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July first. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King. Don't worry you,
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to kick off July with you guys. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
President Biden was at Camp David on Sunday as he and his advisors continue
to deal with the fallout from what many are calling a disappointing debate performance last
week. We'll update you on whether or not the President plans to stay in
the race. And Americans are catching COVID again. We'll hear from experts who
say, excuse me, you might want to pack some masks with you when
you're packing up your Fourth of July luggage before you head out this week,
And Wimbledon is happening in London. The best of the best in tennis are
battling it out, and we'll tell you who's favored to win it all?
And at six oh five it's handled on the news in Washington. Big case
there, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a highly anticipated ruling on presidential
immunity. This morning will dive into what that means perform President Trump. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Planning work has begun in LA to get volunteers and to address traffic
for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. LA needs tens of thousands of volunteers to
help with all kinds of things when the games arrive four years from now.
City Councilman Tracy Park, who cheers the city's Olympics committee, says LA needs
to be ready a moment when Los Angeles will be hosting the entire world.
We want to showcase the very best of what our city has to offer,
and that begins with preparation. The City Council on Friday instructed various departments to
develop and present plans on recruiting volunteers and how they'll manage all the traffic on
the roads and public transit in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News Nearly two
dozen people have had to be rescued from the Increditcoaster at Disney's California Adventure in
Anaheim. The ride broke down yesterday, leaving passengers stuck on the track.
They were given umbrellas to help deal with the heat as they waited to be
freed. Disneyland employees wore safety harnesses as they helped people get off the ride.
More triple digit temperatures are expected this week, with some areas in the
high Desert getting as hot as one hundred and ten degrees by next weekend.
The National Weather Service says that San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys will see highs
in the nineties all week. The Santa Clarita Valley and Valencia will hit one
hundred and two degrees Wednesday and Thursday, and excessive heat warning will be in
effect in parts of La County from eleven am Tomorrow to at least five am
next Monday. California has been ranked the most eco friendly state in the US
a study by the nonprofit organization Smile Hub show's California is the number one place
for environmental protection. In twenty twenty four, business manager Louke Powers says they
used several key metrics things such as energy efficiency scores, industrial toxins per square
mile, climate change vulnerability, share of state land designated for parts of wildlife,
number of conservation programs, green buildings per capita. The states ranked to
the worst are West Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Family members say racing
legend John Force is showing signs of improvement after a fiery crash at the National
Hot Rot Association Virginia Nationals. His car hit the retaining wall and caught fire
last week. Seventy five year old Force has been in the hospital since the
crash. Family members he's being treated for traumatic brain injury and that he's been
able to respond with slight movements when asked to open his eyes, squeeze the
hand of care providers, and move his extremities. A judge in New Mexico
has rejected Alec Baldwin's latest attempt to have the involuntary manslaughter charges against him tossed
out. Baldwin's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case because they say
the gun that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one was damaged during forensic
testing at an FBI lab. Prosecutors argued the damage does not deprive Baldwin of
a fair trial. The judge Friday found Baldwin and his team offered no evidence
beyond speculation and conjecture that the unaltered gun could have exonerated the actor. COVID
cases are on the rise across the United States, just as people are starting
to get ready for the fourth of July. Maybc's Jim Ryan joins us Hi
Jim, Hello, good morning. Joins us live from Dallas with details on
how this will affect your travel plans. Good morning, Jim, Good morning
Heather. Yeah, you'd better be ready for it, because in forty four
states around the country, according to the CDC, there's been an uptick in
COVID cases and it's a sort of unusual variant. It's called flirt fl irt
capital FL lowercase I capital RT. It's based on the technical names of the
two mutations, the FL and the RT mutation. Somebody stuck an eye in
the middle and there you have flirt. Well, that's the strain. These
are sub variants of omoicron. And the good thing about that, Heather,
is that because there are subvariants of that strain we already knew about. The
current vaccines are effective against it, so too is pax slovit. If you
happen to get COVID, you should be protected. You should the pack sloat
is going to help it to get through your system faster, all right.
