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to plead guilty to criminal fraud tied to the seven thirty seven Max crashes.
This decision now means Boeing is a fallon, but obviously allows it to avoid
a trial while it tries to turn the page from these safety crises the manufacturing
issues that they've had. So Boeing would face a fine of up to four
hundred and eighty seven million dollars. The Justice Department recommended that the court credit
Boeing about two hundred and forty million of that paid under a previous agreement,
so the new fine would be half. That would be two forty three point
six million. Internationally, there was a major missile attack Russia attacking Ukraine today.
At least thirty one people have been killed one hundred and fifty four injured.
One missile struck a large children's hospital in Kiev. This said it was
an unusual time because it was a daytime barrage that targeted five different cities in
Ukraine. More than forty missiles of very different types, hitting apartment buildings,
public infrastructure as well. Sports wise, Cubs beat the Angels five nothing yesterday.
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You do all the heavy lifting. Thanks for all that. It's the speaking
of Yes, yeah, it's this rundown. Are you a fan of the
heat? Are you a fan of the heat? Ah? No, I'm
not a fan of when it gets this hot. And when I say that,
I mean I'm in West LA, so it doesn't really get that hot.
But I'm on their seventies. Is your limit? Well? As a
runner, as I call myself, I don't do well in the heat.
I did run over the weekend, it was in I think low eighties.
That's just because I started late. It's not comfortable. It's also it's gonna
be more humid where you are. The first world problem, right could be
yeah, more humid. But I'm on the cal Fire website right now and
there are almost twenty active wildfires that are just eating up our state. Lake
fire is Santa Barbara. We've talked about that that's at more than twenty thousand
acres, But you just go on here and you see it says one hundred
and fifty thousand plus acres have burned. I think that's through this year.
One hundred and thirteen structures damaged, total thirty four damage, seventy nine destroyed.
It's terrible what these firefighting folks have to go through. Speaking of when
I say first world problems, for me out there on a run, these
firefighters are just they're absolute heroes. I was just down recently on a shoot
with Orange County Fire Authority and I put on all the gear and I went
through some of you know, their training exercises with the gear and with the
heat and all of that, and I don't know how they do it.
And that's why you see so many heat related injuries oftentimes, Yeah, often
amazingly, there have not been especially in this last week. There have not
been a lot of heat related injuries and obviously nothing serious. But still the
Lake fire in Santa Barbara, like you said, twenty thousand plus acres,
it's only at about eight percent containment right now. That has that's the fire
that had spurred evacuations out in the Sandy and Neez Valley near Zaka Lake.
Is anything Friday afternoons before four o'clock is when it started. So they've had
to evacuate people along Figaro Mountain Road near Neverland win Ranch. Everybody remembers that
one. So they said Fox and Canyon Road is specifically where this fire is
burning. There are more than a dozen vineyards up there. Several wineries north
of Los of Evos were closed yesterday because fire officials cut off access to that
road. Why you'd want to be out there in the smoke anyway, It's
not that doesn't lend itself to a fine wine tasting experience. No, but
what if you already had it on the books right for the July fourth holiday
and you just watch the movie Sideways and you like a nice smoky flavored wine.
There you go. Now we're talking Amy deep Red of some kind,
perhaps the there was another fire. The largest fire is the Basin Fire right
now that's burning in Fresno County that started last month. It's burned at about
fourteen thousand acres. I should say that the largest fire before this one,
the French Fire, also began on the fourth of July near Yosemite National Park.
That's under one thousand acres. But like you said, I mean there
are thousands of acres that are currently burning throughout the state. That one in
Santa Barbara is by far the one that's perhaps most worrisome. I don't know
if that's the word that they would use. And we saw the records continue
to grow, continue to be broken. I should say at least two dozen
places throughout the state broke daily records last week. San Jose, Fresno,
Oakland, Merced, Livermore, sanra Fel, Passa, Robles. I think
Passo got up to one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and sixteen something like
that. In reading, it got to one hundred and nineteen degrees, which
that doesn't surprise me. Redding can get very very hot during the summer.
But Kaya Yukaya tied it's all time high of one hundred and seventeen degrees.
That doesn't surprise me either though. Really now, I mean we grew up
nearby Yea, and Yukaya was always exceptionally warmer than you know, Healdsburg I
felt, or Santa Rosa. It's right there. It's adjacent too. Yeah,
a National Weather Service saying that temperatures are fifteen to thirty degrees above normal
basically across the board. And what's significant about this latest heat wave, and
we talk about this on Fox eleven, is that it's lasting this long.
