis coming to your smart phone, one of which most
of us, or at least some of us could use
this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But let's start now. Head out on our morning run.
We have to begin in Lebanon. That's where nearly five
hundred people were killed and more than sixteen hundred others
wounded in a new wave of attacks by Israel targeting
Hesbelo weapons hidden in residential buildings.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This marks the deadliest day of fighting between Israel and
Hesbela since two thousand and six. In a short video statement,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese citizens to flee
from any buildings or areas where Hesbela had weapons or
fighters position.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This escalation and violence started last week. You'll remember those
back to back days of unprecedented attacks that had thousands
of walkie talkies and pagers carried by Hesbela members exploding
across two countries, killing nearly forty people and injuring thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now, Israel never officially claimed responsibility for those attacks, but
they are widely believed to be behind them. The US
now sending additional troops to the Middle East in response
to the increased violence between Israel and has Bela.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The Pentagon would not say just how many more forces
would be sent to add to the forty thousand troops
already in the region. Biden administration continues to voice concerns
while also pleading for de escalation. Over the weekend, we
did hear from the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin. He reaffirmed
Israel's right to defend itself while stressing the importance of
achieving a diplomatic solution.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Our run brings us back to New York now, where
President Biden arrived just yesterday. He is here for a farewell.
Biden will address the United Nations for a final time
as President of the United States Now.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The UN General Assembly got underway this week. This is
a favorite time a year for New Yorkers, as we
love the random street closures, the security traffic that the
Assembly brings.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So fun, so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Certainly you all feel the sarcasm that we're laying it
on pretty thick, but yes, this meeting does have and
we've gotten used to it here. But this is going
to be a major international gathering and likely Biden's last
type of gathering like this, with world leaders going to
be hundreds of them descending on New York this week.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Of course, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza,
and the prosect now of war between Israel and Hesbla
all expected to be central to Biden's speech, and for.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The next leg of our run, we're going to head
inside a federal courtroom where the government presented new details
in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that
happened at his West Palm Beach golf course earlier this month.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The federal government will pursue a charge of attempted assassination
against Ryan Routh, which would carry a maximum possible penalty
of life imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Prosecutor showed several pieces of new evidence, including images of
a letter reportedly written by the accused shooter where he
talks about his plan to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now. The letter is addressed to the world and it reads,
in part quote, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,
but I failed you. I tried my best and gave
it all the gumption I could muster. It is up
to you now to finish the job, and I will
offer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to whomever can
complete the job.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
En club suspect also had a handwritten list of dates
and venues where Trump has or was expected to appear
in the lead up to the election. Will searching this
car police that they found six cell phones, one of
which included a Google search for how to travel from
Palm Beach County to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Now, after presenting all the evidence, the judge in the
case agreed with prosecutors that Ralph was a flight risk
and a potential threat to the community and ordered him
held without bail.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And next up on our morning run. It's kind of
a rundown memory lane. Gotta say attention, oh you Kmart shoppers. Kmart,
once one of the leading American discount retailers, is closing
its doors to the last full size star here in
a store. I just say here in the mainland US,
this is going to happen in just the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, as of October twentieth, the Bridgehampton, New York Kmart
will close. This was confirmed by a work there, Denise Rivera.
She answered the phone when reporters were calling and actually yes,
confirmed that the store would be closing, but said that
her manager wasn't available.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That retail Jane has just one small convenience store version
of itself that's in Miami. Why Miami, I wonder of
all places, that's the one that's left here in the States.
Also has stores in Guam, in the US Virgin Islands,
where it doesn't have the same competition that, of course
it does here in the States.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, giants like Walmart, Amazon contributing to putting Kmart in
the financial position it's in at its peak. Though, if
you may remember, Kmart had more than two thousand locations
here in the United States. It opened its very first
store in Garden Citney, Michigan, back in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A sign of the times. We all, well, some of
us grew up with Kmart. I hate to see it go.
Coming up next here on our morning run, we need
to go to Missouri. That state is said to execute
a man tonight, even though the prosecutors office is saying
the man is innocent. You heard that right, The very
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office that prosecuted a man now on death row wants
to free him, but the execution is still scheduled to
go forward tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Marcellus Williams was convicted for the nineteen ninety eight stabbing
death of Felicia Gale. Now, there's no physical evidence that
links Williams to the crime, and he was largely convicted
on the testimony of two eyewitnesses who his attorneys say
lied in hopes of collecting a ten thousand dollars reward well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The prosecutor's office in the case fouled the motion with
the court earlier this year, asking that the conviction be
vacated and wanted Williams set free, and they cited that
there was new evidence that suggested he was in fact innocence.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
But on Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court refused to intervene,
and Governor Mike Parson said he's seen nothing that suggests
Williams as innocent and so will not grant him clemency. Now,
Williams's only hope is the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Williams has get this had two previous execution dates scrapped.
