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Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everybody. It's Monday. Trying to gin up
some energy this Monday. I don't know what it is, man. Usually
Monday is just like another day, but for some reason just can't seem to
get into a gear this morning. Hope you're doing better than that for sure.
Hey it's Monday. It's July twenty fourth. By the way, we
have a lot of good segments coming up, so maybe that'll pull me out
of this rut. We're gonna look at the Women's World Cup. Emmett till
memorial will be unveiled today, I guess or dedicated and could a third party
get traction politically speaking and covering these for since ross perone the nineties. So
we're going to get some fresh perspective from Steve roberts on that. We have
lots of local news too, so let's just go ahead and get into it.
Ups and the Teamsters Union are heading back to the bargaining table this week.
Contract negotiations we'll resume tomorrow and are aimed at averting a strike three hundred
and forty thousand UPS workers, and I saw this morning on CNBC at UPS
basically ships about six percent of the nation's GDP every day, not small.
Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is blasting Florida Governor and GOP primary opponent Ron De
Santis for not taking responsibility for a new slavery curriculum that was enacted this week
in the Sunshine State. Israel's parliament is meeting right now for a vote on
a controversial overhaul of the judicial system. It's being pushed by Prime Minister of
Benjamin ja who was just released from the hospital today, also after being fitted
with a pacemaker over the week. Let's start with some more stories coming out
of the KFY twenty four hour news room. That's where we lead local.
Another LA County SHARE's deputy is being accused of excessive force. Emmett Brock's a
school teacher and Wittier and says on February tenth, he noticed the deputy beading
a black woman at a traffic stop. Brock's attorney, Thomas Beck, says
his client then flipped off the deputy Soon after the deputy followed his client into
a seven to eleven HARKing lot, where, in less than twenty seconds to
the deputy through Brock to the ground. That deputy's report says he stopped Brock
for an illegal placement of an air freshener, and that Brock bit the deputy
and that's why the force escalated. Brock, who identifies his transgender, says
it was retaliation for flipping off the deputy. The department says it's investigating Steve
Gregory. Kaf I News Special counsel Jack Smith's office has contacted Georgia Governor Brian
Kemp over the investigation to former President Trump and efforts to overturn the twenty twenty
election. Last week, Trump said he received a letter from Smith in forming
him he is a target of a January sixth grand jury investigation. A DA
in Georgia has been investigated since early twenty twenty one whether Trump and his allies
broke any state laws. Bit of a respite from the high temperatures today,
but the heat is staying on in southern California. Temperatures expected to be in
the nineties and one hundreds most of this week, especially in the valleys.
Forecasters are also calling for a possible chance of thunderstorms, and that made my
voice crack. In the mountains and high desert, a firefighter has been hurt
putting out a large outdoor fire that spread to a forty foot trailer in Pacoima.
The LAFD says the firefighter has burned to an extremity and was taken to
the hospital in fair condition. The fire last night was out in just over
thirty minutes. A woman in Montana has been killed in an apparent encounter with
a bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park. The body of forty
seven year old Amy Adamson was found Saturday. Rangers say there were grizzly bear
tracks nearby. Adamson's parents tells ABC they worried about their daughter hiking alone.
She had a lot of information, but my wife told her said, well,
how worried we were and and everything, and she told us, well,
if something happens to me on that trail, I'm doing what I love
to do, they say. Adamson was working in Yellowstone for the summer.
