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Brian arresting Library Curators are having trouble waking up this morning that brass band is waking them up. They are the Famed Brass Animals band. In case you havent picked upped from the chyron at the bother live. We did not tape that this is songs without lyrics but it is jazz. Steve its happy. Come on get happy. Brian i think its fantastic. Also, they are wearing the fetterman outfit the couple pet player wearing a hoodie. Ainsley go online been together since 2013. A bit of r and b, funk. Steve the reason they are up in front of Ronald Reagans Beast Limousine is because pete hegseth is live at the Reagan Library in simi valley, california, and, pete, they have got reagans car. They have got his plane. They have got his desk. And theyve got you today. Pete they have got everything Ronald Reagan here. Thank you to the Brass Animals. 3 00 in the morning here in california as you know. So its nice and early. We have got the president ial motorcade behind us. You know, a chevy impala.
your thoughts come from the resolution foundation. staying on the theme of mortgages. thi5 this is from our personal finance correspondent. he says. the withdrawal of mortgage product5 hit unprecedented levels overnight, according to analysts. moneyfact5, a financial information service, said that 935 mortgage products were taken off the shelf compared with a day earlier. it said that was the biggest overnight drop it has ever recorded. it was double the previous biggest drop, which occurred during covid. a total of 2,661 mortgage products are still available but that is half the number that were on sale at the start of december when interest rates started to rise. the headline from all of this is that 935 mortgage product5 the headline from all of this is that 935 mortgage products were taken off the shelf overnight, according to analysts, the biggest
2,061 votes. the democrat, kathryn dodge got 2661 votes. not a typo. the official state certified results in that house seat in alaska, it s an exact tie. and that tied race is for a seat in the state legislature. and the state legislature is also tied. so not only would the shift of a single vote determine who wins that seat, the shift of a single vote could also determine which party controls the entire legislature. i love this story out of alaska so much, right? when they realized the democrat and the republican were tied, in the initial count, they did a machine recount of the ballots. it turns out it s tied. after that, they did a recount by hand. after the hand recount turns out, yeah, it s tied. and then today it was certified as a tie. but here is the incredible drama in this one. this is from the anchorage daily news today. so after the initial results shows a tie and the machine recount shows a tie and the hand
senate race is wrapping up tonight as we speak. and we are going to be covering this over the course of this the great state of alaska, the state division of elections certified the results of this year s midterm elections in that state in alaska. one of the races that was certified today by the state is for a state legislative district, so a state house district. i think it s in fairbanks. it s house district 1. and i believe we can put up on the screen the results of that state legislative race in alaska as certified by the state today. the republican, bart lebon, got 2,661 votes. the democrat, kathryn dodge, got 2,661 votes. not a typo. the official state certified results in that house seat in alaska, it s an exact tie. and that tied race is for a seat in the state legislature. and the state legislature is also tied. so not only would the shift of a single vote determine who wins that seat, the shift of a single vote could also determine which party controls the entire legislature.