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Here's Jason Middleton. Good going everyone, Wake Up Call Monday, July seventeen.
Do not adjust your set. I have a killer sinus infection, had
a five days. It's just so if it sounds like I'm talking through a
tube, it's it's mostly just because that's the way my head feels. So
I'll be doing a lot of dumpouts and hitting that cough button. Thank you
for joining us. Hope you're having a better start to your week. It's
Barbenheimer week. Oppenheimer and Barbie later this week. If you go see the
double Bill, apparently if you see Oppenheimer first and then Barbie, that seems
to be the trend. If you see Barbie and then Oppenheimer, then apparently
you're quote out of your mind. We'll have more on that this week.
For sure. Saw Mission Impossible over the weekend. If the jittersitegeist around artificial
intelligence has your attention, that's your movie, and especially if you like ground
level camera angles. Let's get into some of the other more important news coming
in this morning. I wake up call. The man accused of fatally shooting
four people in Georgia has been killed following a man hunt. Authority you said
yesterday, the monster is dead. Heavy weather, both heat and rain is
hovering all over the US, with several deaths on the ground, thousands of
flight delays, and several air quality alerts. More on that throughout the hour
and all morning. It's unclaimed tax refund deadline day, so checked IRS dot
gov to see if you are owed to check from the FEDS. Today is
the deadline. If you don't claim it and the average is a nine hundred
dollars refund, then it's gone forever. Let's start with some of the other
stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour news room this morning.
Firefighters in Riverside County are may progress in battling four wildfires as his heat wave
broke records across the state and sent residents, of course, scrambling for relief
over the weekend. Passenger rail service through San Clementi is back on track following
months of multiple closures due to landslides. The emergency construction of a temporary two
hundred and fifty foot long, twelve foot high barrier is meant to protect the
tracks from debris falling down an unstable hillside. Beneath Casse. Romantica Cultural Center
pilings were dugged thirty two feet in the ground to strengthen the wall. OC
Transportation Authority says the work is complete just in time for peak summer travel season
between Orange and San Diego Counties, which OCTA says includes Comic Con International,
which starts Thursday in San Diego in Orange County. Corbin Carson ko Fin News
investigators in New York say a new look at an old clue helped lead to
the arrest in the so called Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island. It was
a pickup truck tied to a missing woman and architect Rex Huerman. He's charged
with killing three women and suspected in the death of another. These women all
had things in common. They were all young. They were in their twenties,
twenty two to twenty seven years old, they were all petite, and
they were all sex workers. Aaron Katurski says the bodies were among at least
ten found on Gilgo Beach in twenty ten. At least five people have been
killed in flooding in southeastern Pennsylvania. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says two children, nine
months and two years old are missing. Authorities in Bucks County say the family
was visiting from South Carolina when their vehicle got swept away by the flood waters.
Flash flood warnings have been issued for parts of New York and Connecticut,
and significant river flooding is possible along New York's coast, New Jersey, and
Delaware. The severe weather has forced ground stops at airports in the New York
area. More than twenty six hundred flights were canceled and more than eighty three
hundred were delayed across the US yesterday. Heat advisories and warnings are in place
across southern California because of the high temps. San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys
should see temperatures in the upper eighties to around one hundred today. The Santa
Clarita Valley should expect highs up to one hundred and four, and the Antelope
Valley should see around one hundred degrees maybe a little bit warmer. Highs in
Orange County will be in the eighties and nineties. The union president at UPS
called on workers to be prepared for a strike as the teamsters pushed for higher
part time wages, the last major sticking point for renewing a five year labor
agreement that expires on July thirty first. Shaun O'Brien says he is asking the
White House not to intervene in case of a walkout. The teamsters have communicated
to the White House on numerous occasions to not get involved if there was a
strike, which would begin on August first, if the deal is not reached.
First topic today, ABC's Tom Rivers has Wimbledon. Hey Tom, good
morning, Good morning. Did you watch a match? No, I caught
the highlights the push notification on my phone, though, said a Wimbledon final
for the ages, Why yeah, it was. It was quite a well,
it was a very strity with a five center, but it was very
spring we had. We had Djokovic coming out like a house on fire,
taking the first six to one, and everybody in the radio room thought we're
gonna be up in the bar very very quickly, but not the case.