She quit her job teaching English eight years ago to backpack around the US and
write a book. Greece carried out its biggest ever evacuation on the island of
Roads, where wildfires raised for a sixth day. Around nineteen thousand people,
mostly tourists, were asked to leave their hotels and their homes. We have
Tom Rivers on the line, ABC News correspondent. Good morning, Tom,
Hey, Good morning Jason. So it sounds like the Women's World Cup got
off to a pretty great start. Let's start with the American match versus Vietnam
as expected or a little bit less scoring than expected. No, well maybe,
yeah. You know, we don't expect too much from some of these
Asian teams, but they'll really surprise you. So I think three and ll
is a fine, fine way to start. And course we're still in that
early stage where you know we're gonna have a few more games, and it
looks like, yes, we will progress to the knockout stage where things get
really, really, really interesting. But as far as our group goes,
we've got what the Netherlands on Thursday, that's going to be interesting than on
August. First, we've got Portugal, so two teams that are that are
said to be much better than Vietnam. We'll see what shakes out but again,
we have a new team, really very very young squad going for the
three peat and the fingers crossed. The more more, I guess, the
games we can get under our belts, the better and more seasoned. Now,
being Americans, of course, we hear the word three peat and we
automatically get kind of excited, but it is that. Yeah, is the
three peat realistic this time around? You know? Why not? Because you
know the field is larger this time around, and uh, you know,
once you get to the knockout stage, all bets are off. Anything can
happen on any given given match. But yeah, it's I'd have to go
down and check with the book. He's here, but they would be in
for a very good shot, along with about four or five other teams.
Tom is in London, by the way, he's joining us from London.
So you mentioned the Netherlands are coming up next. Why what should we be
expecting on that match because it sounds like there might be a little more defensive
effort on both sides. Yeah, exactly. I think you hit it on
the head there, So I think we're gonna have on paper, it should
be a very very close contest, maybe a goal either side and it should
be enjoyable. The difficulty here, and probably the difficulty you're having, is,
you know, do you stay up in the middle of the night or
do you wait for the morning and then hope nobody tops you on the shoulder
and says what the score is? Right? If you record it? So's
it's one of those deals, right, And don't check your push notifications on
your phone when you wait chet that kind of thing. Keep every's exactly exactly.
How's the popularity doing for this this year's World Cup this time around?
I mean, I think that everything was up last time. Is it still
up? It's it's it's doing okay. And you know, I don't think
it has anything to do with the game, et cetera. It just has
to mean the difficulty of getting to either Australia or New Zealand. Um,
you know, for many people it's it's much easier when they hold the game,
say in the US or in Europe. So yeah, it's it's more
difficult to get down there. But be that as it may. The sport
is growing by leaps and bounds on the women's side, and h you know,
good luck to them all right, Um I guess, I guess I
should just ask one more time. It seems like the World Cup, the
finances around it this time seem to be very well elevated. Is it more
towards parity when it comes to the Men's World Cup? I think it's it
was certainly hitting in that direction. Um, you know, and look at
look at other sports. How many years and years decades it took, for
for instance, at Wimbledon for the women to catch up with uh with the
prize money to sit the man. So it's not something you can snap your
fingers. And sponsorship is another piece of the pie and it will catch up,
but we're not quite there yet. All right, Tom Rivers, thanks
so much for your time this morning. Enjoyed London. Take here maybe see
news correspondent Tom Rivers. There three nil was the first match for the Americans
versus Vietnam and nevlandso is up next on Thursday of this week. So watch
those push notifications on your phone too. If you get the iHeartRadio app,
you can you know, loppt in opt out every day. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour newsroom
when you woke up this morning. Elon Musk unveiled Twitter's new logo, It's
X tweets, he says will now be called X's. Elon Musk changed Twitter's
logo, replacing its signature bluebird with a stylized X. CEO Linda Yaccarino said
it's part of an overhaul to create an aipowered global marketplace, including payments,
video and messaging. So good luck on that. Let's not forget Twitter was
never really a great business to begin with, so Elon Musk bought it basically
to be noticed, and we continue to notice. We'll see if he can
make money on it. Though, the Deputy commander of the UN Command says
conversations have started with North Korea about the American soldier who ran across the border
from South Korea. That process has started, but Andrew Harrison. General Andrew
Harrison did not give details of the talks because of the very delicate nature of
these negotiations. Private Travis King was being returned to Texas last week to face
military discipline when officials say he joined a tour group and ran into North Korea.
Barbinhimer has lived up to expectations. At the box office. Barbie had
one hundred and fifty five million dollars in ticket sales over the weekend. It
was the biggest opening of the year and broke the first weekend record for a
film directed by a woman. Oppenheimer took in more than eighty million dollars.
