Trending News September 4, 2025

Our top trending stories for this Thursday September 4, 2025. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is West Michigan's morning News. Steve Kelly, That's Laurence
Smith and Brett Pekita. Thursday September fourth, twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Online and what's talked now at Woodradio dot how. This
is the Trending Now report on Wood Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
US military conducted a strike against the Venezuelan boat they
claim was crude by members of a gang carrying drugs.
Perhaps you've seen the video by now. Texas Republican Senator
Ted Cruz said there could be more on the way.
If you were a terrorist, what do we do with
ISIS and al Qaeda terrorist? We have drones that take

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them out from the sky. What we have our marines
take them out, our soldiers take them out.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
That's what it means to be a terrorist.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Venezuelan officials question if the video was real. Fifty eight
people shot this weekend in Chicago, as President Trump considers
deploying the National Guard to the city after federalizing Washington,
DC's police force in response to what he called a
crime emergency. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,

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the Mayor.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, the foolish governor of the state Pritzker,
as well as the senators of the state.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Democrat leadership from top two.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Bottom refused to put the violent street criminals in jail.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
And at a military parade in Tieneman Square, Chinese President
Jijan Ping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North
Korean President Kim Jong un. In response, on social Thursday,
President Trump accusing the leaders of conspiring against America. Here
is Chief of Protocol of the US. Monica crawling for.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Four years essentially ignored American foreign policy and allowed these
two superpowers who are adversarial to the United States to
float closer together.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
Also trending this morning, Hunter Renfro, the pro bowler from
the Carolina Panthers, was anxiously awaiting to hear if the
NFL team would be re signing him for a new contract. Unfortunately,
he left his phone with his daughters, who had no
problem muting more than ten phone calls from the team.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
And my daughter's running the car like I was right
outside the car. I'll just leave him in there. But
they I guess. I had like ten minute phone calls
from dand my agent and they're all just ignored. My
daughter's watching Blue Ears. So got back in the car
and had that conversation. I guess, oh, I've been on Thursday. Maybe, Yeah.

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Just made sure that this is what I wanted to do.
I'll make sure that this is where I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Do, which I was pretty You can blame Bluey his
daughter's watching Disney Plus on the phone and just ignore, ignore, ignore.
More than ten times the organ organization tried to get
a hold of him. Perfect parents everywhere.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Understand, so they did he is back.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
With the he is back. They finally got a Bluey
their time, their screen time ran out.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh man, I didn't know if you were going to
transition to me or no.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Hi. Brad pacated Ladies and Gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Just over twenty games left and the final month of
the regular season from Major League Baseball, and I thought
I would update everyone on the standings race because our
Detroit Tigers, which have had their highs and lows the
last month and a half, still have the biggest lead
of anyone when it comes to a division lead, with
second place Kansas City, they're ten games in front, they're
ten and a half in front of Cleveland, and they

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basically have twenty one games left now, and it can
vary between twenty one and twenty three. But Toronto is
your leader in the AL East by three and a
half over the Yankees and Boston. People might not know
that the Astros in the AL West have a four
game lead over Seattle, five and a half over Texas.
Now this doesn't take into account wild card as well
for these leagues, but National League the East, it's Philadelphia

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five and a half in front of the New York Mets.
Basically everyone else is out of it. How about the
NL Central of the Cubbies. For Smidty and the Cubbies fans,
they're six back of Milwaukee right now, it's basically between
them and Milwaukee certainly in the mix of eighty and
sixty for a wildcard. And finally, in the NL West,
the Dodgers have just a two and a half game
lead over the Pondres seven and a half in front
of San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Just some of the stories we are following for you today,