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Morning Run with Amy and TJ.

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Hey there, everybody.

Welcome to Morning Run.

It's Monday.

TJ's favorite day of the week.

March 9th.

It made me revoc.

Off to a great start.

You all right.

You just reminded me.

I've been dragging a little bit.

But a reminder.

It's Monday.

It's renewal time.

Yes.

That just hyped me up just a little bit.

It is Monday, March 9th.

Hope you adjusted well to daylight.

Saving you said it's messing you up a little bit today.

Yeah.

Maybe not yesterday?

Yeah.

I feel like I got up a full hour before I needed to.

And I'm dragging.

And I do think that's the thing.

I was asking myself, why am I dragging so much?

And I really think it's that one.

It's weird.

We travel a lot.

Used to time changes.

But somehow this always messes me up.

That feels about normal to me.

This is every day.

But folks, wherever you are, hope you are doing well

and adjusting well.

We got a lot to get to.

A lot happened over the weekend.

We're going to be making stops in Tehran and Houston.

In Atlanta and Los Angeles.

Here in New York City as well.

But we do need to begin with the war in Iran.

They've been warning us roads.

I think the president in his first announcement about this war

said we could expect American casualties, American deaths.

And sure enough, we could probably expect maybe the longer this goes

to get these kinds of updates.

Yes.

Unfortunately, we have to report that a seventh U.S. service member

has now died in the war with Iran.

The Pentagon making that announcement yesterday.

The service member died from injuries sustained March 1st

during an attack in Saudi Arabia.

And as of this recording, we have not gotten the identity.

They have not publicly identified who that service member is.

But other word we're getting this morning as we continue on the run

that Iran has a new Supreme Leader,

the name Ayatollah Hamane,

which absolutely roeb should sound familiar to everybody.

That's correct.

Moschaba Hamane is the son of Supreme Leader Hamane,

who was killed in early air strikes by the U.S.

and Israel at the start of the war.

Now, Iran state television made the announcement that a special

council of clerics selected the 56 year old as the new leader.

And he is only the third leader of the Iranian Republic

since it was formed back in 1979.

The question robes everybody is asking,

how long is he going to last as Supreme Leader?

Because this isn't figurative.

He quite literally might have a target on his back.

He absolutely does have a target on his back.

If you heard President Trump and Israel,

yes, President Trump and Israel have both said that any new leader

would immediately be fair game for assassination.

And Trump went even further saying any new leader wouldn't last long

without his approval and he is already publicly stated

because this was a possibility that Hamane's son

would be announced as leader that he was unacceptable.

No reaction, at least as of this recording

to him officially now being put in place.

Continue on the run here now and still related to the war.

In Iran, we did expect this and we are absolutely seeing it.

Oil and energy prices hitting high is that we haven't seen in years.

Oil hit $100 a barrel over the weekend.

The first time it hit $100 since summer of 2022.

And so as you might expect, gas prices are now at a national average

of $3.45.

That's a 50 cents in just the past week

and it doesn't look like they're going in any other direction except for up.

And next up on the run, oh yeah, by the way,

with all of that going on, we are still in a partial government shutdown

and the impact, whoo, is showing up at our airports.

Yes, this has been going on since February 14th,

or have that right rogue.

Yes.

It's been nearly a month now since the shutdown started.

This is over Democrats' insistence that ICE

be reformed before Democrats will agree to fund

the Department of Homeland Security, of course,

ICE is under DHS.

TSA is also under Homeland Security,

so that means no funding for TSA,

which means robes, no paychecks for those TSA workers.

Which means that a lot of folks call out sick

and not because they're pissed off,

but a lot of times because they got to find another way

to bring in money right now.

So Sunday,

passengers started feeling the effects at airports in Houston,

Atlanta, New Orleans, and beyond.

This is crazy.

If you've seen the pictures in the video security lines,

we're talking two, three, four,

even five hours long reported in some places.

I mean, that's insane.

The airlines and TSA were putting out warnings for passengers,

saying you might want to get to the airport five hours

before your flight all due to, yes, staffing shortages.

They say this is the store of the...

I guess it's different for different places,

but this is Marches Spring Break.

Spring Break.

So that is the big rush they are about to get.

Continuing on the run here now.

More evidence that your government is working for you.

The president said no bills will be signed into law

until he gets what he wants,

which is the passage of the Save Act.

Is the Save Act or Save America Act?

I thought it was the Save Act.

Save Act.

Okay, so what we're talking about here,

you've been seeing it in headlines quite a bit,

but it's the new stricter voter ID law

that critics call a voter suppression law.

So here's what Trump wrote about on truth social.

It must be done immediately.

It supersedes everything else.

Must go to the front of the line.

I, as president, will not sign other bills until this is passed.

And not the water down version.

Go for the gold.

Must show voter ID and proof of citizenship.

No mail-in ballots except for military,

illness, disability, travel.

Well, minority leader Chuck Schumer had a response to Trump's demand.

They make me feel good.