That was director Christopher Nolan's biggest non Batman debut. The second full week of
a strike by America's actors and writers begins today, with the talent apparently no
closer to reaching an agreement with the film studios. The video streaming revolution has
pumped tens of billions of dollars into Hollywood in recent years, as old studios
and new tech firms compete for subscribers. But creatives complained that these streamers short
change them by offering a smaller share in their show's success than was typical in
the cable television era. It's a new era, with filming at a standstill.
The stars seem to have leverage over the suits so far, but their
position is weaker than it looks. The streamers no longer rely on America.
Netflix makes two thirds of its shows abroad, where production, of course continues.
Gaps in the schedule are less obvious now that people watch on demand and
the studios, which were already trying to cut their costs, may even welcome
an opportunity to cancel some projects. And we have spoken with some Writers Guild
types on this show about just that dynamic. A top psychiatrist in Arkansas has
been accused of falsely imprisoning patients. At least twenty six former patients say they
were held against their will for days and sometimes weeks. Doctor Bryant Hyatt is
being investigated by state and federal authorities. They're also looking into allegations of Medicaid
fraud. Some people staying in a makeshift RV park in Silmar say they're not
leaving. A judge last week ordered everybody off the property, including the homeowner,
by this past weekend. This neighbor tells NBC for It's bitter Suite.
The bad part is this The people that have to live to have to move.
Some of them may not have places to go. That's the sad part,
that's the hard part. Most people renting RVs at the home have accepted
housing services. About two dozen RVs are on the property. The city cut
to power last week, signing fire hazards and other violations. A new California
law will require officers to tell drivers why they're being pulled over, and that's
before questioning. It begins next year. But there's another effort underway right now.
The State Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board wants to expand the data police
are required to report. Home prices are reaching record high and at least thirty
four California zip codes, most are in the central and southern part of the
state, twelve in LA and Orange County and six in Fresno County. And
Twitter was rebranded overnight. The iconic bird logo is it icon The iconic bird
logo is gone and its place is an x now. Owner Elon Musk says
the idea is to embody the imperfections in us, all that make us unique.
So much commentary I could throw at that one right now, but we're
going to hold on to that one right now because we have at the bottom
of the air, we have third party politics. Right now, we have
real party politics. With ABC's Karen Travers, Karen is on the line with
an update from Washington, DC Capitol Hill Civil Rights on the President's agenda today.
Good morning, Karen, Yeah, the President's on Tuesday's going to sign
a proclamation establishing the Emmett Kill National Monument in Illinois and Mississippi. Tuesday,
marsh what would have been killed eighty second birthday. He, of course,
was a black teenager from Chicago. He was abducted, tortured, and killed
back in nineteen five after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in
Mississippi. The White House says that this new monument is going to protect places
that tell the story of Till's too short life. He was only fourteen and
he was killed, and his racially motivated murder, also the unjust acquittal of
his murderers, and the activism of his mother who really pushed to bring attention
to his case and others and sparked such a big movement in the civil rights
movement. So this monument is going to have three different sites in two states,
one in the south side of Chicago where people gathered to mourn his death,
another in Mississippi at the site where his body was pulled from the river
there, and the third at the courthouse where his murderers were tried by a
jury and acquitted. So Tomorrow would have been Emmett Till's eighty second birthday.
I'm just want to just pull that out again because eighty second birthday. You're
right, he was so young when he was murdered, only fourteen years old.
What else is on the president's agenda for this week? Yeah, so
the President has no public events today at the White House, will have a
briefing with Karine John Pierre later today, and then later this week he's going
to get a briefing and deliver remarks on extreme heat and climate change. That's
going to be on Thursday. That's obviously a very big topic for millions of
Americans right now who are facing this just unrelenting heat wave. The temperatures are
just astonishing in so many parts of the country. I know you guys are
dealing with heat too. And that's Natalie Thursday, So that'll be a pretty
i think notable event. He's also welcoming to the White House on Thursday the
Prime Minister of Italy. They're going to be talking about Ukraine, North Africa,
China, as well as other global economic issues. Those are two big
highlights for the week. On Friday, then he travels up to Maine to
continue that push on by dynamics that we've been talking about now for a couple
of weeks. No specifics yet and if he has any major announcements, but
this is just another speech for the president talking about his economic agenda, and
then for the president heading to the beach for the weekend. Okay, all
right, is you going to Delaware to go to the beach? Yeah,
Rehoba's Delaware for the president after that event in Maine. But so kind of
the lighter start early on in the week and then things get pick up busy
Thursday and Friday at the end of the week. Hey, Karen, real
quick, has anything come up with the situation in North Korea with the soldier
There is there any buzz on the hill about that? Or are there things?