Second set went to a tiebreak and Carlos took that. Then it became a
slug fest. As match lasted nearly five hours, came down to the fifty
cider and Djokovic's serve was broken in the third game. That's only room that
the young Spaniard needed, and he then took that six four. So yes,
maybe a changing of the guard. You know, for the past twenty
years we've looked at the same four four names at Wimbledon, and you know,
one by one they're retiring. So yes, Alcarez looked very very good,
very very sharp. As I said, I think we just lost Tom
around for a while. Tom. I'm sorry, we're having a little trouble
with the line. But I caught you at the end there. Um,
it sounds like okay, six to one in the first set, and you
were like, okay, well this this looks like a cruise fest for Djokovic.
M But sometimes players tend to, you know, after they know they're
gonna lose the set, they leave something in the tank. And that seems
to be what happened in the second set. What was your take on that?
Yeah, well, you know, well he looked a little bit on,
you know, Albert said, look, Elk said that, Look,
you know, I was feeling a bit nervous about this, you know,
as he said after the match, facing the guy that was his hero.
Uh he said, uh, you were winning matches when I was born in
the crowd and center cord laughing at that one. Um, but yeah,
nerves certainly part of the landscape. But you know he picked it up.
And as I say, then once, once we were at once set a
piece, you had to you could write two different stories with two different computers,
saying youth was served or the veteran one out because you couldn't write it
until the very buried end. No, Djokovic is known it to be a
tad mayor curial. How was he after the match and what happened in anything
happened during the match with Djokovic in his temper, Well, yeah, I
know if you noticed this, and it's in the highlights, but he got
really really frustrated by the end of the match and smashed his racket into the
net post and putting a mark on there. But he was pretty pretty magnanimous
in the comments after the after the defeat, he said, you know,
in retrospect, some of his majors, he said, you know, maybe
I was lucky to win, and maybe some of those wins, you know,
flip a coin, it could have been a loss, so he said,
look, he put everything into this one. So maybe the fates have
said, okay, even Stephen Sam for you to lose one. But again,
at thirty six, you might say that's it, he's going to be
checking out. But I think given the way he approaches the game, he's
still going to be a contender for the next maybe year or two. So
he's gonna be around. He's not He's not being written off yet. So
okay with alca Oz, he's twenty years old. Is this a get to
know me kind of a situation or a sustainably solid player to keep an eye
on moving forward? Yeah, I think it's the ladder. He's part of
the new generation coming up, and he looks like the leading figure in that
new generation coming up. You think back all the years that have been covering
out at Wimbledon. You had the epochs with maybe at the end of Samprus
and uh, you know, we had some of the Australian contingents, et
cetera, et cetera. Now it's the turn really of a new generation of
youngsters and uh yeah, we got to get reinvigorated and and watch this game
and not the same four individuals on the men's side, you know, going
to be in the final at Wimbledon. Those days are are gone and diminishing
very very quickly. This could will would have been Andy's Andy Murray could have
been his last Wimbledon. We don't know yet. Nadal might be checking out
the next year, et cetera, et cetera. Federa has already done that,
so yeah, certainly a changing of the times. Hey, tom My,
last question. As I mentioned at the top, I did not watch
the match. I just saw some highlights. I didn't watch the women's final
either. Can you get his caught up on what happened there? Yeah.
Marquetta von Rossova, twenty four year old. Check. She was at woman
last year, but as a spectator because she had a second surgery on her
wrist. But she came in and this is a nice little tidbit. She
is the first women's champion to capture the title as an unseeded player, so
that's pretty amazing and she did very very well. Indeed, Uh, it's
interesting little note to her husband had been still at home in the Czech Republic
and he didn't fly over until the actual final because he was cats sitting,
so he finally found somebody there that could take care of the cats. Fluent
the most exciting match and maybe the most memorable match he's ever played in your
life. Outstanding, Tom, always a pleasure to speak with you. Thank
you for giving us the time and the catching us up on what happened on
the grass quarter of the weekend. Thank care I should have asked. I
have a sense that Tom rivers from ABC as a killer kick serve. I'm
just guessing. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Part of a key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia's
mainland has been blown up and what Russian officials say was a Ukrainian attack that
killed a married couple and injured their daughter. It's the second major strike on
the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections.
