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Man Detained in Nancy Guthrie Investigation Says Online Sleuths are Ruining His Life | Crime Alert 6AM 03.04.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: the Tucson, Arizona man briefly detained in the kidnapping of
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  Speaker 1: Nancy Guthries, now speaking publicly insisting he had nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with the disappearance, urging the public to stop what
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  Speaker 1: he calls online mob speculation. Luke Daily, age thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: was detained Friday the thirteenth after a swat raid on
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  Speaker 1: his home, roughly two miles from where Nancy was taken.
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  Speaker 1: He and his seventy seven year old mother were handcuffed
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  Speaker 1: while officers executed search warrants. Both were released without charges.
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  Speaker 1: Daily says internet rumors fueled the law enforcement action. In
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  Speaker 1: an interview with True Crime Arizona. Here's what he'd say
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  Speaker 1: to internet sleuths.
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  Speaker 2: Just not to go off speculation of everything you hear
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  Speaker 2: on the internet, and kind of like the hive mind
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  Speaker 2: mentality that someone says something and then they just go
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  Speaker 2: off of it based on no evidence, no truth.
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  Speaker 1: Users had circulated his name and photo on social media,
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  Speaker 1: claiming he resembled the mask man captured on doorbell video
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  Speaker 1: the night Nancy Gouthree vanished. Daily flatly rejects that theory.
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  Speaker 2: It's not me. I don't see the resemblance of it
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  Speaker 2: looking like me, but absolutely not. I have nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with this case.
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  Speaker 1: Asked whether he had any knowledge about who may be responsible.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. If I did, I would happily tell FBI
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  Speaker 2: please anything. I mean, I, like everyone else's, want Nancy
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  Speaker 2: to come home and be safe.
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  Speaker 1: Daily has not been named a suspect. His attorney previously
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  Speaker 1: confirmed he has no known link to Nancy Guthrie and
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  Speaker 1: was not arrested in connection with the case. As scrutiny
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  Speaker 1: swirls around that early detention, investigators are also clarifying one
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  Speaker 1: of their most publicized leads, the backpack worn by the
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  Speaker 1: masked suspect. P Mac County Sheriff Chris Nanos says detectives
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  Speaker 1: initially believe the black Ozark trail hiker pack seen in
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  Speaker 1: surveillance video was purchased at Walmart. That detail was widely
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  Speaker 1: reported as a promising lead. Now, the sheriff tells NBA
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  Speaker 1: investigators are reassessing.
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  Speaker 3: We've now learned that maybe it wasn't Virtus down of Walmart.
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  Speaker 3: That Backpeck has knew it was exclusive the Walmart, But
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  Speaker 3: who's to say? I didn't buy it and put it
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  Speaker 3: on eBay. That's what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: The sheriff has faced mounting criticism over the pace and
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  Speaker 1: handling of the investigation. Still he maintains progress is being made.
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  Speaker 3: I think the investigators are definitely closer. We got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of intel, a lot of leads, but now it's
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  Speaker 3: time to just go to work.
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  Speaker 1: He is declining to release additional evidence, defending that decision
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  Speaker 1: against those who think they haven't shared enough.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much that everybody wants to know, right but
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  Speaker 3: I would be very neglectful, irresponsible as a police law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement leader to share that with everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Monday marked more than a month since Nancy disappeared. Today's
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  Speaker 1: show anchor Savannah Guthrie returned to the Tucson home this
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  Speaker 1: week for the first time since the abduction. Savannah and
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  Speaker 1: her sister Annie, along with Annie's husband, walked arm in
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  Speaker 1: arm down the driveway, placing yellow flowers at a growing
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  Speaker 1: memorial outside the house. The tribute includes crosses, ribbons, and
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  Speaker 1: handwritten prayers, one sign reading let Nancy Come home. In
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  Speaker 1: a handwritten note left at the scene, Savannah wrote in
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  Speaker 1: part that though the family is surrounded by darkness, and uncertainty.
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  Speaker 1: Their love quote burns bright. Nancy eighty four was taken
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  Speaker 1: from her Catalina Foothills home in the early morning hours
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  Speaker 1: of February first. Investigators say surveillance footage shows a masked
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  Speaker 1: armed man approaching her front door. Her doorbell camera was disconnected,
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  Speaker 1: then drops of her blood were found on the porch.
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  Speaker 1: Her family called nine one one after she failed to
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  Speaker 1: log on for a virtual church service that morning. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI and the Pima County Sheriff's Department are working the
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  Speaker 1: case jointly. Tens of thousands of tips have been submitted.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities have not yet publicly named a suspect. The reward
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  Speaker 1: of more than one point two million dollars still stands
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  Speaker 1: for more in the case of Nancy, Guthrie joined Crime
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  Speaker 1: Fox one for the first twenty four hours. More crime
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  Speaker 1: and justice news after this from the Superior Court of
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  Speaker 1: Barrow County, Georgia. The verdict in the State of Georgia
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  Speaker 1: versus Colin Gray, father of an alleged school shooter, accused
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  Speaker 1: of enabling the crime.