Yeah, it's just day after day after day after day. I don't think
we get any relief potentially until this coming weekend. My air conditioner went off
last night for the first time in a day and a half. Like it
stopped it. I shouldn't say it stopped working, but it finally achieved the
temperature that my wife set and finally went off. Probably I'm not doing that
again. Well, I woke up at two am and I said to my
husband John, oh my gosh, it's so hot. And we did have
the AC on, and he said, yes, it is. And I
said I need a solution. I said I need a solution right now.
And I was too tired to up and he said okay, and I said,
can you turn up DC? He did, good, Husbands, thank
you. I was able to go back to sleep till the aw That's great.
We're going to talk more about the Newport Beach robbery from last week.
We have found so much out about the guys who should be in jail,
who are not in jail and are out and able to commit crimes like this.
And I said this last week. I feel like the saving grace,
unfortunately, is that this was Orange County. Because I'm GA, Todd Spitzer
and the prosecutors there, Todd Spitzer leading the DA's office, They're not going
to hold back on these guys. No, but all three of them.
We'll talk more about it, but all three from La County. And we
reached out to Gascon on Friday for comment. I don't think i've heard back
yet or we the station anyway. We'll get into that in a little bit,
but you're right. Five to two decision. The Board of Education decided
that they're going to ban cell phones starting in January because they want to try
to have an impact on the behavior of students in clawing back what we've lost
when it comes to kids and cell phones and the impact that cell phones have
not just on like attention span. This isn't the old conversation about music videos
are going to rot our brain. There is a specific and clear connection between
cell phone use, smartphone use, especially when it comes to social media,
and the impact that that can have on young people. I think girls are
more heavily impacted when it comes to the social media aspect of it. Boys
are probably more affected when it comes to just the attention span issues that develop
as a result of this. So we talked about it. I'm hugely in
favor of this a lot. I do not agree with the concern about emergency
notifications. How would a kid let their parent know that the something something happened
at school, And I just feel like there are ways that we can easily
work around that. Well, history shows we did, okay. I mean,
you never had an emergency at school that you had to contact your parents
immediately, And I mean that's I I say that facetiously, and I don't
want I don't want to offend anybody who's emotionally invested in this, and I
completely understand the idea that you desperately want to have contact with your kids in
the event of an emergency one thousand percent. What I was saying was,
we didn't have the cell phone option growing up in school. So if there
was an emergency, and I you know, to your point, I don't.
We didn't have a huge emergency where I grew up. But if anything
bad happened, parents would be contacted by the district office, or if it
was physically happening to you, you could go to the office and call,
or the teacher would call. I mean, those things are not we can't
we can't ignore that. We've worked through the problem in the past. No.
But also the one thing, of course is the proliferation of mass shootings,
which we did to have that, which is also understandable, absolutely,
But there's a such a much better chance. I don't know. That doesn't
sound right because I don't want to put a positive spin on it. There's
a much greater chance that your kid dies in a car crash on the way
to school. I mean that kind of and again I understand the emotional connection
that we had. We want to know and have information about our kids when
you ask students themselves. Though I think this is kind of funny because the
La Times did Angelica as Amora Rees, a seventeen year old at downtown Magnet's
High School, says she can't wait for the ban. She was among the
dozens of LA students who were inter viewed an expressed relief about this. She
got an iPhone as a birthday gift three years ago, and she said she
was excited because she was one of the last in her group to get one,
and over time she saw the pros and cons. She took the public
bust to an internship this summer, was able to text her parents along the
route let him know that she was safe. She has an Instagram account.
She watches YouTube videos, including campus tours of students at USC and Harvard.
Those are dream colleges for her. She watches con Academy for the math tutorials
and things like that. So there is an x There is a very positive
impact that these phones can have. But even she says, girls in her
school can be obsessed with social media. They compare their clothes, their weight,
their followings with their likes, the you know who's how many people are
following and liking well, and then how quickly you get lost in your phone,
So she says, by you know a late afternoon, she had already
been on her phone for two and a half hours. It showed her screen
time and that's just by mid afternoon. So she is relieved, But then
there is the la times talk to another I think he was a senior who
said this isn't fair, and he gets good grades, so he shouldn't have
to give up his phone. See, And I wish that there was a
way for us adults to say to kids, the friendships and the relationships that
you build through your phone are not real. I had the conversation with my
own son who who liked video games, and at night, when he was
done with all of his stuff, he was allowed to play games, and
I would hear him speaking every once in a while, and I know he's
in there alone, and I'd walk up to his room and I'd say,
who are you talking to? And he'd he'd say, I I'm talking to
my friends. And some of them were, in fact people that he knew
from school, but a lot of them were just rando people that he'd never
physically see, didn't know anything about other than they had this shared thing.
Now that there is something to be said about that kind of a connection,
but it is not a real connection. No, And that's one of the
things that we've seen too where people they don't actually talk on the phone anymore.