Russia's National Anti Terrorist Committee says the latest attack was staged by the Ukrainian
Special Services and involved two sea drones. Russia has stopped a wartime deal that
allows grain from Ukraine to go to countries in Africa, the Middle East and
Asia. Russian spokesman Dmitri Piskov says his country will suspend the Black Sea Grain
Initiative until its demands to get its own food and fertilizer to the world are
met. Russia has complained that restrictions on shipping and insurance have hampered its agricultural
exports. The FBI is looking at the La County Sheriff's Department over two use
of forces cases. Also recently released bodycam video of a deputy in Palmdale presumably
punching a woman in the face while she holds her baby. The other case
involves the takedown of a woman at a grocery store by deputy in Lancaster.
Both cases have generated outrage by activists and politicians, with some calling for the
firing of the deputies involved. Sources with the Sheriff's department confirmed federal agents have
visited sheriff's officials. The sources said the FBI is doing a criminal investigation in
the department plans to fully cooperate. Steve Gregory Campine News. Four wildfires have
burned more than eight thousand acres in western Riverside County. The largest, near
the community of Lake View that's close to Mystic Lake, has grown to seventy
six hundred acres since Friday and is twenty five percent contained. Evacuation orders and
warnings are in place. Another fire burning over the weekend started in Richie Canyon
in Marino Valley and has blackened to four hundred and thirty seven acres. It's
eighty percent contained. A wildfire that's burned one hundred and five acres near Beaumont
is ninety five percent contained, and a fire in Paris remains at three hundred
and thirty eight acres with fifty percent containment. More than ten thousand Californians are
waking up in the dark today. La County has the biggest chunk of power
outages, followed by San Bernardino Intolari. State energy regulators, along with PG
and E have been urging people to limit their AC usage during the heatwave.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is defending the plan to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, Sullivan dismissed the suggestion the US
has lost its moral authority because of President Biden's decision. In the Bay Area,
the horse track Golden Gate Fields is going to close its gates and doors
at the end of this year, it's not clear if the land is going
to become a state park or open green space. Having lived there for a
while, I until there's a big, beautiful dog park nearby. Just make
it bigger. That's a way to do it. At five thirty ish,
the would be GOP presidential nominees reported their fundraising efforts, among others, and
how much money each campaign has on hand and what it's spending. ABC.
Steve Roberts is going to join us to get the numbers on campaign financing what
they can mean, kind of reading the t without too much math on the
radio. All right, now, we're gonna look at some tech headlines and
a little bit of business headlines too, because we had actual tech headlines come
in over the weekend, and he's a headline generating machine. Serial entrepreneur Elon
Musk said over the weekend that things are still no bueno at Twitter when it
comes to revenue. Back in March, Twitter owner Elon Musk said there was
a chance the company would report positive cash flow in the next quarter. A
month later, Musk suggested most advertisers who'd fled the site had returned, but
June has come gone and Twitter still has cash flow issues. By Musk's own
admission on Saturday, Musk said that two major factors are keeping Twitter's cash flow
in the red, a nearly fifty percent drop an advertising revenue and a heavy
debt load. Now he said there was only two major factors. I guess
he just didn't have a mirror in the office. It's not clear when the
ad revenue fell by half, But what is clear is the inefficacy of Musk's
moves. So let's review the bidding on his cost cutting measures mass layoffs,
cutting four out of every five employees since his takeover. Then there's the refusal
to pay Twitter's obligations too from vendors like advertising services that serve the ads to
landlords in Denver and other places, and cloud service providers basically Amazon Web Services.
