WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.240 KMF I AM six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand on 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:11.000 the i Heeart radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. 3 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:23.960 Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning and everybody. Yeah, Tuesday, July twenty 4 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:30.320 fifth, this is your wake up call. Trying to think of an intro, 5 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:33.200 right, and the only thing I could come up with was a knock 6 00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.560 knock joke. So knock knock, who's there? Not the I R S. 7 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.920 They are no longer allowed to just surprise you and show up at your 8 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:45.320 place of business or your house as of today. I'm getting a firm headshake. 9 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.679 Okay, Yeah, that was funny, Jason, Yeah, thanks, 10 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:57.200 thanks Tyler. It's hot, so, you know, at the very top, 11 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.479 their promotion guy says, untangled the mess. Well, we've been untangling 12 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.920 chords for all of our fans as we moved there from studio to studio here 13 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:07.359 at the office today. So it's hot outside, hot inside. So if 14 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.000 things get a little bit squirrely right off the top, apparently it's probably a 15 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:14.799 little bit because of that. Let's get into some headlines. Got a heck 16 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:19.319 of a show coming up. Caught myself the White House, says President Biden. 17 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.079 Was never in business with his son Hunter. That's what Press Secretary Caryn 18 00:01:23.159 --> 00:01:27.760 Jean Pierre told reporters yesterday. Her statement was in response to allegations claiming a 19 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:33.959 Ukrainian energy executive paid millions in bribes to Biden and his son during the president's 20 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.560 time in the Obama administration. We have ABC's Karen Travers with us later in 21 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:42.480 the show. This will be one of our points of discussion. The Biden 22 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:47.000 administration is suing Texas over a floating border wall. The Justice Department whiled the 23 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.120 lawsuit yesterday in the Federal District Court in Austin, after a deadline it had 24 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.560 given Texas to remove the barrier had passed. The system of buoys, which 25 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:59.439 is floating in the Rio Grande near the town of Eagle Pass, has the 26 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:04.400 support of the Border Patrol Union, and as mentioned, IRS agents will no 27 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:09.199 longer show up at people's homes and businesses unannounced. The agency announced this yesterday. 28 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.960 It's ending that practice and will now send letters to schedule meetings. So 29 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.479 the IRS has to get on your calendar in order to look at your books. 30 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:20.159 Let's start with some of the other stories coming out of the KFI twenty 31 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.639 four hour news room. A man from Chino Hills has been arrested on suspicion 32 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:28.360 of being a fake firefighter. Investigators with the sam Bernadino County Sheriff's Department say 33 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.560 Andrew Dubor pulled over a driver on July ninth in a vehicle with lights and 34 00:02:30.599 --> 00:02:34.319 a siren, and when Dubor approached the vehicle, he was wearing a duty 35 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:38.159 belt with a gun, handcuffs and pepper spray. Dbor had an ID card 36 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.360 that said santem warn't they fire Department, which doesn't exist. Investigators say they 37 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:46.479 suspect Dubor has pulled over other drivers in La Orange and Riverside Counties, and 38 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:50.479 when they searched Dubor's home, they say they found more guns, ballistic vests, 39 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:55.000 uniforms, and badges. Steve Gregory KOFY News. A supervising probation officer 40 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.639 has been charged with assaulting a miner at Camp Kilpatrick in Malibu. Probation Oversight 41 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:06.719 Commissioner Frankie Carrillo says abuses at juvenile detention centers date back decades and he applauded 42 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:12.759 DA George Gascon for taking action. It is a responsibility that affects us all, 43 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.680 and it obviously takes a team effort. Video shows the po used excessive 44 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:21.120 force with four other deputies to restrain the boy in twenty twenty. Gascon said 45 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.000 yesterday their jobs to rehabilitate and care for the kids in the centers, not 46 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:30.120 subject them to further harm. The NFL has suspended the defensive end for the 47 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:35.039 Denver Broncos indefinitely for betting on league games during the twenty twenty two season. 48 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:40.560 Ioma Nope is part of a growing list of players suspended for gambling on games 49 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:45.759 or in NFL locker rooms. The Broncos say the team will continue to provide 50 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:51.879 members with education resources and support to ensure they comply with the NFL's gambling policy. 