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Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you even picking up the pose.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
All right, top training stories, Okay, I want to start
with this one. Yesterday morning on the show, we didn't
even have enough time to talk about the tragedy of
those two kids that died in the parking lot at
the Hollywood Casino. The homeless mother living with her kids
in the car. Well, now we're hearing a totally different
story altogether from the father of those kids. So this

(00:26):
story came out and I'll play you this is actually
Channel seven w XYZ doing the story and they were
able to get the exclusive with the mother and then
the next day they had the father. And if you
didn't hear the story, these two young kids, how.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Old were they again, they were nine and two I
believe nine and two years old.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
They stop breathing because it got so cold in the
car that they were living in in the parking lot
at the casino.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right now, we're going to turn to our other big
story of the night of father speaking to us tonight
after learning two of his kids from exposure to the
cold in a casino parking lot.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Yesterday, seven News Detroit reporter Darren Cunningham spoke to the
mother of those two kids about the tragic situation yesterday
to them from school.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
MYSSA wasn't moving and I kept saying, said he please
get up, please.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well tonight, Darren is getting the father's side of this story,
hearing about the moment he learned two of his children had.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Passed away real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm a stoutis for a second. Those kids were going
to school every single day in the school. Had no
clue that these kids were living in a car. Isn't
that unreal to think that?

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Pretty long? Yeah, It's just man, it's so sad, sad.

Speaker 7 (01:47):
Darnell Curry Senior wiped away tears while talking with me
about his children, Darnell Junior and Amelia and the distressing
phone call he says he took from their mother, Tatiana Williams.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
I'm I went to the gym. As soon as I
got on the tread, you know, she called saying can
I make it to the hospital right now? Big God
was hoping it was a sick joke, but there wasn't.

Speaker 7 (02:09):
According to Detroit Police, nine year old Darnell Junior and
two year old Amelia died while sleeping in a vehicle
at the Hollywood Casino at Greektown parking garage. Investigators say
the cause appears to be hypothermia, a tragedy stemming from homelessness.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
I tried, I asked for help.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I asked everybody, even people out of state.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Whod I tried. I tried to keep hotels. I tried
to pay people to stay there. It wasn't working for me.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
You know.

Speaker 7 (02:37):
People just didn't like too many kids at they house.
I spoke with the children's mother Tuesday evening. She told
me she's been living in her vehicle for three months,
along with her four kids, her mother, and two teenage siblings.
She says she reached out to Curry, who's the father
of three of her children.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I asked him, I said, can you get your kids
from me?

Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's how I need help.

Speaker 7 (02:55):
You know, I'm homeless.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I was on a kepit roon this long.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
I couldn't keeping no more.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
They were homeless, had had Tatiana. Had Tatiana ever reached
out asking to.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
No She did not. She said, cannot get them? Can
I get them? Just to get them? And cannot get
them because you're homeless. There's two different things.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
She said.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
She had been homeless for three months.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
So I saw that's what I saw about three months.
But she ain't never said nothing to me nothing, So
all them other side stories, they can cut all it.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, she did not.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
Curry, who lives in Nova, says Williams, never specified why
she wanted to drop their kids off to him.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
She's saying they had lived in Nova. It's a nice
community there. I don't know where he was living, but you.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Just asked, cannot get them for a couple of days.
But I told her I'm working and all that, and
I'm out here. We're not close to each other, so
I couldn't. But she knows all my family is right
around the corner from her.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Did she reach out to any of your family?

Speaker 5 (03:56):
No, she did not, and she knows she could have
liked like we always.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Used to do.

Speaker 7 (04:01):
He says the last time he held his children was
a month or two ago, and that they typically faced
two moments he will miss. And there's a you know,
police investigation into this. What is it you would like
to see come of this? Obviously, nothing's going to bring
back your nine year and your two year old.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
Matter than me. I can't get them back, So.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
This or whatever, Darren Cunningham, Seven News Detroit. They did,
they said it three of the kids were his. Only
those two three three, there's one living.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Child that's that's still his correct, So I wonder if
he'll get custody if you know, depend upon what's happening.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I don't know, but it's well, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I listened to a podcast yesterday that was done by
Charlie Leduff who used to work over at Fox two,
and he had so much stuff he was given out
about the city and the city hiding deaths and uh,
you know the you know, the numbers of people that
have been murdered over the years and like all this

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stuff like uncovering coming out about you know, Mayor Dugan
and stuff. And then he was talking about this case
and he mentioned this dad, but he also mentioned that,
you know, here's his dad was a gambling guy, Like
he was supposedly gambling in the casino and had like
free hotel rooms, Like, why is this guy gambling in
the casino?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
I agree with that. He said, he had you know,
free rooms at Greek Time for months on end.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
And that I gambled, which makes yeah, you're throwing a
lot of blame here.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, and I think that, honestly, I think that they're
we're gonna we're going to uncover that there's a lot
of people that probably shouldn't have been around these kids,
and might be both parents, who knows, But it's just
so sad to see now we've got two innocent lives
that are taken. I still find it amazing that they
were living in the parking lot for that long of
a time and nobody said, hey, there's a car with

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kids living in the parking lot.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
Not just kids, he said, her mom and her two
teenage siblings.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, jess.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Her, the mom, two teenage siblings. That's four people right there. Yeah,
the two kids that passed away, that's six kids.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's six people, and it's another child. And they're all
inside this car going back and forth. And then they
had a car that was to drive, and they had
a car that was to sit. So that was what
they were saying. They used two different kinds of cars
that were going in and out of the parking lot.
Egg prices are crazy. Everybody's going nuts over egg prices.
This story is on CBS News. CBS News was doing

(06:27):
a story about why are we not seeing eggs in stores?
It's an empty shelves and a lot of it has
to do with the fact that they have a protocol
when it comes to this. What is it the bird flu?
Yes on how they stopped eggs from being out there.
They went and visited some farmer in Ohio or no,
in Iowa.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
In Iowa, Yeah, how many acres do you have?

