WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.440 Cam. If I am six forty, you're listening to wake Up Call on 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:10.679 demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. 3 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:22.640 Here's Jason Middleton. Good going everyone, Wake Up Call Monday, July seventeen. 4 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.600 Do not adjust your set. I have a killer sinus infection, had 5 00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:31.239 a five days. It's just so if it sounds like I'm talking through a 6 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.560 tube, it's it's mostly just because that's the way my head feels. So 7 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:37.759 I'll be doing a lot of dumpouts and hitting that cough button. Thank you 8 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:44.119 for joining us. Hope you're having a better start to your week. It's 9 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:51.840 Barbenheimer week. Oppenheimer and Barbie later this week. If you go see the 10 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:56.719 double Bill, apparently if you see Oppenheimer first and then Barbie, that seems 11 00:00:56.759 --> 00:00:59.719 to be the trend. If you see Barbie and then Oppenheimer, then apparently 12 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.680 you're quote out of your mind. We'll have more on that this week. 13 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:10.159 For sure. Saw Mission Impossible over the weekend. If the jittersitegeist around artificial 14 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:14.879 intelligence has your attention, that's your movie, and especially if you like ground 15 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:19.480 level camera angles. Let's get into some of the other more important news coming 16 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.599 in this morning. I wake up call. The man accused of fatally shooting 17 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.519 four people in Georgia has been killed following a man hunt. Authority you said 18 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:32.120 yesterday, the monster is dead. Heavy weather, both heat and rain is 19 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.599 hovering all over the US, with several deaths on the ground, thousands of 20 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.680 flight delays, and several air quality alerts. More on that throughout the hour 21 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:46.640 and all morning. It's unclaimed tax refund deadline day, so checked IRS dot 22 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.319 gov to see if you are owed to check from the FEDS. Today is 23 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:52.480 the deadline. If you don't claim it and the average is a nine hundred 24 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.640 dollars refund, then it's gone forever. Let's start with some of the other 25 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.120 stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour news room this morning. 26 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:02.640 Firefighters in Riverside County are may progress in battling four wildfires as his heat wave 27 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:07.799 broke records across the state and sent residents, of course, scrambling for relief 28 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.639 over the weekend. Passenger rail service through San Clementi is back on track following 29 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:16.439 months of multiple closures due to landslides. The emergency construction of a temporary two 30 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.560 hundred and fifty foot long, twelve foot high barrier is meant to protect the 31 00:02:21.599 --> 00:02:25.800 tracks from debris falling down an unstable hillside. Beneath Casse. Romantica Cultural Center 32 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.719 pilings were dugged thirty two feet in the ground to strengthen the wall. OC 33 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.360 Transportation Authority says the work is complete just in time for peak summer travel season 34 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:39.439 between Orange and San Diego Counties, which OCTA says includes Comic Con International, 35 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.439 which starts Thursday in San Diego in Orange County. Corbin Carson ko Fin News 36 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:49.800 investigators in New York say a new look at an old clue helped lead to 37 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.240 the arrest in the so called Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island. It was 38 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.159 a pickup truck tied to a missing woman and architect Rex Huerman. He's charged 39 00:02:59.199 --> 00:03:01.800 with killing three women and suspected in the death of another. These women all 40 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.719 had things in common. They were all young. They were in their twenties, 41 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.000 twenty two to twenty seven years old, they were all petite, and 42 00:03:10.039 --> 00:03:15.439 they were all sex workers. Aaron Katurski says the bodies were among at least 43 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.439 ten found on Gilgo Beach in twenty ten. At least five people have been 44 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.360 killed in flooding in southeastern Pennsylvania. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says two children, nine 45 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:27.960 months and two years old are missing. Authorities in Bucks County say the family 46 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.000 was visiting from South Carolina when their vehicle got swept away by the flood waters. 47 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.919 Flash flood warnings have been issued for parts of New York and Connecticut, 48 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.960 and significant river flooding is possible along New York's coast, New Jersey, and 49 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:43.800 Delaware. The severe weather has forced ground stops at airports in the New York 50 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.520 area. More than twenty six hundred flights were canceled and more than eighty three 51 00:03:46.639 --> 00:03:53.360 hundred were delayed across the US yesterday. Heat advisories and warnings are in place 52 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.879 across southern California because of the high temps. San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys 53 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.960 should see temperatures in the upper eighties to around one hundred today. The Santa 54 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.960 Clarita Valley should expect highs up to one hundred and four, and the Antelope 55 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.599 Valley should see around one hundred degrees maybe a little bit warmer. Highs in 56 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.520 Orange County will be in the eighties and nineties. The union president at UPS 57 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.879 called on workers to be prepared for a strike as the teamsters pushed for higher 58 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.079 part time wages, the last major sticking point for renewing a five year labor 59 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.680 agreement that expires on July thirty first. Shaun O'Brien says he is asking the 60 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.199 White House not to intervene in case of a walkout. The teamsters have communicated 61 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.199 to the White House on numerous occasions to not get involved if there was a 62 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.079 strike, which would begin on August first, if the deal is not reached. 