So I read here that the government is not going to be tracking COVID stats
as intensely as they have been in the past. So how is that going
to affect everything? Well, it's harder to get a firm clear picture of
what's happening out there in the landscape. But yeah, since twenty twenty one
twenty two, the hospitals have not been required to report their COVID cases.
The hospitalizations, even deaths are not being reported in the same way that they
were before. But CDC came up with a pretty ingenious way of figuring out
what's happening out there. They have scientists out there testing the waste water of
various communities, including Los Angeles, and looking for traces of the virus,
and they're finding it, and that's how they get a decent picture of what's
happening in any given community. So even without the hospital reporting or the individual
tracking of COVID cases. We have a pretty good idea of what's happening out
there, all right, So are they still saying that masking is effective as
it was against these previous viruses, Well, they're not saying it isn't,
you know. So, and I still see a lot of people in stores
and out there in public who are wearing masks and apparently feeling that it does
help to protect them. And in a place like you know, California,
Nevada, Washington state places and Texas where the epidemic status shows that the case
number is growing, it's probably a good idea if you're not feeling well to
go ahead and put on a mask. At least you're protecting the people around
you. And so, yeah, I think that that's still the assumption that,
yeah, the was it as effective as people thought it might be.
Maybe maybe not? Does it work at all? Probably? Now, you
know, this is something I really wanted to talk about today because I just
found out that my daughter went to when she was at summer camp, two
of her counselors got COVID. So it's definitely still something that's happening. It's
definitely still present in our communities. Let's talk about you mentioned paxlovid. Should
people be visiting their doctors to get a check on their vaccine STATF is like,
what can we do other than masking to prepare ourselves here, Well,
yeah, yeah, get vaccinated, especially if you're over sixty five, And
in fact, if you're over sixty five, you have access to a combination
COVID slash flu vaccine. It's effective against both of those things, and people
sixty five and upper are recommended to get that particular vaccine. So yeah,
that's still the best way to protect yourself. If you don't have a COVID
card and your wallet like a lot of people did to show that they've been
vaccinated, Yeah, you can check with your doctor who did the vaccinations,
or the pharmacy where you went in and got the shots to see exactly what
your shot record looks like. Now, let's talk about some of the effects
of this particular COVID variant. What else do we know about its impact on
people who are catching this one. It looks very much like you did previous
versions from what I'm reading here that the people you feel like you have a
cold, you get some body aches and cough, sniffles, the same sort
of thing that you would feel with the COVID before, which, by the
way, also looks a lot like the flu, right sore. Getting this
dual vaccination against those two is going to help to ensure that one or the
other, whether you have flu or COVID, you should be protected. So
yeah, and don't hesitate to get to your doctor if you're feeling like you
might be coming down with this coming down with COVID. The only place in
the whole country, and there are forty four states according to the CDC,
that are seeing increases likely increases in COVID cases based on the wastewater treatment they're
testing. Only Hawaii is showing a likely decline in COVID cases. Most of
the rest of the places, California, Florida, up the East coast,
they're all showing increases. Oh no, don't say that. You know,
everyone's going to be packing their bags and heading to Hawaii now like they wouldn't
anyway. Right, that's true, that's true. It is one of my
favorite spots to travel. Well, thank you so much, Jim, I
appreciate your time. Seeah, all right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man with
a bow and arrow has been shot by venture A County Sheriff's deputies in Thousand
Oaks. The Sheriff's office says two deputies may contact with the suspicious pedestrian yesterday.
They say the man was also holding a knife and approach deputies in a
threatening way. They say the man. They say the shooting happened when the
man ignored commands to drop the weapon and continue to act in an aggressive way.
The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Former Trump advisor
Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to federal prison in Connecticut to begin serving a
four month sentence. Bannon was convicted of a felony in twenty twenty two for
failing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on the Capitol.
