October 1, 2024 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and our Heart Radio podcast.
It is Tuesday, October first. Hello to you all. I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Holk and I'm Amy Robot. Thanks for coming along on
the Morning Run with us on this very first day
of October. And we have heavy hearts on our run
once again today afterword of the passing of two sports
legends and two Broadway stars.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Also this morning, Helene still callsing hell on Earth, and
Georgia's abortion band is declared unconstitutional, but the court fight
is not over.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The dock workers strike started at midnight, potentially costing the
US economy billions of dollars a day, and the would
be Trump assassin was in court to enter a plea.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Another major escalation in the Israel Hezbela conflict, and tonight's
VP debate Get you popcorn ready, but it's going to
have some different rule from the Trump Harris debate.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And a big, happy one hundredth birthday Jimmy Carter. Let's
head out on our run now, and we begin with
Pete Rose, one of the most consequential and controversial players
in baseball history. He has died at the age of
eighty three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Rose remains the all time hits leader in baseball after
a two decade playing career, most of those years spent
with his hometown Cincinnati Reds, seventeen time All Star, former
MVP World Series winner. But what he is not is
a Hall of Famer, and it appears he never will be.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes Rose accepted that lifetime ban from Major League Baseball
after a nineteen eighty nine investigation found he bet on games,
including on Cincinnati Reds games, and because of that ban,
he will remain ineligible to ever go to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Police say Rose was founded as home by a family
member of calls of death is not known, but police
do not suspect foul play. The debate is already robes
has been going on for years and years and years,
and it's already started up again in footing from President Trump,
who was chimed in saying this guy should be in
the Hall of Fame. The ban be damned.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, I think a lot of people change their minds.
Death is one of those moments where people are much
more willing to forgive and much more willing to look
at the entirety of somebody's career versus the worst thing
they did in it, so we will see what that
decision is. But I think a lot of people believe
he should be and deserve to be in the Hall
of Fame, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Next up on the run here a very difficult day.
It was yesterday to get this news about someone who
is a friend to Kimba Matumbo has died at the
age of fifty eight after fighting brain cancer.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He was first best known as a finger wagging defensive
juggernaut when he played at Georgetown and then during his
eighteen year Hall of Fame NBA career and was a
four time NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He sits now number two all time in blocks in
the NBA and without question, one of the greatest defensive
players to ever play the game. But he was also
known as a humanitarian and a global ambassador for the
game and for his native Democratic Republic of Congo. He
was officially the first NBA Global Ambassador and traveled the
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world promoting the game, always promoting his native Africa. Founded
that the kenbab Man Tumbo Foundation after his playing days,
and one of the biggest accomplishments there Robes was that
he put a hospital in Conchasa in the Congo I
think it's twenty years. It's been there now, the Biamba
Marie a hospital named after his mom who passed away,
and it has done incredible work for nearly two decades.
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This guy, Yes, his playing career was huge, his post
playing career, his humanitarian work was probably more impactful.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And two have died so young, at the age of
fifty eight, with so much more left to give, and
very few people knew that he was even battling brain cancer.
And he was a friend to you, a dear friend
to you. You showed me a picture yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, it's someone because of the ties to Atlanta, which
I lived there for quite a while. His home was
there with his wife Rose. But he had the Caring
for Congo Gala every year at the Saint Regis there's
one of the premiere events. Really became in Atlanta, and
I attended many years, but I actually hosted MC that
event two or three years, I believe. So this is
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somebody I got really close to. And anytime I heard
his voice, didjit He had this really deep ras speed voice, dijy,
and I could he only said two letters and I
could still sometimes only barely understand what he said. Dij
But just an honor to have known this brother. And
there's a picture Robes and I are putting out on
social media, the one you just mentioned, So if you
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all want to go check that out, it'll be there
on our Instagram accounts to see. But rest in peace
to this brother.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, huge loss there, and the Great White Way is
reeling today with the deaths of two of their beloved actors.
At Tony Winning and Broadway star has died at the
age of forty eight. Gavin Kreole. He passed away yesterday.
He had a very short battle with a rare and
aggressive form of cancer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And he starred in Hair. He was in Book of Mormon,
among many many others. He had a twenty year career.
One is Tony Award for his performance in Hello Dolly.
A lot of folks from the Broadway community were shocked
and saddened by this news. I mean, how could you
not be. I didn't keep up, so I didn't know
about his diagnosis, which was only a few months ago.
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But to hear that a forty eight year old I
had dead after just a few months battle with cancer.
