Jennifer Kraus
@NC5_JKraus
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📺 Weekend am anchor/🔎 consumer investigator. Mom to 👩🏻👨🏻👱♀️👩🦰 &🐶🐶🐶. I ❤️ to🏃♀️💃👩🍳 ✈️&🤣. Send story ideas: jennifer.kraus @newschannel5 .com
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My middle daughter yelled to me
to come quickly, that my toilet was smoking. Perplexed, I ran to find this. 😳🤦♀️😂
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Wow! I started at
@NC5
25 years ago today! What an amazing journey it’s been!! This is one of the earliest videos from that time that I could find. Here’s to 25 more!!
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🎉I did it!! 🙌Finished and hit my goal time😁running 🏃♀️the NYC Half Marathon! 13.1 in 3.
#GodCanGodWill
#nychalfmarathon
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🤣🤣 What happens when you are lost in the moment and have no idea
@NC5_HMathis
is recording our daily stretch 😳...or what we call our homestretch dance party. 🤦♀️🤷♀️😂
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⬇️ This tweet is rather misleading. The CDC did NOT vote today to mandate or require Covid vaccines. The vote instead formalized RECOMMENDATIONS to physicians and schools.
I’ve always said mandates are the wrong approach, & TN has led in pushing back on federal covid vaccine requirements.
Thanks to our work with the General Assembly, TN families won’t be impacted by today’s CDC vote. We'll continue to stand for TN children & for personal freedom.
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😮 That’s A LOT‼️of experience in one spot. The
@Tennessean
and
@bradschmitt
are doing a piece on 📺 🗞️ media folks who’ve been in Nashville more than 20 years. This afternoon we all got together for a 📷 picture…(1/2)
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Just moved my eldest daughter into her college dorm room. This whole letting go thing is tough!! 😭😭😭
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18 1/2 years ago, I was pregnant with her. Yesterday, my eldest graduated from high school. 😳😁😭 Gosh, where did the time go?
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🎉Today begins my 30th! 😳😱🤯year at 📺
@NC5
!! So glad the station hired me when I was just 5yo. 😜😆 Glad you’ve all been with me for this incredible ride!! 🥰 Here’s🥂to many more!!
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So honored and blessed!! I share this Emmy w/
@NC5_BenHall
, photographer Bob Stinnett and producer Kevin Wisniewski for our stories on “Wall Street Landlords.”So lucky to work w/ such an incredibly talented team and for great bosses at
@NC5
who let us do what we do.
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A huge shoutout to 👏
@NC5_CarrieSharp
who volunteered to work for me Sat morn after she’d anchored the 10pm news Fri night. 😳 She knew I’d been reporting on Coronavirus cases at Gallatin nursing home and covering evacuation of 19 patients there until wee hours of the morning.
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Where did the time go?! This week makes 24 years at NC5!! ❤️ this place! And all of you!!
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Have you heard!?! Big honors for our favorite weekday morning meteorologist (and honestly, one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet)!! The National Weather Association has named
@NC5_LelanStatom
Broadcaster of the Year!😁👏🎉🏆
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👍 She’s now an award-winning meteorologist! 👏 Congratulations to
@NC5_HMathis
for winning 2️⃣ Emmy Awards 🏆 last night! And a shout out to the other members of the
@NC5
family who were also recognized for their work 😁, including weekend morning director
@adiemer
!
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Cleaning out a closet over the holidays, I came across a VHS copy of my first audition tape.😳 Here’s the opening montage from it, complete with cheesy music. Keep in mind, this was the late 80’s and big, permed hair was kinda still a thing. Or at least, I thought it was. 🤣🤣🤣
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If this it what it takes to raise money for The Salvation Army - Nashville, we’ll do it!! Watch as
@AdamHammondNC5
@NC5_AmyWatson
@NC5_Blayke
@NC5_RSchleicher
and I dance as part of the Red Kettle Challenge. 😂😂 Come join us at the Melrose Kroger!