Last week, the Supreme Court denied Bannon's request to remain free while he
appeals that conviction. ABC's Mike Tbuski says Bannon considers himself a quote political prisoner
and says his sentence will only make his influence grow. Bannon also says he
expects a landslide win for Republicans in November. A record breaking number of people
are expected to travel for the Fourth of July this year. Triple A predicts
nearly seventy one million people will travel about fifty miles or more during the holiday
travel period, which runs June twenty ninth through July seventh. Triple A says
more Americans are taking extended Fourth of July trips this summer thanks to the flexibility
of remote work. Over sixty million people are expected to travel by car,
nearly three million more than last year, and airports could see a record breaking
number of travelers as well, with around five point seventy five million people predicted
to fly. Triple A says this is the first year the travel period was
extended to include two weekends. The cost of insurance is going up in California.
Brian Clark says that's unwelcome news for many California insurance customers. California is
dealing with an insurance crisis in State Department of Insurance spokesperson Michael Seller says there
are not enough options, particularly if you're in a that has any kind of
wildfire risk, and some options are getting more expensive. State far and insures
one in five homes in California had recently raised rates by nearly twenty percent,
and now wants to increase rates by another thirty percent. State regulators say the
request is raising concerns about State farm's financial health. Brian Clark ABC News a
man has been stabbed at another may have broken a bone during a fight involving
about twenty men near the Santa Monica Pier. Five men were arrested for the
fight Saturday afternoon. People in the city say they're concerned with all the violence
lately in Santa Monica. This woman, who lives near Venice the Venice border,
tells Ktlaight she sees attacks all the time. You can have as much
enforcement as possible, but you know, the cops can't do anything until something
happens, right, But what we'd like I'd like to see happen is to
have something preemptively happen, which has help people who are sick. The mayor
has asked for emergency funds, more police and state assistance. He says the
city council rejected his proposal last week to take millions from the city's budget to
use for emergency security this summer. A San Fernando Valley, man suspected of
using hidden internet marketplaces to sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fentanyl laced
pills and cocaine to buyers nationwide, is expected to plead guilty today. A
sixty one year old man and his three dogs had to be airlifted from a
remote location near Mount Luken's and the San Gabriel Mountains. He apparently became dehydrated
and lost his cell phone connection while hiking. Temperatures will continue to rise across
southern California this week, reaching as high as one hundred and ten degrees in
the High Desert by next weekend, then at six oh five its handle.
On the news, Governor Newsom has signed the twenty twenty four state budget,
a cut about sixteen billion dollars in spending. We'll talk about why Newsom thinks
this is more fiscally responsible right now. President Biden met with his team of
advisor and his family over the weekend to discuss the fallout after his disappointing showing
at the presidential debate last week. ABC's Molly Nagel joins us live from the
White House with details. Good morning, Hey, good morning, Heather.
Yes, the President was spent part of his weekend at Camp David with his
family. This was part of a pre scheduled gathering there. The White House
has been trying to really push back on the suggestion that this was an emergency
session or something to you know, really assess the fallout of that debate performance.
They say that this was something that was pre planned. The family's taking
a photo together. So they've really tried to push back and tamp down any
suggestion that this was an emergency huddle after that shaky debate performance. But you
know, it remains the fact that that is the story that continues over the
weekend, people continuing to talk about what happened on Thursday night. You know,
the Biden campaign and the President say that they are staying in this race.
His family is also defending him. We saw Joe Biden on the cover
of Vogue this month. She says that they will not let those now twenty
minutes to find four years that he of the time that he has been president,
and that they will continue to fight. But they have a big challenge
ahead of them. They need to now convince voters that, you know,
any concerns that they had about his age before the debate that may have been
reinforced when they saw him on that debate stage, we're just a bad night,
and that he is up to the job and he can effectively execute the
office of the presidency. So what do you think was the biggest question that
they had on their minds this weekend when they were meeting. Do you think
they really were saying should we continue? Or do you think the conversation was
more about how should we continue? Well, even the day after the debate,
we saw the president back out in public. We saw him in North
Carolina holding a rally in front of a crowd of supporters, and he made
it clear then that he was going to stand this race. He said he
may not debate like he used to, may not walk this moves as he
used to do, or talkis moves as he used to, but he's always
going to stay. When he gets knocked down, you get back up and
fight. And we're seeing thesempaign actually run an ad based off of that exact
sentiment already, so kind of tells you how quickly they're trying to get ahead
of this and try and change the trajectory. So I don't think that the
conversation this weekend necessarily was about what should we do? I think it was
probably more forward looking into how do we move forward. They have made it
clear that they intend to stay in this race. They point to twenty twenty
when he was a candidate and really kind of counted out after some really slow
starts at the beginning of the primary process. This is obviously a very different
situation. But their argument is that we've seen Joe Biden get knocked down and
be counted out and kind of forgotten about before, and he has come back
and won the presidency and he can do it again. But the question remains
is can they undo any damage that might have come from this debate performance.