51 00:03:52.479 --> 00:03:55.840 Public health officials have found what some call a powerful new weapon to combat 52 00:03:57.080 --> 00:04:03.759 rising sexually transmitted infections. They say the common antibiotic doxycycline can successfully work as 53 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:09.400 a morning after pill to prevent infections like syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia. 54 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:14.520 Some researchers argue it could make the antibiotics less effected if used too frequently. 55 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.600 The CDC says it plans to issue guidelines for using the treatment this summer. 56 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:24.079 President Biden is expected to sign a proclamation establishing a national monument for a black 57 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.879 teenager kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Mississippi in nineteen fifty five. Till's 58 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:32.560 best friend and younger cousin, Reverend Wheeler Parker Junior, will introduce President Biden 59 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:38.879 at the White House before mister Biden signs the proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and 60 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.759 Maybe Till Mobli National Monument. ABC's Andy Field says fourteen year old Emmett Till 61 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:47.199 was killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The murder helped propel the 62 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:51.439 civil rights movement. The monument will be located across three sites in Illinois and 63 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:56.160 Mississippi and will be federally protected. Right now, on Wake Up Called, 64 00:04:56.160 --> 00:05:00.120 ABC's Tom Rivers is on the line with IS to talk about, well, 65 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.720 be some saber rattling. North Korea fired two short range ballistic missiles into its 66 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:08.519 eastern Sea. South Korea's military said this this morning, adding to a recent 67 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:12.319 streak of weapons testing. It is apparently in protest of the US sending major 68 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.000 naval assets to the area and major naval assets. Good morning, Tom, 69 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:19.680 Good morning. Yeah, it's kind of ramping up by kind of my account. 70 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:24.600 A couple of weeks ago, we had over one hundred missile tests by 71 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:29.160 North Korea so far this year, and given the tests over the past week, 72 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:31.600 could probably I'm guessing about one hundred and six something in that neighborhood. 73 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:36.879 But yes, you know, the US wants to show some muscle. The 74 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:43.000 administration does, so last week they sent the USS Kentucky, a nuclear armed 75 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.240 submarine, first time that's been in those waters in about forty years. And 76 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:51.959 then we had the arrival of the nuclear powered USS Annapolis. So yes, 77 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.399 we you know, we get the predicted response from North Korea, we fire 78 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.480 off some ore missiles. He's two latest ones went into the sea about two 79 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.560 hundred and fifty miles away, didn't hit anything, but of course these things 80 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.720 can go errant. Yeah, and if they go to the if they hit 81 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:13.519 you know, South Korean territory, that would be the spark that lights the 82 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.639 tinder and then this thing could really really take off. But we are where 83 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.519 we are looking at the map. The Pacific Ocean is pretty big, so 84 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.959 two hundred and fifty miles is not a huge distance from the shore. Is 85 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.680 there anything out there at all or Has there ever been any kind of mishap 86 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.600 or accident when it comes to these launches there, Actually there hasn't. I 87 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:36.000 think some debris a few years ago may have come in intact with the shore 88 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.160 of Japan. But really it's been you know, fingers crossed. Uh, 89 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:42.759 this stuff has been has been Okay, but you're right. I mean, 90 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:46.759 it's it's it's it's the needle in the haystack. But yes, potentially you 91 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.439 could hit a hit a vessel out there, but the odds would be against 92 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:54.480 that. But yeah, it's it's something that goes on and on and why 93 00:06:54.600 --> 00:07:00.639 the US administration is doing this knowing the predictive result would be more le tests 94 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.639 without any next chapter. You know, oh this opens the chapter to negotiations. 95 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.399 Are No. Uh, it just looks like if I kick you in 96 00:07:09.439 --> 00:07:14.079 the shin and you shout out, oh that hurts. Hmmm. That's kind 97 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:15.720 of what I expected, And that's kind of where we're getting from Young Yang 98 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:17.839 right now, right, you kick him in the shin and then they launch 99 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:23.839 a missile apparently, Yeah, exactly how is South Korea's patience with these tests? 