News Headlines 8/8/25

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

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One minute before eight o'clock. Happy Friday, Cobby and Christine
in the morning. All your news now with Christine. Good
morning to you, Good morning Cobby. The UN calling for
Israel to immediately halt its planned military takeover of the
Gaza Strip. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released a
statement today saying that Israel must bring its occupation to
an end as soon as possible. The FAA saying that

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it plans to hire nearly nine thousand air traffic controllers
over the next three years because you know, we've had
a shortage and we've been hearing about issues recently, adding
that they expect to have only about one thousand additional
controllers controllers by the end of twenty twenty eight because
of washouts among its recruits. And we have another wildfire

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burning in La right now. It's burned nearly five thousand acres,
forcing thousands to evacuate. It's the Canyon Fire. It's started
near Santa Clarita in Ventura County and right now it's
raging uncontained. Here in New York, former Governor Quo claiming
he never had a phone call with President Trump about
the mayoral race. This was something that was reported by

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The New York Times, Cuomo telling reporters he's running as
an independent, he's not looking for an endorsement, and he
doesn't remember the last time that he spoke with President Trump.
Ultra processed foods are taking over our diets. According to
a CDC report, sixty two percent of kids and teens
daily calories come from ultra processed foods, fifty three percent

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for adults. And they say the top source of these
foods are what we use for sandwiches, hot dogs, peanut butter, jelly,
followed by baked goods, salty snacks, sugary drinks. I don't
know what's left there after that. We're supposed to have
our veggies, water, Yeah, fruit and veggies. Sports. The Mets
and Yankees both had the night off, so the Yanks

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will play the Astros tonight, Mets will play the Brewers,
Liberty will play the Wings, and we do have Little
League Action on TV. ESPN will bring us the game
of Connecticut versus Long Island, New York tonight and the
winner goes where they go to the Little Leak World
Series over there in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Yes, so check that
out tonight at seven and Are you truly capable of

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laughing at yourself? If so, this is a very good
sign that you have an optimistic personality and a good
sense of humor. Research revealing that those who are really
able to laugh at themselves are more cheerful and less
serious than people who fake it. Can we all do
that in the room? Do we laugh at ourselves? And then? Yeah? Yeah,
I feel like we do it for a living. Yeah,

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kind of our job.