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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
An iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run.
It is Monday, July seventh. I'm Amy roboch.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And on TJ. Holmes. Hope you all had a good
Fourth of July holiday weekend, but we have to start
on the run this morning with what is really a
horrific story from the holiday weekend. A once in a
century flood claims the lives of more than eighty people
in Texas, among them thirty children. We still have dozens
(00:32):
more still missing this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And some outraged officials are blaming poor forecasting from the
National Weather Service, while others are blaming the White House
for its staffing and funding cuts at the weather forecasting agency.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Also on the run this morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netan Yahoo is making his third trip of the year
to the White House. Can more peace deals be made?
Also a major letdown for conspiracy theorists as the White
House releases reports from its Justice Department investigation into the
Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Also on the run, a curfew will now be enforced
after two teenagers were shot and killed and five others
injured in a mass shooting in Indianapolis over the weekend.
Also beloved Niptuck and Charmed actor Julian McMahon has died
at the age of fifty six.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Also this morning, another shocking and sudden Love Island exit.
Could an old social media post with racist language be
to blame. Also, dinosaurs rule at the weekend box office
with the seventh installment of the Jurassic Park franchise and
a big birthday celebration for the Dalai Lama. He turned
ninety on Sunday and plans. He says he planned on
(01:39):
sticking around for several more decades, not years, folks, He
says he's going to have decades more birthdays. We'll get
into what the Dalai Lama is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's manifesting it and I love his positive attitude. And
if he says he can do it, you know what,
Hey more power to him. But we do begin our
run in Texas on this Monday morning, where the death
toll continues to rise in the aftermath of a once
in a century flood along the Guadaloupe River. As of
this recording, at least eighty two people are dead, twenty
(02:10):
eight of those or children, with a search still continuing
for at least ten more girls who are all missing
from an all girls Christian summer camp.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. The Texas Governor Greg Abbott says there are officially
forty one people still missing, but believes are untold numbers
out there who are missing who are camping along the river.
Of course, it was a busy time because it was
the fourth of July holiday weekend. All weekend long, emergency
crews have been working to find missing or trapped people.
They rescue folks from trees, from rooftops, and as of Sunday,
(02:39):
officials say more than six hundred and fifty people have
been rescued. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So how did this all happen so quickly and so unexpectedly. Well,
according to meteorologists, heavy rain created a shocking rise of floodwaters,
boosted by what's been described as a flood wave that
literally rolled along the river. All of this caused the
river to rise. This gives me chills. Twenty six feet
in forty five minutes. That is unreal to think about.
(03:06):
So vehicles, mobile homes, businesses, and yes, summer camps were
totaled by the rush of water.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A big issue here is the timing of the flooding.
Have been described as a nightmare scenario for forecasters, because
although meteorologists had been predicting heavy rain with a threat
of flooding for days, the first flash flood warning from
the National Weather Service for Kerr County, where the Guadaloupe
(03:32):
River is located, it came at one fourteen am on Friday. So,
of course, robes, what are people on our Friday at
one fourteen am gonna be doing.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
They're sleeping.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
They're sleeping, so they're not getting the warnings. And we
all grew up with these, you and I and for
I guess thunderstorm, but tornado watches and warnings. A watch
means keep an eye on it because conditions are ripe
for it. A warning, seek shelter. Yeah, so we hear
flo watch a lot of people. I mean, you hear it,
but you don't know it's time for an emergency. I
need to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Residents say they hear the threat of heavy rain and
flooding all the time, and it's never really that big
of a deal. So yes, they didn't take it, perhaps
as an imminent threat overnight. So Governor Abbott did declare
a state of disaster in twenty counties. President Trump signed
a major disaster declaration Sunday morning, saying he wanted to
ensure our bravest responders immediately have the resources they need.
(04:27):
But my goodness, if any of you, it's a hard read.
But there are so many harrowing stories. One of them
just stood out to me about this twenty three year
old kid who and I say a kid because his
parents and his grandparents, they were all in neighboring houses.
They're all missing right now. He only escaped by swimming
underwater in his home through a broken window and then
(04:47):
had to balance on a meter box for hours until
he was rescued. I mean, it's just it's story after
story after story.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And you know what, those stories will continue to come in.