63 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:43.120 First topic today, ABC's Tom Rivers has Wimbledon. Hey Tom, good 64 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:47.079 morning, Good morning. Did you watch a match? No, I caught 65 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:51.000 the highlights the push notification on my phone, though, said a Wimbledon final 66 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:57.160 for the ages, Why yeah, it was. It was quite a well, 67 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.639 it was a very strity with a five center, but it was very 68 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:04.639 spring we had. We had Djokovic coming out like a house on fire, 69 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.560 taking the first six to one, and everybody in the radio room thought we're 70 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:13.000 gonna be up in the bar very very quickly, but not the case. 71 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:17.319 Second set went to a tiebreak and Carlos took that. Then it became a 72 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:23.639 slug fest. As match lasted nearly five hours, came down to the fifty 73 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:30.079 cider and Djokovic's serve was broken in the third game. That's only room that 74 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:33.920 the young Spaniard needed, and he then took that six four. So yes, 75 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.560 maybe a changing of the guard. You know, for the past twenty 76 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.480 years we've looked at the same four four names at Wimbledon, and you know, 77 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:47.639 one by one they're retiring. So yes, Alcarez looked very very good, 78 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:53.319 very very sharp. As I said, I think we just lost Tom 79 00:05:53.639 --> 00:05:57.319 around for a while. Tom. I'm sorry, we're having a little trouble 80 00:05:57.319 --> 00:05:59.000 with the line. But I caught you at the end there. Um, 81 00:05:59.319 --> 00:06:01.720 it sounds like okay, six to one in the first set, and you 82 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.920 were like, okay, well this this looks like a cruise fest for Djokovic. 83 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:09.000 M But sometimes players tend to, you know, after they know they're 84 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:11.560 gonna lose the set, they leave something in the tank. And that seems 85 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:13.839 to be what happened in the second set. What was your take on that? 86 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:16.319 Yeah, well, you know, well he looked a little bit on, 87 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.800 you know, Albert said, look, Elk said that, Look, 88 00:06:19.839 --> 00:06:23.839 you know, I was feeling a bit nervous about this, you know, 89 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.920 as he said after the match, facing the guy that was his hero. 90 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:32.000 Uh he said, uh, you were winning matches when I was born in 91 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:36.560 the crowd and center cord laughing at that one. Um, but yeah, 92 00:06:36.759 --> 00:06:42.160 nerves certainly part of the landscape. But you know he picked it up. 93 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.800 And as I say, then once, once we were at once set a 94 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:48.759 piece, you had to you could write two different stories with two different computers, 95 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:54.480 saying youth was served or the veteran one out because you couldn't write it 96 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:58.639 until the very buried end. No, Djokovic is known it to be a 97 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:01.959 tad mayor curial. How was he after the match and what happened in anything 98 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.920 happened during the match with Djokovic in his temper, Well, yeah, I 99 00:07:04.959 --> 00:07:08.759 know if you noticed this, and it's in the highlights, but he got 100 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:14.959 really really frustrated by the end of the match and smashed his racket into the 101 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:20.600 net post and putting a mark on there. But he was pretty pretty magnanimous 102 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:27.439 in the comments after the after the defeat, he said, you know, 103 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.480 in retrospect, some of his majors, he said, you know, maybe 104 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.040 I was lucky to win, and maybe some of those wins, you know, 105 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.839 flip a coin, it could have been a loss, so he said, 106 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:42.319 look, he put everything into this one. So maybe the fates have 107 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:46.399 said, okay, even Stephen Sam for you to lose one. But again, 108 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:47.800 at thirty six, you might say that's it, he's going to be 109 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:51.600 checking out. But I think given the way he approaches the game, he's 110 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:57.000 still going to be a contender for the next maybe year or two. So 111 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.240 he's gonna be around. He's not He's not being written off yet. So 112 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:03.759 okay with alca Oz, he's twenty years old. Is this a get to 113 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:07.639 know me kind of a situation or a sustainably solid player to keep an eye 114 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.199 on moving forward? Yeah, I think it's the ladder. He's part of 115 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.800 the new generation coming up, and he looks like the leading figure in that 116 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.920 new generation coming up. You think back all the years that have been covering 117 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:24.800 out at Wimbledon. You had the epochs with maybe at the end of Samprus 118 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.920 and uh, you know, we had some of the Australian contingents, et 119 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.279 cetera, et cetera. Now it's the turn really of a new generation of 120 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:39.879 youngsters and uh yeah, we got to get reinvigorated and and watch this game 121 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.240 and not the same four individuals on the men's side, you know, going 122 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.240 to be in the final at Wimbledon. Those days are are gone and diminishing 123 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.360 very very quickly. This could will would have been Andy's Andy Murray could have 124 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.759 been his last Wimbledon. We don't know yet. Nadal might be checking out 125 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.440 the next year, et cetera, et cetera. Federa has already done that, 126 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.720 so yeah, certainly a changing of the times. Hey, tom My, 127 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.279 last question. As I mentioned at the top, I did not watch 128 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.639 the match. I just saw some highlights. I didn't watch the women's final 129 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.039 either. Can you get his caught up on what happened there? Yeah. 130 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.799 Marquetta von Rossova, twenty four year old. Check. She was at woman 131 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:24.000 last year, but as a spectator because she had a second surgery on her 132 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.480 wrist. But she came in and this is a nice little tidbit. She 133 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:37.919 is the first women's champion to capture the title as an unseeded player, so 134 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:43.240 that's pretty amazing and she did very very well. Indeed, Uh, it's 135 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.799 interesting little note to her husband had been still at home in the Czech Republic 136 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:52.000 and he didn't fly over until the actual final because he was cats sitting, 137 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.279 so he finally found somebody there that could take care of the cats. Fluent 138 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.480 the most exciting match and maybe the most memorable match he's ever played in your 139 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.519 life. Outstanding, Tom, always a pleasure to speak with you. Thank 140 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.519 you for giving us the time and the catching us up on what happened on 141 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.360 the grass quarter of the weekend. Thank care I should have asked. I 142 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.360 have a sense that Tom rivers from ABC as a killer kick serve. I'm 143 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.159 just guessing. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the 144 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:24.240 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Part of a key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia's 145 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.519 mainland has been blown up and what Russian officials say was a Ukrainian attack that 146 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:33.320 killed a married couple and injured their daughter. It's the second major strike on 147 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:37.120 the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections. 148 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.840 Russia's National Anti Terrorist Committee says the latest attack was staged by the Ukrainian 149 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:48.240 Special Services and involved two sea drones. Russia has stopped a wartime deal that 150 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.360 allows grain from Ukraine to go to countries in Africa, the Middle East and 151 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.639 Asia. Russian spokesman Dmitri Piskov says his country will suspend the Black Sea Grain 152 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.399 Initiative until its demands to get its own food and fertilizer to the world are 153 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.480 met. Russia has complained that restrictions on shipping and insurance have hampered its agricultural 154 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.480 exports. The FBI is looking at the La County Sheriff's Department over two use 155 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:18.080 of forces cases. Also recently released bodycam video of a deputy in Palmdale presumably 156 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.399 punching a woman in the face while she holds her baby. The other case 157 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.440 involves the takedown of a woman at a grocery store by deputy in Lancaster. 158 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:31.639 Both cases have generated outrage by activists and politicians, with some calling for the 159 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.919 firing of the deputies involved. Sources with the Sheriff's department confirmed federal agents have 160 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.919 visited sheriff's officials. The sources said the FBI is doing a criminal investigation in 161 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:46.879 the department plans to fully cooperate. Steve Gregory Campine News. Four wildfires have 162 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.000 burned more than eight thousand acres in western Riverside County. The largest, near 163 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.519 the community of Lake View that's close to Mystic Lake, has grown to seventy 164 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:58.399 six hundred acres since Friday and is twenty five percent contained. Evacuation orders and 165 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.320 warnings are in place. Another fire burning over the weekend started in Richie Canyon 166 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.639 in Marino Valley and has blackened to four hundred and thirty seven acres. It's 167 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.120 eighty percent contained. A wildfire that's burned one hundred and five acres near Beaumont 168 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.000 is ninety five percent contained, and a fire in Paris remains at three hundred 169 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.759 and thirty eight acres with fifty percent containment. More than ten thousand Californians are 170 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:24.320 waking up in the dark today. La County has the biggest chunk of power 171 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.600 outages, followed by San Bernardino Intolari. State energy regulators, along with PG 172 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:33.559 and E have been urging people to limit their AC usage during the heatwave. 173 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:39.320 National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is defending the plan to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine. 174 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.240 Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, Sullivan dismissed the suggestion the US 175 00:12:43.320 --> 00:12:48.120 has lost its moral authority because of President Biden's decision. In the Bay Area, 176 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.799 the horse track Golden Gate Fields is going to close its gates and doors 177 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.480 at the end of this year, it's not clear if the land is going 178 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.360 to become a state park or open green space. Having lived there for a 179 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:01.279 while, I until there's a big, beautiful dog park nearby. Just make 180 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.679 it bigger. That's a way to do it. At five thirty ish, 181 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.080 the would be GOP presidential nominees reported their fundraising efforts, among others, and 182 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:13.279 how much money each campaign has on hand and what it's spending. ABC. 183 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.200 Steve Roberts is going to join us to get the numbers on campaign financing what 184 00:13:16.279 --> 00:13:20.200 they can mean, kind of reading the t without too much math on the 185 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:24.799 radio. All right, now, we're gonna look at some tech headlines and 186 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:28.639 a little bit of business headlines too, because we had actual tech headlines come 187 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.879 in over the weekend, and he's a headline generating machine. Serial entrepreneur Elon 188 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.399 Musk said over the weekend that things are still no bueno at Twitter when it 189 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:43.279 comes to revenue. Back in March, Twitter owner Elon Musk said there was 190 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.279 a chance the company would report positive cash flow in the next quarter. A 191 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:52.840 month later, Musk suggested most advertisers who'd fled the site had returned, but 192 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:56.440 June has come gone and Twitter still has cash flow issues. By Musk's own 193 00:13:56.480 --> 00:14:01.519 admission on Saturday, Musk said that two major factors are keeping Twitter's cash flow 194 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:07.000 in the red, a nearly fifty percent drop an advertising revenue and a heavy 195 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.240 debt load. Now he said there was only two major factors. I guess 196 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.720 he just didn't have a mirror in the office. It's not clear when the 197 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:20.360 ad revenue fell by half, But what is clear is the inefficacy of Musk's 198 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:24.200 moves. So let's review the bidding on his cost cutting measures mass layoffs, 199 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:30.480 cutting four out of every five employees since his takeover. Then there's the refusal 200 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:35.480 to pay Twitter's obligations too from vendors like advertising services that serve the ads to 201 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:43.080 landlords in Denver and other places, and cloud service providers basically Amazon Web Services. 