He has been down this road three times now. The
first time was in twenty fifteen. He was a week
away from execution, but the state Supreme Court stepped in
to allow more DNA testing than in twenty seventeen, he
was just hours away from execution when the then governor
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granted a stay. The clock is ticking once again, Ropes.
We talked about another death row in mad last week
that was scheduled to be executed South Carolina. I believe
I have the state right, but yeah, with questions there
about that man's innocence, and they did, they did go
through and that execution took place at the end of
last week. So here we go, in just a matter
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of days, two different executions with questions about the innocence.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and it's nothing that can be undone once these
executions obviously take place. The Midwest Innocence Project, by the
way behind Williams. And this is the crazy thing. They
reached a compromise with the prosecutor's office not that long ago,
and you know, the judge signed off on it, the
victim's family signed off on it, that he would plead
no contest and in exchange get a new sentence of
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life in prison without parole. Therefore he wouldn't be executed.
So despite the fact that everyone in the case, from
the judge to the victim's family to the prosecutors all agreed,
somehow we still find ourselves in this situation today or tonight,
where he is said to be executed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Where are we always a very difficult conversation to have
about execution, But you have a situation here where the family,
the victim, and the prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Are the judge they all signed off.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Don't want the guy killed. But whatever reason, law or
whatever's in the way, they won't allow us to stop
from killing a man this evening. But that is supposed
to happen tonight. We shall see. We'll stay with us
here on the Morning Run. It will continue and just
a moment we could have the floodgates really opening in
(08:55):
college sports.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Stay with us, Welcome back to the Morning Run. Next up,
we are talking Reggie Bush. As you know, college athletes
can now financially benefit from their name, their image, and
likeness after the NCUBLEA changed policy a few years ago.
But former college athletes who missed out because they've played
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before those rules changed are now coming back for backpay.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And the biggest name so far, without a doubt, Reggie Bush.
He is suing his former school USC. He's suing the
PAC twelve. He's suing the nc DOUBLEA for compensation over
the use of his name, image and likeness. And his name,
his image, his likeness was everywhere during his time at USC.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, Bush was a highlight reel running back. During his
three years at USC, he won the Heisman Trophy. He
won a national championship, But that Heisman and that championship
were later vacated after an investigation revealed that Bush received
improper benefits as a student athlete. Now his heisman was
later reinstated.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Bush was maybe the biggest star in college football during
his time at USC, and claims a lot of folks
were benefiting off of his name, image, and likeness even
after he left college for the NFL. His lawsuit is
just the latest of its kind. More could come, potentially
opening yes, the floodgates for athletes seeking for retroactive compensation.
(10:22):
That fame nineteen eighty three NCAA championship basketball team did
this as well. They have all sued because the NCAA
every single year uses that wonderful moment of them winning
the national championship with the coach Valano out there running
around looking for somebody to hug. Say, hey, wait a minute,
you all are promoting and benefit. We ain't seen a
(10:43):
dime of that. This is going to be interesting, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Reggie Bush's attorney said this case is not just about
seeking justice for Reggie Bush, It's about setting a precedent
for the fair treatment of all college athletes. They say
their goal is to rectify this injustice and paved the
way for a system where athletes are rightfully recognized, compensated,
and treated fairly for their contributions. It's hard to argue
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against that, but.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's hard to help. Where's the cutoff? Is every college
athlete who ever played now going to have an argument
for compensation that they didn't get for rules that weren't
in place when they played.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
The answer is yes. If they rule in favor of
Reggie Bush, the floodgates are officially open.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
They lost a championship, he lost the Heisman for rules
that no longer reply. What do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We shall see what do you think our next leg
of our run? We're talking Diddy. Since his arrest, more
people have been streaming and listening to his music. According
to data company Illuminate, Ditty's vast catalog of music saw
an eighteen percent increase in streams last week. And you
might put in the connection here that was the week
(11:54):
of his arrest.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Of course, Didty has a just an exhaustive catalog of music. Hey,
the stage names. Remember he was puff Daddy, he was
p Diddy, he was Diddy. Well he's got music under
all of those names. What's happening here isn't unheard of?
