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Kamala Harris Talks 2028 With Keke Palmer, Netflix Doc on Fake 49ers Player, and Six Flags Over Georgia Reopens · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: VP Kamala Harris is talking about another run for president,
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  Speaker 1: but before 2028, she says there's something Americans need to
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  Speaker 1: pay attention to right now.
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  Speaker 2: No, they have backdoored racism through the door of politics.
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  Speaker 1: And a man accused of pretending to be an NFL
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  Speaker 1: player to scam women out of more than a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars is getting a Netflix documentary.
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  Speaker 3: I know I get a lot of fans who want
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  Speaker 3: to know how football works or.
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  Speaker 1: And a Six Flags amusement park is preparing to reopen
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  Speaker 1: after a deadly rollercoaster accident. But the victim's family wants answers.
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  Speaker 4: It's Thursday, October 15th.
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  Speaker 1: From the Black Effect Podcast Network, I'm Amy Brown. This
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  Speaker 1: is Front Page, and here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. Former Vice President Kamala Harris is speaking
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  Speaker 1: out about what's at stake in the upcoming midterm elections
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  Speaker 1: and whether she'll make another run for the White House.
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  Speaker 1: Harris sat down with actress and host Kiki Palmer for
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  Speaker 1: a wide-ranging interview about voting rights and the future of
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  Speaker 1: the country. and what Americans should be paying attention to.
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  Speaker 1: And one of her biggest concerns is voting rights. Harris
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  Speaker 1: says the Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act,
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  Speaker 1: a law designed to protect Americans from racial discrimination when
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  Speaker 1: they vote. She warns those changes could make it harder
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  Speaker 1: for black communities to elect people who represent them.
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  Speaker 2: My work has been about saying we got to we
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  Speaker 2: got to fight for these issues and we have to
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  Speaker 2: call it what it is. So part of what I've
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  Speaker 2: been talking about is that that decision, basically, they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's politics. It's OK if they redistrict around
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  Speaker 2: race because it's just politics.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: And so what I've been saying, because it is what
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely believe, no, they have backdoored racism through the
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  Speaker 2: door of politics. And we have to call it what
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  Speaker 2: it is. They're going back to a Jim Crow South
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  Speaker 2: on the issue of voting. Because of that decision, it
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  Speaker 2: is estimated we could lose as many as 200 state
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  Speaker 2: Black legislators in the South.
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  Speaker 1: And with just weeks until the midterm election, Harris says
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot on the line. Voters will decide which
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  Speaker 1: party controls Congress. And Harris says those results could determine
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  Speaker 1: whether lawmakers are able to stop cuts to Medicaid and
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  Speaker 1: other government programs millions of people depend on.
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  Speaker 2: On the first Tuesday in November, the midterms are going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. And our ability to put people in Congress
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  Speaker 2: who will say no. when they do things like put
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  Speaker 2: $ 1 trillion out of Medicaid, will be powerful and affect
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  Speaker 2: people right away. Our ability to put people in Congress
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  Speaker 2: who will say enough of the corruption, enough of ending
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  Speaker 2: the funding for drugs, Research on issues like fibroids, which
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  Speaker 2: they have done under the guise of attacking DEI, can
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  Speaker 2: be stopped. There are things that are not only about
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  Speaker 2: what will be helpful, but also stopping what is harmful
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  Speaker 2: that we can do right away with these midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: And this interview covered a lot of ground. Harris also
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  Speaker 1: talked about why she believes Black voters need to be
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  Speaker 1: more strategic with their votes.
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  Speaker 2: We need to be transactional voters, meaning let's not only
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  Speaker 2: vote because we honor the ancestors and those who lost
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  Speaker 2: blood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but let's vote also
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  Speaker 2: because we expect to get something out of it that
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  Speaker 2: relates to racism. The health care we can't afford, the
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  Speaker 2: child care we can't afford, the housing we can't afford.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like we are up against so much.
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  Speaker 1: She also warned that Americans are being hit with so
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  Speaker 1: much information at once, it can be hard to keep
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  Speaker 1: track of what's actually happening in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: So many people overwhelmed by the reality of daily life.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good way to distract people from the fact
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  Speaker 2: that they are corrupt. that they are making billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 2: that they are giving tax breaks to the richest people.
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  Speaker 2: Because who has time to focus on the corruption if
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  Speaker 2: you can't pay for groceries and gas?
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  Speaker 1: And of course, Palmer asked the question a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people want answered. Is Kamala Harris running for president again
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  Speaker 1: in 2028? Harris says she hasn't made that decision yet.
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  Speaker 1: But she did make one thing clear. She believes what
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  Speaker 1: happens in 2026 is more important than talking about 2028.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine dating a man who tells you he plays for
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  Speaker 1: the San Francisco 49ers. He's showing off expensive cars, wearing
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  Speaker 1: NFL gear, and talking about his big football contract. The
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  Speaker 1: only problem, he doesn't play for the 49ers. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he's never played in the NFL. That's the story behind
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  Speaker 1: a new Netflix documentary called Untold, Why deceiver? It follows
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  Speaker 1: 35-year-old Dajon Love, a man federal prosecutors say pretended to
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  Speaker 1: be a professional football player and wealthy businessman to scam
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  Speaker 1: women out of more than a million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I had a.
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  Speaker 3: Few tryouts that I killed before I got into the league.
