Top 5 Stories May 5, 2025

Kraft offering a golden noodle for Mother's Day, Florida releasing snakes into the wild, and a new world's oldest person. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to West Michigan's Morning News. Steve Kelly, Brett, Mekata,
Laurence Smith. That's Adam a road show. Looked out the
window and it is raining sidewiks Downtown Grand Rapids. It
is Monday, May fifth, twenty twenty five and top five
times schmitty. Where does it start?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well at number five, you know that next weekend is
Mother's Day.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Heads up?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
That's right, Well, most moms are used to those school
projects with the dried macaroni made into some kind of card. Well,
Kraft mac and Cheese, the original Blues has leveled up,
teaming up with a luxury fine jeweler to make a
mac and cheese necklace. Ah, it's Kraft mac and Cheese
by Ring Concierge introducing the Forever Macaroni Necklace, a single

(00:45):
fourteen carrot gold noodle strung on a delicate sixteen inch
gold chain.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I think it's a great idea, So.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I want one, really really bad.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
And listen, everybody's different, honest one, and I don't want
to start something on a talkback button.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
But for me, Craft Macaroni and Cheese is the standard.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
The blueprint to mac and cheese.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, there's that other one that comes
in a box with that rubbery cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Nope, not interested. Give me the blues, Oh boy, I
don't know. Man, The shells are pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Good here and we're all yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
And number four in the lists.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Backcountry runners are embracing the physical and emotional challenge of
racing with pack burrows that don't always move at their pace.
This as we get ready for the River Bank Run
on Saturday, Burrow races honor Old West history and hinge
on a delicate partnership between runner and beast of burden
insteads here. I'm not sure if this is going to

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take off anytime soon, but it looks like a pain
in that you know where took us to me howlong?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Would that take by the way days? However long the
Burrow wants. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
We're still here at the start finish line here. Yesterday
the PGA Tour in McKinney, Texas, history was kind of
in the making in more ways than one.

Speaker 5 (02:08):
He ties the record full circle first. Scheffler Scotty wins
for the first time this year, and it comes in
the event he attended as a kid.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Yeah, the CJ cump Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas yesterday.
Did you see his scores sixty one, which was a
ten under the start of the tournament Day one, sixty three,
sixty six, and then an eight hunder sixty three to
close it out thirty one under par to tie that
seventy two hole scoring record. The guy was just on

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fire and hard to believe his fourteenth victory on the
PGA Tour.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, he had a kind of slow year last year
after the year before he was on That was a
sane fire.

Speaker 6 (02:54):
At number two. Another reason that I'm glad we don't
live in Florida. Back in April, the Nature Conserve and
se released forty two young Eastern Indigo snakes back into
the wild in an attempt to repopulate the longest native
snake species to the United States. These little guys grow
up to be about eight feet long, and Florida's trying
to bring them back. So wait a minute, we're introducing

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or reintroducing because they like will grow them in there,
you know, or you know, make them, and then they
send them out to try to repopulate it.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Do they eat the other snakes?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That'd be helpful it's got to be an ecosystem thing, right.
Maybe they're the only ones that can take the burme East.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Down if they promised to be nice to us.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Hell yeah, oh do.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I see that cator video over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Finally at number one on the list, here's some name
for the oldest living person in the world is now
a woman living in Britain. Guinness World Records has confirmed
Ethel caterham oh Ethel one hundred and fifteen already the
oldest living person in Britain when she got the notification
this week. Pardon me, it's a hundred and fifteen years

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two hundred and fifty two days. That means she was
born in nineteen o nine, on August twenty first, which
is before my grandmother was born.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
She was born the day before the Titanic.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
I was just good.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
She's no longer with us, but she could be if
this for her. How crazy is that? So as you're
eating your steel cut oats today and taking your vitamins
as they say over there, maybe someday you could be
this person.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
You know, at one hundred and fifteen. If she wants
to sleep in, just let.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Her sleep in and hope it's just sleeping well, yeah right,
maybe get a mirror. Hey I didn't go creepy. I
just said let her sleep in.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
And that is today's top five that went weekend at
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