[1990's Newsroom bed music. Calm but tense.] [Anchor - spoken announcement] Public anger continues tonight after the collapse of Synthetics and the release of internal records tied to its legacy continuation program. Some advocates argue synthetic continuations are conscious lives, and destroying them amounts to murder, regardless of who built them. Others say the entire industry was immoral from the start, calling it replication sold as immortality. For now, there is no clear legal answer, but public trust in the sector is falling fast. We’ll continue following this story as it develops. [Anchor - spoken announcement as an aside] Up next, rain moves into the area overnight. Your full forecast after the break. [outro commercial break]