100 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.160 I mean, is there is there a standard response politically speaking? Or 101 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.279 is this escalating a little bit. It's been the government has been escalating a 102 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.680 little bit, saying, look, we know where we've got some strong arms 103 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:38.120 here if you really want to play hardball. But to the average citizen, 104 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.319 they you know, we're talking about correspondent down there a couple of years ago 105 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.240 and she said, look, we kind of are just used to this and 106 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.839 we you know, it's not that we're ignoring it, but we carry on 107 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.319 with our lives as per usual. How many tests has she been through? 108 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:58.279 Probably thousands over the years, and uh, you know, they know that 109 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:01.079 the stuff happens, they through it and they get on with their lives the 110 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.560 next day. Now, Tom, this doesn't seem to be linked in any 111 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:09.360 way to the rather sensational story of the soldier who ran across the DMZ last 112 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:13.240 week, Right, it doesn't seem to be that they're kind of running parallel. 113 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.040 But good news out of that after a week. We found out yesterday 114 00:08:16.040 --> 00:08:20.160 and you would have heard this at the deputy chief at the US command on 115 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:26.720 the border said that finally they've opened up communications channels with Pyongyang, want to 116 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:31.320 make sure that this private king is okay, and possibly trying to open the 117 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.759 door to maybe getting them back in South Korea. But past example show that 118 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:41.799 that doesn't happen very very quickly. North Korea moves very very slowly on these 119 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.679 things. So you know, eventually, hopefully he will be getting out, 120 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:50.200 but probably not tomorrow. Okay, tom let's put your analytical head on here 121 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.159 for the last question, and that is foreign policy, military policy. Anything 122 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.720 that rings China has a focus. There's been a pivot for the US military 123 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:03.200 for Asia and South Asia. Are these assets moving into and staying in the 124 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:07.720 region part of a larger escalation or is this pretty much the pinnacle of that 125 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:13.320 escalation. Yeah. If you read John Pilger's stories articles or see his documentary, 126 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:18.759 you have to go back about thirty years start counting how many US bases 127 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.919 are in Asia right now surrounding China. You get up into the hundreds. 128 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.759 Um, that is sort of by design. So when you know China says, 129 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.960 look, uh, this is our backyard in the South China Sea, 130 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:35.440 and you know, we might send it. We might send a vessel through 131 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:37.559 there, just saying look, this is these our international waters. We can 132 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:43.440 we can do this. You know, the response from China is pretty angered. 133 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.440 And look at relations right now with the US sanctions on China, et 134 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.240 cetera, et cetera. We've now had three trips to China. We had 135 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:58.519 b Lincoln and we had yelling, and um, who else did we have? 136 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.080 We had one more over there, right, We did have a third 137 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.759 one year right, One of the Blinkolns was delayed, I think, and 138 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.200 then they got kicked back a few months after then we are John Kerry. 139 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.039 Yeah, but again the same result. Um, well, yeah, we 140 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:13.879 would like better relations, but we don't have it right now, go away, 141 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.360 Yeah, okay. ABC's Tom Rivers thinks, as always for your time 142 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.919 and expertise, much appreciated. Take care. ABC's Tom Rivers always a pleasure 143 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:24.679 to have him on. He's got such good context. Let's get back to 144 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.120 some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty fire in his room. 145 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.240 A woman in Alabama who claimed she was kidnapped earlier this month when she stopped 146 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.120 to help a child on a highway has admitted she made the whole thing up. 147 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:39.039 Police Chief Nick Durseys says Carly Russell's attorney provided a statement yesterday where Russell 148 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:43.360 acknowledges it was a hoax and asks for forgiveness and prayers. We still don't 149 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.440 know what happened to those forty nine hours where she was. Did she have 150 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.440 any help? We have no idea, says The department is still investigating and 151 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:56.799 criminal charges are still possible. A cheesy smuggling operation has been curdled. Customs 152 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:01.039 and Border Protection officers have pulled over a pickup