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Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin

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July 13, 2021
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July 12, 2021
• Virgin Billionaire Richard Branson Successfully Rockets To Outer Space; Haitian Police Arrest Suspect Accused Of Orchestrating President's Assassination; 4+ Million Under Heat Alerts Across Western U.S.. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Cubans Stage Rare Protests Against Lack of Freedom and a Dire Economy; Pfizer to Brief U.S. Officials on Possible Need for COVID Booster; Italy Beats England in Penalty Shootout to Win 2020 Euro Title. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 09, 2021
• Democrats Push White House To Heighten Focus On Protecting Voting; U.S. Capitol Fencing To Start Coming Down As Early As Today; Torrential Rain From Tropical Storm Elsa Floods East Coast. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Pfizer Says Time for a Booster Shot, CDC & FDA: Not so Fast; Biden Defends Leaving Afghanistan Despite Taliban Gains; Two Americans Arrested in Haitian Assassination Case; Suns Take 2-0 NBA Finals Lead Against Bucks. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 08, 2021
• In A Reversal, Kevin McCarthy Will Name GOP Members To January 6 Probe; Trump Sues Tech Giants For Censorship, Then Fundraises Off Suit; Former South African President Jacob Zuma Turns Himself In To Police. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Surfside Crews Transition From Search & Rescue to Recovery; Biden Pitches Infrastructure, Safety Net Agenda in Illinois; Haitian Police Kill 4, Detain 2 Related to Moise Assassination; Tampa Bay Lighting Repeat as Stanley Cup Champions. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 07, 2021
• Elsa Whips Florida's West Coast With High Winds And Heavy Rains; U.S. Departure Leave Al Qaeda And Taliban Prisoners In Afghan Hands; Pressure Mounts On Biden To Lift Border Travel Restrictions. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Elsa Whips Florida's West Coast With High Winds, Heavy Rain; Biden Urges Vaccine Hesitant Americans to "Think Twice"; FBI Releases 11 New Capitol Videos Seeking Public Tips; Chris Paul Shines as Suns Take Game One Over Bucks. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 06, 2021
• Biden Warns "COVID-19 Has Not Been Vanquished"; Families in Deadly 2017 London Fire Still Seeking Answers; Ukrainian Army Requiring Female Soldiers To Wear High Heels. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Surfside Condo Collapse Death Toll Now 28, 117 Unaccounted For; Hong Kong Police Say They Have Thwarted Teen Terror Plot; Regional Passenger Plane Crashes in Eastern Russia; Bucks Star Doubtful for NBA Finals Opener. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 05, 2021
• Biden Approves Florida's Emergency Declaration Ahead Of Storm; Top U.S. General In Afghanistan: "We Should Be Concerned" About Taliban; Russia Sets Daily COVID Death Record Five Times In Past Week. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Remaining Section of Surfside Champlain Condo Demolished for Safety; Americans Celebrate a Nearly Normal July 4th Together; Golf Pro Killed, 2 Others Found Dead at Georgia Country Club. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 02, 2021
• Democrats Brace For Tougher Fights Against New Voting Restrictions; Pelosi Names GOP Rep. Cheney To Capitol Riot Probe Committee; Biden Reprises Role As Consoler-In-Chief During Surfside Visit. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• U.S. Troops Depart Bagram Air Base After Nearly 20 Years; Should Trump be Concerned After Weisselberg Charges?; New Docs: Despite Major Damage, Repairs Were Halted at Condo. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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July 01, 2021
• Soon: Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg To Turn Himself In To D.A.; House Votes To Form Committee To Investigate January Sixth Insurrection; Chinese President Xi Says Countries That Bully China Will Meet "A Great Wall Of Steel. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Soon: Trump Org CFO Weisselberg to Turn Himself in to D.A.; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Overturns Cosby's Sex Assault Conviction; Florida Rescuers Find Bodies of Two Children, Death Toll Now 18; U.S. Days Away from Completing Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 30, 2021