Just what? Everybody's just watching State Department, you know. I think
there's still a lot of questions, but no new information yet from the administration.
There was some news I guess over the weekend that there were conversations between
the UN with North Korea, but in terms of the administration, there's no
big update that we've received in the last couple of days. I suspect that
will be another big hot topic at the briefing today. I did notice one
other thing, just to circle back to civil rights. It says that on
Thursday, the President is going to deliver remarks at the Truman Civil Rights Symposium
and at the National Archives in DC. Is there a re the Civil rights
is hopping this week on the agenda? I mean, was there any a
memorial memorial? And then of course the Truman thing. Yeah, I don't
know if that was just the coincidence of the scheduling. We don't have any
more details from the White House on that. And you know, as we
have mentioned earlier, the proclamation for Emmon Hill is time to his birthday,
which was this week, and I think that conference for the Truman Civil Rights
Symposium just happens to be this week, but we could check into that.
Okay, great, Thank you so much for your time this morning. Karen,
have a great day. ABC News correspondent Karen Traversed there, she's the
White House and Capitol Hill correspondent for ABC. Let's get some more of the
news coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Tumeculus School Board
has approved the elementary school curriculum and had been fighting over with Governor Newsom.
The board voted for nil Friday after a meeting that ran almost until midnight.
The board president said the district risks a lawsuit if it did not adopt a
curriculum before school starts next month, and a compromise, board members agreed to
postpone one of the fourth grade lessons so it could be reviewed further. Some
board members had concerns about whether the lesson was appropriate for fourth graders. UPS
drivers say high temperatures across the state are causing heat exhaustion for some employees without
air conditioning. More than three hundred thousand workers have threatened and open ended strike
if demands for higher pay, benefits, and ac and delivery trucks are not
met. The team stairs Victor Monaro says there have been reports of drivers even
dying because of the heat. Several have reported going to the hospital because the
heat exhaustion. Minaro says it's usually twenty to thirty degrees hotter in the back
of the trucks. It's obvious that this has the only way to address it
is with air conditioning. UPS says it's headed back to the negotiating table this
week. Chris Adler KFI News, a LA County Sheriff's Search and rescue canine
has had to be airlifted out of the mountains above Monrovia because it became overheated
while searching for a missing hiker. The dog had been working with teams in
the mountains yesterday trying to find Colin Walker. He was last seen on July
fifteenth near a trailhead in Monrovia. A man from Redondo Beach has been arrested
on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly hurting a man during a car to car
shooting in Long Beach. Leon Shillingford was also booked for a parole violation.
The shooting happened Saturday night on Santa fe Avenue near Willow Street. Again,
Bye Bye Birdie. Twitter owner Elon Musk has rebranded the social network site as
X. It's the latest major shift since Musk took over the platform. He
posted this morning, goodbye Twitter. We will never forget you heart emoji welcome
X. You have a lot to live up to, so does the CEO.
Man, what a job she walked into there with that one. A
couple of more business stories this morning to get us going before we go back
to some international news. Treasury gals have edged lower this morning. Look fed
Chairman Jerome pal and his colleagues are pretty much locked in to raising interest rates
by a quarter percentage point. That meeting starts tomorrow and goes into Wednesday,
when they will make the announcement. Rising hopes of a soft landing for the
US economy hinge on the federal reserves willingness to tolerate inflation markedly higher than it
would prefer. It's supposed to get to two percent. We're just about at
three point nine percent right now, and everybody anticipates not just this interest rate
hike but another one in September. And it's going to be hard to get
enough demand compression without a recession to get that price pressure out of the system.