Probably not expected either. I guess a lot of people
will be familiar R Kelly's music. His downloads doubled after
(12:16):
that Surviving R Kelly docu series was released.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Now did he has pled not guilty to federal charges
of racketeering and sex trafficking. He was denied bail last week.
So this is all happening while he is behind bars.
His music is surging. You know what?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They have these debates should you ever listen to the
artist music who's accused of something or even convicted of
something so atrocious?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, intensive you've asked before, can you separate the artist
from the art and you? I think some people can
and some people can't. It just depends on what your
level of tolerance is.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Some people say this is just curiosity. It's not necessarily
people I hear his name and say, oh yeah, let
me go listen to his music. It's more of a
some aonost like doing a Google search for Didi. You're
searching the streaming services for Didi's music, and it's hard
to listen to hip hop, especially and not find the
song or an artist that hasn't in some way had
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Diddy's imprint on it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, and do you erase all that he's done that
was good or entertaining based on allegations right now, Well,
that's up to I guess the listener. Our morning run
continues now with Hurricane Helene expected to hit the US
in the coming days, even though it's not even a
hurricane yet. As of this morning, the National Hurricane Center
has identified a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean that it
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expects to develop into a major hurricane, which then would
be named Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And we're seeing record warm temperatures in the Gulf, which
is going to help fuel the storm, which is expected
to quickly intensify before making landfall in Florida sometime on Thursday.
As a potentially a pretty strong storm category two or
even three. The Florida Governor Ron de Santis has already
declared a state of emergency in forty one counties.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and I read this from a meteorologist online and
he puts it very bluntly here. While there remains uncertainty
in both the track and intensity forecast, he says, Florida
is not getting out of this one. So it is
all the models agree that this hurricane is headed straight
for Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You see, Well, we're at this point. We're all used
to seeing those models on television and the lines go
different directions. Every line still goes through Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Oh it does. There's no escaping. And there's a lot
of folks out there, scientists who study these potential storms,
and they all said, this looks like this could be
the hurricane of the season, the one that we'll remember,
the one that we'll talk about. And so it's good
to see that Florida is taking this very seriously. And
if you live down there, you're used to this drill. Unfortunately,
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if you are in the path, you have to get
out before because this is these storms. It's the water
that kills, and once the waters start rising, you don't
have a lot of options to see that they are
bracing for the worst and this could happen midweek. Correct,
all right, our final leg of this run today. Eight
more ways to express yourself. Eight new emojis are headed
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to your smartphone. Soon. You're going to be able to
nonverbally express your exhaustion with an emoji with bags under
its eyes. There's a new root vegetable looks like a
beat to me. There's a harp a leafless tree, which
is supposed to represent drought or climate change. There's a fingerprint,
a shovel, a purple splatter. Not really sure what that
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explanation is. It wasn't given, or at least I didn't
see one. And then there's a flag for the remote
island in the English channel called sark Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I got a few questions. I'll get back to it
in just a second. But the exhausted Exhausted Emoji phase
one most anticipated emoji at the World Emoji Awards that
I am just now learning about sixty percent of the
folks out there said that's the one they were looking
forward to. The splatter was in second place, and the
shovel was in third. Now the Nonproper group that oversees
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the global Emoji standards and new releases just approved the
new emoji lineup. I did not know all these things existing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Neither did I. I did this deep dipod. I had
no idea. There was a committee out.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There, and the committee meets four times a year to
decide whether new characters will be encoded. They select the
emoji icons using used by smartphones around the world based
on submissions from individuals and organizations who present their case
with evidence for why each one is asial as essential.
How did they get the power?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I would? So there are nine full members. This is
fascinating to me. I had no idea. They're all members
of tech companies like Adobe, Airbnb, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix,
Salesforce translated. Those are the companies. They have reps there,
one for each company, and they make these calls, these
decisions on what world users can use in terms of
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emojis to express themselves. Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There is an emoji illuminati.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I didn't get the names. I just got the corporation
that they represent.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You said, it's the Unicode Consortium, which oversees global emoji
standards and releases. Yep, who knew?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Who knew? It was really fascinating. And then I'm curious
if the splatter, so you have to like actually come
up with evidence of why that is essential? Why would
a splatter?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What does a stand for?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I think you can use it for lots of different things.