You know, it's funny I saw trending on x people were saying that Joe
Biden's team should use that speech that he made the next day as part of
their ad campaign moving forward, and then it looks like maybe they saw that
and did you know, right after the debate there was a lot of analysts
who are saying that Democrats had come forward, Democratic leaders had come forward in
the party and saying he should step aside. Have any of those people changed
their tunes? Are we hearing anybody now who was a detractor then saying now,
okay, let's see where this goes. So I think, you know,
in the immediate aftermath, you heard a lot of people talking on background,
talking, you know, maybe privately, expressing concerns about this. But
so far, when it comes to elected officials in the Democratic Party, they
are staying in lockstep with the president. We saw a lot of his supporters
out on the Sunday shows this weekend defending him, saying that they are supportive
of him and what he chooses to do is so if he's staying in the
race. There behind him, we Foundancy Pelosi, James Clyburn, Chris Coons,
all of these folks coming out there to really signal their support for the
president and continued support for him. The closest we saw to some acknowledging that,
you know, there are discussions ongoing with Congressman Jamie Raskin who said,
quote, there are very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every
level of our party. So it's clearly not the same thing as saying,
yes, we think the president should step down and is not up to the
task here. But it does show that you know, there are conversations that
are ongoing, but so far Democrats are staying in lockstep and they are trying
to keep the support strong for the presumptive nominee. And what kinds of things
do you think we're going to see him doing over the next several weeks and
months to win back any voters who maybe you know, we're on the fence,
or maybe change their mind a little bit after that performance. Yeah,
well, I think the Buyden campaign has to take a stock of their strategy
and how to maybe change it or strengthen it going forward when it comes to
trying to accomplish just that. So one thing that this White House has been
criticized for that we haven't seen them do as other administrations have is they haven't
done as many interviews. They haven't done as many press conferences as us Biden's
predecessors have done at this point in their presidency. So we could see them
trying to get him out more in interview settings or in front of the media
to try and reinforce that he can take questions, that he is up to
the task and can and can you know, work off the coffin off the
fly. The other thing that you need for a successful campaign is you need
money and you need voter support, and one way to see that is through
pulling. So you have to imagine here that the campaign and the president are
keeping a close eye on how those two things are trending. Now in the
immediate aftermath of the debate, our big donors pulling back, our polls showing
that there's deficit, that it makes it hard for him to make up back
ground. You know, time will tell with this, but the buying campaign
right now is really working an overdrive to try and stop stem the bleeding from
the debate stage and move forward in a way that helps to put the president
on stronger footing. Well, it certainly will be interesting to watch over the
coming weeks and months. So thank you so much. Mo Nagel live from
the White House. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two women
in their fifties are suing the LA school district over alleged sexual abuse that they
suffered in the nineteen eighties. The teacher say they did, pardon me,
The teachers they say did. In twenty twelve, Don Moore was profiled on
America's Most Wanted while he was a fugitive. He was sentenced in nineteen ninety
one to fourteen years in prison for abusing several girls. The News. Lawsuit
claims the women were threatened with punishment if they spoke up about the alleged abuses,
and that they didn't fully realize until twenty twenty three the psychological damage they
suffered. Police in Riverside say an active shooter called an active shooter call at
the Mission inn was a false alarm. They say a TikTok video and a
mistaken reservation call led to the report. Yesterday. They say there was no
threat at the historic hotel. NASA and Boeing have again extended the first star
Liner crew mission, but have not set a new target date for returning the
two astronauts to Earth. NASA's commercial crew manager, Steven Stitch says they're not
stranded on the International Space Station. Our plan is to continue to return them
on Starliner and return them home when at the right time. NASA and Boeing
say the delay for testing is to gather more data about the spacecraft's performance,
in particular its thruster systems. The Starliner launch June fifth, and it was
supposed to be in space for nine days. Twenty passengers are safe today after
being rescued from a roller coaster at the Disneyland California Adventure Park in Anaheim.