That's according to an analyst from JP morgan Chase. Speaking of JP morgan
Chase, Wall streeters say they'd most like to work for JP Morgan CEO Jamie
Diamond. That's according to a Market Live Pulse survey, nearly three and five
of the almost six hundred respond it's picked Diamond as their preferred boss among the
heads of the big six US banks. Here's why Jamie Diamond has lorded over
JP Morgan Chase for more than seventeen years and during that time he has quadrupled
the stock price, and of course he is rather captivate, and the legions
of candid comments continue to come out of him. Some zingers on the economy
his nascent run for the presidency as well, so eyes on Jamie Diamond seemed
to never leave Jamie Diamond. Internationally speaking, Russia has accused Ukraine of launching
a drone attack on Moscow, during which one of the drones fell near the
Defense Ministry's main headquarters. Russian authorities say another Ukrainian drone attack early today hit
an ammunition depot in Crimea. At the same time, Russian forces struck port
infrastructure in southern Ukraine with exploding drones for workers were hurt and a grain hangar
and other depots were destroyed. Investors are watching to see if the fed derails
the markets bull run amid a massive week for earnings, including Tech Bellweather's Microsoft,
Meta and Alphabet, It's Tech Week, and It's earnings Week. The
danger is that this resilient labor market is pushing policymakers to signal further tightening beyond
this week's expected rate hike, jeoparding Wall streets profit forecast. If the fed
fields compelled to re accelerate heights. It could end up being the policy mistake
that everyone was looking for. That's from a US strategist at ned Davis Research.
Could a third party, politically speaking, get traction. I'm gonna go
with yes. We'll see what. Steve says. The prop industry is working
to support striking actors and writers. On Saturday, several prop houses held a
yard sale in North Hollywood, with the proceeds going to Struggling Writers Guild of
America and SAG after members. Police are investigating after a man was found shot
to death off Angele's Crest Highway in Pasadena. Investigators believe the thirty two year
old was a victim of a robbery gone wrong. On Saturday, two hikers
are hospitalized in serious condition after being rescued from a remote section of the Bell
Canyon area. Bell Canyon is in the west San Fernando Valley between West Hills
and Simi Valley. The women were hoisted to safety on Saturday afternoon. Coming
up at five fifty, ABC's Jim Ryan and the dispute over a floating border
barrier on the Rio Grande River in South Texas. But right now we have
ABC's Steve Roberts on the line to join us on Wake Up Call to talk
about the third party options and third party politics. Good morning, Steve,
Hi Jason, and you know you're right the possibility of a third party is
very real for at least three reasons. One, voters are unhappy with the
two choices of Biden and Trump. You look at the national polling this morning,
their favorable ratings are both stuck at just about the same level, at
about way below fifty percent. So the public mood is there. And then
you have a group called No Labels which is organizing around the country. They
have not committed themselves yet to running a third party an independent candidacy, but
they're doing the spade work that's necessary to make it possible by getting on ballots
around the country, getting enough signatures to create a ballot space for them.
And so the you know, there's a real possibility that a third party could
emerge. And I can tell you Jason that prospects as Democrats petrified. I
bet Steve, let's let's stay here for a second with No Labels, because
a third party that doesn't even have a platform yet is already getting some traction
as well. So that's a very dissatisfied electorate. It sounds like, yeah,
and that they don't really own their platform is we're not the other guys.
I mean, that's the basic platform, right. But also also they
you know, little labels been around for a while, and they started primarily
as a legislative concept. And if you're talking about a legislature of a moderate
centrist group that builds coalitions, that serves as negotiators and bridge builders, makes
a lot of sense in a legislative situation, and and and centrists from both
parties were very helpful, for instance, in passing the infrastruct your bill,
they were very helpful in passing the debt limit bill. In a legislative context,
they can be very valuable politics. Electoral politics is very different. They
can only be spoilers. No third party has ever come close to winning the
presidency and none ever will under the American system ever, so all they can
do is tilt the election one way or another to somebody else. And look,
we have at least three recent examples of that. In twenty and sixteen,
people forget this, Donald Trump only won forty six point one percent of
the vote. How did you win the presidency because six percent of Americans voted
for a third party. Many of them were former Bernie Sanders people. They
were disillusion liberal Democrats, folks who didn't like Hillary Clinton's just enough defections so
that Trump squeaked by in the three states that decided the election, Pennsylvania,
Michigan, and Wisconsin. Four years later, the percentage of Americans who go
to third party dropped from six percent Jason to under two percent, and the
vast majority of those voters went back to the Democratic Party. What's the lesson?