Speaker 8 (06:49):
Twelve hundred just outside of Des Moines. It's Lavonkerfumes, one
hundred and twenty three year old farm, seven generations of
the family.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
It raised cow, sheep and hens. So these are the girls.
These are the girls.

Speaker 8 (07:02):
On a summer day they will lay thirty five to
forty eggs, but in the winter the average is about seventeen.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
They just kind of shut down and use a lot
of their energy, I think, to keep warm.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
The decline comms as egg producers are struggling to keep
up with demand. Eggs are in short supply as bird
flu has taken a toll on tens of millions of chickens.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Some prices have topped ten dollars a dozen.

Speaker 10 (07:25):
How has it been with the egg shortage for you guys,
It's been pretty intent. So we actually have a little
calendar that we write people's names down, and we're out
about two weeks in a dance.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is the egg fridge.

Speaker 8 (07:39):
Levin put up a Bible verse to remind customers they'll shell,
not hoard, and inside you can see only a few cartons,
each one already reserved.

Speaker 10 (07:48):
Before this shortage, people just came and got them because
there was enough. But now everybody's like alarmed, and you
shouldn't need any more eggs than you did a month ago.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
And Lana Zach joins us now from Ancony, Iowa. All
this has me wondering, Lana, why does it take so
long to replenish the supply of hens.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
Well, here's an important point, and we see this on
Lavon's farm because she only has fifty five hens. But
when we're talking about some of these big commercial farms,
they have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of hens together.
And the USDA requires that if a single case of
bird flu is found on one of those farms, the
entire flock needs to be eliminated and it will be

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eight months then before the new chicks that they bring
in to replenish them are able to actually lay eggs.
That means that this major impact on the supply chain,
even if avian flu was eliminated today Maurice, it would
still be many more months before.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Why do they do that?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Why don't they just separate all these eggs?

Speaker 1 (08:52):
You can't. It's not worth the risk of people dying.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
If people start dying over this, we'd all lose our
minds rather than listen. We all know how often I'm bacon,
I go through a lot of eggs. This is like,
really really truly annoying for me. But I think from
a health perspective, I'm kind of behind it, Like I
don't want people getting sick that they could die.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
But they should have Maybe they keep the keep eggs,
like not one hundred and eighty of these hens together,
We'll put them in like blocks of ten or something
they did.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
I will get you behind you on that all day
every day, Like our farming practices are inhumane. It is
so wrong, it's not funny.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
It's gotta be a different outcome and just let's just
kill them all.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, did you see that the in Las Vegas or Nevada,
they had the same law that we have now in Michigan,
where they're only allowing you to have the bougie eggs,
you know, and you know the eggs that the eggs
that are not cage free or whatever. So they change
the law because of this, because of the lack of eggs.
I wonder if Michigan will follow suit because there's no

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eggs out there. But also people are eating more eggs
now than they ever ate before because they it's psychological.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
You're hearing that there's not enough eggs out there, So
at the grocery store, you get it. Yeah, don't be
buying eggs unless you want eggs.

Speaker 11 (10:09):
I like eggs.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
In one last, one, last story I want to bring up.
This is a big one. There's a big scam that's
going around that is costing women with broken hearts lots
of money. AI celebrities are hitting on women on dating
apps and stealing their money.

Speaker 11 (10:29):
As the Day of Love approaches, a warning about scammers
trying to steal more than your heart. Officials are reminding Americans,
especially seniors, not to fall for romance scams, with criminals
using a fake identity to gain your affection and trust
before stealing from you.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Well, it's it's a big issue, to the tune of
one point four billion dollars lost to romance scams just
in twenty twenty three alone.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
This month, the FBI Philadelphia Field Office and the US
Postal Service issued warning for people not to be duped.
What are some things that we should be looking out
for as red flags?

Speaker 4 (11:05):
These criminals will express their love very very quickly, within
hours or days, and they'll always find excuses to avoid
personal contact, and then they'll create fake emergencies, something a
medical issue, maybe a travel expense.

Speaker 11 (11:21):
This seventy six year old moved to Georgia and was
tricked into sending her life savings seventy thousand dollars to
a man she met onlines.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I'm at all that money and I don't think I'll
ever get it back.

Speaker 11 (11:32):
And last month in France, a woman in her fifties
revealed she was skimmed out of nearly eight hundred and
fifty thousand dollars talking to fraudsters using an AI generated
version of brad Pitt.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
AI technology allows these cyber criminals to portray themselves as
real people using somebody else's voice completely. And so what
it's done is it's made all of the things that
I just referred to more difficult and more challenging to
discern the real thing from something that's completely fake.

Speaker 11 (12:07):
Charlie an online platform that offers. Banking for Seniors released
a list of the celebrities most impersonated by fraudgers. Topping
the list Keanu Reeves, Jason and Sandra bulla'd for kan
Is that unreal?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
A Listen, I'm telling you it's these people that you hear.
You know, Grandma, I'm I'm stuck in Spain right now
and I need money. I'm in a Spanish prison. And
then Grandma sends the money. And then wait, you didn't
go to Spain. You were just hanging out in White Lake.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do you remember we did a Five Lives to tell
your mom? I think last year.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I actually met the girl in person recently, and it's
like she.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
She lost tens of thousands of dollars.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I mean, I don't know if I would fall for
the that Brad Pitt thing, but I will tell you this.
So you get Scarlett Johansson talking to me, I'll do it.
Your money, do you even have it all?

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'll see you got too many years of day and
still going in Detroit, Toledo, in West Michigan, it's Mojo
in the morning.