So you're taking on Amazon with that one. Then there's Twitter's mounting legal
bills as it grapples with a suite of lawsuits, not only including copyright violation
suits, also a big lawsuit from former employees who claim they are still owed
severance to the tune of cumulative five hundred million dollars. And then of course
there's threads Mark Zuckerberg's most recent copy paste attempt at gobbling up another social media
platform. It's kind of like he tried to do with Instagram Stories and Snapchat.
And there's a little bit more for this week in Elon Musk. That's
right, our mercurial billionaire, multi billionaire Elon Musk is in the news again
this week. This time it is a little bit about artificial intelligence. Now,
just when we thought we thought that Musk couldn't handle any more companies,
he's doing so well with Twitter right now, SpaceX that's a win. Tesla
continues to be a market leader. Neurallink, that's one of the healthcare mapping
of the brain situations with high tech. Don't hear too much about that these
days, which is probably good, honestly. And of course the Boring Company.
The boring company was the mining company because Elon moved over to the West
LA and decided that the four oh five was just too jammed. He wanted
to build a tunnel underneath it, so he started a company called the Boring
Company, and not much progress on that just yet either. Of course,
building anything in Los Angeles County is not necessarily easy or encouraged. In a
lot of ways, and now Elon Musk is apparently behaving a little bit like
an addict when it comes to his serial entrepreneurship, which usually is not a
bad thing. This new one is called x AI small X Capital A capital
I. It's his latest venture and it's gearing up to challenge open ai.
And if you heard that click right there in my voice, that's because I
have a killer sign it's infection. Now. The company that Musk co founded
but later accused of being biased and woke was open Ai. Remember he signed
a letter with a lot of other tech types who really got caught kind of
flat footed. Now they knew open ai was there, but they didn't know
that chat GPT, which open Ai fuels, was going to bolt on to
Microsoft's search engine BING. At the beginning of the year, everybody was starting
to play catch up in the marketplace at the consumer level, and so a
bunch of people came out and some of them used regulations. We need to
put our arms around how technology is going to infiltrate our daily lives kind of
situation virtue signaling on a lot of fronts. We didn't learn enough from social
media companies who Cambridge Analytica This is a little bit of a fallback from that
Facebook fiasco. But he was one of the people. Musk was one of
the people who signed the letter and said, hey, let's slow down Open
Ai. Well that was a few months ago. Now he's got his own
company called x Ai. The goal of the new company is to understand the
true nature of the universe, and it's aiming to answer fundamental questions like can
ai become conscious? Now. The team itself is headed up by Elon Musk,
and it has members on the team that have worked at other big names
like Open Ai, Google Research. We're going to come back to that in
a second, Microsoft Research, and Deep Mind. You remember deep Mind was
a Jeopardy contestant about ten years ago. I don't know, I don't have
Google in front of me. I'll use Bang instead, and then we'll come
back to that one too. In addition to Musk, the website has a
whole bunch of people, including a researcher from the Center for Ai Safety.
Now that kind of helps separate them from a little more wheat than chaff there,
because the Center for Ai Safety is a respected nonprofit that is looking to
reduce societal scale risks associated with artificial intelligence. Now, there was a Twitter
spaces discussion. It didn't necessarily crash. It wasn't very well attended either,
but it was informative. Now, we first heard about x Ai back in
April, when Musk indicated in filings that he founded the company. This was
in Nevada and at the time Musk Musk listed himself as its director and Musk's
family office as also in there as a secretary, etc. Etter The corporate
offices are close to Musk's inner circle. We'll see if they are up and
running fast enough to catch up with open ai. And as the government continues
to seek proper regulation and scale of regulation by investigating and looking into other AI
companies including chat, GPT and open Ai, XAI will get at least into
the stream of that conversation. That's enough to get into the marketplace, get
notice, get consumers interested. So we'll have to keep an eye on this.
Now, our next angle on AI goes more towards what the Writers Guild
and the Screen Actors Guild and my guild AFTRA is doing. But that's not
necessarily this week and Elon Musk. So let's wrap this one Sarah Silverman and
two other offers have authors have sued open ai over copyright infringement because their texts
from their books was floating around on the darker side of the web and it
was picked up by open ai and other large language models. So that is
kind of a tip of the spear lawsuit when it comes to open Ai,
which of course is one of the major sticking points between the WGA and SAGAFTRA
during these labor and contract negotiations. One more quick note on recession watch.