• Nearly 65 Million People Facing Heat Alert In West And Northeast; Rescuers Running Out Of Time To Find Condo Collapse Survivors; Withdrawal Of Troops From Afghanistan Could Be Complete In Days. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• 230+ Deaths Reported in British Columbia Amid Historic Heat Wave; Rescuers Running Out of Time to Find Condo Collapse Survivors; NYC Elections Board Counts 135,000 Non-Valid Test Ballots; Supreme Court Allows Eviction Moratorium to Remain in Place. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 29, 2021
• Miami Herald: Pool Contractor Saw Water And Cracks Below Pool Deck; House Votes Tomorrow On Select Committee To Probe Capitol Riot; Juul To Pay $40 Million In North Carolina Lawsuit Settlement. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Miami Herald: Pool Contractor Saw Water, Cracks Below Pool Deck; Record-Breaking Temperatures in Pacific Northwest; Biden Travels to Wisconsin to Promote Infrastructure Plan. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 28, 2021
• Families Cling To Hope For Survivors Of Florida Condo Collapse; Pacific Northwest In Grips Of Record Heatwave; Sydney Under Two-Week Lockdown To Contain Delta Variant Outbreak. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Report: Surfside Official Told Champlain Tower Residents in 2018 the Condo was in a "Very Good Shape"; Biden Orders Airstrikes Against Iran-Backed Militias; Trump Organization Lawyers to Meet with Manhattan Prosecutors. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 25, 2021
• Crews Race To Save Victims Buried Under Florida Building; Biden Approves Emergency Declaration To Coordinate Disaster Relief; Northwest Bracing For Record-Shattering Weekend Heat Wave. Aired 5:30- 6a ET
• 99 Unaccounted for, 1 Dead After Florida Building Crumbles; Biden Announces Bipartisan Agreement on Infrastructure; Biden, Afghan Leaders to Meet at White House Today; Israel Reinstates Indoor Mask Mandate. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 24, 2021
• Rescue Crews On Scene After Building Collapse Near Miami Beach; Gen. Milley Offers Forceful Defense Of Pentagon Diversity Efforts; COVID Cases Surge In Countries Using China's Vaccine. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Rescue Crews on Scene After Florida Building Collapse; Senators Set to Meet With Biden After Making Infrastructure Deal; Britney Spears Pleads Her Case in Court. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 23, 2021
• Republicans Block Senate Democrats' Sweeping Voting Rights Bill; Biden To Roll Out Gun Crime Prevention And Public Safety Strategy; Britney Spears Set To Speak At Conservatorship Hearing Today. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Republicans Block Senate Dems' Sweeping Voting Rights Bill; Eric Adams Holds Lead In Early NYC Dem Mayoral Results; Push to Get More Americans Vaccinated as Variants Loom; WSJ: China to Extend Border Restrictions for Another Year; Hong Kong's Biggest Pro- Democracy Newspaper to Close. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 22, 2021
• Ranked-Choice Voting To Decide NYC Mayoral Primary; Airline Groups Want Department Of Justice To Punish Badly Behaved Travelers; U.S. Will Share 41 Million Doses Through COVAX, 10 Million With Africa. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• NYC Mayoral Primary is Referendum on National Crime Wave; Appeals Court Blocks Ruling to Overturn California Assault Weapons Ban; Carl Nassib is First Active NFL Player to Come Out as Gay; Supreme Court Sides with Student-Athletes in NCAA Case; Mayor Voting Rights Bill Expected to Fail Key Senate Test Vote. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 21, 2021
• U.S. Preparing New Sanctions Against Russia Over Navalny Poisoning; 13 Candidates Battle In New York City Mayoral Race; Olympic Spectators Will Be Allowed At 50 Percent Capacity. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Horrific Car Crash Kills 9 Children And 1 Adult on Alabama Highway; Bernie Sanders Floats Sweeping $6 Trillion Infrastructure Plan; UN Warns Against Violence in Ethiopian Elections. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 18, 2021
• DOJ Releases Harrowing New Bodycam Video From Capitol Riot; Tokyo Olympic Officials Prepare For Delta Variant; Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge To Obamacare. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• European Union Reopens to U.S. Travelers, Vaccinated or Not; President Biden Signs Juneteenth National Holiday Into Law; McConnell Rejects Manchin's Compromise on Voting Rights Bill; Iranians Head to Polls in Controversial Presidential Election; Bucks Bounce Back, Force Game 7 with Nets. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 17, 2021