202 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.320 So you're taking on Amazon with that one. Then there's Twitter's mounting legal 203 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:52.399 bills as it grapples with a suite of lawsuits, not only including copyright violation 204 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:58.000 suits, also a big lawsuit from former employees who claim they are still owed 205 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:03.159 severance to the tune of cumulative five hundred million dollars. And then of course 206 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:09.159 there's threads Mark Zuckerberg's most recent copy paste attempt at gobbling up another social media 207 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.639 platform. It's kind of like he tried to do with Instagram Stories and Snapchat. 208 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:28.559 And there's a little bit more for this week in Elon Musk. That's 209 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.679 right, our mercurial billionaire, multi billionaire Elon Musk is in the news again 210 00:15:33.759 --> 00:15:37.879 this week. This time it is a little bit about artificial intelligence. Now, 211 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.120 just when we thought we thought that Musk couldn't handle any more companies, 212 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.440 he's doing so well with Twitter right now, SpaceX that's a win. Tesla 213 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:52.600 continues to be a market leader. Neurallink, that's one of the healthcare mapping 214 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:56.399 of the brain situations with high tech. Don't hear too much about that these 215 00:15:56.440 --> 00:16:00.720 days, which is probably good, honestly. And of course the Boring Company. 216 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:03.519 The boring company was the mining company because Elon moved over to the West 217 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:07.559 LA and decided that the four oh five was just too jammed. He wanted 218 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.960 to build a tunnel underneath it, so he started a company called the Boring 219 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.360 Company, and not much progress on that just yet either. Of course, 220 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:18.879 building anything in Los Angeles County is not necessarily easy or encouraged. In a 221 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:23.399 lot of ways, and now Elon Musk is apparently behaving a little bit like 222 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.080 an addict when it comes to his serial entrepreneurship, which usually is not a 223 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:33.360 bad thing. This new one is called x AI small X Capital A capital 224 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.960 I. It's his latest venture and it's gearing up to challenge open ai. 225 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:40.879 And if you heard that click right there in my voice, that's because I 226 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.240 have a killer sign it's infection. Now. The company that Musk co founded 227 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:48.000 but later accused of being biased and woke was open Ai. Remember he signed 228 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.200 a letter with a lot of other tech types who really got caught kind of 229 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:56.159 flat footed. Now they knew open ai was there, but they didn't know 230 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:02.960 that chat GPT, which open Ai fuels, was going to bolt on to 231 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:07.240 Microsoft's search engine BING. At the beginning of the year, everybody was starting 232 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.880 to play catch up in the marketplace at the consumer level, and so a 233 00:17:10.880 --> 00:17:14.119 bunch of people came out and some of them used regulations. We need to 234 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.000 put our arms around how technology is going to infiltrate our daily lives kind of 235 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.440 situation virtue signaling on a lot of fronts. We didn't learn enough from social 236 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:26.400 media companies who Cambridge Analytica This is a little bit of a fallback from that 237 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:30.799 Facebook fiasco. But he was one of the people. Musk was one of 238 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:33.200 the people who signed the letter and said, hey, let's slow down Open 239 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:34.960 Ai. Well that was a few months ago. Now he's got his own 240 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:41.039 company called x Ai. The goal of the new company is to understand the 241 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.960 true nature of the universe, and it's aiming to answer fundamental questions like can 242 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.799 ai become conscious? Now. The team itself is headed up by Elon Musk, 243 00:17:52.400 --> 00:17:56.079 and it has members on the team that have worked at other big names 244 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:59.000 like Open Ai, Google Research. We're going to come back to that in 245 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:03.880 a second, Microsoft Research, and Deep Mind. You remember deep Mind was 246 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.839 a Jeopardy contestant about ten years ago. I don't know, I don't have 247 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.400 Google in front of me. I'll use Bang instead, and then we'll come 248 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:14.200 back to that one too. In addition to Musk, the website has a 249 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:18.559 whole bunch of people, including a researcher from the Center for Ai Safety. 250 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:23.519 Now that kind of helps separate them from a little more wheat than chaff there, 251 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:29.400 because the Center for Ai Safety is a respected nonprofit that is looking to 252 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:34.200 reduce societal scale risks associated with artificial intelligence. Now, there was a Twitter 253 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:38.039 spaces discussion. It didn't necessarily crash. It wasn't very well attended either, 254 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:42.519 but it was informative. Now, we first heard about x Ai back in 255 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:48.240 April, when Musk indicated in filings that he founded the company. This was 256 00:18:48.240 --> 00:18:55.240 in Nevada and at the time Musk Musk listed himself as its director and Musk's 257 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.160 family office as also in there as a secretary, etc. Etter The corporate 258 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:03.200 offices are close to Musk's inner circle. We'll see if they are up and 259 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:08.480 running fast enough to catch up with open ai. And as the government continues 260 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:15.839 to seek proper regulation and scale of regulation by investigating and looking into other AI 261 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:21.319 companies including chat, GPT and open Ai, XAI will get at least into 262 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:26.200 the stream of that conversation. That's enough to get into the marketplace, get 263 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:30.559 notice, get consumers interested. So we'll have to keep an eye on this. 264 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:36.200 Now, our next angle on AI goes more towards what the Writers Guild 265 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:41.920 and the Screen Actors Guild and my guild AFTRA is doing. But that's not 266 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:49.720 necessarily this week and Elon Musk. So let's wrap this one Sarah Silverman and 267 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:57.319 two other offers have authors have sued open ai over copyright infringement because their texts 268 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:02.000 from their books was floating around on the darker side of the web and it 269 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.680 was picked up by open ai and other large language models. So that is 270 00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:10.160 kind of a tip of the spear lawsuit when it comes to open Ai, 271 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:15.400 which of course is one of the major sticking points between the WGA and SAGAFTRA 272 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:21.640 during these labor and contract negotiations. One more quick note on recession watch. 