Pratt's Lead Over Raman Evaporates, Karmelo Anthony Defense Begins, Golden Tempo Wins： AM Update 6⧸8
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Former reality star Spencer Pratt's once promising lead over Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman to make the runoff in November evaporated over the weekend as California s notoriously slow vote count drags on. President Trump s rainy sit-down with NBC ends abruptly after a series of increasingly tense exchanges. A rare Saturday court session in Texas with jurors hearing graphic testimony in the Carmelo Anthony murder trial. No triple crown sweep, but still a stunning finish in the Belmont Stakes as Golden Tate makes history yet again.
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Spencer Pratt's lead over City Councilwoman Nithya Rahman completely vanishing in the Los
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Angeles mayor race over the weekend, as the fight for the final spot in November's runoff
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intensifies. Let's call it quits, because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.
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President Trump's rainy sit-down with NBC ends abruptly
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after a series of increasingly tense exchanges.
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There was a two-inch deep wound that hit the cartilage of Austin Metcalfe's sternum
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and actually pierced one of the ventricles in his heart.
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with jurors hearing graphic testimony in the Carmelo Anthony murder trial
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And no triple crown sweep, but still a stunning finish in the Belmont Stakes
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as Golden Tempo makes history yet again. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM
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Former reality star Spencer Pratt's once promising lead over Los Angeles Councilwoman Nithya Raman
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to make the runoff in November evaporating over the weekend as California's notoriously slow vote
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count drags on. With one blue wave, a ballot drops after another. Last Tuesday, on the actual
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election day, incumbent mayor Karen Bass leading the night, but failing to clinch the more than
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50% needed to avoid a runoff. Pratt ending election night in what looked like a clear
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second place with 30.4% of the vote. Pratt on Tuesday sounding confident about the next five
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months. I was going to be happy if I wasn't moving forward because I would have known that God didn't
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want me to be the mayor. But now I feel very confident that I am going to continue to work
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hard, learn everything I need to learn, build my teams, show all the experience I'm going to
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surround myself with because that's a concern people have. Oh, he has no experience. I'm going
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to build that experience around. And we have five months to put the best team the city could ever
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dream of around me. Raman ending election night with 22.4% of the vote, addressing supporters
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in remarks that sounded like a candidate bracing for the end.
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Many thousands of votes will be counted in the days ahead,
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nobody, nobody can take away what all of us have built together.
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But by this weekend, the race looking very different,
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as there were still hundreds of thousands of ballots still outstanding.
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In California, mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day
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can still be counted if they arrive up to a week later,
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among newly counted ballots on Wednesday and Thursday.
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Throughout the weekend, the gap continuing to narrow,
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taking 40% of the newly counted Los Angeles City vote to Bass's 33% and Pratt's 18%.
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As of yesterday afternoon, Pratt's lead dwindling to just about 1 point, 27.32% to
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Raman's 26.21%. And then, with last night's latest vote count coming in,
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Raman officially surpassing Pratt, moving into second place. Prediction market Kalshi now putting
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the odds of a Bass-Ramen runoff now at 99%. The drawn-out count becoming its own political
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flashpoint, with Pratt's vanishing lead fueling a wave of online skepticism from supporters and
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commentators, questioning how a race could shift so dramatically after Election Day.
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California leads the nation in voting by mail, sending ballots to every active registered voter
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and seeing more than 80% of voters return ballots by mail in 2024. But those ballots still have to
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go through a lengthy processing period before they are counted, allowing the numbers to keep
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shifting for days after Election Day. California's Secretary of State office requires counties to
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complete the official canvas by 30 days after Election Day, including counting, auditing,
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and certification. But Republican strategist Mike Murphy telling NBCLA the long wait is
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damaging public trust. In your view, what is the impact when we vote and there is suspense for
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weeks as we count close to half the ballots it's unacceptable now you know we could do better but
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that's kind of the california state motto now in most government things right but does it have a
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corrosive effect on the process you know i worry about and we might see this if the scenario where
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raman catches up with bass pratt is going to pull out the trump hymnal and start screaming oh they
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put the fix in it the machine you know it's all corrupt and well that is not true it is corrosive
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and the average voter uh it looks at this and thinks what why the hell does it take so long
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to honestly count the vote what's going on and people are so cynical about politics they think
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oh yeah there's somebody in a back room you know gives the iggy to somebody and cut to the machines
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all change so yes i think it is corrosive which is why it's worth investing to run a 24-hour
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operation and count these damn votes a lot quicker. The Los Angeles Times reporting the
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late count trend was not a surprise to election analysts, who expected Rahman to gain ground as
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mail-in ballots came in, reporting, quote, many left-of-center voters, Rahman's base, held on to
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their mail-in ballots until the last minute as they waited to choose between Democratic
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gubernatorial candidates. They also say younger, more progressive voters tend to hold on to their
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ballots longer generally. The Times also noting that while the L.A. mayor's race is officially
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nonpartisan, Pratt is a registered Republican running in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
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Pratt, for his part, still insisting the race is not over, posting yesterday afternoon to X,
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quote, we've got all the way till July 6th to keep counting. They're not the only ones who
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know where to find votes. We'll stay on the story on the MK Show all week.