• Airline And Bank Websites Go Down In Another Major Internet Failure; California Ends Capacity Limits At Most Venues, No Masks For Those Vaccinated; Congress Passes Bill Making Juneteenth A National Holiday. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Skepticism Tempers Optimism at Summit Between U.S. & Russian Leaders; Putin Characterizes Summit with Biden as "Constructive"; The Fed Moves Up Timing for Rate Hikes; Hawks Rally from 26 Down to Shock Sixers. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 16, 2021
• Biden And Putin To Meet Face-To-Face In High-Stakes Summit; President Joe Biden Expected To Press Putin On Cybersecurity During Summit. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Soon: Biden & Putin Meet Face-to-Face in High-Stakes Summit. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 15, 2021
• Biden Prepares For Historic Face-To-Face With Vladimir Putin; Biden Pushes European Leaders To Focus On China Threat; Chemical Fire To Burn For Days, Area Residents Forced To Evacuate. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Biden Prepares for Historic Face-to-Face with Vladimir Putin; Retailers Plead with Biden to Fix Port Congestion; House Committee to Investigate Trump DOJ Data Seizures; FBI Warns Lawmakers QAnon Believers My Become More Violent. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 14, 2021
• President Biden In Brussels For His First NATO Summit; U.S. Assessing Reported Leak At Chinese Nuclear Power Facility; Delta Variant's U.K. Dominance Sparks Concern In The U.S. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• President Biden Travels to Brussels for His First NATO Summit; Trump DOJ Subpoenaed Apple for Former White House Counsel McGahn's E- mail Records; Naftali Bennett Sworn in As Israel's New Prime Minister. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 11, 2021
• President Biden's First G7 Summit Begins This Morning; Closed Cold Case Murder Tied To Ex-Tennessee Governor; COVID Expert Says Shutting Virus Out Of Olympic Games Is Impossible. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Trump DOJ Subpoenaed Apple for Data on House Intel Committee Dems; Bipartisan Senators' Group Says It Has $1.2 Trillion Deal; Exceptional Drought Grips Western U.S.; Two Passengers Test Positive on Fully-Vaccinated Cruise Ship. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 10, 2021
• President Biden Starts Series of Summits by Defending Democracy Itself; Russian Court Labels Alexei Navalny Political Organization as Extremist; California Set to Fully Reopen Next Week; Vermont Nears Its Vaccination Goal to End All Restrictions; Carolina Panthers Owner Rejects Dome Stadium Due to COVID; Olympic Athletes May Be Subject to GPS Tracking in Japan. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• President Biden in UK to Begin Meetings Today with Global Leaders; U.S. Purchases 500M Pfizer Doses for 92 Low-Income Countries; Former White House Counsel McGahn Confirms Trump Pushed Him to Fire Mueller. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 09, 2021
• President Biden Heads to England for G7 Summit; Lawmakers Urge Businesses to Beef up Cybersecurity Amid Recent Attacks. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Biden Heads Abroad As Domestic Agenda Hits Roadblocks; Senate Passes Bipartisan Bill to Counter China's Growing Might; Johnson & Johnson Working to Extend Shelf Life of Its Vaccine. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 08, 2021
• Former President Obama Speaks Out On Importance Of Defending Democracy; Harris Faces First Diplomatic Test, Tackles Migration To The U.S.; New Audio Of Rudy Giuliani Pressuring Ukraine To Investigate Biden. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Senate Capitol Riot Report Catalogs Intel, Communications Failures; U.S. Recovers Millions Paid to Colonia Pipeline Ransomware Hackers; Dems Fed Up with Manchin as He Topples Party's Priorities. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 07, 2021
• Manchin Won't Support Voting Rights Bill, Biden Agenda Crippled; Mexico's President Loses Grip On Power in Midterm Elections; Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Welcome A Baby Girl, Lilibet Diana. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Ransomware Poses Escalating Threat to U.S. Infrastructure; Jobs Market Recovery Slowly Picks Up Steam; Violent Weekend in U.S. Leaves 4 Dead, 25 Hurt in Mass Shootings. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 04, 2021