But Bet Midler, who was his co star in Hello Dolly,
was among those expressing their sadness.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, we also heard from Lynn Manuel Miranda who reminded
us that Crele was our first King Creole and I
didn't know this. Played King George in that early version
of the hit Hamilton before it went on Broadway. He
was in a theater in Soho and so he was
the original king. Lynn Manuel said. Crele wrapped the audience
around his finger with nothing but a burger king crown
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and his mind blowing charisma and talent. And we heard
from so many Broadway stars just remembering how wonderful this
young man was. Yes, he was diagnosed in July tj
which is just so hard to imagine that just two
three months later he's gone. I think the whole community
is in shock still today.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All right, but the news keeps coming, folks. This was overnight.
Now that we've got news of another there's a Broadway legend.
Ken Page passed at the age of seventy. He originated
the role of the Lion in The Wiz. He had
an incredible Broadway resume including Guys and Dolls, Ain't Misbehaving
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and he was also in Cats.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And we heard about his death his friend, producer Dorian
Hanaway wrote that Ken Page has passed on to the
next show, my heart has broken. But actress Sherry Belafonte
posted something that we just want to share with you
because it really sums up what the last few days
have been like. She says, Ken Page one of the sweetest,
most talented guys on the planet. I couldn't believe it,
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but it's true. It feels like it's coming just a
bit too fast and a tad too furiously now James Earl,
Dame Maggie, Chris Pete, Rose to Kembe Officer, Taggart, John Ashton,
Drake h and now Ken r Ip, all of you.
Heaven is packing it in right now with brilliant talent
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stepping off that first class charter TJ. Yesterday we were
saying we were shocked that we had so many deaths
to report, and then today it's hard to imagine. The
past few days have just been filled with legends and
the greats and entertainers and just philanthropic, good people all
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gone and just a matter of two three days.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
People always say these things come in threes, and I
remember you were on Sunday, Yes, he said, Okay, these
things happen in threes. There were three at that time.
I and you said, okay, then we can We're gonna
move on. And then sure enough we woke up the
next morning Chris Christofferson had died, and then we keep
getting these number and I had frankly, it was just
I didn't realize it was so recently that James Earl
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Jones path. Yes, it was just a few weeks ago, right,
So I don't know what's going on. This is a
bizarre anomaly. But man, you're you're nervous to look at
your news alerts.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right right, And it's a constant reminder that time is precious.
That's how I look at it. All of these moments
they're sad, and it's a time to remember and reflect,
but it's also time to remember to live well.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Folks. With that in mind. Now, it's a difficult time
for a lot of folks still in parts of the country,
in particular of the southeast, where a Hurricane Helene just
has not stopped. Of course, the aftermath, at least of
this hurricane continues. It came on shore a couple of
days ago now, on Friday evening, as a Category four.
But here we are, all these days later, we still
have people missing and the death toll continues to climb.
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At least one hundred and thirty people now have died
across six states, and yes, robes that numbers expected to
go up.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It is because at least six hundred others are still
missing right now. The hope is that many of those
people are alive and just unable to contact their friends
and family because of power and sell outages. But there
are real fears from officials that some of that number
are in fact dead, So we will find out more
as though search and rescue missions continue in really difficult conditions.
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As of this recording, more than two million customers in
the Southeast are still without power now.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The other concern here is that a lot of folks
may be unable to seek help because so many roads
or closed, hundreds of them, mainly in the Carolina As.
That's made delivering badly needed supplies just about impossible in
some areas, and emergency workers are using planes, helicopters, they
are even using mules at this point to try to
get supplies to people who've been cut off from help.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Helene caused the worst flooding in a century in North Carolina.
Rainfall in some areas topped more than two feet. In
an area a lot of people are talking about is Ashville.
Some parts of that community are completely cut off from
the rest of the world. President Biden has plans to
travel there tomorrow. That is one of the hardest hit areas.
He's going to be meeting with the visuals and he'll
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take an aerial tour of the devastation.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Lean My former President Trump visited at Valdosta, Georgia to
survey the damage, and Vice President Harras expected to cancel
events and going to travel back to DC to be
briefed by FEMA on the latest storm damage to It's
going to be yeah, it's going to be a rough
few days and rest of the week, but even months
and years to come in recovery for some folks.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There have been so many stories, I'm sure you all
have been hearing them of just incredible rescues. Some fifty
people were rescued off a rooftop at a hospital in Tennessee,
and there were others that have been waiting and still
people who are trapped and stuck and waiting for rescue.
So we certainly want to let the folks in that
are know our hearts and prayers go out to all
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of them who are suffering so much and will continue
to for some time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
To come and stay with us here. Our morning run
will continue, going to head down to Georgia, where one
side in the abortion fight is celebrating today, but it
might be short lived. Welcome back. As we continue our
morning run, we'll head to Georgia, where abortions are legal
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there once again, but with an appeal in the works,
it might only be for a window of time. After
a Fulton County judge struck down Georgia's six week abortion ban,
making abortions legal up to twenty two weeks of pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's right. Judge Robert McNerney wrote that liberty in Georgia includes,
in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle
of rights, the power of a woman to control her
own body, to decide what happens to it and in it,
and to reject state interference with her health care choices.