It happened on the Incredit coaster and passengers were given umbrellas to protect themselves from
the sun. More than one hundred horses are in danger of being displaced,
including some that are too old to be moved, and we need to be
euthanized. After the city of Lake wid announced it could no longer afford to
run their questrian center. The city says it plans to remove the equestrian center
and replace it with pickleball courts. An alleged robber has been killed in a
crash while being chased by the man robbed at a gas station in LA's West
Adams neighborhood and at six ZHO five its handle on the news. President Biden's
family is encouraging him to stay in the race despite a disappointing debate last Thursday.
We'll talk about what the president plans to do next. And at five
point fifty, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether former President Trump
has broad presidential immunity that would shield him from criminal prosecution. Will tell you
how this could have far reaching impact. And the first round of the Wimbledon
Championship is happening in London. ABC's Tom Rivers joins US Live from London to
talk about how several injuries are causing problems for tennis's biggest stars. Good morning
Tom, Good morning Heather. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Everybody wants to
have a good send off for Andy Murray, two time winner out here.
He certainly is cre out favorite, the first British winner since on the men's
side since Fred Perry. But he says basically he wants to play this tournament,
even though he had assist removed from his spine about ten days ago.
He says it's feeling better, some problems with nerves in his right leg,
but he says he wants to be in the singles tomorrow. We'll have to
wait and see. S I think of briefing tonight on that. If not,
he could possibly play doubles with his brother Jamie starting on Thursday. Also,
we have a Novak Djokovic, of course, he had a injury to
his right knee at the French Open and of course, rehabilitation, and he
says it feels painless. He's been practicing, so he's expected to start tomorrow
as well. So I understand this is your thirty seventy year covering Wimbledon.
Wimbledon. I keep saying with a t, I don't mean to do that
Wimbledon. Yeah, I don't know why that comes out. I do that,
I say Wimbledon, Wimbledon. What are some of the changes you've noticed
over the years. Well, I guess the big ones would be, you
know, we were always looking at the sky and we still do that.
It's overcast, but it looks like we're gonna get a pretty good day in
today. But in the old days, we didn't have the roof on first
of all, Center court and then number one court, but we certainly do
these days. So we get to cover some tennis each and every day.
There were some days where just total total rainouts sent Over the years, too,
we've seen more signed of the times, more barriers put up just to
be able to drive just about up to every gate. Can't do that anymore,
So, yeah, life is changed in that regard out here as well.
I just read a few moments ago that there were some pro Palestinian protesters
outside Wimbledon. Have you heard anything about that? There? There could be
I'm right by fourteen here, right next to center court, and no,
I have no knowledge of that, but to think coming on in I certainly
saw some protesters with placards as I walked down to a gate eighteen, but
they weren't doing anything at that time. So maybe that that was the group
getting together just about three four hours ago. So there is a lot.
I guess we're kind of waiting to see with these injuries and whether or not,
you know, the biggest players, the biggest stars that we're everyone's kind
of looking forward to playing. When will they actually have to decide whether or
not they're going to take the court. Well, it looks like yeah,
like Novo says he's been feeling good, he's going to be going to be
starting his campaign tomorrow. We're expecting a briefing tron this evening here in London
on Andy's status. So we'll get to wait, you know, maybe a
few more hours. Fingers crossed. He can do the single, so he
can't at least maybe he can do the doubles. And he liked to say
goodbye this time and he also wants to play the Olympics in Paris towards the
end of this month now and then hang up his racket. He says,
he really doesn't want to carry on and do the US Open. Thirty seven
years of age and literally a laundry list of injuries and surgeries over the years.