Rescues are still being made, and yes there will be
folks that they still find today. That mean, you just
have to be hopeful that that's going to happen. But
with that fresh thing on our mind, that's what we
should be focused on. The focus for a lot of
folks is to blame, like we're pointing fingers, like how
did this happen? So it's not right now. Look, there'll
(05:17):
be investigations and we'll figure out how to do better.
But right now. A lot of people are just finger
pointing right now. Within hours of the flooding, Texas officials
were starting to criticize the National Weather Service for underestimating
the rainfall, and that led to criticism of the Trump
administration for its recent staffing and funding cuts at the
National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So the White House pushed back immediately, saying, hey, the
claims that the National Weather Service cuts had anything to
do with the tragedy were shameful and disgusting, noting that
the weather alerts starting at one fourteen in the morning
began three hours before the catastrophic flooding. Independent mediorologists also
back the National Weather Service, saying, hey, these warnings were
as timely and as accurate as they could be with
(05:59):
the information they had. They noted that predicting extreme rain
and flash flooding beyond a few hours is challenging, if
not impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Obviously, it's not an exact science. We know this now.
Even meteorologists who have been critical of the Trump administration's
cuts to the National Weather Service have said they did
not believe better staffing could have prevented this tragedy. One
meteorologist said the forecasting was good, the warnings were good.
It's always about getting people to receive the message. And folks,
(06:29):
when you're sleeping, you're not going to receive a weather
warning and you're not going to hear it. A lot
of times on the phones, those emergency alerts sometimes are
even turned off. As I'm sitting here right now, I
don't know if I have them on my phone.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, we could. You can be silenced when you're in
standby mode, and so they weren't hearing that loud noise
that we got used to hearing sometimes when you've got
weather threats. A spokesperson for the union, this is interesting.
That represents employees for the National Weather Service, they say.
He said, sure, I'm concerned about unfilled senior positions when
it comes to some of the staffing, but he said
this quote. The weather forecasting offices had adequate staffing and
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resources as they issued timely forecasts and warnings leading up
to the storm. And the Trump administration, by the way,
just began cutting National Weather Service staff this spring, and
as of June it was down about six hundred employees
through layoffs, buyouts, and early retirements. So that's why people
are pointing the finger at the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
All right, we do want to continue the run here
on this Monday morning now with BB back of the
White House. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo is making
his third trip to the White House this year to
visit President Trump. He goes to see Trump when I
see my parents at this point, I'm sorry, mom, dad,
but that's true. This is though, their first meeting since
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the US joined Israel and attacking Iran over its nuclear program.
That US effort made way for the ceasefire deal between
Iran and Israel.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So today's meeting could make way for another possible ceasefire
in another conflict, the Israel Hamas war. Trump and Prime
Minister Netnyah, who have expressed there's a good chance of
reaching a peace deal this week and said today's meeting
will help advance that deal. Meanwhile, talks between Israel and
Hamas are ongoing. They are considering a US proposed peace deal.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Continue on the run on this Monday morning. Now. There
is no Epstein client list, and Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.
That's it, folks. Those two findings, final findings from a
Justice Department investigation are not sitting well with some Trump
supporters and conspiracy theorists who have been waiting for a
(08:36):
full document dump about the disgraced financier with the hope
of discovering something explosive in those files.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yes, but instead, the Justice Department and the FBI have
wrapped their Trump administration ordered review of the Epstein case
without much new or explosive details. The Epstein client list
that's long been the subject of rumors, speculation, and mystery, well.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Exist, that's what we're told. Yes, it's long rumored secret
lists that Epstein allegedly kept of influential and famous folks
who were part of some of his criminal dealings. Actors, politicians,
even royalty were rumored to be on this thing. But
the DOJ now says they have no evidence of such
a list existing at all.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Man, we heard so much about that. It was allegedly
a list of influential folks that led to the speculation
that Epstein could have been murdered in his twenty nineteen
jail cell because powerful people were trying to protect their
secrets and they didn't want it to get out with
him still alive, or a trial or any of that.
So the DOJ report concludes Epstein died by suicide in
(09:38):
his twenty nineteen jail cell, and they've released hours of
footage supporting their findings. No further charges are expected in
association with Epstein. Obviously, it was a big rumor also
because what were the chances that both guards fell asleep.