• Manchin Won't Ditch Filibuster, Says "Minority Needs Input"; Police Out In Force To Prevent Tiananmen Square Vigil; Detained Journalist Appears On State T.V., Critics Say He's Hostage. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Sen. Manchin Resisting Pressure to Give Up Bipartisanship; Biden Administration to Share First 25 Million Vaccine Doses Abroad; The Sky-High Cost of Canceling the Tokyo Olympics. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 03, 2021
• Israeli Opposition Strikes Deal that Would End Netanyahu Era; Biden Taking More Assertive Stance on Global Stage; Hacks, Sanctions and Provocations Ahead of Biden-Putin Summit; Can Nuclear Deal be Salvaged? Will Iran's New Leader Stand By It?; The Great American Reopening is Here; Fed to Start Winding Down Corporate Assets Program; Biden Offers Lower Infrastructure Price Tag for GOP Concessions; Sen. King Willing to Overhaul Filibuster if GOP Blocks Voting Bill; Blinken: Russia Has an "Obligation" to Stop Ransonware Attacks; TX H.S. Valedictorian Ditches Speech to Slam Abortion Law; Prosecutors Request 30-Year Sentence for Chauvin; Growing Trend of Vaccine Incentives in U.S. New Mexico Unveils 'Vax 2 the Max' Sweepstakes; $5M Top Prize; New Jersey Lifting All Limits on Indoor Gatherings; NYC to Begin In-School Vaccinations for Kids 12-17; Two New NASA Missions to Explore Venus. Aired 5:30-6a ET.
• New Coalition Puts Netanyahu On Verge of Exit; Biden's "National Month of Action"; Chamber of Commerce: Boosts Immigration to Help Worker Shortage. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 02, 2021
• Abbott Vows To Defund Texas Legislature After Democrats Blocked Voting Bill; American Detained In Russia Speaks To CNN From Labor Camp; Deadline Day For Opposition To Form Unity Government And Oust Benjamin Netanyahu. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Biden Vows to "Fight Like Heck" Against GOP Voting Restrictions; Major Meat Supplier Recovering from Cyberattack; U.S. Making Progress in Battle Against Coronavirus; Tennis' Grand Slams Promise to Address Osaka's Concerns. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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June 01, 2021
• Michael Flynn Seems To Suggest Myanmar-Style Coup Should Happen In U.S; White House Announces Plans To Reduce Racial Wealth Gap; Japan May Require Test Or Vaccination For Olympic Spectators. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Naomi Osaka Withdraws from Grand Slam Over Mental Health; Dems' Revolt in Texas Ramps Up Pressure for Voting Reform; Israel's Possible Unity Government Could Ed PM Netanyahu's Career; Record Travel Expected for Long Holiday Weekend. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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May 31, 2021
• Netanyahu Fighting To Stay In Power; House Democrats Plot Next Move After GOP Derails January 6 Probe; China Raising Limit On Families From Two Children To Three. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Texas Democrats Walk Out to Halt New Voting Restrictions; Americans Hit Airports And Beaches in Return to Pre-Pandemic Life; Hat Store Faces Backlash for Selling Nazi Jewish Stars. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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May 28, 2021
• Vote On 1/6 Commission Delayed By Senate GOP Stall Tactic; Kremlin Aids Belarus After It Forces Commercial Jet To Land; Tens Of Thousands Flee Goma As Threat Of Another Volcanic Eruption Looms. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Vote on 1/6 Commission Delayed By Senate GOP Stall Tactic; Microsoft: Russian SolarWinds Hackers Spear-Fished USAID; NYT: U.S. Intel Officials Gather Evidence on COVID Origins; Community Honors 9 Victims of San Jose Mass Shooting; Biden Touts Economic Recovery Plan. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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May 27, 2021
• Gunman Kills Nine Co-Workers At San Jose Light Rail Facility; Biden Directs Intel Community To Probe COVID Origins; Taiwan Battling Its Worst COVID Outbreak. Aired 5:30-6a ET
• Gunman Kills Nine Co-Workers At San Jose Light Rail Facility; Senate GOP Posed to Block Commission on Capitol Riots; Doctors Warn of Chance Mutant Strains Could Spread from Games. Aired 5-5:30a ET
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