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FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Wednesday September 7th, 2022

FIRST THING with Kevin Manno

Kevin Manno

News, Society & Culture, Arts, Daily News

5.02.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Get caught up. Quickly. Eliza Fletcher, Uvalde TX, Sue Bird, #SpitGate, Adele, Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, The View, Apple Event & more...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, good morning. Hello friends. How are you? How I'm just sleep. Do you have any dreams? It's Wednesday, September 7th, 2022.

0:08.0

This is first thing with Kevin Mano. Let's go.

0:10.0

Evan Rachel Wood, Devon Sawa and Leslie Jones are all celebrating birthdays today.

0:16.0

And on this date in history, it was four years ago today that we lost Mac Miller.

0:20.0

He died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 26.

0:24.0

It wasn't until after his passing that I really came to appreciate his music, but the guy was great.

0:28.0

Rest in peace.

0:39.0

Okay, all right. Today I'll start with an unfortunate update to my top story from yesterday.

0:45.0

When I woke up yesterday, the breaking news was that a body had been found while investigators in Memphis search for Eliza Fletcher.

0:51.0

And a few hours later, yes, they confirmed that it was in fact Eliza.

0:55.0

She was found about seven and a half miles from where that surveillance video showed her abduction.

0:59.0

And the suspect that was arrested over the weekend is now facing first degree murder charges in addition to the kidnapping charge.

1:05.0

She was picked up on. It's just a terrible story. She was a mother to two young boys.

1:09.0

She was a wife and a teacher. I know everyone is very grateful for tips and the help from the community as well as law enforcement to get a suspect in custody as quickly as they did.

1:19.0

It's a tragedy. And with the world watching in real time like this, we certainly hope for a different outcome.

1:26.0

Okay, all right. Let's move on to a couple sports headlines when Serena Williams played her final US Open Match on Friday.

1:36.0

4.6 million people tuned into watcher. That's huge.

1:40.0

By far a record for an ESPN tennis telecast.

1:43.0

The previous record holder was a 2012 Wimbledon match between Roger Federer and Andy Murray.

1:49.0

That had 3.9 million. Serena had 4.6 million.

1:53.0

And by the way, so silly, but I saw a tweet once that I'll never get out of my brain.

1:57.0

Half of Roger Federer's name is Err.

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