He said that power is not unlimited, however, ending when
the fetus becomes viable, so that in turn allows abortions
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in that state through at least twenty two weeks of pregnancy.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of course, we know the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Way two years ago. When that happened, it kind of
opened the doors for states to do their own thing,
and some of them have decided to put in bands.
Fourteen states currently ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy,
with some exceptions. Georgia was one of four states with
bands after six weeks of pregnancy, which is often before
women realize they're even pregnant, but when a heartbeat can
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typically first be detected.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, Georgia's Attorney General says he already plans to appeal
that judge's ruling to the state Supreme Court. And we
also heard from Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who signed that
Life Act into law back in twenty nineteen. He reiterated
that once again the will of Georgians and their representatives
have been overruled by the personal beliefs of one judge.
He vowed to fight on, to fight for the lives
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of the unborn.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Next up on our run, the long Shortman strike is
officially underway now. DOC workers walked off the job at midnight.
That means closing major ports along the East Coast and
Gulf Coast.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The strike was predicted so we kind of saw this coming.
There was word that the two sides were actually talking
and sounds like they were making some ground, but ultimately
that did not happen. So the strike is going on.
It's predicted to cost the economy anywhere from hundreds of
millions of dollars a day to up to four and
a half billion dollars a day. And it's unclear when
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this strike is going to cost you, the consumer.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, because you know those costs will be passed along
to us, we aren't expected to feel the pinch of
higher prices immediately. A lot of companies made preemptive moves
because they were anticipating this strike, so they bought and
they brought in an extra inventory ahead of time, so
there is some wiggle room. That is some good news.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, that's kind of smart of them to do that
to that Vocano foresight. But the union is demanding an
increase in pay for workers and guarantees about the limited
use of automation, which they believe could cost union jobs
down the road. This is the first time since nineteen
seventy seven that the long shortmen have gone on strike.
Now we know that the president has the power to
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step in, not necessarily going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
However, yeah, he can put in a I believe it's
an eighty day coque off period, but he has not said.
The White Houses said they have no plans right now
to intervene. I guess they'll wait and see how bad
it gets, perhaps for the US economy, and then perhaps
they may make a decision.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And this makes sense. But they are standing their ground
here on money because they said, during the pandemic, hey,
you shipping companies, everybody was at home. You made you
did gangbusters with your money, and you didn't pass that
along to any of us, the workers. So now we
want some of that cash. And that's why they say
they have a pretty good position to stand on and
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it comes to pay.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
All right, Well, see how long this stand off takes place.
Next up on our run, the accused would be Trump
assassin was in court to enter a plea yesterday. Ryan
Wesley Ralth pleaded not guilty to all federal charges.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
He of course, accused of that plot to kill a
former president at his Florida golf court course last month.
Ralph was shackled for his appearance in court, which was
really short. It went less than five minutes. He didn't
speak as attorney actually spoke on his behalf entering that plea.
And he has requested a jury trial, so we'll see
him in court. I don't have the date all the
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top of my head, but he will have more appearances
down the road. We want to continue our run now
with what we're seeing is another escalation in the fighting
between Israel and the militant group Hesbela in Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Israeli forces are now on the ground there in Lebanon
and what Israel is calling limited and targeted and localized
ground raids on Hesbela infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Now, Israel
claims this area has been used as a staging area
for Hesbela militants who are preparing to attack Israelis across
the border.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, Israel calls this just the next phase in their
conflict with Hesbela, a conflict that has seen an increase
in Israeli airstrikes in recent days that have taken out
top leaders of the militant group, including their overall top
leader just a few days ago. But as we watch
this robes, the human toll is incredible. We have over
a thousand people dead now in this conflict and a
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million folks in that country who have been displaced, and
right now it doesn't have any end in sight. In
every news story we get, it seems like there's an
escalation instead of a de escalation that many people are
calling for.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, the news is going in the wrong direction. I
know that the United States and obviously so many other
Western countries asking for some sort of peaceful conversation, but
clearly it has gone way beyond any sort of talks.
This has all been tit for tat, and unfortunately, as
you point out, it has done nothing but escalate.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
All Right, we want to continue on this next leg
of our run, and we want to welcome a couple
of fellows to New York, our hometown right now. Yes,
the first and only vice presidential debate is happening tonight
or right here in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It's going to be a late night and not a
lot of sleep, but we're going to be seeing JD.