I hate to do it, but we have to. It's earnings season.
JP Morgan Chase Citygroup in Wells Fargo, three of America's biggest banks reported bumper
profits in the second quarter. They all benefited from higher interest rates that propped
up their lending businesses. JP morgan Chases profits, which rose by sixty seven
percent year on year, were also helped by its acquisition of First Republic Bank,
of course, that was a regional lender, and Jamie Diamond. JP
Morgan's boss warned that competition in the sector would intensify. Now the flip side
of high banking profits and high interest rates is a credit crunch. Now,
credit being extended for businesses and households is shrinking fast. At the beginning of
the pandemic, banks rolled down the teller shades and stopped lending out money for
the most party. It was a black Swan event. Nobody knew what was
going to happen with the economy, let alone if we were ever to be
able to take off our masks. As of today, banks are lending money
at a rate twenty percent below that pandemic era lending rate, something to keep
an eye on as the FED likely kicks up rates again in about ten days.
A couple more stories out of the KFI twenty four hour news room before
we break. A man traveling with two regional Mexican musicians in Hollywood has been
arrested for gun possession. The men were pulled over at about one thirty in
the morning yesterday. The man arrested was identified as a manager for one of
the artists. Police say he was also he also had an outstanding warrant.
A man in Georgia, wonder for the fatal shootings of four of his neighbors,
has been killed during a shootout with police. Clayton County Police Chief Robert
Kevin Roberts says the sheriff's deputy and two police officers were hurt in the shootout
yesterday. While trying to capture Andre Longmore, he was engaged bo offices at
a residence. Once that engagement happened, there was an exchange of gunfire that
calls him. The loss of life and these injuries to the offices. That
shootout happened to day after the killings in the town of Hampton. Investigators say
they're trying to figure out why the man targeted his neighbors. Passenger rail service
through San Clementi resumes today, adding another travel option between Orange and San Diego
County's Metrolink and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains have not been able to pass through that
area since early June. Southern California, of course, remains under a smoke
advisory through at least noon. The South Coast Air Quality Management District extended its
advisory due to the four wildfires that are burning in Riverside County. Russia says
it is suspending its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian
grain to Africa, the Middle East and other regions, and the grain deal
collapsing has fears on the rise about global food supplies. News is brought to
you by American Vision Windows. Coming up at five fifty, ABC's Jim Ryan
has the latest data and performance metrics around a critical service, the nine eight
eight Suicide hot Line. Hip's going to help us round up what nine eight
eight is covering when it comes to the needs of stressed out public. Right
now, on wake up Call, we have Steve Roberts with his ABC News
political analysts. Good morning, Steve, Good morning. Let's start with Ron
de Santis because those are the headlines because he did some cutting of staff and
changing of staff when it comes to his campaign over the weekend. What did
you see there, Well, yeah, he cut about ten or twelve staffers
and that reflecting of several factors. Jason. One is he's got a money
crunch. Now. The latest report show he raised about twenty million dollars in
the last quarter. That's that's pretty good, But the problem is he's spending
it at a very high rate. And also the large bulk of that money
comes from big donors, people who have given the maximum mural all out.
Under the federal rules, an individual can only give thirty three hundred dollars during
the primary to directly or candidate, and the large bulk of his money came
from those big donors, which means he doesn't have much room to grow and
he's not generating support at the grassroots level, and so he's got a cash
crunch. But that the cash crunch reflects the polling crunch. I mean,
there's some astounding numbers. Back in January, if you looked at all the
Republican voters and averaged all the polls, Jason Trump was ahead forty four to
thirty one. Well, that's only thirteen points. De Santis was in good
shape. Today the gap is wide to thirty three points. Trump's at fifty
three percent among Republican voters and DeSantis has dropped to twenty percent. So he's
headed in the wrong direction. So the money problems are indicative of a much
larger inability of De Santis so far, six months before the Armcaucus, is
so far to really connect with voters out on the campaign trail. Do you
think that reorganizing his campaign staff is going to keep the large your donors coming
in, because that doesn't seem to be a play for the smaller donors that
Trump seems to have cornered the market on he does seem to accordinate that market.