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  Speaker 4: And the Superior Court of Barrack County, State of Georgia
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  Speaker 4: versus common Gray came number twenty four DESH five ninety
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  Speaker 4: thirty dash Pe jury verdict count one murder and a
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  Speaker 4: second degree we the jury find a defending guilty.
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  Speaker 1: The jury would go on to convict him on count
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  Speaker 1: after count, a second count of second degree murder, two
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  Speaker 1: counts of involuntary manslaughter, eighteen counts of cruelty to children,
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  Speaker 1: and multiple counts of reckless conduct.
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  Speaker 4: Count twenty nine reckless kind of lead the jury find
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  Speaker 4: a defendant guilty. This third day of March twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: six sign four percent.
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  Speaker 1: Jurors deliberated less than two hours before deciding that Colin
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  Speaker 1: Gray bore criminal responsibility. Fourteen year old Colt Gray is
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  Speaker 1: accused of killing two students and two teachers at Appalachi
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  Speaker 1: High School in winder Georgia. Prosecutors argued that Gray ignored
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  Speaker 1: warning signs for years. They say he gave his son
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  Speaker 1: an ar fifteen as a Christmas gift. They say he
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  Speaker 1: allowed the teenager to keep it in his bedroom. They
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  Speaker 1: said he knew about violent outbursts, school shooter obsessions, online threats,
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  Speaker 1: and mounting mental health struggles and still did nothing to
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  Speaker 1: remove the weapon. It was September fourth of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four when investigators say Colt Gray carried that rifle onto
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  Speaker 1: a school bus with the barrel wrapped in poster board
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  Speaker 1: inside a backpack. He later opened fire inside the school,
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  Speaker 1: killing Mason Shermerhorn, Christian Angulo, Richard Aspinwall, and Christina Ermey.
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  Speaker 1: The defense argued the father could not have foreseen what
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  Speaker 1: his son would do. They said hindsight is not proof
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  Speaker 1: of criminal intent. They said the shooter alone is responsible.
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  Speaker 1: But prosecutors told jurors this case was about the father's choices.
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  Speaker 1: They said there was one simple step that could have
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  Speaker 1: prevented the tragedy, take the rifle away. Colin Gray showed
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  Speaker 1: little visible reaction as deputies placed him a handcuffs. He
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  Speaker 1: will be sentenced at a later date, and his son
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  Speaker 1: charged with fifty five felonies awaits trial. Two young children
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  Speaker 1: in York County, Pennsylvania, are kept in restraints all day,
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  Speaker 1: locked inside a crib turned cage and a car seat,
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  Speaker 1: in what prosecutors now call child torture. District Attorney Tim
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  Speaker 1: Barker laid out disturbing details during a press conference. He
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  Speaker 1: said the five year old girl and six year old
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  Speaker 1: boy were malnourished, not toilet trained, and had not left
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  Speaker 1: their home on Castle Road and Eders in roughly two years.
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  Speaker 1: Both had not received routine medical or dental care since
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 5: Both had significant dental issues, and when we say significant,
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  Speaker 5: this is an area where words do not fully describe.
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  Speaker 1: The boy was forced to live inside what Barker described
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  Speaker 1: as a homemade cage constructed with stacked cribs, ratchets, wraps,
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  Speaker 1: zip ties, and other locking mechanisms. Investigators say the structure
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  Speaker 1: had external locks and smelled strongly of urine, with suspected
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  Speaker 1: fecal matter on the rails. The girl was allegedly buckled
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  Speaker 1: into an infant car seat for twenty to twenty three
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  Speaker 1: hours a day. Medical staff later linked her limited mobility
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  Speaker 1: and neck problems to prolonged restraint. Police say both children
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  Speaker 1: showed signs of medical, dental, nutritional, and emotional neglect. Doctors
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  Speaker 1: determined the pattern met the definition of child torture, describing
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  Speaker 1: a long term combination of physical abuse and psychological maltreatment.
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  Speaker 1: The children's mother, Ashley Cardona, aged thirty one, and their
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  Speaker 1: grandmother Lori Cardona, fifty three, each face seventeen felony counts,
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  Speaker 1: including aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, and endangering the welfare of children.
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  Speaker 1: The children's uncle, Michael Cardona, aged twenty nine, faces six
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  Speaker 1: felony counts, including conspiracy and unlawful restraint. Investigators say he
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  Speaker 1: admitted helping build the cage. The children were remove from
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  Speaker 1: the home in March of twenty twenty four and placed
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  Speaker 1: in foster care. Barker says investigators took nearly two years
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  Speaker 1: to file charges to ensure they could fully document the
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  Speaker 1: extent of the harm.