Vance and Tim Waltz for the first time hit this
stage at nine pm Eastern, And just like the presidential debate,
there will not be an audience in the room, just
all of us at home. It's going to be a
ninety minute debate with two four minute.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Breaks now during the debate, and during those breaks, the
candidates are not going to be allowed to interact with
any staff. That's the same rule as before. They won't
be able to have any pre written notes where they
can take up a pen and a pad with them
in a bottle of water. I believe Walls is going
to be introduced first. He'll be at the podium so
the right side of your screen. Vance will be on
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the left side of your screen, and they're going to
have two minutes to answer a question and one minute
for rebuttals.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There is going to be a very big difference with
this debate. However, the moderators have already announced they're not
there to call bs on the candidates. So Nora O'Donnell,
who anchors the CBS Evening News, and Margaret Brennan, host
to Face the Nation, they will handle the moderator duties
and CBS has yes announced it's moderators are not there
to fact check the candidates. They're saying, you know what,
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it's up to the candidates to fact check each other.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
However, for our CBS viewers are going to see a
QR code on the screen. You can use that, and
the network says it will take you to a site
where there is real time fact checking by its own
reporters going on. How do you like that idea?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean, that is a good idea, But I think
they're obviously trying to avoid what happened with the ABC debate,
where most or at least a lot of the Monday
Morning quarterbacking was on the moderators, not on the actual candidates.
Because they claimed that ABC David Muir and Lindsay Davis
didn't call out Kamala Harris when she made errors in
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what she was saying, and they did a few times
with Trumpet not enough. So both sides were pointing the
finger that they did not do their job as moderators.
So CBS is saying, hey, guess what we're saying right now,
This ain't our job.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I mean, that's a hands off approach. You're kind of
protecting your moderators. But as a journalist, it's very difficult
to hear something come out of somebody's mouth that you
know is wrong and to sit there and allow it.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That's hard. That's I mean, I feel like, honestly, that
has always been our job, and especially if you're interviewing someone,
or you are moderating a debate. I just I've always
felt like it was my job to then have that
follow up, that rebuttal, that wait a second, because we're
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supposed to be making sure that those who are listening
have the facts at hands.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're not talking about ideology. We are some things you
hear that are factually just wrong, and we shall say.
I'm very curious. That's cool to see two women handling
these debate duties.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And I know both of them. They're both wonderful journalists
and wonderful people, and I've worked with them for decades now,
So I'm excited to see tonight and what may happen.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And finally here on this last leg of our run,
it is a birthday celebration for Jimmy Carter, the oldest
living president we have ever seen. But today, Folks, is
his one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Happy birthday, President Carter. Yes he has already lived longer
than any other man who has served as a US president,
and yes he is now hitting the century mark. The
thirty ninth president is under home hospice care. He will
celebrate the big one hundred today October first, in the
very same Georgia town where he was born back in
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nineteen twenty four. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And since he was born, the US population has tripled,
the global population has more than quadrupled. His verse birthday,
though he has celebrated in nearly eighty years without his wife, Roslyn,
who died last November at ninety six. I think it
was seventy seven years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's just remarkable in this day and age. And you know,
he has been one of I met him when I
first started out in Gosh nineteen ninety five, so I
was twenty two years old and he was. And just
to think that he's still doing what he does now.
He's a remarkable human being. And you mentioned how many
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years he's had post presidency, and that's kind of mind blowing.
Forty plus years. Yes, So it's nice to end on
a happy note.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It is, and people judge him for his presidency in
all kinds of ways, but his post presidency life might
How can it not be the most successful run of
a president after he left office? Ever? This the work
he's done in Atlanta, the Carter Center, traveling in the world,
He's negotiated peace overseeing elections all over the world this,
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he's had a wonderful career after the White House.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I actually believe, regardless of your politics, I think almost
everyone would agree with that statement that he has absolutely
been the best post president this country has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Cool folks, before we leave you today, we're going to
start doing something here because you know, sometimes the news
and is just awful. Sometimes it's full of death and
misery and destry auction, and we don't want to ever
leave you on a bad note or a bad taste,
or feel like things are hopeless. So we're going to
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start every day here. Robes and I have a huge
collection of quotes that we have kept over the lifetime
we have had in journalism. So we're going to just
start ending on that note every day and sending you
off with a quote that hopefully means something to you
can help you through your day, which you got from
them today, brom Well.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And this is from one of your quote stashes. You
actually have a full Manila envelope I should just point
out of quotes that you used to post on your
dressing room door. So this is from that stash. And
this one comes to us from Albert Einstein. There are
only two ways to live your life. One is as
though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
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everything is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And with that, folks, hope you find your miracle on
every city block and every interaction you have with some today,
hope you find your miracle. Thanks as always for going
along with us on the run. We're going to have
an extra a special episode. We're going to be doing
a post VP debate episode that we'll get up late tonight.
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So with that, folks, enjoy your day. Always appreciate your
running with us.
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and our Heart Radio podcast.