There were just so many things that happened that just
left people scratching their heads.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well, I'm glad this report is out because now the
conspiracy theorist can be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That it's so funny as if that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We continue here on this Monday morning run. And this
was just awful out of Indianapolis this weekend. A fifteen
year old boy and a sixteen year old boy shot
dead in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend. Another sixteen year old,
a seventeen year old, two nineteen year olds, and a
twenty one year old were also shot as well in
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a mass shooting that had authorities going off on parents.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's right. This happened to run one thirty am overnight
on Saturday, not long after the July fourth fireworks show
and celebration had wrapped up in downtown Indianapolis. Crowds were
still out and right now. Police don't have a suspect
or a motive.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But get this. At a press commerce, the police chief
had stern words for parents, saying, quote, we are not
your children's keepers. You are police say they will now
step up enforcement of a curfew in the city. It's
been in place a law all road on the books
that says kids under the age of seventeen are not
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supposed to be on the streets between one and five am.
Sixteen seven. All these ages were reeling off. They should
not have been outside. Whose responsibility?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It is a parent's responsibility, but.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's on law enforcement now it's on them to enforce it.
And I mean they have. I would argue more important
things to do than to babysit your children and to
get them home.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Curfew should be imposed by parents, not by police.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Period, period, period. All right, stay with us here on
this Monday morning run folks. When we come back, a
very recognizable actor we've been seeing him for decades on
TV has passed now suddenly at the age of fifty six.
Also coming up another Love Island exit that had nothing
to do with a recoupling ceremony, and the dinosaurs just
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won't quit.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Welcome back to Our Monday Morning Run and next up
on the Run. Actor Julian McMahon has died at the
age of fifty six. TV viewers first got familiar with
him on Charmed, starring alongside Shannon Doherty and Alyssa Milano,
and then as doctor Christian Troy on the next FX
hit Nip Top.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes. He also starred as Doctor Doom in the Fantastic
Four movies in the early two thousands. Did it Charmed?
Did you or your charm?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I watched. I saw a little bit of it here
and there, But yes, And when you look him up,
his face is so familiar. You've seen him everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That's a good way to put it. You see him
and you immediately know him, but you don't immediately know
his name and can place it necessarily. But yeah, he
has passed at the age of fifty six. His wife
released a statement saying he died July second, but we
only got word about it over the fourth of July weekend.
His wife said he quote died peacefully after a valiant
effort to overcome cancer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, it was a very private cancer battle, so a
lot of folks did not know that he was even sick.
His wife wrote this, Julian loved life. He loved his family,
he loved his friends, he loved his work, and he
loved his fans. His deepest wish was to bring joy
into as many lives as possible. And we wish for
all those to whom Julian brought joy to continue to
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find joy in life. We are grateful for the memories
that chokes me up. That's a beautiful, beautiful thing to write.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I included that I didn't initially plan on, but her
were anytime when people pass and then their loved one
puts something out and they take the moment or use
the moment to send the message to the wider community. Yeah,
this is one of these. Are one of the few
times that we stop, and we do have for the
most part of some humanity, when there's a passing, we
at least reflect and to say continue to find joy
in life. That's just a nice reminder now, and I
(13:40):
guess we're more open to the message when somebody has
passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Unfortunately, Yeah, and suddenly and too soon, too soon.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I love that she included that, all right, we will
continue here on our run and when the world is
going on at the villa, rodes. Another islander has left
the villa suddenly, unexpectedly, and controversially. Sierra or Tega disappeared
in last night's episode of Love Island. The narrator simply
(14:07):
said Sierra had quote left the villa due to a
personal situation.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This has just been a heck of a season. And yes, Annealse,
my nineteen year old is just obsessed. I'm sure she'll
have a lot to say about this this morning when
we speak. But Sierra had been on the show since
the beginning of the season. Fans of the show had
been buzzing, though online about an old social media post
from Ortega in which she had used some racist language,
(14:33):
not the one you're thinking about. In this post, Ortega
is talking about her makeup and refers to her eyes
looking a certain way at times. In doing so, she
uses a slur against Asian people.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yes, so she's gone. Not a whole lot of explanation
from the show at least, But everybody online figure this out,
and this robes This is deja vous all over again,
because this is the second time this season that a
contestant has been booted. Escobar was the other. She left
the show after one episode because she was found to
(15:05):
have these old podcast clips they surfaced online which she
was casually dropping the N word left and right. But
this is thirty episodes in and this is now. This
girl's been on since the very first show Wild, and
now she's gone.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The show isn't actually even giving these reasons as to
why they left. This is just all what fans are
saying because what they found. And yes, they just suddenly
say that someone's gone and they offer no explanation.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's really been nasty online with the show this season.