273 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.519 I hate to do it, but we have to. It's earnings season. 274 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:30.880 JP Morgan Chase Citygroup in Wells Fargo, three of America's biggest banks reported bumper 275 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.880 profits in the second quarter. They all benefited from higher interest rates that propped 276 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:38.920 up their lending businesses. JP morgan Chases profits, which rose by sixty seven 277 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:42.720 percent year on year, were also helped by its acquisition of First Republic Bank, 278 00:20:42.759 --> 00:20:45.839 of course, that was a regional lender, and Jamie Diamond. JP 279 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:52.119 Morgan's boss warned that competition in the sector would intensify. Now the flip side 280 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:55.759 of high banking profits and high interest rates is a credit crunch. Now, 281 00:20:55.799 --> 00:21:00.400 credit being extended for businesses and households is shrinking fast. At the beginning of 282 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:06.200 the pandemic, banks rolled down the teller shades and stopped lending out money for 283 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:07.519 the most party. It was a black Swan event. Nobody knew what was 284 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:11.200 going to happen with the economy, let alone if we were ever to be 285 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.680 able to take off our masks. As of today, banks are lending money 286 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.200 at a rate twenty percent below that pandemic era lending rate, something to keep 287 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.160 an eye on as the FED likely kicks up rates again in about ten days. 288 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:29.839 A couple more stories out of the KFI twenty four hour news room before 289 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.799 we break. A man traveling with two regional Mexican musicians in Hollywood has been 290 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.359 arrested for gun possession. The men were pulled over at about one thirty in 291 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.799 the morning yesterday. The man arrested was identified as a manager for one of 292 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:45.480 the artists. Police say he was also he also had an outstanding warrant. 293 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.799 A man in Georgia, wonder for the fatal shootings of four of his neighbors, 294 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:53.319 has been killed during a shootout with police. Clayton County Police Chief Robert 295 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:57.480 Kevin Roberts says the sheriff's deputy and two police officers were hurt in the shootout 296 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:02.799 yesterday. While trying to capture Andre Longmore, he was engaged bo offices at 297 00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:07.079 a residence. Once that engagement happened, there was an exchange of gunfire that 298 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:11.640 calls him. The loss of life and these injuries to the offices. That 299 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:15.480 shootout happened to day after the killings in the town of Hampton. Investigators say 300 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.400 they're trying to figure out why the man targeted his neighbors. Passenger rail service 301 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:23.079 through San Clementi resumes today, adding another travel option between Orange and San Diego 302 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:27.319 County's Metrolink and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains have not been able to pass through that 303 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:30.960 area since early June. Southern California, of course, remains under a smoke 304 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:37.039 advisory through at least noon. The South Coast Air Quality Management District extended its 305 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.279 advisory due to the four wildfires that are burning in Riverside County. Russia says 306 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.960 it is suspending its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian 307 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:48.839 grain to Africa, the Middle East and other regions, and the grain deal 308 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:55.079 collapsing has fears on the rise about global food supplies. News is brought to 309 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:59.000 you by American Vision Windows. Coming up at five fifty, ABC's Jim Ryan 310 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:03.000 has the latest data and performance metrics around a critical service, the nine eight 311 00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.960 eight Suicide hot Line. Hip's going to help us round up what nine eight 312 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.240 eight is covering when it comes to the needs of stressed out public. Right 313 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:12.640 now, on wake up Call, we have Steve Roberts with his ABC News 314 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:17.799 political analysts. Good morning, Steve, Good morning. Let's start with Ron 315 00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:22.640 de Santis because those are the headlines because he did some cutting of staff and 316 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.559 changing of staff when it comes to his campaign over the weekend. What did 317 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:30.359 you see there, Well, yeah, he cut about ten or twelve staffers 318 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:36.319 and that reflecting of several factors. Jason. One is he's got a money 319 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:41.440 crunch. Now. The latest report show he raised about twenty million dollars in 320 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.359 the last quarter. That's that's pretty good, But the problem is he's spending 321 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:49.640 it at a very high rate. And also the large bulk of that money 322 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:52.880 comes from big donors, people who have given the maximum mural all out. 323 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:57.680 Under the federal rules, an individual can only give thirty three hundred dollars during 324 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:03.599 the primary to directly or candidate, and the large bulk of his money came 325 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:07.160 from those big donors, which means he doesn't have much room to grow and 326 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:12.359 he's not generating support at the grassroots level, and so he's got a cash 327 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:18.880 crunch. But that the cash crunch reflects the polling crunch. I mean, 328 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:23.200 there's some astounding numbers. Back in January, if you looked at all the 329 00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:30.359 Republican voters and averaged all the polls, Jason Trump was ahead forty four to 330 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.599 thirty one. Well, that's only thirteen points. De Santis was in good 331 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:38.039 shape. Today the gap is wide to thirty three points. Trump's at fifty 332 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:42.440 three percent among Republican voters and DeSantis has dropped to twenty percent. So he's 333 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:47.400 headed in the wrong direction. So the money problems are indicative of a much 334 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:52.119 larger inability of De Santis so far, six months before the Armcaucus, is 335 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.720 so far to really connect with voters out on the campaign trail. Do you 336 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.960 think that reorganizing his campaign staff is going to keep the large your donors coming 337 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.400 in, because that doesn't seem to be a play for the smaller donors that 338 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:08.119 Trump seems to have cornered the market on he does seem to accordinate that market. 