You don't have actual conversations. What does this do for socialization? So
on and so forth, as opposed to looking at somebody the eye, having
a conversation and not just a text message. As well, President Biden has
sent a message to Democrats that demand that he drop out of the race.
He attacked the press, insisted Democratic Party voters want him as their candidate,
despite the polls telling him otherwise. He wrote a letter to Congressional Democrats today
and said, quote, I am firmly committed to staying in this race,
to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump. Of
course, this is going to be a big week for the president because Congress
is back in session today after their fourth of July holiday, and a lot
of people are saying that his best opportunity to prove any of those doubters wrong
about his abilities will be a NATO press conference coming up on Thursday. But
that it's Thursday, it's not today. I mean that there's some of these
opportunities perhaps that they could have taken early on immediately after the debate. Performance
were not taken. I mean, he did go out and campaign the day
after the debate. He spent time in the campaign trail. He had his
interview with ABC News on Friday, which it didn't really I don't think helped
his case very much. It didn't make the needle. I don't think it
stopped the bleeding. But there has been some reporting that international leaders have already
been meeting with the Trump team. Yeah, well that and I know that
Trump has reached out, like he reached out out to the new prime Minister
in Great Britain soon after that election on the fourth of July. So he's
making his he's making his presence known. How's that. Yeah, and it's
already been known. But now so these international leaders are saying we better prepare
for a Trump administration. We think that in one year from now is going
to be a lot different. So what does that mean for the world stage?
Sports wise? Six Dodgers head into Arlington next week for the All Star
Game. Tyler Glass, now, Will Smith, Moogie Bets, Freddie Freeman,
Taoscar Hernandez, and Shohe Otani. Of course, last week we told
you about the botched robbery at Newport Beaches, Fashioned Island, in which a
sixty year old woman from New Zealand was killed. She was dragged nearly sixty
five feet by a car during a robbery, and police were able to get
the three guys, the three suspects after a chase that brought them back into
La County. But we once you look him up, found out that these
guys probably should have been in jail or at least served some amount of jail
at some point in their lives. There's three suspects, a twenty six year
old and then two eighteen year olds. Yeah, and it's a twenty six
year old who, by the way, was the one driving the vehicle that
ran over sixty eight year old Patricia McKay and killed her. He has three
felony convictions already, all from La County. He previously was convicted for residential
burglary in twenty eighteen, criminal threats in twenty twenty, and robbery last year
and twenty twenty three, and apparently he got probation. And then he is
also convicted of being a narcotics addict in possession of a firearm that happens to
be illegal. That was last year as well. On top of the those
charges, all of those felony convictions, he is now charged with killing Patricia
McKay and the commission of a robbery the felony enhancement of causing the death of
a person over the age of sixty five. The expectation is kind of understanding
where Todd Spitzer is coming from. It's likely that they're going to ask for
the death penalty. Although we haven't put we haven't executed a prisoner in California
in eighteen years. I think, well, and there's a moratorium and the
moratorium on the death penalty. So in addition to the murder charge, one
of the eighteen year olds also faces a second degree attempted robbery, attempted murder,
personal use of a firearm, as well as felony enhancement of that personal
discharge of a firearm. What happened is one of the eighteen year olds apparently
tossed Patricia to the ground as she held several shopping bags and then dragged her
into the street in front of the Toyota Camri that they were driving while trying
to grab the bags, and then Douglas McKay, Patricia's husband, jumped in
front of the vehicle an effort to stop it from running over his wife,
but the twenty six year old again drove it forward, pushing him out of
the way, running over the woman, dragging her body under the car.
Somebody else tried to intervene and gave chase, and another one of the eighteen
year olds who was back inside the car, fired three shots at this good
samaritan, and that's when they went on to the chase. Yeah. And
I was in the newsroom when this happened, and we got word of a
pursuit, and we got word that this was potentially connected to the Fashion Island
shooting that we had just heard about through the scanners, and we were sending
a whole crew down there, of course, which we did. And then
it was soon after, but they got from Orange County to Ellie County.
They were making their way back home, if you will, and they were
stopped. They made a run for it, but the law enforcement caught up
to them, thank goodness. Now. Ellie can District Attorney put out a
statement asking in response to explaining the lack of prison time for the twenty six
year old, McCrary of the DA's office says the case against him had significant
problems with proof. As a result of these issues, the management team at
the airport Court authorized a plea offer that allowed mister McCrary to be placed on
probation with the suspended state prison sentence. The statement goes on to call these
latest crimes reprehensible. Todd Spitzer, of course, points to Gavin Newsom.