It just really has The stuff she's getting is awful.
I saw and I read, and I understand what she did.
And look, you know, I'm quick to give grace to people.
What she said something she shouldn't have said. Fine, but man,
and she is in Remember, folks, none of these kids
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or people young folks on them.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They're young.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, they don't have any idea that the world has
talked about them and how because they're cut off.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, they don't have their phones and so they don't
have access to social media, but they will when they
leave the villa. And it's going to be rough.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
She's going to turn on the phone. She has no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
She might just want to keep her phone turned off
for a while. Yeah, all right. Next up on our run,
Dinosaurs keep doing their thing at the box office. The
latest Jurassic installment made one hundred and forty seven million
over the long holiday weekend to easily become the number
one movie at the box office. Jurassic World Rebirth is
the seventh seventh installment of the dinosaur franchise.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Really impressive. It made another one hundred and seventy one
million dollars overseas, where grand total over the holiday weekend
of three hundred and eighteen million dollars. We do want
to note f one Brad Pitt's racing movie. It was
in distant second at twenty six million. That's not the
big deal. The big deal now is that it has
gone over the three hundred million dollar mark worldwide, officially
making it Apple's highest grossing film they've ever produced.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Congratulations to them, all right, and another congratulations in order
for the final leg of our run. The Dali Lama
turned ninety on Sunday, and many people that age might
think I don't have many birthdays left. Sometimes they're worrid
they don't have any birthdays left. He hopes the Dali
Lama hopes to have another forty birthdays.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Forty. The Tibetan spiritual leader says he hopes to live
until at least the age of one hundred and thirty,
so we might see many more parties for him, like
the one we saw yesterday in India, where he's lived
in exile since the nineteen fifties to escape Chinese rule.
Thousand people filled the streets in celebration. They had a
lot of that traditional that's the bright yellow and red.
(17:30):
So cool we're out there. So it was a good party,
and that were getting rained on pretty bad. Actually they
still stuck through.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It, dancing in the rain. I love that. He also
got well wishes from all over the world, including from
former Presidents Obama and Clinton, as well as current Secretary
of State Marco Rubio. The Dali Lama serves as the
spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists and is a symbol
of the opposition to Chinese rule of Tibet and is
worshiped as the living manifestation of a Buddhist god of compassion.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yes, he's the fourteenth Dali Lama, and he suggests he
might be the last one and that they would not
select a successor, but he did confirm in recent days
that yes, the tradition will continue. His office is in
fact going to find the successor and the centuries old
tradition of the Dali Lama will continue whenever he dies,
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which is going to be in forty years or so.
But this is a very involved process. They believe. Wow,
they follow and believe he can be reincarnated, and so
when he passes, they're going to find and identify a
child somewhere in the world that they believe and are
able to prove through their methods, is the reincarnation of
this guy, and the Dali Lama will continue in it'll
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be a child who will go and be trained up.
It is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay, So in honor of the Dali Lama's birthday, I
actually was going to propose this to you. I would
love because I had a hard time just finding one quote.
The Dali Lama has so many incredible quotes. I was
thinking about dedicating the whole week we do know Dali
Lama Week. Oh okay, good. I just want to say
if you're on board with that, Okay, So here is
Monday's Dali Lama quote.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We should have discussed this ahead of time as co
executive producers of this. Sorry, all right, here is your
quote other day to take with you folks from the
Dalai Lama. Every day, think as you wake up today,
I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious
human life. I Am not going to waste it. If
you just put that on the wall and say when
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you wake up, it puts you in the right headspace.
I think before you brush you.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
To youth, it really does. It's just like be grateful
you're alive. Enjoy it. And he has so many quotes
about happiness, about compassion. I can't wait. I Am going
to have so much fun this week. This is I'm
very excited. Thank you Dalli Lama. Happy birthday to you,
and also thank you all for listening to us and
running with us. But want to point out if you
check out the Yahoo page, we are on the life section.
(19:48):
We have our ask Amy and TJ. It's a relationship
advice colin. We've got a new question from a reader
that will be out today, so please check that out.
But thank you for running with us everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm Amy Robots I t J Holm for the Alto.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mm hmmm mmm
Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
An iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run.