I think one of the variables here, Jason, is that Trump has
proven to be far more resilient, and then people imagined after the twenty twenty
two election a lot of his chosen Kennedy's lost key races. People were writing
Trump Boss. That turned out to be wildly premature. He still commands enormous
loyalty among the base of Republican voters, and when you look at the two
indictments, in some ways you could argue that they've actually helped him because they've
sort of energized and solidified the base. But the other variable here is that
the Santis has just not proven to be as good a candidate out on the
trail as people expected. You know, I've seen this, I've covered fourteen
presidential elections. I've seen this happened many times before. Someone like the Santis
does very well on the state level, but when they get to the national
level, they have no idea, Jason, how bright the spotlight is.
They have no idea how every single word, everything instillable they utter is suddenly
subjected to much greater scrutiny. When there was an offhand remark that the Santis
made months ago describing the war in Ukraine as a territorial dispute. Well,
when you're governor of Florida and Tallahassee, no one gives a darn what you
think about Ukraine. But when you're running for president, people care a lot
because it reflects it reflected on his judgment, and a lot of people started
raising eyebrows and saying, is this guy ready for prime time? But the
other factor is that, you know, he just hasn't found the narrative,
the story, the theme to connect with voters on a personal level. One
writer put it very well, said that you know that the Santis has portrayed
himself as Trump without the chaos. It turns out, she wrote, he's
Trump without the charisma, and he just has not found that that ability to
connect. On paper, he's a great candidate. He's forty four years old,
he's thirty two years younger than Donald Trump. He has a beautiful wife,
wife who used to be a TV star. He's got telegenic children,
he's got Ivy League degrees, he was a naval officer, he won floor
twice. On paper, the perfect candidate, but it's like anything else,
you don't play the game on paper, you play it on the field,
right, And on the field he turns out he can't hit a major league
curveball, that's right, not even a flat one over the corner. Okay,
so we're speaking with ABC Steve Roberts. Okay, Steve, you've been
covering this a while. I know I have to let you go in ninety
seconds. The GOP nomination process has its own media ecosystem as well, and
I saw some headlines over the weekend about Fox News is coverage and things.
Are you seeing any shift in that that might play out with alongside the campaign
finance that we got over the weekend. Yeah, Well, look, Rubert
Murdoch, the head of Fox goes with winners. Right in the beginning,
he didn't like Donald Trump, and then he went he saw it with Trump
when he saw that Trump was winning. And it's the same with DeSantis.
He was disillusioned with Trump and he had a romance, sort of a fling
with DeSantis. But now that the Santa is not doing very well, you're
starting to see stories that the Murdoch and Foxes losing their affection for dasantis the
other media dimension of this that was DeSantis this week announced that he was going
to sit down for an interview with CNN and Jake Tapper meant a real change
because he's been trying to maximize his exposure and conservative media outlets. He really
is not risked being grilled by someone like Tapper, who is not going to
be Sean Hannity. He's not going to be just friendly and easy on.
But it shows that he's he's got to take some risks here because what he's
been doing so far has not been working well. Do you have a dark
horse candidate? Last question? Somebody that you're keeping an eye eye on.
Personally, I'm watching Glen yonkin Well, Glen Youngan, the governor of Virginia.
That's a very good idea. He of course has not gotten into the
race, but he proved himself to be a very depth campaigner when he won
in a purple state or even a blue state. The other person to watch
is Tim Scott. He's the only black Republican senator. He's from South Carolina
and he has a very compelling personal story. I've covered politics a long time,
and I can tell you someone who can relate to people on a personal
level. This is what Barack Obama did so brilliantly. It's what Bill Clinton
did so brilliantly. Keep your eye on Tim Scott. He can start generating
some enthusiasm with his personal narrative. I will keep eyes on him, Steve.