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😄 Some of you remember when I was pregnant w/ my 1st child. This past Sat. Briley👩🎓 graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service w/ a major in Culture & Politics. I spent the wknd in DC 🎉celebrating w/ her. She’s staying there as she 🤔 figures out her next steps. 🥰
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🥰These are my parents.⬇️ Bill and Barbara are celebrating their 57th wedding 💕anniversary today.👏I made them dinner and let them pick the menu. These chose ribs, ham & cheese poppyseed rolls, Cobb salad, mixed berries, steamed peas, pimento cheese tartlets, and cheesecake. 😋
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🥳Tomorrow is a BIG‼️day! I’ll be🏃♀️running the New York City Half Maraton, my first big race since burning🔥my foot🦶a little more than 2 years ago.
#nychalfmarathon
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I was telling my kids how much I needed a haircut 💇 and they offered to do it, reminding me of how I used to cut their hair ✂️ when they were little 😳 and suggesting that payback was in order. 😂😂😂
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🤩What a day!! Oprah, who’s in town to speak at TSU’s graduation tomorrow, made time to stop by the station 🤯where she got her start in 📺 television. We dedicated the new Winfrey Conference Room in her honor! And we were joined by two…
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😁This is Matt Stephens! 👋Hi Matt!☀️He’s🌦️a ⛈️meteorologist 💨who joins☔️the Storm 5 team as
@HenryRothenberg
recovers from knee surgery,
@NikkiDeeRay
is on bed rest, and
@NC5_HMathis
transitions to Talk of the Town.👍He’s w/
@NC5_LelanStatom
and me today for
@NC5
This Morning.
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😆Viewers will sometimes ask why I don’t grow my hair out.🤷♀️Hopefully, this ⬇️ just rediscovered video clip from some of my first reporting in Bakersfield (32 years ago!😳) will answer that question. 🤣😂🤣😂
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😢 My last time on 📺 set w/ the 🤩incomparable
@NC5_VickiYates
who retires after 33 years at
@NC5
on Friday. 😭
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💃She’s a dancer!! And
@NC5_BreeSmith
was all in 👍👍 for a weekend morning dance 💃 🎉 during a commercial break! 👏But watch what happened next.🤣🤣
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I’m working from...my closet today. 😳 In order to get the best sound quality when recording audio 🎤 , we do it in a small and enclosed space...and the hanging clothes 👗help muffle the outside noise.
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🚘 Drove up to Ohio after 📺 the show this morning w/ my eldest daughter to watch my middle daughter ⚽️ play soccer 🥅 for Miami University! 🎉We won!
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And
@GovBillLee
’s staff is not responding to emails either!! 😡 So many unanswered questions about the
#coronavirus
in mid TN nursing homes since we began asking questions nearly two weeks ago. C’mon, Gov and
@TNDeptofHealth
,
@T_E_M_A
, people are dying!
Was on the line today to ask questions for
@GovBillLee
, but never had a chance. Governor’s Office clearly plays favorites, always calling on certain reporters. Will be back tomorrow.
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😂😂😂 Look what
@NC5_HMathis
surprised me with this morning!! 😳😳 More peeps!! She found root beer and pancake & syrup flavors. I guess that means we’re gonna have to try these! Stay tuned for updates on how they taste!
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🎉My middle daughter👩🎓graduated from high school👏 tonight!😁 She’ll be attending and playing soccer 🥅 ⚽️ for
@miamiuniversity
in the fall.🥰
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What a day!! Completed my first full marathon! 30 years after volunteering at the LA marathon, I ran it. Thanks to everyone who encouraged, pushed, & cheered me on!! Couldn't have done this w/o you!!
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😁Yep. I’ll be🏃♀️again on Saturday👍as the St. Jude Rock ‘N Roll Marathon returns to the streets of downtown Nashville. 💪It’s not too late to sign up, if you want to join me for the half.😜It’s only 13.1 miles.😆
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😮If you haven’t seen the full story yet of the Navy🇺🇸vet who lost his 🚘driver’s license because the
@TNDeptofSafety
doesn’t believe he’s an American citizen, you’ve got to 📺watch it ⬇️to see why so many people are so upset about what the state has done.