It is Monday, July seventh. I'm Amy roboch.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
And on TJ. Holmes. Hope you all had a good
Fourth of July holiday weekend, but we have to start
on the run this morning with what is really a
horrific story from the holiday weekend. A once in a
century flood claims the lives of more than eighty people
in Texas, among them thirty children. We still have dozens
(00:32):
more still missing this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And some outraged officials are blaming poor forecasting from the
National Weather Service, while others are blaming the White House
for its staffing and funding cuts at the weather forecasting agency.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Also on the run this morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netan Yahoo is making his third trip of the year
to the White House. Can more peace deals be made?
Also a major letdown for conspiracy theorists as the White
House releases reports from its Justice Department investigation into the
Jeffrey Epstein case.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Also on the run, a curfew will now be enforced
after two teenagers were shot and killed and five others
injured in a mass shooting in Indianapolis over the weekend.
Also beloved Niptuck and Charmed actor Julian McMahon has died
at the age of fifty six.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Also this morning, another shocking and sudden Love Island exit.
Could an old social media post with racist language be
to blame. Also, dinosaurs rule at the weekend box office
with the seventh installment of the Jurassic Park franchise and
a big birthday celebration for the Dalai Lama. He turned
ninety on Sunday and plans. He says he planned on
(01:39):
sticking around for several more decades, not years, folks, He
says he's going to have decades more birthdays. We'll get
into what the Dalai Lama is.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's manifesting it and I love his positive attitude. And
if he says he can do it, you know what,
Hey more power to him. But we do begin our
run in Texas on this Monday morning, where the death
toll continues to rise in the aftermath of a once
in a century flood along the Guadaloupe River. As of
this recording, at least eighty two people are dead, twenty
(02:10):
eight of those or children, with a search still continuing
for at least ten more girls who are all missing
from an all girls Christian summer camp.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. The Texas Governor Greg Abbott says there are officially
forty one people still missing, but believes are untold numbers
out there who are missing who are camping along the river.
Of course, it was a busy time because it was
the fourth of July holiday weekend. All weekend long, emergency
crews have been working to find missing or trapped people.
They rescue folks from trees, from rooftops, and as of Sunday,
(02:39):
officials say more than six hundred and fifty people have
been rescued. Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So how did this all happen so quickly and so unexpectedly. Well,
according to meteorologists, heavy rain created a shocking rise of floodwaters,
boosted by what's been described as a flood wave that
literally rolled along the river. All of this caused the
river to rise. This gives me chills. Twenty six feet
in forty five minutes. That is unreal to think about.
(03:06):
So vehicles, mobile homes, businesses, and yes, summer camps were
totaled by the rush of water.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
A big issue here is the timing of the flooding.
Have been described as a nightmare scenario for forecasters, because
although meteorologists had been predicting heavy rain with a threat
of flooding for days, the first flash flood warning from
the National Weather Service for Kerr County, where the Guadaloupe
(03:32):
River is located, it came at one fourteen am on Friday. So,
of course, robes, what are people on our Friday at
one fourteen am gonna be doing.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
They're sleeping.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
They're sleeping, so they're not getting the warnings. And we
all grew up with these, you and I and for
I guess thunderstorm, but tornado watches and warnings. A watch
means keep an eye on it because conditions are ripe
for it. A warning, seek shelter. Yeah, so we hear
flo watch a lot of people. I mean, you hear it,
but you don't know it's time for an emergency. I
need to get out of here.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Residents say they hear the threat of heavy rain and
flooding all the time, and it's never really that big
of a deal. So yes, they didn't take it, perhaps
as an imminent threat overnight. So Governor Abbott did declare
a state of disaster in twenty counties. President Trump signed
a major disaster declaration Sunday morning, saying he wanted to
ensure our bravest responders immediately have the resources they need.
(04:27):
But my goodness, if any of you, it's a hard read.
But there are so many harrowing stories. One of them
just stood out to me about this twenty three year
old kid who and I say a kid because his
parents and his grandparents, they were all in neighboring houses.
They're all missing right now. He only escaped by swimming
underwater in his home through a broken window and then
(04:47):
had to balance on a meter box for hours until
he was rescued. I mean, it's just it's story after
story after story.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And you know what, those stories will continue to come in.
Rescues are still being made, and yes there will be
folks that they still find today. That mean, you just
have to be hopeful that that's going to happen. But
with that fresh thing on our mind, that's what we
should be focused on. The focus for a lot of
folks is to blame, like we're pointing fingers, like how
did this happen? So it's not right now. Look, there'll
(05:17):
be investigations and we'll figure out how to do better.
