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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Tuesday, August 8th 2023

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Extreme storms hit the South and East, riverside brawl in Alabama, Zoom workers return to office, Mega Millions tonight, MLB suspends members of the White Sox and Guardians following their brawl, Sandra Bullock's longtime partner passed away, Kim Kardashian's injury, Barbie & Ken are popular baby names now, Sharknado is heading to theaters, Jeopardy! has a plan, Tory Lanez sentencing, Dua Lipa's new sound on her new album & more... First Thing with Kevin Manno is sponsored by AG1 & BetterHelp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, let's go. It's Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 and it starts right now.

0:05.7

Yeah, it's first thing with Kevin Mano. Greetings. Welcome to it. Hope you're doing well.

0:10.8

Fuse celebrity birthdays on this Tuesday morning. Sean Mendez. He's 25 today. Roger

0:15.9

Federer is 42. JC from NSYNC is 47. And so is Drew LaShay from 98 degrees. They're both born

0:23.3

on the exact same day. Scott Stapp from the band Creed is 50. The edge from U2 is 62. And

0:30.0

Dustin Hoffman is 86 years old. Happy birthday, folks. And on the state and music history, two

0:37.1

equally important events on the state. First, 54 years ago today, the Beatles did their famous

0:42.5

Abbey Road photo shoot, you know, Cross in the street, iconic. And then 19 years ago today,

0:49.1

Dave Matthews bands tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste onto a sightseeing boat in the

0:55.2

Chicago River emptied their tank right there on a bridge that happened on this date in 2004.

1:07.4

All right, let's go. We are starting with the top story. It's another week of extreme weather here

1:12.8

in the US. Parts of the south and the east coast felt at big time yesterday and overnight

1:18.1

a returnator watches from Tennessee all the way up into upstate New York wins close to 70

1:23.0

miles per hour reported in New York City. As of this morning, while I'm recording this, it seems

1:28.1

the more than one million homes and businesses are still without power. That's across 11 states.

1:33.8

The big outage thousands of flights have been canceled so far. If you're flying anywhere this week,

1:38.8

keep an eye on it. These things end up impacting flights everywhere. I saw that in Maryland,

1:43.1

first responders rescued more than 30 people trapped in vehicles as the storms were knocking

1:47.5

down power lines all over the place. Sadly, two deaths have been reported so far on a kind of

1:52.4

these storms. It was a brutal one. It really was. If you have any family in that area, maybe check

1:56.7

on them. There are more rounds of thunderstorms expected today in certain areas, but it looks like

2:01.5

the worst of it is over. All right, okay. Getting into sports here in case you missed it over the

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