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😄 Do you remember…the 19th day of September? (1994!!🤯) Yep, on this day in history🤣, I started at 📺
@NC5
. Probably won’t be here another 30 years 😆, but here’s🥂to many more!
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😁My 🥰family has a birthday 🎉 tradition where the person celebrating gets to pick the entire menu. I started it when my kids were very small. Yesterday, we 🥳celebrated my dad’s 🎂85th birthday and he chose…
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🎄Merry🎅🏻Christmas ✝️. Peace, love 💕 & joy 😊 to you & yours this holiday🎁 season and into 🎉the new year!🥰
❤️ JK, Briley (21), Zach (19), Mallory (17), and Shelby (15)
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So
@MayorBriley
apparently agreed to chop down 21 of city's cherry trees @ Riverfront Park for NFL Draft.😳In exchange, NFL pays $10k. The trees come down Monday, less than 2 wks before city's annual Cherry Blossom Festival, celebrating the doomed trees.🤦♀️
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When you discover
@NC5_HMathis
has the exact same dress as you...when she comes to work WEARING IT!!!! 😳😳😂😂
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😢Middle Tn. …our 💔hearts are broken…but we are 🙏🏼 with you. We know it will be a long road, but as your journey of recovery from the 🌪️ 🌪️ begins,
@NC5
This Morning is here for you.
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As we say 👋goodbye to
@BriReports
, we couldn’t let her leave the 📺
@NC5
Weekend Morning team without a final 💃💃dance! 🥂 Cheers and good luck to the Dancing Queen!
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🏃♀️Six mos. almost to the day after I burned off the bottom of my🦶in a 🔥, I put my running 👟 back on. Right after the fire, when I was just crawling, many nights I dreamed of running again.😁This am, I wasn’t fast. It wasn’t pretty. EVERYTHING hurt! But IT. FELT. SO. GOOD! 🙌
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Wonder where all the Bachelorette buses 🚎 went after they were banned in Nashville?? Just spotted TWO open-air “transpotainment” vehicles pulling into a business off Carothers in Brentwood! 🤦♀️ And only saw a couple of masks 😷 between the two.
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😂
@HenryRothenberg
says, "Something's wrong here!"⬇️This is what happens when you wear a green dress 👗 for St. Patrick’s ☘️ Day in front of the green weather ⛈️ wall on 📺
@NC5
This Morning. 👍
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🏆Just got home from Chattanooga after watching
@HarpethHall
⚽️ win 🎉the 👏
@tssaa
state 😍championship!! 👍Woo hoo!! My daughter is the 🥅 goalkeeper. 😁 I’m going to sleep 😴 in Saturday morning, but I’ll see you bright & early on Sunday!!
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💕Hutton’s here!! 💗And she’s precious!! 🥰She arrived Monday afternoon.🎈Congratulations
@NC5_HMathis
🎉!
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I’m physically and emotionally drained! Ran the Marine Corps Marathon today, 🏃♀️thinking I’d get maybe halfway. Ended up finishing! 😳.
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🥰Looks who’s watching (or 😴 maybe just listening😁) this morning!! 💗
@NC5_HMathis
just sent us these pictures of Hutton Rose who was born Monday afternoon. 💕
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Watching what is unfolding in downtown Nashville right now is just heartbreaking. 💔😢🙏
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Did you see the incredible full rainbow 🌈 out this evening?! WOW!! 👍👍
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Happy back to school 📚 🍎 day, Metro kids! Have a great year!!! (👇 That’s me in, I think, 2nd grade)
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😁 Look what Charlie did tonight!! ⬇️ He completed 🙌 and graduated 🎓from his puppy 🐶 training class! 🎉
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Just early voted w/ my son, a first time voter! 🎉 But it almost didn’t happen as somewhere btwn
@TNDeptfofSafety
DMV and
@WilliamsonTN
Election Comm, his registration was mysteriously lost. Then I started ??questions/filing pub. records requests and it suddenly showed up. 🤔 🤔
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The! Team! Is! Back! 🎉 As Peaches and Herb once sang, “Reunited and it feels so good!” 😃Great to be back with
@NC5_HMathis
and YOU!! ☕️ Lots of folks waking up to snow ❄️. Join us 👍 for everything you need to start your weekend!