But right now. A lot of people are just finger
pointing right now. Within hours of the flooding, Texas officials
were starting to criticize the National Weather Service for underestimating
the rainfall, and that led to criticism of the Trump
administration for its recent staffing and funding cuts at the
National Weather Service.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So the White House pushed back immediately, saying, hey, the
claims that the National Weather Service cuts had anything to
do with the tragedy were shameful and disgusting, noting that
the weather alerts starting at one fourteen in the morning
began three hours before the catastrophic flooding. Independent mediorologists also
back the National Weather Service, saying, hey, these warnings were
as timely and as accurate as they could be with
(05:59):
the information they had. They noted that predicting extreme rain
and flash flooding beyond a few hours is challenging, if
not impossible.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Obviously, it's not an exact science. We know this now.
Even meteorologists who have been critical of the Trump administration's
cuts to the National Weather Service have said they did
not believe better staffing could have prevented this tragedy. One
meteorologist said the forecasting was good, the warnings were good.
It's always about getting people to receive the message. And folks,
(06:29):
when you're sleeping, you're not going to receive a weather
warning and you're not going to hear it. A lot
of times on the phones, those emergency alerts sometimes are
even turned off. As I'm sitting here right now, I
don't know if I have them on my phone.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, we could. You can be silenced when you're in
standby mode, and so they weren't hearing that loud noise
that we got used to hearing sometimes when you've got
weather threats. A spokesperson for the union, this is interesting.
That represents employees for the National Weather Service, they say.
He said, sure, I'm concerned about unfilled senior positions when
it comes to some of the staffing, but he said
this quote. The weather forecasting offices had adequate staffing and
(07:05):
resources as they issued timely forecasts and warnings leading up
to the storm. And the Trump administration, by the way,
just began cutting National Weather Service staff this spring, and
as of June it was down about six hundred employees
through layoffs, buyouts, and early retirements. So that's why people
are pointing the finger at the Trump administration.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
All right, we do want to continue the run here
on this Monday morning now with BB back of the
White House. Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahoo is making
his third trip to the White House this year to
visit President Trump. He goes to see Trump when I
see my parents at this point, I'm sorry, mom, dad,
but that's true. This is though, their first meeting since
(07:44):
the US joined Israel and attacking Iran over its nuclear program.
That US effort made way for the ceasefire deal between
Iran and Israel.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So today's meeting could make way for another possible ceasefire
in another conflict, the Israel Hamas war. Trump and Prime
Minister Netnyah, who have expressed there's a good chance of
reaching a peace deal this week and said today's meeting
will help advance that deal. Meanwhile, talks between Israel and
Hamas are ongoing. They are considering a US proposed peace deal.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Continue on the run on this Monday morning. Now. There
is no Epstein client list, and Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide.
That's it, folks. Those two findings, final findings from a
Justice Department investigation are not sitting well with some Trump
supporters and conspiracy theorists who have been waiting for a
(08:36):
full document dump about the disgraced financier with the hope
of discovering something explosive in those files.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yes, but instead, the Justice Department and the FBI have
wrapped their Trump administration ordered review of the Epstein case
without much new or explosive details. The Epstein client list
that's long been the subject of rumors, speculation, and mystery, well.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Exist, that's what we're told. Yes, it's long rumored secret
lists that Epstein allegedly kept of influential and famous folks
who were part of some of his criminal dealings. Actors, politicians,
even royalty were rumored to be on this thing. But
the DOJ now says they have no evidence of such
a list existing at all.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Man, we heard so much about that. It was allegedly
a list of influential folks that led to the speculation
that Epstein could have been murdered in his twenty nineteen
jail cell because powerful people were trying to protect their
secrets and they didn't want it to get out with
him still alive, or a trial or any of that.
So the DOJ report concludes Epstein died by suicide in
(09:38):
his twenty nineteen jail cell, and they've released hours of
footage supporting their findings. No further charges are expected in
association with Epstein. Obviously, it was a big rumor also
because what were the chances that both guards fell asleep.
