West Michigan Wakeup October 21, 2025

Episode Transcript

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The news you need to start your day. It's the
West Michigan Wake Up, powered by Minards on Star one
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Let's get to some of that latest trending this morning.
Michigan's new bipartisan state budget will limit medicaid coverage of
a group of weight loss drugs whose popularity has exploded

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in recent years. GLP one receptors like Magovi's Axenta and
zep bound will be restricted in Michigan exclusively to individuals
classified as morbidly obese. Some of the new budget coverage
would be contingent on the failure of other weight loss
interventions to prevent higher cost bariatric surgery. This would be

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very interesting. The state's medicaid program does cover drugs like ozenpic, Bribelsis,
Victoza and others for type two diabetes, but this would
be a different kind of coverage. So have that upry
at West Michigan Star dot com. Amazon Cloud Survey return
to normal operations last night. The company said an Internet
outage caused global turmoil among thousands of sites because of

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some kind of computer processing error. They said the disruption
knocked everything from London to Tokyo and over here in
the States. The largest one since they've seen it happen.
It was at least five years since we've had something
this hard so far. They say that the data production centers,
which seemed to be the hub of this problem, are

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back online and fully restored this morning, so you should
have no further issues on any of those apps. White
House Cruise began demolition, tearing down part of the East
wing yesterday to begin construction on President Trump's planned ballroom.
The Washington Post publishing photos of Cruise demo demolishing a
portion of that east wing. People confirmed the activity was

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taking place. The Hill has reached out to the White
House for comment. The ballroom's constructions slated to cost about
two hundred million dollars. Those pictures up at West Michigan
Star dot com. Let's get into your sports. What a
Monday night at board Field Wow. Jimir Gibbs was actually
offered oxygen on the bench after a seventy eight yard

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run leading to a touchdown as the Lions took a
twenty four to nine win over the Tampa Bay Bucks.
That is the lowest point average Tampa Bay has been
held to this season and in true Lions fam form,
Jared Goff had some jokes He's got the two fastest
runs in the league. It was twenty two miles an

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hour com third. I think it straight there the whole
jacket moving back to here. I mean, does it seem
like even how fast he runs, like he's unlocking different
levels athleticism. Those those long ones are fun to watch,
and I feel like I got the best scene in
the house just to like see him hit the hole
and then and then just like take off. But yeah,
it's it's pretty cool. He's dang fast and it's fun

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to watch. I mean, we were watching at home last night.
I literally was like, this guy is going faster than
a car right now? Pretty cool stuff? All right. Lions
are on eight bye week next weekend. If you want
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