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Hey there, folks, Happy Monday to you. It is October twenty first on TJ.
Holks and I'm Amy Roboch. Thank you for coming along for this Monday morning run with us.
And on today's run, Trump plays Fry Cook and Harris spends her birthday weekend at church with an usher. Yes, things stay interesting on the campaign trail. Just fifteen days now before election.
And Elon Musk is giving away money, in fact a million dollars a day until the election. You're eligible, you just have to sign something.
Also, a strike was costing Boeing a billion dollars a month. That strike appears to be over maybe.
Plus lights out in Cuba and we mean all of them. The entire island loses power. And another day, another round of lawsuits against Diddy.
Plus a man was supposed to be executed last week. Instead he'll be testifying before lawmans today. And who you got in the World series might depend on if you prefer the subway or the freeway.
And he was shot in a robbery this summer. He played in his first NFL game yesterday, a special NFL debut to tell you all about but we begin our run. This morning on the campaign trail, Harris went to church and Trump went to McDonald's. The two candidates were all over the place this weekend, trying to take advantage of one of the few weekends left in the campaign, and they both brought along some special guests.
SVP. Harris, first of all, was in the all important state of Michigan and alongside Detroit's own Lizzo for a rally. The rally marked the beginning of early in person voting in that state. From there, Harris headed to Atlanta for another rally. This one included legendary Atellien. Uh sure, not a bad way to spend her sixtieth birthday, which was Sunday.
That's right, Early in person voting also started in Georgia last week, and not to be outdone, Trump rolled out his own celebrities, and Tony Brown and Leveon Bell. A lot of you might be saying, including me, who.
Yes, Antonio Brown, Leveon Bell both former NFL players. Now, they don't have the same national name recognition as the mononymned Usher and Lizzo, but they could prove to be quite influential endorsements because Brown and Bell were wildly popular and successful members of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they joined Trump for a rally and where else Pennsylvania.
The ever important Pennsylvania. And then on Sunday, in a pretty interesting scene, Donald Trump worked the fries and the drive through at a McDonald's in the Philadelphia area. He was trying to troll Harris, who says she worked at a McDonald's for a while when she was younger. Trump has maintained that she is lying. Early in person voting starts today in at least six more states, and an estimated nine million people have already cast their ballots across this country.
As we continue our run here, we'll stay on the campaign trail and you might be eligible to win a million dollars today. All you got to do is sign a petition petition. Now this sounds simple enough, sign me up. Problem is this might all be illegal.
Yeah. Elon Musk has pledged to give away a million dollars a day until election day to a randomly selected voters. You actually have to live in one of seven swing states, by the way, but you have to have also signed his pro constitution petition. What is that? Well, it's a petition from his pro Trump superpack that just says, hey, I support the first and second amendments.
Now, that sounds simple enough, but this super pack was set up to register voters in swing states and to help Trump get elected. Now, if there's any question about whether Musk is serious about this giveaway, well he's already handed out the first two million dollar checks. He did it this weekend.
But here's the big question, is any of this legal. Federal law prohibits giving payment in exchange for a vote or for registering to vote. And we've already heard from Pennsylvania's governor, who happens to be a Democrat, Josh Shapiro. He called on law enforcement to investigate this giveaway, calling it deeply concerning.
And there is no doubt everyone knows Elon Musk is a strong, strong, even a leaping Trump supporter, So make no mistake about why he is doing this and what the point of it is. But it's interesting. I think anything that could get people to register and engaged and to vote, it's a shame money needs to be maybe one of those incentives.
It is because this petition, in addition to giving a million dollars away a day, it's also giving one hundred dollars to each registered Pennsylvania voter who signs, and one hundred dollars for referring a registered Pennsylvania voter to sign. So, yes, there are some legal questions in play.
All right, we're going to continue our morning run. Now. It's going to take us down to Texas, where a man who was supposed to be executed last week is very much still alive and will even be talking today. Robert Roberson was convicted of murdering his two year old daughter, Nikki, back in two thousand and two in a case of shaken baby syndrome.