There were just so many things that happened that just
left people scratching their heads.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well, I'm glad this report is out because now the
conspiracy theorist can be satisfied.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That it's so funny as if that's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
We continue here on this Monday morning run. And this
was just awful out of Indianapolis this weekend. A fifteen
year old boy and a sixteen year old boy shot
dead in downtown Indianapolis over the weekend. Another sixteen year old,
a seventeen year old, two nineteen year olds, and a
twenty one year old were also shot as well in
(10:25):
a mass shooting that had authorities going off on parents.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That's right. This happened to run one thirty am overnight
on Saturday, not long after the July fourth fireworks show
and celebration had wrapped up in downtown Indianapolis. Crowds were
still out and right now. Police don't have a suspect
or a motive.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
But get this. At a press commerce, the police chief
had stern words for parents, saying, quote, we are not
your children's keepers. You are police say they will now
step up enforcement of a curfew in the city. It's
been in place a law all road on the books
that says kids under the age of seventeen are not
(11:03):
supposed to be on the streets between one and five am.
Sixteen seven. All these ages were reeling off. They should
not have been outside. Whose responsibility?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It is a parent's responsibility, but.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's on law enforcement now it's on them to enforce it.
And I mean they have. I would argue more important
things to do than to babysit your children and to
get them home.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Curfew should be imposed by parents, not by police.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Period, period, period. All right, stay with us here on
this Monday morning run folks. When we come back, a
very recognizable actor we've been seeing him for decades on
TV has passed now suddenly at the age of fifty six.
Also coming up another Love Island exit that had nothing
to do with a recoupling ceremony, and the dinosaurs just
(11:52):
won't quit.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Welcome back to Our Monday Morning Run and next up
on the Run. Actor Julian McMahon has died at the
age of fifty six. TV viewers first got familiar with
him on Charmed, starring alongside Shannon Doherty and Alyssa Milano,
and then as doctor Christian Troy on the next FX
hit Nip Top.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes. He also starred as Doctor Doom in the Fantastic
Four movies in the early two thousands. Did it Charmed?
Did you or your charm?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I watched. I saw a little bit of it here
and there, But yes, And when you look him up,
his face is so familiar. You've seen him everywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That's a good way to put it. You see him
and you immediately know him, but you don't immediately know
his name and can place it necessarily. But yeah, he
has passed at the age of fifty six. His wife
released a statement saying he died July second, but we
only got word about it over the fourth of July weekend.
His wife said he quote died peacefully after a valiant
effort to overcome cancer.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, it was a very private cancer battle, so a
lot of folks did not know that he was even sick.
His wife wrote this, Julian loved life. He loved his family,
he loved his friends, he loved his work, and he
loved his fans. His deepest wish was to bring joy
into as many lives as possible. And we wish for
all those to whom Julian brought joy to continue to
(13:12):
find joy in life. We are grateful for the memories
that chokes me up. That's a beautiful, beautiful thing to write.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I included that I didn't initially plan on, but her
were anytime when people pass and then their loved one
puts something out and they take the moment or use
the moment to send the message to the wider community. Yeah,
this is one of these. Are one of the few
times that we stop, and we do have for the
most part of some humanity, when there's a passing, we
at least reflect and to say continue to find joy
in life. That's just a nice reminder now, and I
(13:40):
guess we're more open to the message when somebody has
passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Unfortunately, Yeah, and suddenly and too soon, too soon.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I love that she included that, all right, we will
continue here on our run and when the world is
going on at the villa, rodes. Another islander has left
the villa suddenly, unexpectedly, and controversially. Sierra or Tega disappeared
in last night's episode of Love Island. The narrator simply
(14:07):
said Sierra had quote left the villa due to a
personal situation.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
This has just been a heck of a season. And yes, Annealse,
my nineteen year old is just obsessed. I'm sure she'll
have a lot to say about this this morning when
we speak. But Sierra had been on the show since
the beginning of the season. Fans of the show had
been buzzing, though online about an old social media post
from Ortega in which she had used some racist language,
(14:33):
not the one you're thinking about. In this post, Ortega
is talking about her makeup and refers to her eyes
looking a certain way at times. In doing so, she
uses a slur against Asian people.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yes, so she's gone. Not a whole lot of explanation
from the show at least, But everybody online figure this out,
and this robes This is deja vous all over again,
because this is the second time this season that a
contestant has been booted. Escobar was the other. She left
the show after one episode because she was found to
(15:05):
have these old podcast clips they surfaced online which she
was casually dropping the N word left and right. But
this is thirty episodes in and this is now. This
girl's been on since the very first show Wild, and
now she's gone.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
The show isn't actually even giving these reasons as to
why they left. This is just all what fans are
saying because what they found. And yes, they just suddenly
say that someone's gone and they offer no explanation.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's really been nasty online with the show this season.