It is Tuesday, October first. Hello to you all. I'm TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Holk and I'm Amy Robot. Thanks for coming along on
the Morning Run with us on this very first day
of October. And we have heavy hearts on our run
once again today afterword of the passing of two sports
legends and two Broadway stars.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Also this morning, Helene still callsing hell on Earth, and
Georgia's abortion band is declared unconstitutional, but the court fight
is not over.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
The dock workers strike started at midnight, potentially costing the
US economy billions of dollars a day, and the would
be Trump assassin was in court to enter a plea.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Another major escalation in the Israel Hezbela conflict, and tonight's
VP debate Get you popcorn ready, but it's going to
have some different rule from the Trump Harris debate.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And a big, happy one hundredth birthday Jimmy Carter. Let's
head out on our run now, and we begin with
Pete Rose, one of the most consequential and controversial players
in baseball history. He has died at the age of
eighty three.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Rose remains the all time hits leader in baseball after
a two decade playing career, most of those years spent
with his hometown Cincinnati Reds, seventeen time All Star, former
MVP World Series winner. But what he is not is
a Hall of Famer, and it appears he never will be.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yes Rose accepted that lifetime ban from Major League Baseball
after a nineteen eighty nine investigation found he bet on games,
including on Cincinnati Reds games, and because of that ban,
he will remain ineligible to ever go to the Hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Police say Rose was founded as home by a family
member of calls of death is not known, but police
do not suspect foul play. The debate is already robes
has been going on for years and years and years,
and it's already started up again in footing from President Trump,
who was chimed in saying this guy should be in
the Hall of Fame. The ban be damned.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, I think a lot of people change their minds.
Death is one of those moments where people are much
more willing to forgive and much more willing to look
at the entirety of somebody's career versus the worst thing
they did in it, so we will see what that
decision is. But I think a lot of people believe
he should be and deserve to be in the Hall
of Fame, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Next up on the run here a very difficult day.
It was yesterday to get this news about someone who
is a friend to Kimba Matumbo has died at the
age of fifty eight after fighting brain cancer.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He was first best known as a finger wagging defensive
juggernaut when he played at Georgetown and then during his
eighteen year Hall of Fame NBA career and was a
four time NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
He sits now number two all time in blocks in
the NBA and without question, one of the greatest defensive
players to ever play the game. But he was also
known as a humanitarian and a global ambassador for the
game and for his native Democratic Republic of Congo. He
was officially the first NBA Global Ambassador and traveled the
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world promoting the game, always promoting his native Africa. Founded
that the kenbab Man Tumbo Foundation after his playing days,
and one of the biggest accomplishments there Robes was that
he put a hospital in Conchasa in the Congo I
think it's twenty years. It's been there now, the Biamba
Marie a hospital named after his mom who passed away,
and it has done incredible work for nearly two decades.
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This guy, Yes, his playing career was huge, his post
playing career, his humanitarian work was probably more impactful.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And two have died so young, at the age of
fifty eight, with so much more left to give, and
very few people knew that he was even battling brain cancer.
And he was a friend to you, a dear friend
to you. You showed me a picture yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, it's someone because of the ties to Atlanta, which
I lived there for quite a while. His home was
there with his wife Rose. But he had the Caring
for Congo Gala every year at the Saint Regis there's
one of the premiere events. Really became in Atlanta, and
I attended many years, but I actually hosted MC that
event two or three years, I believe. So this is
(04:16):
somebody I got really close to. And anytime I heard
his voice, didjit He had this really deep ras speed voice, dijy,
and I could he only said two letters and I
could still sometimes only barely understand what he said. Dij
But just an honor to have known this brother. And
there's a picture Robes and I are putting out on
social media, the one you just mentioned, So if you
(04:37):
all want to go check that out, it'll be there
on our Instagram accounts to see. But rest in peace
to this brother.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, huge loss there, and the Great White Way is
reeling today with the deaths of two of their beloved actors.
At Tony Winning and Broadway star has died at the
age of forty eight. Gavin Kreole. He passed away yesterday.
He had a very short battle with a rare and
aggressive form of cancer.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And he starred in Hair. He was in Book of Mormon,
among many many others. He had a twenty year career.
One is Tony Award for his performance in Hello Dolly.
A lot of folks from the Broadway community were shocked
and saddened by this news. I mean, how could you
not be. I didn't keep up, so I didn't know
about his diagnosis, which was only a few months ago.
(05:24):
But to hear that a forty eight year old I
had dead after just a few months battle with cancer.
But Bet Midler, who was his co star in Hello Dolly,
was among those expressing their sadness.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, we also heard from Lynn Manuel Miranda who reminded
us that Crele was our first King Creole and I
didn't know this. Played King George in that early version
of the hit Hamilton before it went on Broadway. He
was in a theater in Soho and so he was
the original king. Lynn Manuel said. Crele wrapped the audience
around his finger with nothing but a burger king crown
(05:55):
and his mind blowing charisma and talent. And we heard
from so many Broadway stars just remembering how wonderful this
young man was. Yes, he was diagnosed in July tj
which is just so hard to imagine that just two
three months later he's gone. I think the whole community
is in shock still today.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
All right, but the news keeps coming, folks. This was overnight.
