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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Wednesday May 1st, 2024

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Wednesday. May 1st, 2024, the start of a brand new month.

0:04.8

Welcome to May, friends. It's also the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.

0:09.6

This is first thing with Kevin Mano. Thanks for being here. A real quick and easy look at all the headlines

0:14.1

and it starts right now.

0:18.1

Okay, we'll start with a quick update

0:20.5

on the ongoing protests on college campuses across the country.

0:24.0

The headline here is that yesterday Columbia University, as well as Portland State University,

0:28.7

both closed their campuses after demonstrators took over buildings.

0:32.4

At Columbia, a handful of people broke into Hamilton Hall,

0:35.0

at which point the school threatened to expel the students involved,

0:38.0

and then last night dozens of New York police officers in riot gear

0:42.0

entered Hamilton Hall and started making arrests.

0:45.2

I know that on the other side of the country, UCLA saw a lot of action to yesterday.

0:49.0

Police came in as the school declared the encampment they had set up to be illegal.

0:54.2

The tensions are still growing and again just to reset these pro-Palestinian protests are generally

1:00.0

based on the idea that people want these universities to divest from Israeli-backed companies.

1:07.0

All right, okay, getting into sports here.

1:11.0

This is a wild one, really.

1:12.0

Last night, the Dodgers Diamondbacks game

1:15.0

was delayed for two hours on account of a swarm of bees.

1:18.2

They were on the netting right behind home plate.

1:21.0

They eventually brought a beekeeper named Matt Hilton in you got a

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