339 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.279 I think one of the variables here, Jason, is that Trump has 340 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:17.559 proven to be far more resilient, and then people imagined after the twenty twenty 341 00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:22.319 two election a lot of his chosen Kennedy's lost key races. People were writing 342 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:26.000 Trump Boss. That turned out to be wildly premature. He still commands enormous 343 00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:30.799 loyalty among the base of Republican voters, and when you look at the two 344 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.799 indictments, in some ways you could argue that they've actually helped him because they've 345 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.880 sort of energized and solidified the base. But the other variable here is that 346 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:44.160 the Santis has just not proven to be as good a candidate out on the 347 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:48.480 trail as people expected. You know, I've seen this, I've covered fourteen 348 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.319 presidential elections. I've seen this happened many times before. Someone like the Santis 349 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.000 does very well on the state level, but when they get to the national 350 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.000 level, they have no idea, Jason, how bright the spotlight is. 351 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:06.599 They have no idea how every single word, everything instillable they utter is suddenly 352 00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:10.880 subjected to much greater scrutiny. When there was an offhand remark that the Santis 353 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:15.519 made months ago describing the war in Ukraine as a territorial dispute. Well, 354 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:19.079 when you're governor of Florida and Tallahassee, no one gives a darn what you 355 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:22.599 think about Ukraine. But when you're running for president, people care a lot 356 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:27.359 because it reflects it reflected on his judgment, and a lot of people started 357 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.920 raising eyebrows and saying, is this guy ready for prime time? But the 358 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:36.880 other factor is that, you know, he just hasn't found the narrative, 359 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:41.240 the story, the theme to connect with voters on a personal level. One 360 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:45.039 writer put it very well, said that you know that the Santis has portrayed 361 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:49.359 himself as Trump without the chaos. It turns out, she wrote, he's 362 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:56.480 Trump without the charisma, and he just has not found that that ability to 363 00:26:56.480 --> 00:27:00.200 connect. On paper, he's a great candidate. He's forty four years old, 364 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:03.960 he's thirty two years younger than Donald Trump. He has a beautiful wife, 365 00:27:04.359 --> 00:27:07.279 wife who used to be a TV star. He's got telegenic children, 366 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.279 he's got Ivy League degrees, he was a naval officer, he won floor 367 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:18.480 twice. On paper, the perfect candidate, but it's like anything else, 368 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.960 you don't play the game on paper, you play it on the field, 369 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:23.799 right, And on the field he turns out he can't hit a major league 370 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.960 curveball, that's right, not even a flat one over the corner. Okay, 371 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:33.000 so we're speaking with ABC Steve Roberts. Okay, Steve, you've been 372 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:33.920 covering this a while. I know I have to let you go in ninety 373 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:40.359 seconds. The GOP nomination process has its own media ecosystem as well, and 374 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.759 I saw some headlines over the weekend about Fox News is coverage and things. 375 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:48.279 Are you seeing any shift in that that might play out with alongside the campaign 376 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.920 finance that we got over the weekend. Yeah, Well, look, Rubert 377 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.160 Murdoch, the head of Fox goes with winners. Right in the beginning, 378 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.200 he didn't like Donald Trump, and then he went he saw it with Trump 379 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.759 when he saw that Trump was winning. And it's the same with DeSantis. 380 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.279 He was disillusioned with Trump and he had a romance, sort of a fling 381 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:11.400 with DeSantis. But now that the Santa is not doing very well, you're 382 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:18.799 starting to see stories that the Murdoch and Foxes losing their affection for dasantis the 383 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:25.240 other media dimension of this that was DeSantis this week announced that he was going 384 00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:29.480 to sit down for an interview with CNN and Jake Tapper meant a real change 385 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:36.279 because he's been trying to maximize his exposure and conservative media outlets. He really 386 00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:41.559 is not risked being grilled by someone like Tapper, who is not going to 387 00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.519 be Sean Hannity. He's not going to be just friendly and easy on. 388 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.839 But it shows that he's he's got to take some risks here because what he's 389 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.160 been doing so far has not been working well. Do you have a dark 390 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:56.119 horse candidate? Last question? Somebody that you're keeping an eye eye on. 391 00:28:56.279 --> 00:29:00.880 Personally, I'm watching Glen yonkin Well, Glen Youngan, the governor of Virginia. 392 00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.960 That's a very good idea. He of course has not gotten into the 393 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:08.200 race, but he proved himself to be a very depth campaigner when he won 394 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.960 in a purple state or even a blue state. The other person to watch 395 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:18.480 is Tim Scott. He's the only black Republican senator. He's from South Carolina 396 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.759 and he has a very compelling personal story. I've covered politics a long time, 397 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.359 and I can tell you someone who can relate to people on a personal 398 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:33.039 level. This is what Barack Obama did so brilliantly. It's what Bill Clinton 399 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:40.519 did so brilliantly. Keep your eye on Tim Scott. He can start generating 400 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:44.319 some enthusiasm with his personal narrative. I will keep eyes on him, Steve. 401 00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:47.799 If you say it, I do it. Steve Roberts from ABC's thanks 402 00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:52.079 a lot, Steve. Always appreciate your contact and expertise theya. Let's get 403 00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:53.400 a few more headlines coming out of the caf at twenty four hour in his 404 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.759 room where we always do lead local. A woman has been killed in a 405 00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.319 shooting in Boiled Heights. Another woman is in the hospital, please say though. 