If you say it, I do it. Steve Roberts from ABC's thanks
a lot, Steve. Always appreciate your contact and expertise theya. Let's get
a few more headlines coming out of the caf at twenty four hour in his
room where we always do lead local. A woman has been killed in a
shooting in Boiled Heights. Another woman is in the hospital, please say though.
Women were standing outside at South Glass and East First Streets last night when
two men walked up and shot them. Police say the shooting is believed to
be gang related. Some police departments struggling to recruit and retain officers are turning
to Dhaka recipients. Those are people who were brought to the US illegally as
children. The interim police chief in Aurora, Colorado, says it's a smart
policy. His department has seventy one open positions. A Las Vegas police officer
could get life in prison for stealing nearly one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars
from three casinos. Caleb Rodgers was convicted Friday by a federal jury. His
younger brother testified about how they planned one robbery in twenty twenty one. If
anyone who saw Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part one can't wait for part two,
it's become one of the many casualties of the Hollywood Actors Strike. Part
two was scheduled to come out next June. Other productions affected by the Actor's
striker Gladiator two, Deadpool three, Venom three, a new version of Lelo
and Stitch, and an untitled Brad Pitt movie. The Writer's Guild of America
strike that started in May first affected late night talk shows and Saturday Night Live,
but now it's first several shows to pause production, including Stranger Things nineteen
twenty three, Severance American horror story, Yellow Jackets, and Abbott Elementary Mark
Ronner CAFI News National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Congress needs to keep politics out
of the National Defense Authorization Act. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union yesterday,
Sullivan said he expects the Senate to strike down the version of the NDAA
that was passed by the Republican controlled House on Friday. Air quality alerts were
issued for several US states yesterday due to thick smoke from Canadian wildfires. More
than nine hundred are burning north of the United States. The National Weather Service
says those included much of Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois,
and Indiana. Also yesterday afternoon, officials labeled the air quality in cities
like Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Des Moines as unhealthy. A former
movie studio head predicts disaster if the actors and writers strike is not settled soon.
Are are not settled soon? Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday,
IAC and Expedia chair Barry Diller suggests a September first settlement deadline, similar to
a strike deadline. Diller says the biggest obstacle is there's no trust between the
Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, which represents the studios and the actors
and writers unions. It's about five fifty two on your wake up call.
ABC's Jim Ryan is on the line with us. Here's the topic. One
year after the launch of the nine eight eight suicide and crisis lifeline, nearly
five million calls, texts and chats have been answered. Welcome back, Jim.
Does that number surprise you, Yeah, it does. Yeah, it's
almost twice what they were receiving before. But of course, the year before
that you had this ten digit national Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which you had been
in place for almost twenty years. What's more chasing. Yeah, as you
point out there, it's not just telephone calls anymore. It is text messages,
it's chats, and it is telephone calls. The name has been expanded
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, So it's just suicide there, it's also any mental
health crisis that people might be having you can call nine one on the hope
of federal officials, health officials, mental health experts and advocates is that that
number nine eight eight will become as common and as familiar to people as nine
one one is and the other kinds of crises. Your houses on fire,
somebody's breaking into your car, you call nine on one. If you're having
a mental health issue, a crisis of some kind, you could call nine
eight eight. So it seems like in the business world, when there's demand,
funding seems to follow, an investment seems to follow. What about future
funding for nine to eight eight? Is that an issue? Well, it's
an issue. I mean, any kind of funding for any sort of program
is going to be in an issue. But I think this is a fairly
easy sell among Congress if you look at the results, five million contacts in
the first year that the nine eight eight service has been up and running,
I think that makes it a fairly easy sell. But other states, some
states, six states all together, have taken a different approach and not just
relying on federal funding but imposing cell phone taxes, so a line item will
be on your cell phone bill showing that some portion of the funding of your
payment is going to fund these crisis hotlines. And yes, California is one
of those six states. I've written and read and heard nine eight eight being
used as a disclaimers beginning at a news story, just in case the content
would be associated with something along the suicide and crisis lifeline. It seems like
that kind of awareness is pretty high. Are you seeing other examples of that?