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  Speaker 5: We would have potentially missed key charges, some of which
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  Speaker 5: may have included did we fully establish and could we
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  Speaker 5: fully prove actual serious bodily injury inflicted.
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  Speaker 1: All three defendants remain jailed on two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bail as the case moves forward. A self
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  Speaker 1: driving vehicle blocks first responders called to this weekend's mass
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  Speaker 1: shooting in downtown Austin as they rush to a scene,
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  Speaker 1: leaving three people dead and more than a dozen injured.
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  Speaker 1: As the chaos unfolded, a bystander video captures a way
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  Speaker 1: more robotaxi stopped across both lanes of traffic near West
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  Speaker 1: sixth and Nuasis Streets. An ambulance can be seen trying
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  Speaker 1: to pass. A police cruiser then pulls up behind the
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  Speaker 1: autonomous vehicle. An officer approaches and taps on the window,
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  Speaker 1: then ultimately moves the car out of the way.
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  Speaker 6: Wave on, come on.
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  Speaker 1: No more. It means we's not many going in for
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Turnige, who recorded the video and shared it with
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  Speaker 1: k xa N, says he ordered the vehicle through uber
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  Speaker 1: WEIMO confirmed the vehicle was en route to pick up
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  Speaker 1: a writer near the shooting scene. The company says it
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  Speaker 1: is reviewing the incident. Austin Travis County EMS Chief Robert
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  Speaker 1: Lucritz addressed the incident.
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  Speaker 6: Emass's ball as our fellow public safety partners worked very
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  Speaker 6: closely with the autonomous vehicle vendors the opera here in
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  Speaker 6: the city of Austin. We had more than twenty assets
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  Speaker 6: resources that responded to this event.
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  Speaker 1: We were on.
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  Speaker 6: Scene within fifty seven seconds, and so in the grand
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  Speaker 6: scheme of the impact on the overall incident, we don't
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  Speaker 6: believe it had any impact on patient outcomes. I will
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  Speaker 6: say that we're already in touch with Waimo and the
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  Speaker 6: autonomous vehicles to give them more concerns and work with
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  Speaker 6: them in order to try to address.
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  Speaker 3: This moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: The gunfire erupted just before two am Sunday outside Bufort's
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  Speaker 1: bar on West six. Investigators continued to examine the motive
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  Speaker 1: behind the shooting, which authorities have said may have indicators
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  Speaker 1: of terrorism. The victims have been identified and the case
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  Speaker 1: remains under active investigation. Austin has become a major testing
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  Speaker 1: ground for autonomous vehicles. In recent months, Waymo vehicles have
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  Speaker 1: faced scrutiny across the country over reports of stopping in
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  Speaker 1: intersections improperly passing school buses, some of which prompting a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary software recall. San Francisco leaders are pointing to a
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  Speaker 1: recent blackout crisis as a warning about the limits of
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  Speaker 1: autonomous vehicles. During a packed city hall hearing, members of
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  Speaker 1: the Board of Supervisors pressed WEIMO executives about the company's
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  Speaker 1: performance during a massive December twentieth power outage that knocked
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  Speaker 1: out traffic lights across much of San Francisco. The blackout,
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  Speaker 1: sparked by a fire at a power substation, left traffic
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  Speaker 1: signals dark and triggered widespread gridlock. According to city officials,
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  Speaker 1: nearly one thousand, six hundred Waymo vehicles stopped for at
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  Speaker 1: least two minutes during the outage. More than sixty had
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  Speaker 1: to be manually moved. Some frozen intersections, others blocked buses
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  Speaker 1: and emergency crews. Supervisor by Lal mah Mood compares the
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  Speaker 1: vehicles to storybook magic.
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  Speaker 7: Like Cinderella's magical carriages, But just like in the fairy tale,
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  Speaker 7: we can now see that those carriages can turn into
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  Speaker 7: pumpkins at the drop of a hat.
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  Speaker 1: Emergency officials described difficulty reaching the company as the crisis unfolded.
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  Speaker 1: The Director of Emergency Management says her department was placed
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  Speaker 1: on hold for fifty three minutes while trying to contact
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  Speaker 1: Weaimo's support center. The company told supervisors it has since
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  Speaker 1: rolled out fleetwide software updates to better recognize regional outages
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  Speaker 1: and respond to dark intersections without waiting for remote Human assistance.
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  Speaker 1: Officials set about seventy dispatchers at a call center in
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  Speaker 1: the Philippines assist vehicles requiring intervention, but that system was
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmed during the outage. For the latest crime and justice news,
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