Now that we've got news of another there's a Broadway legend.
Ken Page passed at the age of seventy. He originated
the role of the Lion in The Wiz. He had
an incredible Broadway resume including Guys and Dolls, Ain't Misbehaving
(06:36):
and he was also in Cats.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
And we heard about his death his friend, producer Dorian
Hanaway wrote that Ken Page has passed on to the
next show, my heart has broken. But actress Sherry Belafonte
posted something that we just want to share with you
because it really sums up what the last few days
have been like. She says, Ken Page one of the sweetest,
most talented guys on the planet. I couldn't believe it,
(06:59):
but it's true. It feels like it's coming just a
bit too fast and a tad too furiously now James Earl,
Dame Maggie, Chris Pete, Rose to Kembe Officer, Taggart, John Ashton,
Drake h and now Ken r Ip, all of you.
Heaven is packing it in right now with brilliant talent
(07:19):
stepping off that first class charter TJ. Yesterday we were
saying we were shocked that we had so many deaths
to report, and then today it's hard to imagine. The
past few days have just been filled with legends and
the greats and entertainers and just philanthropic, good people all
(07:40):
gone and just a matter of two three days.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
People always say these things come in threes, and I
remember you were on Sunday, Yes, he said, Okay, these
things happen in threes. There were three at that time.
I and you said, okay, then we can We're gonna
move on. And then sure enough we woke up the
next morning Chris Christofferson had died, and then we keep
getting these number and I had frankly, it was just
I didn't realize it was so recently that James Earl
(08:04):
Jones path. Yes, it was just a few weeks ago, right,
So I don't know what's going on. This is a
bizarre anomaly. But man, you're you're nervous to look at
your news alerts.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Right right, And it's a constant reminder that time is precious.
That's how I look at it. All of these moments
they're sad, and it's a time to remember and reflect,
but it's also time to remember to live well.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Folks. With that in mind. Now, it's a difficult time
for a lot of folks still in parts of the country,
in particular of the southeast, where a Hurricane Helene just
has not stopped. Of course, the aftermath, at least of
this hurricane continues. It came on shore a couple of
days ago now, on Friday evening, as a Category four.
But here we are, all these days later, we still
have people missing and the death toll continues to climb.
(08:45):
At least one hundred and thirty people now have died
across six states, and yes, robes that numbers expected to
go up.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It is because at least six hundred others are still
missing right now. The hope is that many of those
people are alive and just unable to contact their friends
and family because of power and sell outages. But there
are real fears from officials that some of that number
are in fact dead, So we will find out more
as though search and rescue missions continue in really difficult conditions.
(09:15):
As of this recording, more than two million customers in
the Southeast are still without power now.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The other concern here is that a lot of folks
may be unable to seek help because so many roads
or closed, hundreds of them, mainly in the Carolina As.
That's made delivering badly needed supplies just about impossible in
some areas, and emergency workers are using planes, helicopters, they
are even using mules at this point to try to
get supplies to people who've been cut off from help.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Helene caused the worst flooding in a century in North Carolina.
Rainfall in some areas topped more than two feet. In
an area a lot of people are talking about is Ashville.
Some parts of that community are completely cut off from
the rest of the world. President Biden has plans to
travel there tomorrow. That is one of the hardest hit areas.
He's going to be meeting with the visuals and he'll
(10:01):
take an aerial tour of the devastation.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Lean My former President Trump visited at Valdosta, Georgia to
survey the damage, and Vice President Harras expected to cancel
events and going to travel back to DC to be
briefed by FEMA on the latest storm damage to It's
going to be yeah, it's going to be a rough
few days and rest of the week, but even months
and years to come in recovery for some folks.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
There have been so many stories, I'm sure you all
have been hearing them of just incredible rescues. Some fifty
people were rescued off a rooftop at a hospital in Tennessee,
and there were others that have been waiting and still
people who are trapped and stuck and waiting for rescue.
So we certainly want to let the folks in that
are know our hearts and prayers go out to all
(10:43):
of them who are suffering so much and will continue
to for some time.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
To come and stay with us here. Our morning run
will continue, going to head down to Georgia, where one
side in the abortion fight is celebrating today, but it
might be short lived. Welcome back. As we continue our
morning run, we'll head to Georgia, where abortions are legal
(11:08):
there once again, but with an appeal in the works,
it might only be for a window of time. After
a Fulton County judge struck down Georgia's six week abortion ban,
making abortions legal up to twenty two weeks of pregnancy.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That's right. Judge Robert McNerney wrote that liberty in Georgia includes,
in its meaning, in its protections, and in its bundle
of rights, the power of a woman to control her
own body, to decide what happens to it and in it,
and to reject state interference with her health care choices.