I don't know. Your life's a mess. You made a mess?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't know, okay, And then what's the I don't
the thing looked like a radish to me? You said it?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh, I thought it looked like a bee, but it's
just called a root vegetable. That's what.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Why do I need that?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Maybe you I don't know, and talking about something you're
cooking or creating or gardening, and.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The harp is just a harp, right I use? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Do you have a favorite emoji?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, obviously the harp.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Now you're gonna be sending that to me all day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But I to that point, what is everybody? I ask
yourself what emoji? Do you know? Which emoji you use
the most? I don't know. I would have to ask
you or sabine the people I text the most.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So I think you use this is quite ironic, the
I don't know emoji with the little one with the
hands up like, I don't know. That's you send that
to me all the time. I think my most used.
Which one do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know you use? Ah, it's definitely the middle
finger one.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I was going to say, it's the heart, the
middle finger. I use the heart. Yet are you not
telling the truth?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And you don't use the yello? You change it? I
use the yellow.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I use the yellow. I use the like the Bard
Simpson color. That's my favorite. Ah. Yes, so smartphone form.
Oh my gosh, I can't talk. Smartphone users can start
using these new emojis over the next few months. It's
a little ambiguous. They haven't said exactly when they're going
to appear on your phone, but I guess with your
next update you'll see if they are there. But can't
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wait to use exhausted face or.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The splatter or the harp whatever float your boat.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But maybe you'll need a shovel next time you say
something and you got to dig yourself out of it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, it seems like that's what we need right now.
Folks are gonna get out of this episode and out
of this morning run. Thanks for running with us. We'll
see back tomorrow.
Israel's war is not with you, It's with hesblah. For
too long, Hesbela has been using you as human shields.
That from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo, addressing the
Lebanese people before launching a series of new and deadly attacks.
Hello everyone, I'm Amy Roboch.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And I'm PJ. Holmes, and it is Tuesday, September twenty fourth.
And on today's morning run, growing fears of all out
war after the deadliest day in Lebanon in nearly twenty years.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Also, President Biden is in New York for a farewell,
and the would be Trump assassin left a chilling letter
detailing his plan.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Also on this morning's run, even the prosecutors say he's innocent,
but Missouri is set to execute a man tonight anyway,
And a state of emergency in Florida for a storm
that hasn't even formed yet.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Plus Diddy's music gets a bump, and a last of
its kind kmart is about to close. Also eight new
emojis coming to your smart phone, one of which most
of us, or at least some of us could use
this morning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
But let's start now. Head out on our morning run.
We have to begin in Lebanon. That's where nearly five
hundred people were killed and more than sixteen hundred others
wounded in a new wave of attacks by Israel targeting
Hesbelo weapons hidden in residential buildings.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This marks the deadliest day of fighting between Israel and
Hesbela since two thousand and six. In a short video statement,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese citizens to flee
from any buildings or areas where Hesbela had weapons or
fighters position.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
This escalation and violence started last week. You'll remember those
back to back days of unprecedented attacks that had thousands
of walkie talkies and pagers carried by Hesbela members exploding
across two countries, killing nearly forty people and injuring thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Now, Israel never officially claimed responsibility for those attacks, but
they are widely believed to be behind them. The US
now sending additional troops to the Middle East in response
to the increased violence between Israel and has Bela.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The Pentagon would not say just how many more forces
would be sent to add to the forty thousand troops
already in the region. Biden administration continues to voice concerns
while also pleading for de escalation. Over the weekend, we
did hear from the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin. He reaffirmed
Israel's right to defend itself while stressing the importance of
achieving a diplomatic solution.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Our run brings us back to New York now, where
President Biden arrived just yesterday. He is here for a farewell.