It just really has The stuff she's getting is awful.
I saw and I read, and I understand what she did.
And look, you know, I'm quick to give grace to people.
What she said something she shouldn't have said. Fine, but man,
and she is in Remember, folks, none of these kids
(15:51):
or people young folks on them.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They're young.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, they don't have any idea that the world has
talked about them and how because they're cut off.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Yeah, they don't have their phones and so they don't
have access to social media, but they will when they
leave the villa. And it's going to be rough.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
She's going to turn on the phone. She has no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
She might just want to keep her phone turned off
for a while. Yeah, all right. Next up on our run,
Dinosaurs keep doing their thing at the box office. The
latest Jurassic installment made one hundred and forty seven million
over the long holiday weekend to easily become the number
one movie at the box office. Jurassic World Rebirth is
the seventh seventh installment of the dinosaur franchise.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Really impressive. It made another one hundred and seventy one
million dollars overseas, where grand total over the holiday weekend
of three hundred and eighteen million dollars. We do want
to note f one Brad Pitt's racing movie. It was
in distant second at twenty six million. That's not the
big deal. The big deal now is that it has
gone over the three hundred million dollar mark worldwide, officially
making it Apple's highest grossing film they've ever produced.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Congratulations to them, all right, and another congratulations in order
for the final leg of our run. The Dali Lama
turned ninety on Sunday, and many people that age might
think I don't have many birthdays left. Sometimes they're worrid
they don't have any birthdays left. He hopes the Dali
Lama hopes to have another forty birthdays.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Forty. The Tibetan spiritual leader says he hopes to live
until at least the age of one hundred and thirty,
so we might see many more parties for him, like
the one we saw yesterday in India, where he's lived
in exile since the nineteen fifties to escape Chinese rule.
Thousand people filled the streets in celebration. They had a
lot of that traditional that's the bright yellow and red.
(17:30):
So cool we're out there. So it was a good party,
and that were getting rained on pretty bad. Actually they
still stuck through.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It, dancing in the rain. I love that. He also
got well wishes from all over the world, including from
former Presidents Obama and Clinton, as well as current Secretary
of State Marco Rubio. The Dali Lama serves as the
spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists and is a symbol
of the opposition to Chinese rule of Tibet and is
worshiped as the living manifestation of a Buddhist god of compassion.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Yes, he's the fourteenth Dali Lama, and he suggests he
might be the last one and that they would not
select a successor, but he did confirm in recent days
that yes, the tradition will continue. His office is in
fact going to find the successor and the centuries old
tradition of the Dali Lama will continue whenever he dies,
(18:18):
which is going to be in forty years or so.
But this is a very involved process. They believe. Wow,
they follow and believe he can be reincarnated, and so
when he passes, they're going to find and identify a
child somewhere in the world that they believe and are
able to prove through their methods, is the reincarnation of
this guy, and the Dali Lama will continue in it'll
(18:39):
be a child who will go and be trained up.
It is fascinating.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Okay, So in honor of the Dali Lama's birthday, I
actually was going to propose this to you. I would
love because I had a hard time just finding one quote.
The Dali Lama has so many incredible quotes. I was
thinking about dedicating the whole week we do know Dali
Lama Week. Oh okay, good. I just want to say
if you're on board with that, Okay, So here is
Monday's Dali Lama quote.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
We should have discussed this ahead of time as co
executive producers of this. Sorry, all right, here is your
quote other day to take with you folks from the
Dalai Lama. Every day, think as you wake up today,
I am fortunate to be alive. I have a precious
human life. I Am not going to waste it. If
you just put that on the wall and say when
(19:23):
you wake up, it puts you in the right headspace.
I think before you brush you.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
To youth, it really does. It's just like be grateful
you're alive. Enjoy it. And he has so many quotes
about happiness, about compassion. I can't wait. I Am going
to have so much fun this week. This is I'm
very excited. Thank you Dalli Lama. Happy birthday to you,
and also thank you all for listening to us and
running with us. But want to point out if you
check out the Yahoo page, we are on the life section.
(19:48):
We have our ask Amy and TJ. It's a relationship
advice colin. We've got a new question from a reader
that will be out today, so please check that out.
But thank you for running with us everyone.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm Amy Robots I t J Holm for the Alto.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Mm hmmm mmm
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