News Headlines 10/16/25

Here's what is going on in the news today.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Christine, thank you for having us on. We'll get
a check on all the news now, Christine, good morning,
Good morning, Cobby. We're in today sixteen here of the
partial shutdown of the federal government. US service members got
paid this week, air traffic controllers are clocking in without
collecting a check, and food aid programs like SNAP and
WIC may run out of money by the end of

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the month. And we have lawmakers on both sides of
the political isle here in New York and New Jersey
blasting President Trump's latest comments that indicate he would terminate
funding for the eighteen billion dollar Gateway tunnel project that
would connect Manhattan and New Jersey. Tonight, we've got a
mayor oal debate here in town the three main candidates.
That's seven o'clock at thirty Rock. We've learned that actress

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Diane Keaton, who passed away at the age of seventy nine,
suffered pneumonia. She passed away from pneumonia and according to
her family, it was very quick. They were taken by surprise.
They thank fans for the outpouring of love and support,
and they say she loved animals so much. Diane Keaton,
then if you want to do something in her honor,
you know, to please donate to an animal shelter. Also,

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this is I think very good news. People might actually
reach their mental and emotional peak around the age of sixty. Oh,
not like thirty five or forty. No, I kind of
thought it was going to be there. New research finds
that Okay, physically we may be strongest in our mid twenties,
but intelligence, personality, emotional intelligence, decision making continue improving and

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reach their peak around the age of sixty. All right,
all good sports. Our local hockey teams were off last night,
back in action tonight, and we have Thursday night football
where the Steelers played the Bengals at eight fifteen. We
have to do our survivor picks. We do, yeah, I
haven't done this week yet. We don't mess with that one, right,
because that's I can't pick tonight's game, right, you can't,
And you can't pick the Steelers because I had the Steelers. Yeah,

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you can't pick this, but this one, I understand was
very evenly matched. I just wouldn't touch it. Yeah, yeah,
if you can't pick the Steelers, I wouldn't touch it.
Right by the way, two old quarterbacks. That's true old
meaning thirty five football for football. Yeah, okay, and covey,
I guess you're the one in the room that has

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to be careful of this. Make sure you tell Coco
how much you love and appreciate her. I love you, Cocoa.
We're hearing of walk away wife syndrome describes the situation
where the wife leaves the marriage after years of feeling unheard, unappreciated, unfulfilled,
resulting in a sudden divorced decision that surprises her husband.
I'd be in a ditch without Cocoa. Please don't leave me.

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Tell her please all the time. I love you. I
just can't do certain things now anymore by myself. I
know it. So you still all she does for us,
that's right. So how do I open that jar? Yeah?
How does the door open on this house? How do
I boil an egg? I don't know if Yeah, cooking,

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don't get me going. Thank you, Coco. I love you.