Biden will address the United Nations for a final time
as President of the United States Now.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
The UN General Assembly got underway this week. This is
a favorite time a year for New Yorkers, as we
love the random street closures, the security traffic that the
Assembly brings.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So fun, so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Certainly you all feel the sarcasm that we're laying it
on pretty thick, but yes, this meeting does have and
we've gotten used to it here. But this is going
to be a major international gathering and likely Biden's last
type of gathering like this, with world leaders going to
be hundreds of them descending on New York this week.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Of course, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza,
and the prosect now of war between Israel and Hesbla
all expected to be central to Biden's speech, and for.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
The next leg of our run, we're going to head
inside a federal courtroom where the government presented new details
in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that
happened at his West Palm Beach golf course earlier this month.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
The federal government will pursue a charge of attempted assassination
against Ryan Routh, which would carry a maximum possible penalty
of life imprisonment.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Prosecutor showed several pieces of new evidence, including images of
a letter reportedly written by the accused shooter where he
talks about his plan to assassinate Trump.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Now. The letter is addressed to the world and it reads,
in part quote, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump,
but I failed you. I tried my best and gave
it all the gumption I could muster. It is up
to you now to finish the job, and I will
offer one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to whomever can
complete the job.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
En club suspect also had a handwritten list of dates
and venues where Trump has or was expected to appear
in the lead up to the election. Will searching this
car police that they found six cell phones, one of
which included a Google search for how to travel from
Palm Beach County to Mexico.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Now, after presenting all the evidence, the judge in the
case agreed with prosecutors that Ralph was a flight risk
and a potential threat to the community and ordered him
held without bail.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And next up on our morning run. It's kind of
a rundown memory lane. Gotta say attention, oh you Kmart shoppers. Kmart,
once one of the leading American discount retailers, is closing
its doors to the last full size star here in
a store. I just say here in the mainland US,
this is going to happen in just the next few weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, as of October twentieth, the Bridgehampton, New York Kmart
will close. This was confirmed by a work there, Denise Rivera.
She answered the phone when reporters were calling and actually yes,
confirmed that the store would be closing, but said that
her manager wasn't available.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That retail Jane has just one small convenience store version
of itself that's in Miami. Why Miami, I wonder of
all places, that's the one that's left here in the States.
Also has stores in Guam, in the US Virgin Islands,
where it doesn't have the same competition that, of course
it does here in the States.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, giants like Walmart, Amazon contributing to putting Kmart in
the financial position it's in at its peak. Though, if
you may remember, Kmart had more than two thousand locations
here in the United States. It opened its very first
store in Garden Citney, Michigan, back in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
A sign of the times. We all, well, some of
us grew up with Kmart. I hate to see it go.
Coming up next here on our morning run, we need
to go to Missouri. That state is said to execute
a man tonight, even though the prosecutors office is saying
the man is innocent. You heard that right, The very
(06:05):
office that prosecuted a man now on death row wants
to free him, but the execution is still scheduled to
go forward tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Marcellus Williams was convicted for the nineteen ninety eight stabbing
death of Felicia Gale. Now, there's no physical evidence that
links Williams to the crime, and he was largely convicted
on the testimony of two eyewitnesses who his attorneys say
lied in hopes of collecting a ten thousand dollars reward well.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
The prosecutor's office in the case fouled the motion with
the court earlier this year, asking that the conviction be
vacated and wanted Williams set free, and they cited that
there was new evidence that suggested he was in fact innocence.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
But on Monday, the Missouri Supreme Court refused to intervene,
and Governor Mike Parson said he's seen nothing that suggests
Williams as innocent and so will not grant him clemency. Now,
Williams's only hope is the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Williams has get this had two previous execution dates scrapped.
He has been down this road three times now. The
first time was in twenty fifteen. He was a week
away from execution, but the state Supreme Court stepped in
to allow more DNA testing than in twenty seventeen, he
was just hours away from execution when the then governor
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granted a stay. The clock is ticking once again, Ropes.
We talked about another death row in mad last week
that was scheduled to be executed South Carolina. I believe
I have the state right, but yeah, with questions there
about that man's innocence, and they did, they did go
through and that execution took place at the end of
last week. So here we go, in just a matter
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of days, two different executions with questions about the innocence.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, and it's nothing that can be undone once these
executions obviously take place. The Midwest Innocence Project, by the
way behind Williams. And this is the crazy thing. They
reached a compromise with the prosecutor's office not that long ago,
and you know, the judge signed off on it, the
victim's family signed off on it, that he would plead
no contest and in exchange get a new sentence of
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life in prison without parole. Therefore he wouldn't be executed.