Lesson is Donald Trump has a floor, but he also has a ceiling.
He won somewhere between forty six and forty seven percent of the vote.
Both times, when the opposition is fragmented, as it was in sixteen,
he can win. When it's unified, as it was in twenty, he
lost. And that's why the third party is so threatening the Democrats because it's
it's it's threatening to reprise the sixteen scenario and not the twenty scenario. Right
right, right, right, So so third parties often are performative, not
necessarily substantive. It sounds like no labels might actually have enough traction to tip
things you mentioned Senator Joe Mansion from West Virginia is basically a Democratic name only
right now is that enough name recognition for no Labels to continue its momentum?
Probably? Now you mentioned Mansion, he is as he say, he's a
he's a he's a Democrat when you say a name only. But he that
name is pretty important because he provides the margins of the Democrats to control the
US Senate. Um. But he is a renegade. He represents a very
conservative Republican state. He loves the limelight, he loves the talk. Uh,
and he is. He appeared at it No Labels event just a few
weeks ago in New Hampshire. He has refused over and over again to rule
out a third party run. But the I think in this year, the
personality of them, whoever heads the ticket, is less important than the mere
fact that they say we're not Trump and we're not Biden. Um and uh,
look, people forget Jay said how narrowly divided this country is. Think
about this a couple of statistics. In three three years ago, if forty
four thousand votes, a tiny fraction of one percent of Americans, right,
forty four thousand votes had shifted in three states, Arizona, Georgia, and
Wisconsin. From Biden to Trump, the electoral college would have been tied forty
four thousand votes. If you look at two thousand, George Bush won the
presidency because he won Florida by five hundred and thirty seven votes. Ralph Nader,
the independent liberal renegade that year, won ninety seven thousand votes in Florida.
If one percent one percent of Nader's voters in Florida had voted for Algor,
he would have been president. So you know, voters have to understand
our listeners have to understand that we're not talking about major shifts. We're talking
about marginal shifts that can make a huge impact. And that's why third parties
matter. They only have to. I saw one study just recently published.
It said if with Joe managin ticket won three percent of the vote, that's
all three percent of the vote, they would tip the election from Biden to
Trump. So that's how close it is. That's insane. I'm kind of
a political junkie, Steve, and I'm going back to Lake. I'm thinking
about Ross Perrow had a pretty heavy impact in ninety two, and then I
go back to nineteen eighty. I'm thinking about John Anderson as well. Do
third party runs usually favor one party or another that's established. Gee, that's
a good question, and I think the answer is they've gone back and forth.
I'm glad you mentioned Ross Perow. Look, he won nineteen percent of
the vote. People forget how popular he was. He won nineteen percent of
the vote the first time he ran, dropped to eight percent to second time.
But Bill Clinton was elected president with only forty three percent of the vote.
I mentioned that Donald Trump won with forty six percent, but that was
lot more than Bill clan God, but that you know that year George Bors
only got thirty seven percent. So over the years it's swung back and forth.
But I think it's if you look at the figures and you look at
the nature of American politics this year, there's no doubt in my mind and
the mind of anybody who studied as closely that a third party would hurt the
Democrats more. And because it's you know, you look at the difference between
sixteen and twenty, about two thirds of the Democrat of the voters who vote
a third party at sixteen when they if they chose a major party four years
later they voted for Biden. There's a Noble Wall Street Journal poll that came
out recently and they and about twelve percent of Americans said they were really unhappy
with the choices of Biden or Trump. But of those if they were asked
to pick somebody, they were forced to pick somebody, they weren't much more
favorable Biden. This year. All the evidence we have indicates that a third
party would be much more damaging to the Democrats. All right, thank you
for summarizing that for Steve. Always a pleasure I love getting the week started
off with a Steve Roberts conversation. Thanks a lot for your time anytime,
Jasent. Thanks ABC News political analysts. Right there, Steve Roberts. A
couple of quick stories before we go to break. Doctors. Okay, doctors
are having to tell people not to eat or drink borax, the laundry detergent
that's also used to kill ants and cockroaches. People on TikTok have falsely suggested
that adding a pinch of borax to their water could reduce inflammation and ease joint
pain. One toxicology expert says borax can cause stomach irritation and potentially result in
blue green vomit or diarrhea. If ingested over time, it can cause anemia
and seizures. She says. Soaking in borax, as some videos also suggest,
could cause rashes that make the skin appear as bright pink as a boiled
lobster and start to fall off. Used to be car manuals came and told
you how to fix a carburetor. Now it comes with a page that that
says, don't drink the battery acid. We're getting dumber. A week long
wildfire on the Greek island of Rods has forced more evacuations. About nineteen thousand
people, mostly tourists, were moved in buses and boats over the weekend out
of the path of the fire that reached several coastal areas from nearby mountains.