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  Speaker 3: So what I'm going to do is I am going
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  Speaker 3: to post when I was on the 49ers and I
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  Speaker 3: ended up getting my bet. I'm in my new McLaren
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  Speaker 3: and it's just.
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  Speaker 1: An investigator say he went to some pretty extreme lengths
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  Speaker 1: to pull this all off. Love allegedly met women through
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  Speaker 1: dating apps and social media using different names, including John
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  Speaker 1: Love and Jordan Love. He posted videos wearing 49ers gear,
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  Speaker 1: holding a football helmet and showing off expensive cars. He
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  Speaker 1: even used a Google AI search result that incorrectly identified
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  Speaker 1: him as an NFL player to convince women he was
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  Speaker 1: telling the truth. But according to prosecutors, the football story
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  Speaker 1: was just the beginning. Love allegedly built romantic relationships with
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  Speaker 1: these women, talked about their future together, and then convinced
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  Speaker 1: them to invest their money with him. He promised he
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  Speaker 1: would make their money back. Prosecutors say an 18-year-old person
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  Speaker 1: named Taylor Jamie Chan helped him pull it all off
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  Speaker 1: by pretending to be his financial advisor. The two allegedly
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  Speaker 1: used fake banking apps and FaceTime calls to make it
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  Speaker 1: look like the investments were making money. Some women handed
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  Speaker 1: over their entire savings. Others were allegedly convinced to take
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  Speaker 1: out personal loans. But investigators say those investments never existed.
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  Speaker 1: And when the women started asking for their money back,
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  Speaker 1: Love allegedly stopped responding and blocked them. Federal investigators say
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  Speaker 1: about $ 1. 3 million moved through accounts connected to the scheme.
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  Speaker 1: Love and Chan were arrested in August at the Boise
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  Speaker 1: airport in Idaho. And according to ESPN, the number of
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  Speaker 1: potential victims has grown to more than 60 women. Love
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  Speaker 1: has pled not guilty to a federal conspiracy charge and
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  Speaker 1: is being held until trial, which is scheduled for December 15th.
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  Speaker 1: If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Now Netflix is turning the case into a documentary with
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  Speaker 1: some of the women telling their stories firsthand. There's no
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  Speaker 1: release date yet. And remember, these are allegations. Love has
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  Speaker 1: not been convicted. We will continue to follow this story.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, Six Flags Over Georgia is preparing to welcome
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  Speaker 1: visitors back on Friday, just four days after a father
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  Speaker 1: fell to his death from one of its roller coasters.
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  Speaker 1: And while the park is reopening, there are still serious
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  Speaker 1: questions about how this happened. The victim was 42-year-old Hassan Kareem,
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  Speaker 1: a father and beloved educator from Atlanta. He was riding
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  Speaker 1: the Goliath roller coaster Monday afternoon when police say he
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  Speaker 1: was thrown from his seat. Investigators say he struck other
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  Speaker 1: riders before falling beneath the roller coasters. Four other people
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  Speaker 1: were reportedly injured. And here's what makes this so troubling.
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  Speaker 1: Some witnesses say there appeared to be a problem with
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  Speaker 1: the ride before the accident. They describe hearing unusual clicking
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  Speaker 1: sounds from the safety restraints.
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  Speaker 4: I looked over at her and I told her, I said,
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  Speaker 4: something's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I said, it keeps clicking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kept clicking like it was unlocking and relocking.
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  Speaker 1: Others said the ride had been temporarily shut down for
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  Speaker 1: maintenance earlier that day. Now investigators are trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out whether something went wrong with the ride, its safety restraints,
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  Speaker 1: or something else entirely. Georgia State inspectors and Cobb County
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  Speaker 1: Police are both investigating. And Six Flags has temporarily shut
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  Speaker 1: down nine similar roller coasters across the United States and
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  Speaker 1: Canada as a precaution. The Goliath ride in Georgia will
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  Speaker 1: remain closed even as the rest of the park reopens
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. But beyond the investigation, we're also learning more
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  Speaker 1: about the man who lost his life. Kareem spent more
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  Speaker 1: than 12 years working at Wesley International Academy in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 1: where he served as an IT manager, technology teacher, and
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  Speaker 1: robotics coach. And his family says this was a man
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  Speaker 1: who had already survived so much. He battled cancer, survived
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  Speaker 1: a serious case of COVID, and just weeks before his death,
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  Speaker 1: escaped a car fire with his daughter. Now his family
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  Speaker 1: is grieving another tragedy. They're demanding answers about how he
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  Speaker 1: could have fallen from that roller coaster.
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  Speaker 4: We are absolutely devastated by any loss of a family member, friends, family.
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  Speaker 4: this tragic, but to lose him in this manner, this
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  Speaker 4: way is beyond words, can't even explain. I just really
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  Speaker 4: want a full investigation and we want answers.
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  Speaker 1: And the family is also asking people to stop sharing
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  Speaker 1: photos and videos of his final moments on social media.
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  Speaker 1: They say those images are painful and disrespectful to the
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  Speaker 1: people who love him. Six Flags says safety is its
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  Speaker 1: highest priority and it's cooperating with investigators. But for Karim's family,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest question remains unanswered. How did this happen and
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  Speaker 1: could it have been prevented? Our thoughts remain with the
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  Speaker 1: Karim family. That's your front page.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Mimi Brown.
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