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A lot of you have been asking about
@NC5_BreeSmith
and her baby, Brooks, wondering when she was coming back. She'll be doing the nightly forecasts again very soon, but first, you can see her (and baby Brooks) Wednesday on Talk of the Town at 11am.
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⚽️Are you ready for some ⚽️soccer?
@NashvilleSC
⚽️plays Inter Miami and Lionel Messi for the ⚽️Leagues 🏆 Cup tonight.
@BriReports
has details on the ⚽️match and
@HenryRothenberg
has your ⚽️forecast right NOW on 📺
@NC5
This Morning. 🎉Let’s G⚽️⚽️⚽️AL!!!!
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Have you met
@NC5_HMathis
yet, our new wknd morning meteorologist? She grew up watching NC5 & dreaming of working here. Glad she's here!
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🎉We celebrated
@NC5_VickiYates
tonight and her retirement as she signed off from 📺
@NC5
after 33 years! She’ll truly be missed!! 🥰
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It’s way past our bedtime!! But here we are!! At the Emmy Awards!! 🏆 At the Schermerhorn Symphony Center!! And in just a few minutes,
@NC5_HMathis
and I will be presenting the awards in the directing categories!
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😊
#outofoffice
Headed out ✈️ to California to see family, visit colleges w/ my daughter, and go to my college reunion!
@Occidental
#iotriumphe
👋 See you soon!
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Hate to say this,
@ChrisDavisMMJ
, but
@GovBillLee
's list that was touted by
@TNDeptofHealth
as giving "a clear picture" of the # of cases...is FAR from accurate. Based on our reporting, this list has wrong data...and is even missing nursing homes with confirmed cases.
#Dobetter
My colleagues
@NC5PhilWilliams
and
@NC5_JKraus
have fought for transparency when it comes to Tennessee's nursing homes. Finally, here's a list from the state. Gallatin is up to 161 COVID-19 cases and 19 deaths. Putnam County has 51 cases and 3 deaths.
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Just had a tiny Buzz Lightyear come to my door and say, “Trick or Treat, at least.” 🤷♀️ After he got his candy, his mom explained that he’d been knocking on doors and not saying anything so they told him, “Say Trick or Treat, at least.” So that’s EXACTLY what he was doing. 😂😂
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🎉🙌🤩 Join
@NC5_HMathis
and me as we celebrate the Titans’ big win this morning! 💙🏈We have team coverage from
@SteveLayman
and
@NC5_JonBurton
who bring us highlights/analysis of the game from Baltimore...and hear from fans who welcomed the team home overnight.
#TitanUp
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It’s the weekend before Christmas 🎄 and all thru my house 🏡 , not a creature is stirring, and only barely JKraus. 😴 😁 She’s snuggled all warmly and cozy in her bed 🛌 watching 📺
@NC5_HMathis
and
@NC5_RSchleicher
who’s there in her stead. Wishing you all a merry Christmas!!❤️
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🎉Huge thanks to
@NC5PhilWilliams
who let me use his 🏈
@Titans
tickets today!! At halftime, the 💙🩵two-tone blue are beating 💪the Falcons 14-3! 👏Woo hoo!!
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The
@NC5
This Morning team likes to eat! 😋After not being able to bring food 🍕to 🍔the 🥧 station during the pandemic and missing a lot of 🎂🎉celebrations, we are making up for lost time today.
@NC5_HMathis
made 7layer dip & I made 🍗 parm bites…& coworkers brought 🍩 & more!
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😆You asked for a snow dance! 🕺💃💃So this is how
@NC5_LelanStatom
,
@NikkiDeeRay
, and I just spent the last commercial break. 🎶 We thought about “Let It Snow,”❄️ but turn up the volume👂to see what we went w/🧊🧊🤱 instead. Why 🤷♀️not stand up and join us? 😁
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Everyone say 👋 hi and welcome 😀to
@wx_ktmelvin
! This is her first time 🎉joining us and filling in for
@HenryRothenberg
on 📺
@NC5
This Morning. Does her forecast include more 🌧️ ☔️? Tune in NOW and find out. 👍
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😁Proud mom moment ⬇️ as my middle daughter 🎉celebrated w/ her classmates & coaches at school today her commitment to play ⚽️ Div.I soccer 🥅 at
@MiamiOH_Soccer
next year.