You know, one thing. The other thing is interesting to me is
the amount of celebrities that has taken an interest in Wimbledon and tennis, and
specifically over the years. Have you seen any big stars or heard of any
big stars that are going to be there in the green stands watching? Gosh?
You know every year they pop up you kind of go, oh,
I didn't know they were into tennis this year? I think the interesting thing.
The patron for Wimbledon is Princess Kate Middleton, and of course she showed
up on the balcony for the trooping of the color, so you know what,
if she could do that, maybe, just maybe she'll show up maybe
for the finals this year in the Royal box. There's something certainly everybody here
is going to be looking. Yeah, that would certainly be a nice surprise.
Well, thank you so much. We'll be watching to see if they
decide to play, and who wins. In all the excitement from Wimbledon,
Thank you so much, Tom, you got her all right, Let's get
back to some of those stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Boeing has announced plans to buy Spirit Aerosystems for four point seven billion dollars
in an all stock deal. Spirit manufactures key parts for Boeing planes. Boeing
previously owned Spirit, and the aerospace company says bringing the supplier back into the
Boeing fold would improve playing quality and safety. Former director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, doctor Anthony Fauci, appeared on ABC this week
to talk about his nearly four decades as director of the National Institute. Doctor
Fauci says he resisted pressure to resign during the COVID pandemic because he felt he
needed to fight disinformation about the virus. I was afraid that despite the pressures
in all the somewhat unusual things that were going on, if I did walk
away from it, there would be very little opportunity to get the correct,
potentially life saving information to the American public. Doctor Fauci has a new book
out called On Call a Doctor's Journey in Public Service. A judge in New
Mexico has rejected Alec Baldwin's latest attempt to have the involuntary manslaughter charges against him
tossed out. Baldwin's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case because they
say the gun that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one was damaged during
forensic testing at an FBI lab. Prosecutors argued the damage does not deprive Baldwin
of a fair trial. The judge Friday found Baldwin and his team offered no
evidence beyond speculation and conjecture that the unaltered gun could have exonerated the actor.
Hurricane Burrell is headed towards the Southeastern Caribbean. The category three storm is expected
to make landfall in the Windward islands this morning. Hurricane warnings are in effect
for Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Burrell is forecast to have life threatening
winds and storm surge. Government officials have pleaded with people to take shelter.
A Palestinian health officials says Israel has released fifty five Palestinians detained in Gaza,
including the director of the territory's main hospital. One of the leaders was detained
in November when Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital. He is accused of is He's
accused Israeli authorities of mistreating Palestinian detainees. Israel accuses militants of sheltering in hospitals
and using them for military purposes. Hospitals can lose their protection under international law
if that's the case. Planning work has begun in LA to give volunteers and
to handle traffic for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. LA needs tens of thousands
of volunteers to help with all kinds of things when the games arrive four years
from now. City Councilman Tracy Park, who cheers the city's Olympics committee,
says LA needs to be ready a moment when Los Angeles will be hosting the
entire world. We want to showcase the very best of what our city has
to offer, and that begins with preparation. The City Council on Friday instructed
various departments to develop and present plans on recruiting volunteers and how they'll manage all
the traffic on the roads and public transit in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI
news Governor Newsom has signed California's twenty twenty four budget. It includes about sixteen
billion dollars in spending cuts to help close the state's forty seven billion dollar deficit.
Newsom signed it Saturday. He says it's a responsible budget that prepares for
the future while investing in foundational programs that benefit millions of Californians every day.
Part of the budget includes taking billions from this reserve Rainy Day Fund over the
next two fiscal years. A study shows California ranked second in the US for
having the least road rage. California was second only behind Rhode Island for courteous
driving, with point eight gun related road rage incidents per one hundred thousand people.