New scientific and medical evidence has shed doubt on that conviction, and within hours of his scheduled execution, a bipartisan tactic by the state legislature forced a stay of execution for Robertson. That tactic was to subpoena him to testify today on the merits of his conviction based on a junk science law in the state of Texas.
So that is what's going to happen today. Robertson, fifty seven years old, now will testify at a hearing before that committee. Not clear though, if a new execution date is going to be announced at any point or if he will ultimately receive a new trial. I guess that's key. Right now, his execution is on. It's only been delayed, it has not been canceled. He is not free to go. There's no clemency here. So as we speak, he's still scheduled to die.
We just don't know the win, yes, and we know that this has all been the reason why this execution was stated. He has had a ground swell of support. He's been behind bars for twenty years. He spends the entirety of that pretty much in solitary confinement. But we've heard from John Grisham, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the Innocence Project, there, even the lead detective who helped put him away, all asking for his execution not only to be disdained, but for his conviction to be reversed. So we'll see what happens today in Texas. Next up on our run though another day, another half dozen lawsuits against Sean Did he kum?
Yeah? Some of you all could probably write this story yourselves. Six more civil lawsuits have been filed accusing the music mogul of sexual assault, this time in these six suits being brought by three men and three women, all named as Jane and John Does in these lawsuits.
This time, one of the accusers claimed she was just thirteen years old at the time that Combs drugged her and raped her. Also, these suits meant other celebrities who were reportedly involved in wrongdoing, but the suits don't actually name any of them, and.
Combs remains in jail in Brooklyn, where he's been since his arrest last month on federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. He's been denied bail at least twice. He does have another a bail request pending his trial is scheduled for May. It's robes impossible, it seems, to keep up with these suits. We believe we're around two dozen at least that have been officially filed against him, civil suits, at least a dozen of them now since he's been in jail. That are all these accusations in The attorney said, there's one hundred and twenty plus accusers out there, and they're going to start filing and filing and filing, and we're seeing that happen now.
Yeah, so this will actually probably be a daily or at least a weekly event. Right now, and we will stay up on it. Our run continues in Cuba now, where millions of people remain without power for the fourth day in a row. We're talking no lights, no AC, no refrigerator, no running water, no nothing. And at this point residents have reportedly been waiting in line for hours just to get bred and basic supplies.
It's Monday now, but it was back on Friday when they were experiencing the first blackout, so it's been a really, really rough weekend. A fraction of the country's ten million people did get some power restored after that first blackout on Friday, but the energy grid overloaded again on Saturday and then multiple times on Sunday, adding to this problem. Yes, a dang gum tropical storm Oscar hit the eastern part of Cuba yesterday, making it even more difficult for power workers to continue their jobs trying to get everything back up and running.
Yeah, and just to get an idea of what the situation is like there, it's reported that many hotels in that area have said their generators are now officially out of fuel. The International airport and Havana operating in the dark on emergency power. There's no air conditioning. There's no printers to even issue tickets for passengers, and as you might imagine, some angry residents have begun to protest in Havana and in neighboring towns.
Yeah, the government canceled classes there for all students at least through Wednesday. Non essential workers told to stay home. They're blaming the power outages on the US increased US economic sanctions and disruptions from recent hurricanes. People have been cooking on makeshift stoves. They're trying to get everything cooked before it goes bad. There's nowhere to put this stuff in the refrigerator.
Yeah, and now, officials in Cuba originally had said that power would be restored by today or tomorrow, but they have not been able to provide an update on when that actually might happen. And the folks in Cuba have been dealing with US for some time. They've been rolling blackouts all throughout the summer. So residents, as you might imagine, are pretty fed up with the situation. And now there's concern about looting and vandalism and all the problems that come when you've lost power and people get desperate. But we will keep you updated on that. Situation.