So despite the fact that everyone in the case, from
the judge to the victim's family to the prosecutors all agreed,
somehow we still find ourselves in this situation today or tonight,
where he is said to be executed.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Where are we always a very difficult conversation to have
about execution, But you have a situation here where the family,
the victim, and the prosecutor.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Are the judge they all signed off.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Don't want the guy killed. But whatever reason, law or
whatever's in the way, they won't allow us to stop
from killing a man this evening. But that is supposed
to happen tonight. We shall see. We'll stay with us
here on the Morning Run. It will continue and just
a moment we could have the floodgates really opening in
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college sports.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Stay with us, Welcome back to the Morning Run. Next up,
we are talking Reggie Bush. As you know, college athletes
can now financially benefit from their name, their image, and
likeness after the NCUBLEA changed policy a few years ago.
But former college athletes who missed out because they've played
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before those rules changed are now coming back for backpay.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And the biggest name so far, without a doubt, Reggie Bush.
He is suing his former school USC. He's suing the
PAC twelve. He's suing the nc DOUBLEA for compensation over
the use of his name, image and likeness. And his name,
his image, his likeness was everywhere during his time at USC.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, Bush was a highlight reel running back. During his
three years at USC, he won the Heisman Trophy. He
won a national championship, But that Heisman and that championship
were later vacated after an investigation revealed that Bush received
improper benefits as a student athlete. Now his heisman was
later reinstated.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Bush was maybe the biggest star in college football during
his time at USC, and claims a lot of folks
were benefiting off of his name, image, and likeness even
after he left college for the NFL. His lawsuit is
just the latest of its kind. More could come, potentially
opening yes, the floodgates for athletes seeking for retroactive compensation.
(10:22):
That fame nineteen eighty three NCAA championship basketball team did
this as well. They have all sued because the NCAA
every single year uses that wonderful moment of them winning
the national championship with the coach Valano out there running
around looking for somebody to hug. Say, hey, wait a minute,
you all are promoting and benefit. We ain't seen a
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dime of that. This is going to be interesting, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Reggie Bush's attorney said this case is not just about
seeking justice for Reggie Bush, It's about setting a precedent
for the fair treatment of all college athletes. They say
their goal is to rectify this injustice and paved the
way for a system where athletes are rightfully recognized, compensated,
and treated fairly for their contributions. It's hard to argue
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against that, but.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's hard to help. Where's the cutoff? Is every college
athlete who ever played now going to have an argument
for compensation that they didn't get for rules that weren't
in place when they played.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
The answer is yes. If they rule in favor of
Reggie Bush, the floodgates are officially open.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
They lost a championship, he lost the Heisman for rules
that no longer reply. What do you do?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
We shall see what do you think our next leg
of our run? We're talking Diddy. Since his arrest, more
people have been streaming and listening to his music. According
to data company Illuminate, Ditty's vast catalog of music saw
an eighteen percent increase in streams last week. And you
might put in the connection here that was the week
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of his arrest.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Of course, Didty has a just an exhaustive catalog of music. Hey,
the stage names. Remember he was puff Daddy, he was
p Diddy, he was Diddy. Well he's got music under
all of those names. What's happening here isn't unheard of?
Probably not expected either. I guess a lot of people
will be familiar R Kelly's music. His downloads doubled after
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that Surviving R Kelly docu series was released.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Now did he has pled not guilty to federal charges
of racketeering and sex trafficking. He was denied bail last week.
So this is all happening while he is behind bars.
His music is surging. You know what?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
They have these debates should you ever listen to the
artist music who's accused of something or even convicted of
something so atrocious?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, intensive you've asked before, can you separate the artist
from the art and you? I think some people can
and some people can't. It just depends on what your
level of tolerance is.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Some people say this is just curiosity. It's not necessarily
people I hear his name and say, oh yeah, let
me go listen to his music. It's more of a
some aonost like doing a Google search for Didi. You're
searching the streaming services for Didi's music, and it's hard
to listen to hip hop, especially and not find the
song or an artist that hasn't in some way had
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Diddy's imprint on it.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, and do you erase all that he's done that
was good or entertaining based on allegations right now, Well,
that's up to I guess the listener. Our morning run
continues now with Hurricane Helene expected to hit the US
in the coming days, even though it's not even a
hurricane yet. As of this morning, the National Hurricane Center
has identified a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean that it
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expects to develop into a major hurricane, which then would
be named Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
And we're seeing record warm temperatures in the Gulf, which
is going to help fuel the storm, which is expected
to quickly intensify before making landfall in Florida sometime on Thursday.
