A. Martinez

And that's Up First for Wednesday, January 14th.

I'm A. Martinez.

Today's episode of Up First was edited by Rebecca Metzler, Gigi Dubon, Krishna Dev Kalamur, Mohamed El-Bardisi, and Alice Wolfley.

It was produced by Dion Butch, Nia Dumas, and Christopher Thomas.

We get engineering support from Nisha Hainas, and our technical director is Carly Strange.

Our supervising producer...

is Michael Lipkin.

Join us again tomorrow.

Hey, Michelle, it feels like 2026.

You too.

You too, Michelle.

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