Well, stay with us here on this Monday. We're going to continue our run in just a moment, and a company was losing a billion dollars a month and a worker strike. Could that strike now finally be open? All right, folks, let's continue our Monday morning run, and a worker strike that has cost Boeing and estimated billion dollars might finally be over. Both signs in this have agreed to a tentative deal that would put an end to the five week long strike affecting it's thirty three thousand machinists.
The deal still has to be ratified by a majority of the membership before it officially takes effect, but that would allow workers to return to the job that union votes on Wednesday. Reportedly, this new offer increases wages by thirty five percent over a four year contract, and it also increases the company contributions to its employees for a one K plan.
Now, this is an all important American company here that operates here in this country. It's the largest exporter we have and has been struggling for the past five years. Because you've seen them in the headlines and not a lot for a lot of the wrong reasons. Two fatal crashes, grounding nearly a two year grounding of its best selling plane. And then that door plug that blew off in Alaskan Airlines flight back in January. You remember that. Numerous federal investigations, so it's been a mess of headlines, and it would be nice to get this strike behind them.
It certainly would because here's the important part. That strike stopped production of nearly all of its commercial jets. And well that's a major financial issue because their revenue comes from this sale of its planes. Boeing supports more than one and a half million jobs across all fifty staids. So, as you pointed out, TJ a very important American company, hopefully getting back on its feet soon.
And we will continue along our run now and we will come on back to New York because they just capped off a historic and entertaining WNBA season and in the best way possible, certainly for us here in New York. But the New York Liberty finally won the double NBA title. They beat the Minnesota Links in overtime of the deciding Game five of the finals.
And we say finally won because the Liberty, they were one of the founding members of the WNBA when it started twenty eight years ago. In fact, the New York Liberty played in the very first WNBA game ever back in nineteen ninety seven. They played in five previous WNBA finals and lost. So this is a big deal.
It's an important franchise and this has been a historic season. As we know, their viewership has been up to historic numbers. They signed a huge, historic broadcast rights deal, and of course attendance has been up and interest has been up. Yes, it's the Caitlin Clark effect, Angel Reaves, those superstars coming in as freshmen, as rookies. They just came out of college, but they are rookies. It's just great to see the WNBA have the season it's at, it's on its way now. Yeah.
I love seeing the audiences and just the full house people supporting and cheering on these women. And we're hoping to do so too, because we may have the parade, the Parade of Champions they call here along Broadway travel right beneath my apartment. It's right out the door, so we might actually be able to stand on the balcony and cheer them on. I'm looking forward to that.
We absolutely will be out there and next up on our run. Tell us, folks, you prefer palm trees or skyscrapers. You prefer Broadway or Hollywood. You prefer the subway or the freeway.
Let's continue this. Santa Monica or the Rockaways, Biggie or Tupac Madison Avenue or Rudeo Drive, the Big Apple or Tinseltown.
Okay, y'all get it. Y'all know where we're going with this. What do you got? You got New York or you got LA. The World Series is set and it's the matchup that everybody wanted to see, The LA Dodgers versus the New York Yankees, two of the most storied franchises in baseball, the two largest cities in the country, the two teams who've played each other in the World Series more times than any other two teams, and they have the apps two biggest superstars in baseball show Hey Otani and Aaron Johnson.
Yeah. This will be the twelfth time these teams have played each other in the World Series. New York is eight for three on that record. The Dodgers finish off the Mets last night in the National League Championship to advance to the World Series. Admittedly, we were rooting for the Mets because we were holding out hope for that subway series, that beloved subway series, Mets versus Yankees. But it wasn't meant to be.
Didn't realized It's only happened once before the World Series, had the Mets and the Yankees in a subway series. I guess it's such a rare thing. I can't remember the year twenty five years ago, almost, but that.
Was you were all it came close.
You're a You're not a bay of all the sports. You probably watched baseball with me least, and even you when you knew it could be Mets Yankees, you were already saying, how cold do you take it? You know somebody right, But the Dodgers most recently won a World Series in twenty twenty. Longer for the Yankees though two thousand and nine, as they had and won. But the Yankees are by far the winning is franchise. They have a total twenty seven World Series titles. That series will start on Friday. But Otani and Judge O show, Hey, Otani, I'm so happy that he is going to be in the World Series. Yes, dude, It's amazing, I know.
