West Michigan Wakeup December 19, 2025

Episode Transcript

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Star one oh five point seven. I know it's busy
with the holidays getting close, but let's keep you updated
the news you need to start your day. It's the
West Michigan Wake Up, powered by Minards on Star one
oh five point seven. Well. A nationwide search for the
suspect in last weekends mass shooting at Brown University ended

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yesterday at a storage facility in New Hampshire, where authorities
discovered a man dead inside and then revealed he is
also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Forty eight year old Claudio neds Valente, a former Brown
student and Portuguese national, was found dead last night from
a self inflicted gunshot wound, according to the Providence Police Chief.

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Investigators believe he is responsible for fatally shooting two students
and wounding nine others in a Brown University lecture hall
last Saturday. As far as investigators know, he then left
two days after for his Brookline home. Brown University president
said he was enrolled as a graduate student studying physics

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from the fall of two thousand to the spring of
two thousand and one, but currently has no affiliation with
the university now. The investigation also unveiled that he was
responsible for the death of an MIT professor a few
weeks ago. There are still a ton of unknowns, according
to officials, including motive. President Trump setting an executive order

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yesterday to expedite the reclassification of marijuana, an effort to
increase research on its medical use, but stopped short of
fully legalizing it in the Oval Office, he said, this
reclassification order will make it far easier to conduct marijuana
related medical research, allowing us to study benefits, potential dangers,

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and future treatments. It's going to have a tremendously positive impact.
Of course, Americans are awaiting today the release of the
full Epstein files, as a few more pictures from the
investigation were released last night from the House Oversight Committee.
Cities across the nation are being hit with a new
variant of the flu, and doctors are calling this a

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pretty rough one. Subclayed kve been dubbed the super flu,
already showing up in major cities. Doctor say it's a
four hundred and sixty percent increase in infections from this
same time last year, and a sudden spike is once
again warning a lot of families will be getting together
for the holidays over the next two weeks. Please please please,
this is a particularly nasty version already circulating. Practice very

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very good hand washing and get your flu shot. Also,
TikTok will have a future here in America. TikTok officially
signing a deal yesterday selling its US business to three
American investors, Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, which means the
popular social video platform will continue operating here. Taking a
look at sports, the University of Michigan has announced is

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expanding its investigation after firing former football coach Sharon Moore.
This is according to the university's interim president. They said,
we want to create a campus culture of respect, integrity,
and excellence. The university has also has a law firm
to evaluate the culture, conduct, and procedures of its athletic department.

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They say, make no mistake, we are leaving no stone
unturned and any further action will be based on credible evidence.
Look at the sports world as well. The Pistons unfortunately
losing a close one to Dallas last night one fourteen
to one sixteen. Look at action tonight. Our Griffin's hitting
the ice taken on Iowa. You can hear that on
wood radio starting at six forty five for the latest news,

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