I mean, is that what's helping helping five million people feel like they
can reach out and seek help? Sure? Yeah, I mean the awareness
is up there. But also consider Jason, that only and I say,
only eighty three eighty three percent of people know about nine eight eight, so
it's not one hundred percent saturation. I think that the federal health officials are
hoping to make it one hundred percent awareness out there, So that's kind of
the goal, and I think that's why they're so pleased to see these numbers
where they are on the first year. The goal the obviously, is to
get more calls, more contacts in next year, but also ensure that all
of those calls and contacts, text messages and chats are answered. The goal
is right now to have ninety percent of those contacts responded to and to have
them responded too quickly. But so far only eighteen states have met that goal.
Jim, this is an important topic, and I think that I appreciate
you bringing us the numbers and helping us flash it out a little bit too.
But while I have you on the line and knowing that you're probably still
in Texas and I'm about to do a bunch of weather stories, how are
things looking there when it comes to the heat gnome, Well, it's still
rough. Especially I don't know el Pass, so I think there would be
twenty seven days, twenty seven straight dates above one hundred degrees. Things finally
moderated here in Dallas for worth Over the weekend, it cooled down a little
sprinkles here and there, but today it'll be back up of one hundred and
the forecast for the next ten days or so it's for temperatures topping triple digits.
So still an issue all across the states, and it's there are casualties
now, something like two dozen people have died in the heat here in Texas.
Jim, thanks a lot for that too, appreciation. ABC's news correspondent
Jim Ryan, just joining us there for a couple of different stories. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of our own KFY twenty four
hour newsroom. Death Valley has gotten closer to some of the hottest temperatures ever
recorded. The National Weather Service said yesterday temperatures were expected to reach a high
of one hundred and twenty eight degrees. The hottest in the area was one
hundred and thirty four degrees back in nineteen thirteen. The temperature in Death Valley
at four this morning was already one hundred and two. A man who allegedly
shot into an apartment in Marino Valley has been arrested. The Riverside County Sheriff's
Department says the man was booked Saturday on suspicion of shooting at an inhabited building
and attempted murder. No one in the home was hit. Writers in the
Tour de France are asking fans to behave themselves following another mass crash. Jonah's
finger guard telling spectators lining the route but don't stand on the road or pour
beers on the cyclists. ABC's Chuck Silverston says the crash yesterday forced several writers
out of the race. He says video suggests the crash may have been caused
by a spectator taking a selfie. Later, a spectator inadvertently touched an American
writer and sent him to the ground. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in India
for G twenty finance meetings. She says the US and India are working together
to further the Group of twenty agenda and talked about the growing ties between the
two countries. Our collaboration spans a range of economic issues, including commercial and
technological collaboration, strengthening supply chains, and catalyzing the clean energy transition. The
trip is Yellen's third to India in nine months. Microsoft and Sony have signed
a ten year binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the xboxmaker's
acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The announcement, tweeted yesterday by Xbox chief Phil Spencer,
indicates the Japanese company is no longer fighting the sixty nine billion dollar takeover
the first person shooter franchise, which is considered Activision Blizzards Crown Jewel, and
rightfully so, has been the biggest point of contention for gaming companies like Sony
and regulatory bodies in the US, the UK and the EU. Microsoft,
for its part, has time and again tried to downplay the deals significance to
the gaming industry to help push it through those regulations. And right now on
Wall Street markets are mixed, Nazdak futures are up well, it's basically it's
just flat, and the sp is pretty much flat, just a little bit
down, the Dallas down about eighty six points. The FED is going into
its quiet period ahead of next week's meeting, where it's expected that they will
raise interest rates by another quarter of a point, and then everybody turns eyes
to September, when they may raise another quarter point. Seeing rates come down
this year is likely not going to happen. Finally, some lottery jackpots are
about as hot as the weather. The Mega Millions prize is about six hundred
and forty million dollars. The Powerball jackpot is up to nine hundred million dollars.
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