Top 5 Things to See Before You Start Your Day: September 5

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1. UMass breaks record with seafood stew for students: A year after starting the semester with a two-ton stir fry, staff and students at the Amherst campus on Monday made and chowed down on a nearly 6,700-pound seafood stew.

2. Former NY Giant Michael Strahan joins "Live! With Kelly": The gap-toothed former football player jogged onto the morning show set and picked up co-host Kelly Ripa in a bear hug, lifting her off her feet. He replaces Philbin, who left last November.

3. Dog travels 500 miles home: Bucky, a 3-year-old black Labrador, somehow traveled 500 miles from Virginia all the way home to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to be reunited with his owner, Mark Wessells.

4. Voyager 1 reaches the stars: Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch to Jupiter and Saturn, and now it is reaching for the stars, sooner or later leaving the Solar System.

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