Trending News July 28, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Monday July 28, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is West Michigan's Morning Here Steve, Kelly, Bret and
Kata Laurence Smith. Monday July twenty eight, twenty twenty five,
Our Trending segment brought to you by Consumers Energy, dedicated
to Michigan and the communities we serve, what's.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Not online and what talked now at Woodradio dot how.
This is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Eleven people stabbed at that walmart in Traverse City. Police
arrested a forty two year old Bradford Gille as a suspect.
Grand Tavers County Sheriff Michael Shay listing out charges that
are pending.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Two reporters requested charges will be as follows, one count
of terrorism, eleven counts of assault with intent to.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Murder attack shoppers with a folding knife before he was
tackled by a group of bystanders who held him until
police arrived. He is set to be reigned during the week,
facing life in prison. President Trump and congressional Republicans touting
their accomplishments like passing the Big Beautiful Bill in the

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first six months of the GOP's majority in Congress, and
the White House Speaker Mike Johnson on Fox's One Nation
with Brian Killmead over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
We've delivered more between this Congress and this administration than
any Congress and administrative team in the history of the
United States. There's so much to sell, so much to
talk about, so many great things. The polls are lagging,
but they are going to improve. We know that for
a certainty.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So what about interest rates and President Trump's beef with
FED Chair Jerome Palk.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
The President is optimistic with a committee meeting coming up
this week, that we will start to see the rate
cuts that he strongly believes. The President strongly believes the
economy should have.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
At is White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair,
the FED has said rates have to stay where they are.
We'll keep you posting.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Also trending this morning. What a moment, thank goodness for
a boy Scout on Macinaw Island. You guys seen this story.
Fourteen year old Kenny Recorps learns to be prepared, a
big part of the Scout Honor but never expected to
have to put those lessons in action. It's his second
summer serving in the Scout Honor Guard on Mackinaw Island.
And near the end of one of his three hour

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shifts near Fort Mcinaw last week, he was alerted to
a man who had unexpectedly collapsed with a heart attack.
Without even thinking, record jumped into action. He alerted more people,
made sure someone had called nine to one one, and
immediately looked for the AED. He took off, running up
and down the hill despite having exercise induced asthma said.

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I could tell that I was in pain, but I
knew this gentleman needed me to find it. An off
duty nurse came running over, who performed CPR until responders came,
and the man's going to be Okay. Wow, a very
lucky tourist, that fourteen year old Kenny was there. It's
pretty unbelievable. His dad said. The Scout motto is to
be prepared, and Kenny was part of that Scout law.

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And I'm very.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Proud, Dad saying, eagle scout too. So we passed that
right down.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Induction Sunday yesterday in Cooperstown for the National Baseball Hall
of Fame, and one of the five members that went
in Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese born player ever
to be enshrined.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
Baseball told me, well, it means to be a professional.
And I believe that is the main reason I am
here today, not because my skills are better than others.
Three thousand hits or two hundred and sixty two hits
in one season are achievements recognized by the writers. Well, oh,

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but one view.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Wait for it.

Speaker 5 (03:55):
And by the way, the O four for that writer
to have dinner my home has now expired.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
One writer held him off. He was going to be
unanimous in one writer, so he offered to have that
writer to his home to have dinner with him to
explain why he couldn't understand. But that was amazing for
him because he would do a lot of interviews when
he was in the league and playing with an interpreter,
so he worked on his English and everything. And I

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thought he did a pretty good job yesterday. And he's
got a great sense of humor.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
That and those are just some of the stories we
are following for you two day