At least some of the blame should be on Gavin Newsom, he says,
because his quote was, our shopping centers in malls have become hunting grounds for
criminals who are stalking innocent shoppers who rob them blind because our governor and our
legislature refused to hold anyone accountable for their actions. It seems like this is
another one of those examples. And it's not even just it's not even just
picking and choosing. And I know that that's one of the criticisms that people
have is they say, oh, you only find those crimes where somebody does
have a criminal record. Well, this is a pretty egregious crime. This
is not something that's you know, I wouldn't have said the same thing if
he was shoplifting, if he took an iPhone from an Apple store without asking
right, and then we see that he's got felony attempted second degree robbery,
evading, driving recklessly, felonies for residential burglary, criminal thoughts of robbery.
I mean, there's reasons why there are penalties for these things, especially if
somebody has multiple felony convictions on their record. They're telling you what they're going
to do. They're telling you that they have a pattern in their life that
is not going to stop until you stop them. No, and to your
point from La County, they drive clearly targeted to go to Fashion Island,
Yeah, which is a gorgeous place to be. And this is the result.
And by the way, you know the fallout in New Zealand and what
that makes us look like. And this guy the husband, he was business
executive who served for several years as chaired of the Bank of New Zealand,
in three years as the first chief executive of the Auckland Council. What a
shame. What we get what we vote for, it's what we get.
Alec Baldwin is supposed to head to trial for the movie shooting. You remember
it was October twenty first, twenty twenty one. Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a
shot or a scene is probably the better, more appropriate word, and discharged
a live bullet that killed the cinematographer Helena Hutchins and wounded the movies director.
That weapon was supposed to have been loaded with inert rounds that could not fire,
not necessarily blanks, but inert. He then went on, if I'm
not mistaken, he did this interview with George Stephanopolis, also you felt shocked,
you felt anger, you felt sadness. Do you feel guilt? No,
no, I feel that there is I feel that someone is responsible for
what happened, and I can't say who that is, but I know it's
not me. I mean I honestly, God, if I felt that I
was responsible, I might have killed myself if I thought I was responsible.
I don't say that lightly. The ego would never allow him to do that,
But the announcement that they were going to bring charges against him was kind
of a shock for a lot of people because of the consideration that on set
safety, especially when it comes to weapons like that, would be the responsibility
of the weapons expert, the armorer in this case, and Hannigutierre's read.
The armorer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter's serving eighteen months right now as a result
of this case. And there's two there's two school of thoughts, and one
of them is, Okay, well, she's already been found guilty, so
that's good enough, and this will help Baldwin's case if in fact it goes
through, right And then the other school of thought is, well, if
she's guilty, then he's guilty as well well. And I feel like because
of his role he's got it's not just as easy as saying that he's the
actor, because he was the producer on this as well, and overall overarching
has responsibility for hiring the right people to make sure that it is a safe
set. The actor part of him, I don't think is going to be
found guilty. I mean, if there's a way for them to delineate between
the two, because he has to. I mean, just general standards and
practices in the industry would not have an actor checking to see if a gun
is safe. When when this happened, I remember listening to a bunch of
people who said, if I was an armorer on a set and my responsibility
is to hand to you a safe weapon, you start messing with it.
You start doing your own Oh, I'll check it, but I have to
take it back and I have to recheck it because I don't know what you're
doing. I don't know what you've If the responsibility lies with the armorer,
then that's where it lies. It should not be given to the actor in
that case. Now, I don't know what sort of uh experience Alec Baldwin
has with guns that are real, not you know, not just movie set
guns. And I don't know if he would be comfortable even saying to the
armorer, I know you checked it. I'm going to do my own check.
I don't even know if because what's the point then of the armorer?
And there were grumblings initially when this happened, and I know that's all part
of the investigation where it was not a safe set that it was being that
there was a lot of unhappy people. They were sort of cutting corners.
So if he is not just an actor but an executive producer and had anything
to do with that, that doesn't necessarily bode well from him. But the
defense is just going to argue that he cannot be found guilty because he had
no reason to believe that the gun had been loaded with a live bullet.
He was told it was a cold gun, which means it didn't contain live
ammunition. And to your point, why would you think it would The thing
about the gun issue and the place that this is taking place, you know
this is going to be in New Mexico. Jery selection is supposed to start
tomorrow. People in New Mexico. I assume know that you're always supposed to
treat a gun like it's loaded, regardless if you're on a movie set,
you're in your backyard, you're clean it, whatever, You're always supposed to
treat it like it's loaded. And one of the things that they said about
Alec Baldwin was that's not how he treated the guns that he was using on
this, that he would use him as pointers in the in between scenes,
or that he would use it to call out the word cut. I mean,
just he was not treating it with the respect that a firearm deserves to
be treated. So I wonder if that will play into it, and if,
depending on who sits on the jury, how they would see that,
and if he will actually take the stand as well. Again, we saw
this anybody driven by an ego, there is a chance that they do take
the stand because they believe they're better than you, and the ego seems pretty
strong in that guy. You've been listening to the Gary and Shannon Show.
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