He said that power is not unlimited, however, ending when
the fetus becomes viable, so that in turn allows abortions
(11:44):
in that state through at least twenty two weeks of pregnancy.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Of course, we know the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
Way two years ago. When that happened, it kind of
opened the doors for states to do their own thing,
and some of them have decided to put in bands.
Fourteen states currently ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy,
with some exceptions. Georgia was one of four states with
bands after six weeks of pregnancy, which is often before
women realize they're even pregnant, but when a heartbeat can
(12:11):
typically first be detected.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Now, Georgia's Attorney General says he already plans to appeal
that judge's ruling to the state Supreme Court. And we
also heard from Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who signed that
Life Act into law back in twenty nineteen. He reiterated
that once again the will of Georgians and their representatives
have been overruled by the personal beliefs of one judge.
He vowed to fight on, to fight for the lives
(12:35):
of the unborn.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Next up on our run, the long Shortman strike is
officially underway now. DOC workers walked off the job at midnight.
That means closing major ports along the East Coast and
Gulf Coast.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
The strike was predicted so we kind of saw this coming.
There was word that the two sides were actually talking
and sounds like they were making some ground, but ultimately
that did not happen. So the strike is going on.
It's predicted to cost the economy anywhere from hundreds of
millions of dollars a day to up to four and
a half billion dollars a day. And it's unclear when
(13:13):
this strike is going to cost you, the consumer.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yes, because you know those costs will be passed along
to us, we aren't expected to feel the pinch of
higher prices immediately. A lot of companies made preemptive moves
because they were anticipating this strike, so they bought and
they brought in an extra inventory ahead of time, so
there is some wiggle room. That is some good news.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, that's kind of smart of them to do that
to that Vocano foresight. But the union is demanding an
increase in pay for workers and guarantees about the limited
use of automation, which they believe could cost union jobs
down the road. This is the first time since nineteen
seventy seven that the long shortmen have gone on strike.
Now we know that the president has the power to
(13:54):
step in, not necessarily going to be the case.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
However, yeah, he can put in a I believe it's
an eighty day coque off period, but he has not said.
The White Houses said they have no plans right now
to intervene. I guess they'll wait and see how bad
it gets, perhaps for the US economy, and then perhaps
they may make a decision.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
And this makes sense. But they are standing their ground
here on money because they said, during the pandemic, hey,
you shipping companies, everybody was at home. You made you
did gangbusters with your money, and you didn't pass that
along to any of us, the workers. So now we
want some of that cash. And that's why they say
they have a pretty good position to stand on and
(14:32):
it comes to pay.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
All right, Well, see how long this stand off takes place.
Next up on our run, the accused would be Trump
assassin was in court to enter a plea yesterday. Ryan
Wesley Ralth pleaded not guilty to all federal charges.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
He of course, accused of that plot to kill a
former president at his Florida golf court course last month.
Ralph was shackled for his appearance in court, which was
really short. It went less than five minutes. He didn't
speak as attorney actually spoke on his behalf entering that plea.
And he has requested a jury trial, so we'll see
him in court. I don't have the date all the
(15:07):
top of my head, but he will have more appearances
down the road. We want to continue our run now
with what we're seeing is another escalation in the fighting
between Israel and the militant group Hesbela in Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Israeli forces are now on the ground there in Lebanon
and what Israel is calling limited and targeted and localized
ground raids on Hesbela infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Now, Israel
claims this area has been used as a staging area
for Hesbela militants who are preparing to attack Israelis across
the border.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
No, Israel calls this just the next phase in their
conflict with Hesbela, a conflict that has seen an increase
in Israeli airstrikes in recent days that have taken out
top leaders of the militant group, including their overall top
leader just a few days ago. But as we watch
this robes, the human toll is incredible. We have over
a thousand people dead now in this conflict and a
(16:01):
million folks in that country who have been displaced, and
right now it doesn't have any end in sight. In
every news story we get, it seems like there's an
escalation instead of a de escalation that many people are
calling for.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yeah, the news is going in the wrong direction. I
know that the United States and obviously so many other
Western countries asking for some sort of peaceful conversation, but
clearly it has gone way beyond any sort of talks.
This has all been tit for tat, and unfortunately, as
you point out, it has done nothing but escalate.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
All Right, we want to continue on this next leg
of our run, and we want to welcome a couple
of fellows to New York, our hometown right now. Yes,
the first and only vice presidential debate is happening tonight
or right here in Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
It's going to be a late night and not a
lot of sleep, but we're going to be seeing JD.