truck from Mexico crossing the Presidio 153 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.159 Port of entry in Texas. The twenty two year old driver told border officials 154 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.200 earlier this month he was transporting cheese to the US. Officers took a closer 155 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.240 look at the four big cheese wheels with an X ray machine and things didn't 156 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:18.159 look right, so they cut the cheese and discovered almost eighteen pounds of cocaine 157 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.440 in seven parcels concealed in the wheels. The driver's a US citizen. He 158 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:28.720 was detained and turned over to Homeland Security. Amy King KFI News. A 159 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:33.360 former pastor in Pennsylvania has been charged with murdering an eight year old girl in 160 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.120 nineteen seventy five. State Trooper Eugene Tray says the man, who's now eighty 161 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.320 three, confessed when confronted with new evidence, including a witness's allegations that he 162 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:43.720 groped her and tried to kidnap another girl. He was relieved. I would 163 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.879 say it was like a waite was lifted off the shoulders. Officials say the 164 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.360 witness was best friends with the pastor's daughters at the time, and had written 165 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:56.720 about her suspicions in her diary decades ago. Protests continue to cross Israel after 166 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:01.519 the parliament approved a divisive law that would curtail this Preme Court's powers to nullify 167 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:07.360 unreasonable government decisions. Yarev Levine, the country's justice minister, called it the 168 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.919 first step in correcting the judicial system. Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote. Doctors 169 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:18.279 across Israel went on strike on Thursday on Tuesday this today, in protest against 170 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:24.600 the law. Israel's biggest public sector union is also considering a strike Beetlejuice Joe. 171 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:31.919 The strike in Hollywood is not the only thing setting back production on Beetle 172 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.039 Juice too. Officials in Vermont say they're investigating the thefts of two large props 173 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.320 from that were set a couple of weeks ago. A large lamp post topped 174 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:43.960 with a pumpkin was first taken by someone driving a pickup truck, then three 175 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:48.279 days later, a nearly two hundred pound sculpture was taken from the set at 176 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.159 a cemetery. Warner brother says it hopes to release the film by September twenty 177 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.519 twenty four. There's a new California law they help kids see their parents behind 178 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.000 bars. Governor Newsom signed the Keep Family's Close Bill. It does just what 179 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.120 the name implies, placing prisoners and facilities closest to their child's home. The 180 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:09.279 California Highway Patrol is showing off its biggest drug bust ever. In Merced County. 181 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:16.519 Officers found seven hundred and thirty five thousand fentonel laced pills inside a small 182 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.679 suv. The traffic stop on the five also uncovered one hundred and thirty three 183 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:26.120 pounds of meth and thirty seven pounds of cocaine. It's all estimated to be 184 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:31.240 worth more than ten million dollars. And there's a delay in changing the Twitter 185 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:35.080 sign at the company's California headquarters. But depend on this when we're gonna come 186 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.200 right back to it. A contractor managed to remove some letters yesterday, hours 187 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:45.240 after owner Elon Musk changed the name to X, but then San Francisco police 188 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.200 showed up and stopped the work. The building's management says it was not notified 189 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:52.919 and now the city is looking into whether a permit is needed to modify the 190 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.559 sign. Only the blue bird logo and the letters er remain on the side 191 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:03.159 of the building. Super good look, super great look for South of Market 192 00:14:03.159 --> 00:14:07.440 this morning in San Francisco. What would you call that? I guess you 193 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.320 would call it like blue birder, a blue bird, just like Burder. 194 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.720 I think if they should have just changed it to. At five thirty ish, 195 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.240 ABC's Jim Ryan is going to join us. The fearless Texan reporter is 196 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.759 going to take on the talk story of the week, that's Barbie and how 197 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.159 to capitalize on Barbie Mania. We'll see how Gim takes to this story. 