Congratulations to Mallory Thomas ‘22 on signing her National Letter of Intent to play soccer at Miami of Ohio! GO REDHAWKS!
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😃Check out our 📺
@NC5
Saturday morning 🎵dance. It’s the
#wopchallenge
with 💃
@BriReports
and 💃 me…and a cameo 🤣but no 🕺dancing 😢by
@HenryRothenberg
.
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Here’s...Charlie! 🐶 Did you see him in
@NC5_HMathis
’s “Dog Walking forecast” this morning? My family just adopted him. He’s a black lab mix and at just 9 weeks, he’s ALL puppy!❤️🥰
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😁Our weekend morning producer Trey wanted Oreo cake 🍰 for his 🎉🎂birthday! So Oreo cake 🍰 is what he got!! 🥳
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🥳Do you see 👀 what I see?? 😊Not only is
@NC5_LelanStatom
in for
@HenryRothenberg
this weekend 👏but look at his 7 day forecast!! Temps reaching the 50s, even 65 🙌 next week. Details now 📺 on
@NC5
This Morning. 👍
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With
@NC5_HMathis
tracking two tropical 🌴 🐠 storms this morning, we went with a tropical 🏝 theme for our morning dance 💃. Feel free to sing along. 😁
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Trying to set up an interview, I mistyped the number. Here’s the response I got. 😳😄
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Here’s the other reason I came to DC...to see my daughter who’s going to college here. We’ve had a blast hanging out this weekend. A highlight was renting bikes and riding down the National Mall!!
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😁When I asked Matt Stephens 🤷♀️if he wanted to 🕺💃take part in the 830 commercial break dance, he said, “YEAH!”🤣
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😮 And that ⬇️is what happens 🤣when you wear a green 👗 and stand in front of
@HenryRothenberg
’s green weather wall.
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😳 When you walk into the studio 😂 and discover
@NC5_HMathis
is wearing the 👗👗 EXACT same dress!! 🤦♀️
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You'd think someone like
@GlenCasada
would've learned by now that when
@NC5PhilWilliams
asks you about something, you don't deny you know about it, question its authenticity or attack the messenger. By the time you see Phil coming, he's already got the goods on you and then some.
BREAKING: A secret recording reveals that House Speaker
@GlenCasada
knew that damning text messages obtained by
@NC5Investigates
were authentic - even as he went on the attack, accusing the station of fabricating the story.
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Here’s ⬇️ the photo
@Henry
just mentioned. I spent a couple days out in SoCal visiting family. I’d reserved a small standard 🚘car, but when I got to the rental counter and was friendly w/ the employee, he gave me a free upgrade🤩 to a sports car convertible🎉!!
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✈️ Quick trip to DC to see my 🥰 daughter. Flying back 🏡 now…to ❄️?! I’ll see you in the morning. ⏰ 5am-9am!
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Love this!
Y'all. Judge Dinkins of the Tennessee Court of Appeals swore in my law school colleague with her baby on his hip, and I've honestly never loved him more.
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Coming to
#Steeplechase
? 🐎 Look for the
@NC5
tent centerfield and say hi to
@HenryRothenberg
,
@NC5_LelanStatom
,
@NC5_CarrieSharp
and me!!
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🥰Thank you for your kind words and encouragement!! ❤️I’m done!👍👍 The prep 🤒was def the worst part and I did enjoy a nice deep 😴 sleep. I���m back 🏡 home after getting some food! 🌮🌮😋 And again, PLEASE 🙏🏼get this routine screening if you haven’t yet and you’re 45 or older.
👍👍 Here we go!! 😬After putting it off and putting it off, I’m about to have my first colonoscopy. 🙋♀️ I’m a huge 🐓chicken when it comes to medical 💉procedures. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
PSA: ➡️You’re supposed to have one now once every 10 years starting at 45⬅️‼️
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