This doesn't make you feel good.

So be it.

There will be total gridlock in the Senate.

Wow.

Do we really need another game of chicken right now?

Because I feel like that's all that happens.

Who flinches?

Nobody.

Nobody in the American public loses.

And it is the Save America Act.

I have to check this.

That's what it's called.

But here is the thing.

The president said you won't sign any bills at all.

He doesn't have to.

A reminder that the way the law works,

the president doesn't sign a bill in the law after 10 days,

it immediately automatically becomes law.

So we'd have to veto the bill.

Yeah, the veto, but he doesn't not going to be able to override the veto in the house.

Okay.

But the other way they can do this, they'd have to shut down Congress within the 10 days

and then it won't become law.

Oh my god.

So to your point, more games.

Please, please, please, can we stop this?

All right.

Next up on the run, the FBI is investigating two improvised explosive devices

that were thrown during a pretty chaotic scene.

It was all happening outside of the residents, Gracie Mansion, New York mayor,

Zohan Mamdani.

Yeah.

The police say the devices were in fact real.

Included shrapnel had a fuse.

And neither one detonated.

Two men from Pennsylvania were actually arrested 18 or 19 years ago.

That was a man.

Teenagers.

Yeah.

It's I get I know officially they are men.

But this all happened during a clash of protesters at the mayor's mansion.

There was an anti-Islam group versus protesters who were showed up to take them on.

Upset about the anti-Islam protest.

So and then the other scare, I think a third device was found later at a car.

But these, like you said, were real devices that could have done some major harm if they had detonated.

Continue on the run here on this Monday morning.

Police say a woman with an assault rifle open fire on the LA home of Rihanna.

We can't tell you nobody was injured.

We should say that first of all, Rose.

But the woman is in police custody this morning.

But an odd scary scene here.

Yeah.

I mean, this was an assault rifle.

I think they said at least ten bullets hit the outside of Rihanna's home and happened to run one o'clock in the afternoon.

So broad daylight.

It was a beautiful day yesterday in LA.

And here's the other scary part.

Police say Rihanna was home at the time.

But thankfully, no one was injured.

We have no idea why this woman would have done it.

She drove up, just started shooting out of her Tesla.

And I believe there's a hearing scheduled for later today for this woman.

So maybe we'll get some more details.

But this is a scary and strange incident.

Why the Tesla detail was, it was a note.

I don't know why.

I still think California, LA, a Tesla.

I bet it was white.

A white Tesla everywhere in LA.

All right.

Well, stay with us folks here on this Monday morning.

Ron, when we come back, a rest in peace to a dear beloved and recognizable actress who's responsible for one of the cutest scenes in one of my favorite movies.

We will explain that also coming up.

Also in movie news, things went terribly, terribly wrong for a big budget movie with some big time stars in it this weekend.

We'll check in at the box office.

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You can't see it.

You can't see it.

You can't see it.

Bill Murray is doing an experiment.

And when she zaps people if they don't guess correctly what's on these cards they can't see.

And he was, she got all of them wrong but he was sweet on her.

So he never zapped her.

He said, wow.

You have a gift.

You got it right.

You have a gift.

Yeah.

She's like really?

You think so?

She played it perfectly.

She's just a sweet sweet lady and died at the age of 65.

According to her dear friend, an actress as well put out of statement saying she passed after a brief battle with cancer.

75.

That is incredibly young these days.

Oh, but we are playing her scene.

I got to watch it again in honor of her incredible life.

All right.

Next up on the run something went terribly wrong at the box office for what was a highly anticipated big, big budget star studded movie opening this weekend.

We're talking about the bride.

And it turned out to be a colossal bust.

You have big Hollywood names attached to this.

And interestingly enough, you and I,

and we kinda had a, you know,

it was a weather weekend for New York

that would have been perfect to go to the movies.

It was misty and like hazy and overcast.

And we were not, both of us were like,

eh, we had no desire to see this

and apparently no one else did either.

We're horror movie fans and we had no desire.

I don't know where something went wrong

in the marketing of this movie that big horror movie

folks like us, we like, eh, I don't know why.

I don't know.

Maybe that was it.

We said that.

And I think look, I don't know.

It's weird that we had that feeling.

We like fun horror movies.

We like fun horror movies.

We like exciting horror movies.

This one seemed like it was really just serious

and dark and heavy and so just wasn't something

that made us want to go to the movies.

And I feel bad.

It must have been something everyone thought.

I know, I feel bad.

This is a $90 million budget movie that made $7 million

this weekend.

That is just horrific.

Christian Bale, Jesse Buckley.

She is the hottest thing on the planet right now.

Is she crazy to think?

Didn't make Maggie Jillin Hall this her second time

directing her first one was a hit.

It was an indie hit.

She was hailed for that one with man.

Hate to see this happen.

Hoppers, the other animated movie.

Pixar, right?

It made 46 million this weekend.

But the right and tomato scores aren't terrible, I guess,

for the bride.

It's not terrible.

74% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes

that people who did go see it like do.

And you look maybe word of mouth will push it forward,

but the critics only gave it 59%.

We should go see it.

But I don't look at as much.

The audience score means something.

So okay, maybe we feel bad enough we should go.

We feel bad that we should go and check it out.

We support our horror movies

and then we failed this one.

Sorry, I think.

All right, next up on the run.

Woo, and this is the final look of our run.

And it was maybe a lot of folks

one and done marathons because I am,

oh my goodness, the Los Angeles marathon.

We actually saw it in person last year.

Remember that?

But this year, they actually,

I've never heard of this before,

announced that they are going to,

and we're going to award medals to people

who finished mile 18,

not the full 26.2 miles.

I don't like that.

I don't either,

but there was a good reason,

maybe even a life or death reason,

so I can't take issue with it.

It's hot.

You cannot do this in heat.

You just cannot.

It is dangerous.

And yes, to your point, robed deadly.

When you're talking about temperatures in the mid 80s,

mid and upper 80s,

if you go out and run three miles,

you need to be paying attention to your body.

26 miles and that.

Babe, do you remember we ran,

this is a few years ago,

we were training for the New York City Marathon,

and I believe it was in the 80s,

it was around noon,

and I actually at mile 10,

just complete,

I actually was concerned about my health,

had to stop, was hyperventilating.

I cannot imagine actually my cousin ran the LA marathon,

and this is a dude who does a 330 marathon.

And I think he's got eight or nine under his belt.

He told me it took him almost five hours.

So there was a debate.

It makes sense that they do this

because they're trying to get people to not push themselves.

Right?

I've trained for six months for this marathon.

I'm on mile 18.

I feel like I'm going to be sick,

but I can't stop.

They were trying to give folks an incentive,

hey, it's okay, get your medal at 18

and just get off the course.

And a lot of people took them up on that,

the debate was whether or not,

some people was like, wait a minute.

26.2, I've run all these marathons in my life,

and got a medal,

they thought they took issue with that.

Yeah, look, I understand in terms of people

because people have, what do they call it?

Finish line syndrome or what's it called?

Like summit syndrome where you think, okay,

I'm almost there, you've worked so hard

and push your body beyond what it should or what you should.

And yes, people die.

People die crossing finish lines

or trying to cross finish lines.

And that's concerning.

I know that I think Berlin was 70,

was it 77 when I crossed the finish line?

It was one of the hardest marathons

I've ever competed or completed,

but this was almost 10 degrees warmer.

And it's smart on them to do this,

no matter what you say.

Look, it's about maybe not even finishing,

but the medal does commemorate

that you went through the experience

that you trained for the experience.

So don't necessarily have an issue with that,

but it's a safety issue we do understand.

Do you want to mention that on American Nathan Marin won,

it was the closest finish in race history.

If you get a chance, go look it up

and watch the absolute end.

He closed on this guy in the last mile

and sprinted in mile 26.

The other guy collapsed at the finish line

and he got across.

It's just stuff you don't see in marathons that often.

So check it out.

And before we let you go,

something we would like for you to consider.

It is our quote of the day ropes.

This was a little heavy.

But it came from a good place

and it's how all of us thinking about our loved ones

in particular, maybe our parents.

But the quote is,

all of the best parts of me came from you.

I would give anything for one more day together.

That coming to us from the daughter,

the daughter robes of the actress

who just passed away from, of course,

the movie we were talking about.

I replayed it.

So there she is again, on screen,

Jennifer Runyon's daughter, Bailey Corman,

put that out, that statement.

And Rob, this is, it was one of the cool things.

We blame our parents for a lot, no?

All at least our therapists tell us to.

The stuff that maybe is our responsibility.

We blame them for let's go unpack that.

But we have to remember it robs the best parts of all of us.

Everything you think is good about you.

You can trace back to your parents

and something you got from that house growing up

or even a physical feature possibly.

All the best parts of me came from you.

I would give anything for one more day together.

That line, we always say and think that

when somebody passes man, I meant to reach out

or I meant to respond.

Just, it was a reminder of us.

It was sweet, it's heartbreaking,

but it was a reminder we could all use together.

Hug your parents or call them, tell them you love them,

that like you don't know, you don't have 65.

You would never think that that would be the end.

So yeah, I mean, that's a beautiful reminder

for all of us who still do have our parents in our lives

to show them a little love and a little gratitude.

And all of our parents over the age of 65 will be on,

in some cases, but take that with you today folks

from Bailey Corman who just lost her mom saying quote,

all the best parts of me came from you.

I would give anything for one more day together.

And with that folks, we hope you're off to a good start

on your Monday.

We appreciate you always running with us.

I'm TJ home and I'm Amy Robock.

We will talk to you soon.

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I've had the privilege of working closely

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As a Jewish athlete, my identity is something I am proud of.

But I also know what it feels like

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That's why this new commercial

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It's about showing up for someone when they're targeted,

even if you don't have the perfect words.

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