Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / What You Need To Know with Christine Nagy
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Seven o'clock Monday morning, Cubby and Christine and you have
- 0:02Speaker 1: all the headlines. Christine, good morning, Good morning, Covey. Today
- 0:05Speaker 1: mark seventeen days since the US is Rali war with
- 0:08Speaker 1: Iran started. Israel has carried out a new wave of
- 0:11Speaker 1: attacks on Tehran, while golf countries remain on high alert.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Flights were suspended at Dubai International Airport after a drone
- 0:18Speaker 1: attack nearby, and limited flights have been resumed. And here,
- 0:22Speaker 1: of course, we are seeing gas prices on the increase.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Ten airline CEOs urging Congress to please pay the TSA
- 0:30Speaker 1: workers during the partial government shutdown because we're seeing huge
- 0:34Speaker 1: security lines right now at the airports and TSA workers
- 0:39Speaker 1: are missing their paychecks because the Department of Homeland Security
- 0:42Speaker 1: largely remains without funding. And Covey, you mentioned this. The
- 0:46Speaker 1: whole eastern half of the country is being warned of
- 0:49Speaker 1: very severe weather today that you said is coming up
- 0:51Speaker 1: from the south. Yeah, all headed out direction. So yeah,
- 0:54Speaker 1: if you are flying, that's another thing that's going to contribute, unfortunately,
- 0:58Speaker 1: to some added delays today. New Jersey Transit writers some
- 1:03Speaker 1: better news for you. The first trips across the new
- 1:06Speaker 1: North Portal Bridge begin today, so hopefully that smooths out
- 1:10Speaker 1: a little bit. The cost of an AD free Prime
- 1:13Speaker 1: Video subscription is now on the rise, Amazon announcing they're
- 1:17Speaker 1: upgrading the ad free tier and that'll cost four ninety
- 1:21Speaker 1: nine a month. Plus you already have to have the
- 1:23Speaker 1: Amazon Prime subscription. So this is just in addition to
- 1:27Speaker 1: Peacock paramount more and more. Oh, we have to talk
- 1:32Speaker 1: about Alexa and her new snarky attitude, but we'll get
- 1:36Speaker 1: to that later. It's got more snark here. Yeah, there's
- 1:38Speaker 1: a sas. You can ask for sassy Alexa now, but
- 1:40Speaker 1: you got to watch out because she will curse. Okay.
- 1:43Speaker 1: In sports basketball, NIXT beat the Warriors one ten, one
- 1:46Speaker 1: oh seven. March Madness starts this week. NCAA teams were
- 1:49Speaker 1: picked and the first round will start tomorrow and the
- 1:52Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic USA beat the Dominican Republic two to one.
- 1:56Speaker 1: They advance to the finals, which will be tomorrow at
- 1:58Speaker 1: eight and that will be either Venezuela or Italy. That
- 2:02Speaker 1: game to be decided today. Finally, a new study has
- 2:05Speaker 1: found your brain cannot actually do two things at once.
- 2:09Speaker 1: For those of us who like to believe we can multitask,
- 2:12Speaker 1: no researchers found that the brain is just task switching
- 2:17Speaker 1: really fast. Like when they ran people through these exercises
- 2:21Speaker 1: and they tried to multitask for a couple of weeks.
- 2:23Speaker 1: They got quicker at switching, but they were distracted more
- 2:28Speaker 1: and they were making more mistakes. What about chewing gum
- 2:31Speaker 1: in walking barely at the same time. This is why
- 2:36Speaker 1: things like texting while driving remain so dangerous, all right,
- 2:39Speaker 1: showing gum and walking. No matter how much you practice,
- 2:41Speaker 1: your brain simply wasn't built to run on two tracks
- 2:43Speaker 1: at once. What about talking and hitting a button to
- 2:46Speaker 1: start a song. I'm doing it right now. That's a
- 2:49Speaker 1: special skill set. I don't have that