406 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.559 Women were standing outside at South Glass and East First Streets last night when 407 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.599 two men walked up and shot them. Police say the shooting is believed to 408 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.440 be gang related. Some police departments struggling to recruit and retain officers are turning 409 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.359 to Dhaka recipients. Those are people who were brought to the US illegally as 410 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:21.000 children. The interim police chief in Aurora, Colorado, says it's a smart 411 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:26.000 policy. His department has seventy one open positions. A Las Vegas police officer 412 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:30.559 could get life in prison for stealing nearly one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars 413 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:34.119 from three casinos. Caleb Rodgers was convicted Friday by a federal jury. His 414 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:38.799 younger brother testified about how they planned one robbery in twenty twenty one. If 415 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:42.640 anyone who saw Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part one can't wait for part two, 416 00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:47.640 it's become one of the many casualties of the Hollywood Actors Strike. Part 417 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.240 two was scheduled to come out next June. Other productions affected by the Actor's 418 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:55.440 striker Gladiator two, Deadpool three, Venom three, a new version of Lelo 419 00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.759 and Stitch, and an untitled Brad Pitt movie. The Writer's Guild of America 420 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.880 strike that started in May first affected late night talk shows and Saturday Night Live, 421 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.880 but now it's first several shows to pause production, including Stranger Things nineteen 422 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:11.640 twenty three, Severance American horror story, Yellow Jackets, and Abbott Elementary Mark 423 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:17.119 Ronner CAFI News National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Congress needs to keep politics out 424 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:22.400 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union yesterday, 425 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.279 Sullivan said he expects the Senate to strike down the version of the NDAA 426 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.160 that was passed by the Republican controlled House on Friday. Air quality alerts were 427 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:34.559 issued for several US states yesterday due to thick smoke from Canadian wildfires. More 428 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:38.559 than nine hundred are burning north of the United States. The National Weather Service 429 00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:44.039 says those included much of Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, 430 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:48.359 and Indiana. Also yesterday afternoon, officials labeled the air quality in cities 431 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.240 like Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Des Moines as unhealthy. A former 432 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:57.319 movie studio head predicts disaster if the actors and writers strike is not settled soon. 433 00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:01.799 Are are not settled soon? Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday, 434 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:07.279 IAC and Expedia chair Barry Diller suggests a September first settlement deadline, similar to 435 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:13.279 a strike deadline. Diller says the biggest obstacle is there's no trust between the 436 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:16.759 Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, which represents the studios and the actors 437 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:21.240 and writers unions. It's about five fifty two on your wake up call. 438 00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:23.400 ABC's Jim Ryan is on the line with us. Here's the topic. One 439 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:28.920 year after the launch of the nine eight eight suicide and crisis lifeline, nearly 440 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.680 five million calls, texts and chats have been answered. Welcome back, Jim. 441 00:32:32.720 --> 00:32:36.440 Does that number surprise you, Yeah, it does. Yeah, it's 442 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:39.039 almost twice what they were receiving before. But of course, the year before 443 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:43.640 that you had this ten digit national Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which you had been 444 00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:46.359 in place for almost twenty years. What's more chasing. Yeah, as you 445 00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:52.160 point out there, it's not just telephone calls anymore. It is text messages, 446 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:57.920 it's chats, and it is telephone calls. The name has been expanded 447 00:32:57.960 --> 00:33:01.359 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, So it's just suicide there, it's also any mental 448 00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:06.799 health crisis that people might be having you can call nine one on the hope 449 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:10.599 of federal officials, health officials, mental health experts and advocates is that that 450 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:15.000 number nine eight eight will become as common and as familiar to people as nine 451 00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:19.880 one one is and the other kinds of crises. Your houses on fire, 452 00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.920 somebody's breaking into your car, you call nine on one. If you're having 453 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.960 a mental health issue, a crisis of some kind, you could call nine 454 00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:30.000 eight eight. So it seems like in the business world, when there's demand, 455 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.920 funding seems to follow, an investment seems to follow. What about future 456 00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:37.119 funding for nine to eight eight? Is that an issue? Well, it's 457 00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:39.720 an issue. I mean, any kind of funding for any sort of program 458 00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:42.680 is going to be in an issue. But I think this is a fairly 459 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:46.880 easy sell among Congress if you look at the results, five million contacts in 460 00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:51.279 the first year that the nine eight eight service has been up and running, 461 00:33:51.319 --> 00:33:54.079 I think that makes it a fairly easy sell. But other states, some 462 00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:59.119 states, six states all together, have taken a different approach and not just 463 00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:04.200 relying on federal funding but imposing cell phone taxes, so a line item will 464 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.159 be on your cell phone bill showing that some portion of the funding of your 465 00:34:07.199 --> 00:34:14.039 payment is going to fund these crisis hotlines. And yes, California is one 466 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.960 of those six states. I've written and read and heard nine eight eight being 467 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:22.199 used as a disclaimers beginning at a news story, just in case the content 468 00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:27.199 would be associated with something along the suicide and crisis lifeline. It seems like 469 00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:30.880 that kind of awareness is pretty high. Are you seeing other examples of that? 470 00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:34.920 I mean, is that what's helping helping five million people feel like