As a potentially a pretty strong storm category two or
even three. The Florida Governor Ron de Santis has already
declared a state of emergency in forty one counties.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, and I read this from a meteorologist online and
he puts it very bluntly here. While there remains uncertainty
in both the track and intensity forecast, he says, Florida
is not getting out of this one. So it is
all the models agree that this hurricane is headed straight
for Florida.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You see, Well, we're at this point. We're all used
to seeing those models on television and the lines go
different directions. Every line still goes through Florida.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Oh it does. There's no escaping. And there's a lot
of folks out there, scientists who study these potential storms,
and they all said, this looks like this could be
the hurricane of the season, the one that we'll remember,
the one that we'll talk about. And so it's good
to see that Florida is taking this very seriously. And
if you live down there, you're used to this drill. Unfortunately,
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if you are in the path, you have to get
out before because this is these storms. It's the water
that kills, and once the waters start rising, you don't
have a lot of options to see that they are
bracing for the worst and this could happen midweek. Correct,
all right, our final leg of this run today. Eight
more ways to express yourself. Eight new emojis are headed
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to your smartphone. Soon. You're going to be able to
nonverbally express your exhaustion with an emoji with bags under
its eyes. There's a new root vegetable looks like a
beat to me. There's a harp a leafless tree, which
is supposed to represent drought or climate change. There's a fingerprint,
a shovel, a purple splatter. Not really sure what that
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explanation is. It wasn't given, or at least I didn't
see one. And then there's a flag for the remote
island in the English channel called sark Okay.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
I got a few questions. I'll get back to it
in just a second. But the exhausted Exhausted Emoji phase
one most anticipated emoji at the World Emoji Awards that
I am just now learning about sixty percent of the
folks out there said that's the one they were looking
forward to. The splatter was in second place, and the
shovel was in third. Now the Nonproper group that oversees
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the global Emoji standards and new releases just approved the
new emoji lineup. I did not know all these things existing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Neither did I. I did this deep dipod. I had
no idea. There was a committee out.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
There, and the committee meets four times a year to
decide whether new characters will be encoded. They select the
emoji icons using used by smartphones around the world based
on submissions from individuals and organizations who present their case
with evidence for why each one is asial as essential.
How did they get the power?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
I would? So there are nine full members. This is
fascinating to me. I had no idea. They're all members
of tech companies like Adobe, Airbnb, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix,
Salesforce translated. Those are the companies. They have reps there,
one for each company, and they make these calls, these
decisions on what world users can use in terms of
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emojis to express themselves. Isn't that fascinating?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
There is an emoji illuminati.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I didn't get the names. I just got the corporation
that they represent.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
You said, it's the Unicode Consortium, which oversees global emoji
standards and releases. Yep, who knew?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Who knew? It was really fascinating. And then I'm curious
if the splatter, so you have to like actually come
up with evidence of why that is essential? Why would
a splatter?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What does a stand for?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I think you can use it for lots of different things.
I don't know. Your life's a mess. You made a mess?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't know, okay, And then what's the I don't
the thing looked like a radish to me? You said it?
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Oh, I thought it looked like a bee, but it's
just called a root vegetable. That's what.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Why do I need that?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Maybe you I don't know, and talking about something you're
cooking or creating or gardening, and.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
The harp is just a harp, right I use? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Do you have a favorite emoji?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, obviously the harp.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Now you're gonna be sending that to me all day.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
But I to that point, what is everybody? I ask
yourself what emoji? Do you know? Which emoji you use
the most? I don't know. I would have to ask
you or sabine the people I text the most.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So I think you use this is quite ironic, the
I don't know emoji with the little one with the
hands up like, I don't know. That's you send that
to me all the time. I think my most used.
Which one do you think it is?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
I don't know you use? Ah, it's definitely the middle
finger one.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No, I was going to say, it's the heart, the
middle finger. I use the heart. Yet are you not
telling the truth?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And you don't use the yello? You change it? I
use the yellow.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I use the yellow. I use the like the Bard
Simpson color. That's my favorite. Ah. Yes, so smartphone form.
Oh my gosh, I can't talk. Smartphone users can start
using these new emojis over the next few months. It's
a little ambiguous. They haven't said exactly when they're going
to appear on your phone, but I guess with your
next update you'll see if they are there. But can't
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wait to use exhausted face or.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
The splatter or the harp whatever float your boat.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But maybe you'll need a shovel next time you say
something and you got to dig yourself out of it.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, it seems like that's what we need right now.
Folks are gonna get out of this episode and out
of this morning run. Thanks for running with us. We'll
see back tomorrow.
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