As we prepare for ghouls and candy this Halloween weekend, one caller tells Nikki he actually received candy with razor blades during his childhood. And, the Sounds of Science features news of climate change affecting fog and foliage, and a plant blooming in the shape of a 6-foot tall erection!

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The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro talks about some of the rituals of Halloween including hunting down the right costume, myths surrounding treat-or-treat candy, and the modern-day exorcism.

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With discussions getting hot at school board meetings, the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro highlights one district in Minnesota requiring parents to publicly give their home address before given the opportunity to speak...is the school board trying to intimidate parents from speaking, inviting possible vandalism/violence? Or are boards trying to hold parents accountable?

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Trying to distract from recent controversies, ABC News Correspondent Mark Remillard tells the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro that Mark Zuckerberg's company is changing its name to Meta. Also, should parents have the authority to influence the specific books their child reads in school or is it the best opportunity for students to be exposed to different viewpoints?

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ABC Entertainment Correspondent Jason Nathanson tells the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro about some new scary movies to watch this Halloween weekend. Jason also previews the powerful new Netflix series focused on Colin Kaepernick.

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The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro welcomes ABC News Correspondent Aaron Katersky to review the criminal charges being brought against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for sex crimes. Also, a violent in-flight incident leaves a flight attendant bloodied and the flight diverted early.

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A high school student in Pittsburg, CA, dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member to school, and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro asks what’s an appropriate punishment or was it just a dumb kid following a dare? Is an offensive costume in the eye of the beholder?

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Alex Stone has the latest on Facebook putting its focus on how we will live our lives in the future: the company says it will be in virtual worlds.  Rather than looking at a Zoom screen of little boxes you will be immersed in a virtual room or at a birthday party with people all around you like they would be in real life.  Through VR and AR and technologies that have not yet been developed Mark Zuckerberg says screens will go away and it will be in the world all around us.  It will start, likely, with VR glasses and then develop from there.

Also Facebook is expected to change its parent company name but as of this writing that has not yet been announced.  It would not change the name of the Facebook platform or Instagram.  Just the name of the parent company as Facebook looks to go beyond its social media platform like Google did with Alphabet. 

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We have nick names as kids but then change them for professional  / carreer reasons. Same thing with artists when they rebrand themselves. But what about Facebook's latest encarnation?

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Royal Oakes, ABC Legal Analyst, looks at the criminal liability and what charges any who were involved with the events might face. From the young, inexperienced armorer, to the assistant director with a history of safety complaints, to producer and actor Alec Baldwin himself what are the legal implications? 

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