they 471 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.000 can reach out and seek help? Sure? Yeah, I mean the awareness 472 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:43.760 is up there. But also consider Jason, that only and I say, 473 00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:47.159 only eighty three eighty three percent of people know about nine eight eight, so 474 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.960 it's not one hundred percent saturation. I think that the federal health officials are 475 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.960 hoping to make it one hundred percent awareness out there, So that's kind of 476 00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:59.559 the goal, and I think that's why they're so pleased to see these numbers 477 00:34:59.559 --> 00:35:01.960 where they are on the first year. The goal the obviously, is to 478 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.920 get more calls, more contacts in next year, but also ensure that all 479 00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:12.320 of those calls and contacts, text messages and chats are answered. The goal 480 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:17.679 is right now to have ninety percent of those contacts responded to and to have 481 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:22.960 them responded too quickly. But so far only eighteen states have met that goal. 482 00:35:22.840 --> 00:35:25.679 Jim, this is an important topic, and I think that I appreciate 483 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:29.199 you bringing us the numbers and helping us flash it out a little bit too. 484 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.079 But while I have you on the line and knowing that you're probably still 485 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.639 in Texas and I'm about to do a bunch of weather stories, how are 486 00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:37.840 things looking there when it comes to the heat gnome, Well, it's still 487 00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.199 rough. Especially I don't know el Pass, so I think there would be 488 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.920 twenty seven days, twenty seven straight dates above one hundred degrees. Things finally 489 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:51.000 moderated here in Dallas for worth Over the weekend, it cooled down a little 490 00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:53.800 sprinkles here and there, but today it'll be back up of one hundred and 491 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:59.559 the forecast for the next ten days or so it's for temperatures topping triple digits. 492 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:04.239 So still an issue all across the states, and it's there are casualties 493 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:06.920 now, something like two dozen people have died in the heat here in Texas. 494 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:10.679 Jim, thanks a lot for that too, appreciation. ABC's news correspondent 495 00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:14.639 Jim Ryan, just joining us there for a couple of different stories. Let's 496 00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.400 get back to some of the stories coming out of our own KFY twenty four 497 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:21.800 hour newsroom. Death Valley has gotten closer to some of the hottest temperatures ever 498 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.679 recorded. The National Weather Service said yesterday temperatures were expected to reach a high 499 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.079 of one hundred and twenty eight degrees. The hottest in the area was one 500 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.239 hundred and thirty four degrees back in nineteen thirteen. The temperature in Death Valley 501 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:38.400 at four this morning was already one hundred and two. A man who allegedly 502 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:43.000 shot into an apartment in Marino Valley has been arrested. The Riverside County Sheriff's 503 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.599 Department says the man was booked Saturday on suspicion of shooting at an inhabited building 504 00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:51.840 and attempted murder. No one in the home was hit. Writers in the 505 00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:57.000 Tour de France are asking fans to behave themselves following another mass crash. Jonah's 506 00:36:57.039 --> 00:37:01.039 finger guard telling spectators lining the route but don't stand on the road or pour 507 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:07.719 beers on the cyclists. ABC's Chuck Silverston says the crash yesterday forced several writers 508 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:10.079 out of the race. He says video suggests the crash may have been caused 509 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.679 by a spectator taking a selfie. Later, a spectator inadvertently touched an American 510 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:21.320 writer and sent him to the ground. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in India 511 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:25.000 for G twenty finance meetings. She says the US and India are working together 512 00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.519 to further the Group of twenty agenda and talked about the growing ties between the 513 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:36.920 two countries. Our collaboration spans a range of economic issues, including commercial and 514 00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:45.679 technological collaboration, strengthening supply chains, and catalyzing the clean energy transition. The 515 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.800 trip is Yellen's third to India in nine months. Microsoft and Sony have signed 516 00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:55.280 a ten year binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the xboxmaker's 517 00:37:55.320 --> 00:38:00.360 acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The announcement, tweeted yesterday by Xbox chief Phil Spencer, 518 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:06.639 indicates the Japanese company is no longer fighting the sixty nine billion dollar takeover 519 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:10.679 the first person shooter franchise, which is considered Activision Blizzards Crown Jewel, and 520 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.000 rightfully so, has been the biggest point of contention for gaming companies like Sony 521 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.960 and regulatory bodies in the US, the UK and the EU. Microsoft, 522 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.039 for its part, has time and again tried to downplay the deals significance to 523 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:28.440 the gaming industry to help push it through those regulations. And right now on 524 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:32.119 Wall Street markets are mixed, Nazdak futures are up well, it's basically it's 525 00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:36.000 just flat, and the sp is pretty much flat, just a little bit 526 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.119 down, the Dallas down about eighty six points. The FED is going into 527 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:43.760 its quiet period ahead of next week's meeting, where it's expected that they will 528 00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.719 raise interest rates by another quarter of a point, and then everybody turns eyes 529 00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:52.519 to September, when they may raise another quarter point. Seeing rates come down 530 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.840 this year is likely not going to happen. Finally, some lottery jackpots are 531 00:38:55.880 --> 00:39:00.719 about as hot as the weather. The Mega Millions prize is about six hundred 532 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:05.280 and forty million dollars. The Powerball jackpot is up to nine hundred million dollars. 533 00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.719 We lead local live for the KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm 534 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.559 Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to 535 00:39:10.760 --> 00:39:15.239 wake up call? You know you can always listen live on kf I Am 536 00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:20.960 six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app