And as you pointed out, I don't watch a lot of baseball, just regular season, but I love watching the World Series. So this is going to be a fun one to watch and I'm very excited for it. All Right, our final leg of our run this morning. A major comeback story. San Francisco forty nine er Ricky Piersall made his triumphant return to the football field yesterday after he was shot in the chest during a robbery attempt over the summer.
So he's making a return to football, which ends up being his debut. He made his first catch in his first official career game against the Kansas City Chiefs. It was late in the first half. The crowd understood what this meant and they went crazy. It gave him a standing ovation. There are a lot of high hopes for this kid coming out of the University of Florida star wide receiver. He was drafted in the first round, so he was looking forward to having a good year and helping this team. Unbelievable that robbery.
Yeah, shot yeah, And it started out he actually was dealing with injuries too. Earlier on he had a hamstring and a shoulder injury and then yes On August thirty first, police say a seventeen year old shot him in the middle of the afternoon trying to steal his Rolex watch. It happened in broad daylight in the San Francisco's Union Square area while he was shopping for luggage. Piersall was rushed to the hospital. Doctors were relieved to find that bullet remarkably missed all of his vital organs.
They said it went straight through. He spent a night in the hospital. Yes one night in the hospital, but he had weeks of recovery trying to get motion back in his arm. Seven weeks later, he said he's feeling great. It says, I just took the opportunity to be appreciative of everything that led up to my return and all the blessings that came along with it.
Now, despite the emotional lifts Pearsall gave the team yesterday, the forty nine Ers ultimately lost to the Chiefs. That final score Chiefs twenty eight, forty nine Ers eighteen. And in case you're wondering, that seventeen year old suspect in the case, he's not being named because he's a minor, but he's been charged with attempted murder, assault with a semi automatic firearm, and attempted second degree robbery. I don't know how much this matters, but his attorney says his client is truly sorry for his actions and is remorseful.
You know, we have to say to the audience that's listening. We actually debated this morning because we had the World Series, we had the WNBA Finals, and then we had Pearsol. It was three sports stories and we had that too much sports, and we shouldn't look at it. This is a human story that is like wonderul These are stories that actually make me feel good, like the liberty overcoming LA and New York fans are going to get something really special and this kid coming back, It's okay. These are I'm glad we included. That story makes me feel good just to hear how it's going for him now. So I'm glad we included, and so we hope you appreciate it as well.
I you know, I'm not like a huge, big Swartz person, and all of those stories mattered. And you know what, we need sports sometimes in the era we live in and all the bad news and the finger pointing. If you especially can have some hopeful, happy, uniting sports stories. I'm all in, even with.
An opposing team, which we saw this weekend. We were at my alma mater and we saw the opposing team and some of their fans and you know, throwing something at him. You know, you're just smiling and you're embracing and everybody understands it's just competition and you can have some camaraderie around it. So maybe sports is what we need these days, because I'm getting sick of these sound bites on TV with the name calling, with the politicians.
Right, agreed, agreed?
Amen, all right, And with that, folks, on this Monday, we would like you to consider this as you head out on your day.
Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong. It may just be a sign that he's thinking. This comes to us from Oswald Chambers. I had to look him up. He's a Scottish minister and a teacher. He has hundreds of inspirational quotes and that was one of your favorites teaching.
Isn't it a wild you look at the mind they have doubt or you think there's these unsure Well, it just gives a person credit. Maybe it just means they're being delibered and they're taking the time and give.
It some thought that it needs to be done, maybe something all of us should do more up.
Yeah, doubt, folks is not always a sign and is wrong. It might just be a sign that he is thinking and with that would appreciate you as always going out for a run with us. I'm TJ.
Hanks and I'm Amy Robot. We'll see you again on the run tomorrow.