Vance and Tim Waltz for the first time hit this
stage at nine pm Eastern, And just like the presidential debate,
there will not be an audience in the room, just
all of us at home. It's going to be a
ninety minute debate with two four minute.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Breaks now during the debate, and during those breaks, the
candidates are not going to be allowed to interact with
any staff. That's the same rule as before. They won't
be able to have any pre written notes where they
can take up a pen and a pad with them
in a bottle of water. I believe Walls is going
to be introduced first. He'll be at the podium so
the right side of your screen. Vance will be on
(17:27):
the left side of your screen, and they're going to
have two minutes to answer a question and one minute
for rebuttals.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
There is going to be a very big difference with
this debate. However, the moderators have already announced they're not
there to call bs on the candidates. So Nora O'Donnell,
who anchors the CBS Evening News, and Margaret Brennan, host
to Face the Nation, they will handle the moderator duties
and CBS has yes announced it's moderators are not there
to fact check the candidates. They're saying, you know what,
(17:56):
it's up to the candidates to fact check each other.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
However, for our CBS viewers are going to see a
QR code on the screen. You can use that, and
the network says it will take you to a site
where there is real time fact checking by its own
reporters going on. How do you like that idea?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I mean, that is a good idea, But I think
they're obviously trying to avoid what happened with the ABC debate,
where most or at least a lot of the Monday
Morning quarterbacking was on the moderators, not on the actual candidates.
Because they claimed that ABC David Muir and Lindsay Davis
didn't call out Kamala Harris when she made errors in
(18:38):
what she was saying, and they did a few times
with Trumpet not enough. So both sides were pointing the
finger that they did not do their job as moderators.
So CBS is saying, hey, guess what we're saying right now,
This ain't our job.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
I mean, that's a hands off approach. You're kind of
protecting your moderators. But as a journalist, it's very difficult
to hear something come out of somebody's mouth that you
know is wrong and to sit there and allow it.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
That's hard. That's I mean, I feel like, honestly, that
has always been our job, and especially if you're interviewing someone,
or you are moderating a debate. I just I've always
felt like it was my job to then have that
follow up, that rebuttal, that wait a second, because we're
(19:21):
supposed to be making sure that those who are listening
have the facts at hands.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
We're not talking about ideology. We are some things you
hear that are factually just wrong, and we shall say.
I'm very curious. That's cool to see two women handling
these debate duties.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And I know both of them. They're both wonderful journalists
and wonderful people, and I've worked with them for decades now,
So I'm excited to see tonight and what may happen.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
And finally here on this last leg of our run,
it is a birthday celebration for Jimmy Carter, the oldest
living president we have ever seen. But today, Folks, is
his one hundredth birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Happy birthday, President Carter. Yes he has already lived longer
than any other man who has served as a US president,
and yes he is now hitting the century mark. The
thirty ninth president is under home hospice care. He will
celebrate the big one hundred today October first, in the
very same Georgia town where he was born back in
(20:26):
nineteen twenty four. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
And since he was born, the US population has tripled,
the global population has more than quadrupled. His verse birthday,
though he has celebrated in nearly eighty years without his wife, Roslyn,
who died last November at ninety six. I think it
was seventy seven years of marriage.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's just remarkable in this day and age. And you know,
he has been one of I met him when I
first started out in Gosh nineteen ninety five, so I
was twenty two years old and he was. And just
to think that he's still doing what he does now.
He's a remarkable human being. And you mentioned how many
(21:04):
years he's had post presidency, and that's kind of mind blowing.
Forty plus years. Yes, So it's nice to end on
a happy note.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
It is, and people judge him for his presidency in
all kinds of ways, but his post presidency life might
How can it not be the most successful run of
a president after he left office? Ever? This the work
he's done in Atlanta, the Carter Center, traveling in the world,
He's negotiated peace overseeing elections all over the world this,
(21:35):
he's had a wonderful career after the White House.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
I actually believe, regardless of your politics, I think almost
everyone would agree with that statement that he has absolutely
been the best post president this country has ever seen.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Cool folks, before we leave you today, we're going to
start doing something here because you know, sometimes the news
and is just awful. Sometimes it's full of death and
misery and destry auction, and we don't want to ever
leave you on a bad note or a bad taste,
or feel like things are hopeless. So we're going to
(22:09):
start every day here. Robes and I have a huge
collection of quotes that we have kept over the lifetime
we have had in journalism. So we're going to just
start ending on that note every day and sending you
off with a quote that hopefully means something to you
can help you through your day, which you got from
them today, brom Well.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And this is from one of your quote stashes. You
actually have a full Manila envelope I should just point
out of quotes that you used to post on your
dressing room door. So this is from that stash. And
this one comes to us from Albert Einstein. There are
only two ways to live your life. One is as
though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
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everything is a miracle.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
And with that, folks, hope you find your miracle on
every city block and every interaction you have with some today,
hope you find your miracle. Thanks as always for going
along with us on the run. We're going to have
an extra a special episode. We're going to be doing
a post VP debate episode that we'll get up late tonight.
(23:13):
So with that, folks, enjoy your day. Always appreciate your
running with us.
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Amy Robach
T.J. Holmes
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