Evacuations were also ordered overnight on the western island of Corfu. Three major fires
are also burning in other parts of the country. UPS and the Teamsters union
are heading back to the bargaining table this week. Contract negotiations that will resume
tomorrow are aimed at averting a strike by three hundred and forty thousand UPS workers.
Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is blasting Florida Governor and GOP primary opponent Rod
distantus We're not taking responsibility for a new slavery curriculum that was enacted this week
in the Sunshine State. Israel's parliament is meeting today for a vote on a
controversial overhaul of the judicial system pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin net And Yahoo Nat
And Yahoo was just released from the hospital today after being fitted with a pacemaker
over the weekend. It is five fifty two on your wake up call and
we have ABC's Jim Ryan on the line. The US Department of Justice has
informed the State of Texas that it intends to file a lawsuit. Good morning,
Jim. Yeah. Two o'clock this afternoon is the deadline, Jason that
unless the State of Texas has pulled these buoys out of the Rio Grand,
these four foot high obstructions essentially that have been put out there for a thousand
foot string of them in the Rio Grand that border between the US Mexico,
that the federal government will file suit. The reasoning here the section ten of
the Rivers and Harbors Act Riverson Harbors Act prohibits the creation of any obstruction to
the navigable capacity of waters of the US that would include the Rio grand So
that would be the basis for the lawsuit. State of Texas and Governor Greg
Abbott have given noe to Asian that they intend to remove that barrier from the
river. How long have those buoyes been there? About a week and a
half, two weeks or so. They've been talking about it for some time,
and we saw concepts about a month ago, and then finally the actual
buoies were put out there. These are big four foot bright orange plastic spheres
that are joined together and then tethered to the bottom of the Rio grand by
mesh netting, so you can't swim under them, try to crawl over them,
and they just roll forward and so they're almost impossible to get through.
Does Mexico have anything to say about this is the Rio Grande? Yes,
Mexico. The Mexican Foreign Ministers says the buoys risk violating the Water Treaty of
nineteen forty four. The country of Mexico will send some observers up to the
Rio grand in the coming days to take a look at this to see if
there is a broader problem in treaties with Mexico. So yeah, there's at
least on the face of it, the problem that Mexico has with this too.
Okay, what part of the river are talking at? Are we talking
to al Paso Ties side over towards Corpus Christie's side? Well, somewhere between
those two passes, down along the sort of the southern bend of the Rio
Grand. It's only a thousand feet of this stuff. But I think that
Governor Abbott sees it as a trial kind of a pilot program, and if
it works there, then he would like to see it extended even beyond that.
But I mean, the whole border between Texas and Mexico is twelve hundred
miles, all of it separated by the Royal Grand So there would be a
monumental task to try to put this across that up and down that whole twelve
thousand miles stretch. So this pilot program is getting attention from the Feds.
Obviously today at two o'clock, as you said, there's going to be a
lawsuit filed. How is Governor Greg Abbott prepping his people for this lawsuit?
Well, he's sumbing his nose at the lawsuit and the federal government says,
we'll see you in court. He sees this as a broader battle between Austin,
the State of Texas and Washington, the by administration, which he says
hasn't done enough to secure the border since Title forty two came into a factor.