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President Donald Trump's sit down with NBC's Kristen Welker on Meet the Press yesterday
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turned increasingly combative during a rainy interview in rural Wisconsin marked by interruptions,
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tense exchanges, and an abrupt ending. The interview, taped Friday, taking place inside
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what appeared to be a large barn or shed, with rain clearly heard pounding outside. Welker even
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noting at one point they had paused the interview for heavy rain to pass, and later pausing again
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for an audio issue. As the interview continued despite the delays, the tension between Mr. Trump
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and Welker only growing. Welker pressing the president on the ongoing conflict with Iran,
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where a peace deal remains elusive. One of your consistent campaign promises
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was no new wars going all the way back to 2015. Did you break that promise to the American people?
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I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country, from having a nuclear weapon
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because they'd use it but they're nuts okay they're crazy people i deal with them and very
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high-strung people really crazy and get along with them i like them but you don't want to let
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them have a nuclear weapon and i'm doing the world a service so you're saying you didn't break your
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promise and yet mr president in your first term you held to that promise and it was so fundamental
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to who you were as a candidate to a first-term president?
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Why would I have built the strongest military in the world?
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So when you say, I promised, I didn't promise anything.
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From there, the conversation turning to the economic fallout at home.
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Welker pressing President Trump on the strain facing farmers,
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What's your message to farmers, though, Mr. President, who say they are struggling,
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Are you ready? Am I allowed to talk? You keep asking questions and you don't listen to the
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answers. I love the farmers and the farmers love me. The farmers trust me because I had a choice
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to make. I could keep it going. The farmers were doing great. Fertilizer was very cheap.
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Everything was cheap. Gasoline was very low. Everything was very low. I could have kept it
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that way. But I said I have to take a little bit of return. The farmers can understand it better
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than anybody. We're going to have higher gasoline. We're going to have a little higher fertilizer,
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et cetera, et cetera. But I'm going to get rid of a nuclear weapon in the hands of very dangerous
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people. Excuse me. Wait. It should have been done for 47 years. No president had the guts to do it.
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I did it and I've done it. It's almost complete. As soon as that's complete, gasoline prices are
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going to drop like a rock. The interview eventually veering into California's slow vote count when the
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tension that had been building through the interview finally boiled over.
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Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election and five days later they're nowhere
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close to picking a winner? State and local officials acknowledge they are slow. They're
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urging. No, they're crooked. They're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote
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in California. They're crooked, just like you're crooked. Your press is crooked and meet the press
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is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. Really? Well, you play right into their hands.
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Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with
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this rap you know that these elections are rigged your network knows that they're rigged and you're
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crooked and meet the press is crooked and so is abc and cbs and cnn but mr president your one-sided
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crooked networks right let's call it quits because i've had enough thank you darling have a good time
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mr president let's please i traveled all the way to wisconsin i've sat in the rain with you i know
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And that is where the interview ended, with Welker later saying she and the president
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spoke after the cameras stopped rolling and that the president agreed to another interview
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Coming up, emotional testimony in Texas, as jurors hear graphic details about the fatal
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stabbing of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf. And Golden Tempo, making history yet again,
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storming from behind to win the Belmont Stakes.
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Saturday court session after jurors hearing day three of emotional witness testimony in the murder
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trial of Carmelo Anthony. Anthony, now 19 years old, accused of fatally stabbing the 17-year-old
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Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas high school track meet in April of last year. The two boys,
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who attended different schools, involved in a confrontation under Metcalf's team's tent.