A judge in New Mexico has rejected al Baldwin's latest attempt to have the
involuntary manslaughter charges against him tossed out, and family members say racing legend John
Force is showing signs of improvement since a fiery crash at the National hot Rod
Association Virginia Nationals. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this
morning, humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that has been piling up
off the coast of Gaza. We'll talk about why this is an important step
in the war between Israel and Hamas. Right now, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man with a bow and arrow has been shot by Venturre County Sheriff's deputies in
Thousand Oaks. The Sheriff's office says two deputies make contact with a suspicious pedestrian
yesterday. They say the man was also holding a knife and approach deputies in
a threatening way. They say the shooting happened when the man ignored commands to
drop the weapon and continue to act in an aggressive way. The man was
taken to the hospital in critical condition. Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is scheduled
to report to federal prison in Connecticut to begin serving a four month sentence.
Bannon was convicted of a felony in twenty twenty two for failing to cooperate with
a congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Last week,
the Supreme Court denied Bannon's request to remain free while he appeals that conviction.
ABC's Mike Debuski says Bannon considers himself a political prisoner and says his sentence will
only make his influence grow. Bannon also says he expects a landslide win four
Republicans in November. Right now, the Supreme Court is expected to you issue
a highly anticipated ruling on presidential immunity. ABC's Stephen Portnoy joins US Life from
Washington with more. Good morning, Stephen, Hey, good morning to you.
All Right, So, what exactly is the Supreme Court ruling on today?
Well, the question that was asked is whether a president enjoys official an
absolute immunity for official acts he undertakes as president. Now, exactly how the
Court's going to rule? Well, if we knew that, we wouldn't have
to wait. But we don't know, and we don't know whether the Court,
for example, is going to draw a line at official acts and say
that all official acts are a move from prosecution, or whether there is a
test, some sort of line in the middle where the lower courts are going
to have to weigh certain equities and certain factors in certain circumstances. We don't
know. We'll have a better sense of it, we hope in less than
an hour and a half. We understand that this case is tied to January
six election interference case involving President Trump, where he faces four criminal charges.
What can you tell us about that? What can I tell you about the
January sixth case? Yes, well, the January sixth case involves the allegation
that Donald Trump conspired with aids and allies to try to overturn the election results,
ending in the riot at the Capitol. Now he denies that. But
the question is how many of those acts he undertook as president were official,
how many were private? And could the court draw a dividing line and say
that there's a way for the January sixth case against Trump to go forward focused
squarely on the private acts things he did to advance his own personal interests rather
than the powers he had as president to advance the interests of the country.
Now, if the court order issues a complicated ruling today, that could result
and protracted back and forth further appeals, kicking out the start of this trial.
Certainly past the election. We'll have to see. Now, I understand
that this is a really pivotal moment here in our nation's history in terms of
you know whatever they come out and say, what is this going to mean
then for future presidents moving forward, or you know, the highest leader in
our land, what will this mean for that role? Well, you're exactly
right to note it that way. I mean, look, Neil Gorsich,
the Conservative justice, said it at the oral argument. They're writing a rule
for the ages. This isn't just about Donald Trump. It's about all future
men and women who will be president of the United States and all future prosecutions
into their official acts. Let's see what the court rules now. For his
part, Trump's team is arguing that without immunity, the presidents won't be free
to make the right decisions. But what is the Justice Department saying on their
side? Well, the Justice Department argues that there is no such thing,
that the founders never envisioned such a thing. Trump's attorneys also say that they
acknowledge that there might be some circumstances where a president might commit a crime and
should be prosecuted, but it has to happen after the Congress impeaches and removes
convicts him at a Senate trial. That's one of the things they stipulate,
by the way, because if you read the text of the Constitution, it
says that a former president can be prosecuted. But the way they read it
is it only can happen after impeachment and conviction at a senate trial. I
think too much has been made to the simplicity of their argument when you get
into the nuance of the details. They actually say that there is no such
thing as absolute immunity if Congress first acts to impeach and convict remove a president.
So if they rule that he has immunity, do you think this will
have an impact on his campaign moving forward? Well, that's hard to know.