Since it was repealed and replaced with Title eight in May, the number
of people trying to come into the country illegally has declined dramatically. That's also
a function that the weather too, it's extremely hot. Um. But Abbott
says that, you know, he's not as concerned with migrant family he's trying
to come into the border, come into the country illegally, as he is
about guns and weapons, you know, and drugs and money. So that's
been sort of his focus in this whole thing. Has there been any mention
of a plan B Let's say, if there's if there's a temporary restraining order
upheld by the court today or issued by the court today, as Governor Abbott
going to as he said, if he's going to follow it, he was
going to he's going to respect it. Well, yeah, I suspect that
he would. I don't think that he could. He's going to violate the
law if that if that's what a judge rules in this case. But he
does say that he plans to carry it all the way to the Supreme Court.
So as if there is a tr put into place, I suspect that
it would be that he the barriers would stay in place as long as the
appeals for going on, and Abbott says the appeals will go all the way
at the top. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan there from Texas. Thanks
a lot for your time this morning, Jim. Absolutely, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFY twenty four hour newsroom before
we get to handle on the news. Another LA County sheriff's deputy is under
investigation for allegedly using excessive force. An attorney says his client, who identifies
as transgender, was thrown to the pavement during a traffic stop February the tenth
and Wittier. The attorney says his client flipped off the deputy while the deputy
was berating a black woman at an unrelated traffic stop, and that's why the
deputy followed his client and attacked him. This is the third use of force
accusation against deputies within the past four weeks. Human remains have been found in
three suitcases seen floating in the water in Delray Beach, Florida. Investigators say
they believe the remains belonged to one woman they've sent They've been sent to a
medical examiner to be identified. Police in Glendale have used flash bang grenades and
tear gas and to standoff at a home that lasted more than seven hours.
Police were called yesterday about a man trespassing in the backyard. The guy then
went into the house and refused to leave. He also claimed to have weapons.
The standoff ended around midnight. Video has been released from the end of
a long police chase in Ohio where a canine was let loose on a man
who had his hands up. The man had been driving a big rig July
fourth and refused to stop for an inspector. Police finally stopped the truck on
a highway and the man got out, but refused to get on the ground.
Video shows a local officer approach with the canine as highway patrol officers worked
to arrest the driver. Don't let them, don't lease, They're not lease.
The dog with his hands up. The video appears to show the dog
biting and pulling the man by his arm as he screams in pain. Some
people staying in a makeshift RV park in Silmar say they're not leaving. A
judge last week ordered everybody off the property, including the homeowner, by this
past weekend. This neighbor tells NBC four it's bittersweet. The bad part is
this the people they have to live to have to move. Some of them
may not have places to go. That's the sad part. That's the hard
part. Most people renting RVs at the home have accepted housing services. About
two dozen RVs are on the property. The city cut the power last week,
citing fire hazards and other violations. A woman in Montana has been killed
in an apparent encounter with a bear on a trail west of Yellowstone National Park.
The body of forty seven year old Amy Adamson was found Saturday. Rangers
say they were grizzly bear tracks nearby. Adamson's parents tell ABC they worried about
their daughter hiking alone. She had a lot of information, but my wife
told her said, well, how worried we were and and everything, And
she told us, well, if something happens to me on that trail,
I'm doing what I love to do, they say. Adamson was working in
Yellowstone for the summer. She quit her job teaching English eight years ago to
backpack around the US and write a book. People in and outside of Japan
have been protesting the planned release of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami hit Fukushima
nuclear power plant. Contaminated water has been accumulating since the nuclear disaster in twenty
eleven. The government has not said when or how the wastewater will be released,
and it's unclear what, if any, damage the water would cause.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been released from the hospital following an emergency heart
procedure. He was discharged just as his government is set to vote on an
overhaul of the country's judicial system. ABC's Inez Dayli Kata says protesters have stopped
stepped up their demonstrations against the reform, critics arguing it would weaken the court's
ability to overrule the right wing coalition, but the government claiming the court is
too powerful. Demonstrators blocked a road leading up to Parliament today and businesses around
the country closed for the day in protest. The body of a man in
his eighties has been found near a train station in South la. It was
discovered yesterday afternoon near the Metro station at fifty fourth Street and van Ness Avenue.
Police said the cause of death was unclear. We lead local live from
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your
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