Alabama Visit, Rent the Home Decor & Daylight Saving Time - Friday, March 8th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, March 8th, 2019!
Today, the latest from Alabama as President Trump tours the tornado damage, and why his former lawyer is now suing...
Plus: what to know about cashless stores, Rent the Runway's newest partnership, and daylight saving time.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
President Visits Alabama: CNN, AP, The Weather Channel, How to Help, AccuWeather
Manafort Sentencing: The Hill, ABC News, CNN
Huawei Lawsuit: NPR, Reuters, NYT
Cashless Stores Ban: WSJ, The Hill, Forbes
Airbnb Buys HotelTonight: BuzzFeed News, TechCrunch
Rent the Runway Home Decor: CNBC, Business Insider
Daylight Saving Time: NBC News, USA Today
International Women's Day: USA Today, IWD
All Women Spacewalk: CNN, Gizmodo
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, March 8th. |
| 0:01.7 | The latest from Alabama as Trump tours the tornado damage |
| 0:04.9 | and why one of his closest confidants from the past |
| 0:07.6 | is now suing. |
| 0:08.8 | Plus what to know about cashless stores, |
| 0:10.8 | rent the runway's newest partnership and daylight saving time. |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:20.8 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Erica Mandy, thanks so much for being here. You |
| 0:26.4 | ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:28.5 | President Trump will visit Alabama today to tour the town devastated by a |
| 0:35.5 | tornado last weekend. He also gave the okay for disaster aid. Remember 23 people |
| 0:40.8 | died Sunday in the deadliest tornado in six years. The AP reports those |
| 0:45.0 | killed ranged in age from just 6 to 89. But at least a little good news. |
| 0:50.1 | Everyone who was missing has now been accounted for and CNN reports two anonymous |
| 0:54.7 | corporations have committed to paying for the funerals of all 23 victims. |
| 0:58.6 | People are also donating money, clothes, food and more. In fact if you want to help, I put a link in today's |
| 1:04.1 | show notes with some reputable places to give. The monster tornado hits Sunday and |
| 1:08.5 | was an EF4. That's the second strongest tornado on the scale and now Alabama is one of several |
| 1:14.6 | Southeast states that is at risk for another round of severe weather this weekend |
| 1:18.8 | Also up north expect a lot of snow |
| 1:26.5 | The guy who led Trump's presidential campaign back in 2016 just got sentenced to nearly four years in prison. The Hill |
| 1:31.2 | reports President Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, |
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