I mean, we really it's hard to judge. There so many variables
in the campaign. I mean, you could argue that I might that the
cake is practically baked. Americans have a fixed view of Donald Trump one way
or the other. They either really like him or they really don't. Well,
this is certainly, as we've talked about, going to be a very
important decision, and all eyes will be watching the Supreme Court today. So,
Steven, thank you. So much for your time. You back,
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour news room. More triple digit temperatures are expected this week, with some
areas in the high Desert getting as hot as one hundred and ten degrees by
next weekend. The National Weather Service says the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys
will see highs in the nineties all week. The Santa Flarina Valley and Valencia
will hit one hundred and two degrees Wednesday and Thursday, and excessive heat warning
will be in effect in parts of La County from eleven am tomorrow to at
least five am next Monday. They are well trained, they're hardworking, and
they're disciplined. But ABC's Jim Ryan says, be the glamorous face of the
most valuable sports team in the world is not getting anyone rich first and goal
Prescott back, the lowest paid Dallas Cowboys player makes it over a million dollars
a year. It's a different story on the sideline. Since I was little
Dallas Coywis Shielders, That's what I want to do. A new Netflix documentary
says the team's cheerleaders learned about as much as fast food workers, around twenty
two five hundred on average annually. In the series Cowboys, chief brand officer
Charlotte Jones defends the low salary, saying the women get to be part of
something bigger than themselves. Jim rillon ABC News Dallas, family members say racing
legend John Force is showing signs of improvement after a fiery crash at the National
hot Rod Association Virginia Nationals. Is car hit the retaining wall and caught fire
last week. Seventy five year old Force has been in the hospital since the
crash. Family members say he's being treated for a traumatic brain injury and that
he's been able to respond with light movements when asked to open his eyes,
squeeze the hands of his care providers, and move his extremities. Lily Gladstone
stars in the new film Fancy Dance. She plays Jack's Goodron, a member
of Oklahoma's Seneca Cayuga tribe who is searching for her missing sister. Gladstone says
her character is struggling to maintain hope while dealing with the harsh reality that her
sister may never turn up. As much for herself in now, my year
started before my year started. There's a perception that started when Killers of the
Flower Moon premiered. It can it started when Fancy Dance premiered at Sun Dance
in January. So it's been a really lovely bookend to start this wild journey
that led into Killers of the Flower Moon and is now kind of beautifully wrapping
up for a minute anyways, with Fancy Dance. Fancy Dance is in theaters
now. Protests have been held in Upstate New York in response to the fatal
police shooting of a thirteen year old boy. Body camera footage shows an officer
shooting it time teen on Friday. Officials in Utica says say the boy pointed
what looked like a gun at officers. Video shows the teen in what looks
like a shooting stance. The weapon turned out to be a replica of a
glock pistol with a detachable magazine. Hundreds of asylum seekers in Washington State want
officials in the Seattle area to let them move into a vacant hotel. About
three hundred people have been shuffled from hotels to tents and back since they arrived
in the US. They held a rally at a Christian church over the weekend
to try to get into an Econo lodge bought by King County in twenty twenty
as a COVID shelter. It's not easy to sleep outside. We have children.
If you love the kids, you know we're gonna love every kid.
Please. The migrants have complained that conditions living outside are inhumane. California has
been ranked the most eco friendly state in the US. A study by the
nonprofit organization smile Hub shows California is the number one place for environmental protection in
twenty twenty four. Business manager Luke Powers says they used several key metrics things
such as energy efficiency scores, industrial toxins per square mile, climate change vulnerability,
share of state land designated for parts of wildlife, number of conservation programs,
green buildings per capita. The state ranked the worst are for West Virginia,
Louisiana, and Mississippi. A study shows California ranks the second in the
US for having the least road rage. A study by personal injury law firm
in Vegas analyzed data from all fifty states on six key factors, including shootings
and aggressive driving crashes. California was second only behind Rhode Island for courteous driving,
with a point eight gun related road range incidents per one thousand excuse me,
one hundred thousand people. A separate study ranks California fourth worst for road
quality, despite the state's spending one hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars per mile
on improving highways. NASA and Boeing have again extended excuse me, whoof it's
still early in the morning, guys. NASA and Boeing have extended their first
Diyelinder crewed mission, but have not set a new target date for returning the
two astronauts to Earth. NASA and Boeing say the delay for testing is to
gather more data about the spacecraft's performance, in particular its thruster systems. This
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