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Prosecutors say Metcalf and other students repeatedly told Anthony he was in the wrong
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tent and needed to leave, with the confrontation escalating after Metcalf touched or pushed
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Anthony. Prosecutors say Anthony then stabbed Metcalf in the chest. Anthony now facing a charge
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of murder, a first-degree felony that carries anywhere from 5 to 99 years in prison. Prosecutors
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calling a 17-year-old witness to the stand Saturday morning, a member of Metcalf's track
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team. The student testifying that he was in the tent when Metcalf asked Anthony to leave,
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and it was his impression that Anthony was trying to provoke Metcalf. A second teenage witness asked
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by prosecutors what Anthony did when asked to leave the tent. Quote, he doesn't leave. He gets
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angry and tries to provoke us, saying, make me leave. Another witness taking the stand, one of
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Metcalfe's teammates who also knew Anthony. The witness saying he saw Anthony under the tent
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and initially greeted him before Metcalfe asked Anthony, quote, who are you? The team testifying,
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Anthony became defensive when he was asked to leave. Quote, Carmelo said you'll have to move
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me. The witness saying Metcalf then put his hand on Anthony's back, and he saw Anthony's hand go
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into his backpack, the teen telling jurors he did not expect anything dangerous to be inside because
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quote, we're at a track meet. On cross, the defense pressing the witness on his relationship with
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Anthony, showing jurors photos of the two at social gatherings together. The witness acknowledging he
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and Anthony were quote, cool with each other, but did not hang out one-on-one very much. The defense
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asking why, when the confrontation began, he did not step in and tell the others he knew Anthony.
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The witness replying he was focused on the track meet and did not think he needed to calm the
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situation down. The prosecution then calling its final witness, the Collin County Medical Examiner.
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Before testimony began, the state warning those in the courtroom, including Metcalfe's family,
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that the evidence would be graphic and anyone who needed to step out should do so. Metcalfe's
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family leaving the courtroom before the medical examiner took the stand. Court TV's Cody
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Thomas, a reporter following the trial from inside the courtroom, describing that testimony.
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We heard about this two-inch gaping wound. She described gaping, and she described the
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difference between gaping and a slit-style stabbing wound. Gaping is more of it's kind of
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like filleted open, you know, not to be insensitive to it, but that's the way she kind of described it
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on the stand, and that it was a two-inch deep wound that hit the cartilage of Austin Metcalfe's
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and actually pierced one of the ventricles in his heart.
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which is likely why the CPR and life-saving efforts
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the heart was pumping out, it was leaking from the source.
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So it was really establishing the gravity of the wound
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Two of them were Austin Metcalf on the autopsy table
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and two of them were the heart removed from the body.
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That's what the medical examiner was describing
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So of course I'd imagine that a family didn't want to hear
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The state resting its case, calling 21 total witnesses over three days.
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The defense then asking the judge for a directed verdict,
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essentially arguing prosecutors had failed to present enough evidence for the case to even go to the jury.
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The judge denying the motion, allowing the trial to continue.
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The defense then calling several witnesses of its own,
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trying to show Anthony had not crashed the tent as aggressively as prosecutors suggested.
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A football and track coach at Anthony's school testifying,
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he knew of no specific rule barring athletes from entering another team's tent area.
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But on cross-examination, prosecutors repeatedly bringing the focus back to the knife.
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The coach agreeing weapons were not allowed at track meets,
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and there was no reason for an athlete to have a knife there.
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Out in the center of the racetrack, Commandments running a giant race,
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Golden Tempo! Renegade! Commandment on the outside!
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Golden Tempo from last to first has to fend off Commandment in the final strides.
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Golden Tempo with another remarkable come-from-behind win,
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this time at the 158th Belmont Stakes, just over a month after winning the Kentucky Derby.
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Jockey Jose Ortiz again riding Golden Tempo to victory,
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winning by a length and a quarter over Commandment,
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The win making even more history for trainer Cherie DeVoe, who became the first woman to
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train a Kentucky Derby winner earlier this year, and now becomes the first woman to train
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DeVoe also becoming the second woman in four years to win the Belmont, after Jenna Ananucci
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Here, DeVoe reacting to the win at a post-race press conference.
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I keep saying it's surreal and it's overwhelming and it's amazing and all the superlatives,
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But I kind of wrongfully probably thought that because of the way the race was run in the Derby, he was having to go out and prove himself.
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We felt the best horse won the Kentucky Derby, and it just solidified that today.
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For the second year in a row, the same horse winning the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes without running in the Preakness.
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DeVoe and Golden Tempo's owners choosing to skip that middle leg,
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a decision that ended any chance at a triple crown sweep.
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DeVoe asked after the race if she believes Golden Tempo could have won the triple crown.
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We made our decision, and we won today, and we're going to be happy about that.
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