Rosie's Friday Leftovers

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Episode Transcript

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Well, it's all done. Omaha'sreturned to the river after one hundred fifty
years of moving west. We havespent three hundred and twenty five million on
a U turn the new Jean layhim. All the green space between Farnham
and Douglas, from thirteenth Street tothe banks of the Missouri is all done.
They will christen the last section Lewisand Clark Landing and Heartland of America

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Park this morning at ten death tollis up to one hundred and eleven from
the killer fire on the Hawaiian islandof Maui. One gruesome discovery a man
burned to death in his car withhis arms wrapped around his pet dog,
still one thousand missing. One ofthe remarkable sites of this devastation is how

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the flames seemed to have skipped overjust two buildings, the Saint Maria Lana
Kila Catholic Church and a white,two story ocean front home with a red
roof. Barely shrubs were singed atboth. The owner of the house says,
it's no miracle build of concrete wallsand clay tile roof, but that's

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what saved that house. But nowthat church thanks to the winter snowfall.
Lakes Meat and Powell, our twobiggest drinking water and hydro electric reservoirs,
are up twenty one feet. Butprior to that, historic drought revealed lake
secrets, shipwrecks, drownings. Worse, They found a barrel tossed into Lake

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Mead decades ago inside where human remainswith a bullet hole in the skull.
You know, Vegas ain't that faraway, and it is home to the
American Mob Museum for the second timethis summer. Officials are asking Texans to
conserve electricity, tick up the thermostatand don't run washers, dryers or microwaves

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low on juice. Ten years ago, they were warned, for these new
people and big businesses moving in,we need a lot more power. They
didn't get it. It's the samething electric experts are telling Omahaans today.
What's up students living on campus atUNO, All of the residence hall rooms

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are gone. They have a waitinglist. The state has settled on a
piece of land for the new prison, three hundred acres off one hundred twelfth
and Adams in northeast Lincoln closed atthe interstate. If employees drive down from
Omaha. Fifteen hundred beds three hundredand fifty million. Construction begins next year.
In this space, yesterday, Iwas pretty hard on three Lincoln Legion

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baseball players who left their team toparticipate in a showcase camp. Told you
all three had previously committed to Done schools. That is incorrect. One,
Troy Peltz, had not prior tothe camp. He has now to
Nebraska. Sorry, I'm not perfect. The Twoey family, which took in
homeless, hungry school dropout Michael orbefore his football fame became this story The

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blind Side, a best seller anda major motion picture, has voluntarily turned
where their conservatorship of his money.It's now all his. He accuses them
of cheating him. Let's see,Dad abandons you. Mom's a crack addict,
leaving you hungry and homeless. Butthe bad guys are the loving strangers

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who didn't negotiate a good enough moviedeal for you. A jogger in the
hills of Eagle County, Colorado,took a step and landed on something hard,
looked down swept away the brush,says US. Army Heavy Practice Mine
called in specialists from nearby Fort Carson, it could have gone off World War

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two vintage. That's where the USArmy had Camp Hail, which trained the
tenth Mountain Division, didn't do avery good job of cleaning up after themselves.
At the World Powerlifting Championships in Canada, the women's grand champion is Anne
Andres lifted a combined thirteen hundred seventeenpounds and is a guy transwoman beat a

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real woman by five hundred pounds?Is that fair? Tennis champion Martina Nevratalova
said it best. She said women'ssports is no place for a man to
try and redeem himself with this fourthindictment? How high is Donald Trump's legal
bills twenty seven million and growing?He ain't payin his donors through that super
pac are paying. One more Signof the Times memes said by listener Carry

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at the Iowa State Fair. Itreads, if you don't think gender matters,
try milking a cow, then abull. See how that goes