198 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.480 I think I'm intrigued. I know right now, let's start with a Federal 199 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.080 Reserve. So today is day one of a two day meeting from the Federal 200 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:35.879 Reserve. We're likely going to get a rate hike of point two five percent, 201 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.759 at least that's what most polls show among economists and investors. It's better 202 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:46.399 than a two thirds percent two thirds chance tomorrow that we're going to get that 203 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:48.799 rate hike. So I pulled a little bit of sound from FED chair J. 204 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.840 Powell. Now I cleaned it up. But remember when you're the chairman 205 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:58.360 of the US Federal Reserve, one of your skills is to not be excitable. 206 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:03.440 The median projection has real GDP growth at one point zero percent this year 207 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:07.720 and one point one percent next year, well below the median estimate of the 208 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:13.720 longer run normal growth rate. The labor market remains very tight. Over the 209 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:18.399 past three months, payroll job gains averaged a robust two hundred and eighty three 210 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.600 thousand jobs per month. The unemployment rate moved up but remained low in May 211 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:28.399 at three point seven percent. There are some signs that supply and demand in 212 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:33.240 the labor market are coming into better balance. The labor force participation rate has 213 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.120 moved up in recent months, particularly for individuals aged twenty five to fifty four 214 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.679 years. So basically there's still a gen X probably when it comes to finding 215 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:46.559 work. But these clips are pulled from about three weeks ago, because before 216 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.159 the Fed goes into a rate hike meeting, they have to go quiet, 217 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:56.399 and so these are after the June meeting when they held off on rates. 218 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.519 So what he's describing there is labor department is starting to even out. Wage 219 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.120 growth is cooling off a little bit, which is which is all kind of 220 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:06.320 good if you're the FED, because that helps cool off inflation, which is 221 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:11.000 also coming down. So this aggressive rate hike schedule that the FED has been 222 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:15.080 on for the past sixteen months is actually starting to work. We're below four 223 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:19.320 percent. Having said that, Jay Powell yesterday, not yesterday. Jay Powell 224 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:25.559 recently said that there's no way we get to two percent inflation this year or 225 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:29.519 next year, which is what the FED is supposed to statutorially look at. 226 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.480 Getting to full employment is one of them, and two percent unemployment is the 227 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:40.080 other one. Inflation remains well above our longer run two percent goal. Over 228 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:45.440 the twelve months ending in April, total PC prices rose four point four percent. 229 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:51.240 Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PC prices rose four point 230 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:55.759 seven percent. In May, the twelve months change in the consumer price Index 231 00:16:55.840 --> 00:17:00.440 came in at four percent, and the change in the core CPO was five 232 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:04.519 point three percent. Inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year. 233 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.640 Nonetheless, inflation pressures continue to run high, and the process of getting inflation 234 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:14.440 back down to two percent has a long way to go. Okay, So 235 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.599 it really comes down to recession, right, That's what everybody wants to know. 236 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.079 Are we going to have a recession? If we are, how long 237 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:22.519 will it last? When will it begin? We kind of thought we would 238 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.279 get this recession last year. It still gets pushed out and pushed out for 239 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.359 a few reasons. Top reason really is consumer spending has remained very very strong. 240 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.559 Now. Our accumulated credit card debt is north of a trillion dollars right 241 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:38.359 now for US consumers, So that might have to start cooling off eventually because 242 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:41.640 we're just going to run out a monthly budget to throw at our credit card 243 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.559 bills every month. So on my weekend show called Macro, we have a 244 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.559 couple of different economists. Now we have a one poll that shows there's a 245 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.799 twenty percent chance of a recession coming by before the end of this year. 246 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.519 Another poll that was from Bloomberg. Another poll shows fifty percent chance of recession 247 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:03.519 according to a pole of economists bank rate dot Com. Nominal wage growth has 248 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:08.440 shown signs of easing and job vacancies have declined so far this year. While 249 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:15.359 the jobs to workers gap has declined, labor demand still substantially exceeds the supply 250 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:21.759 of available workers. FOMC participants expect supply and demand conditions in the labor market 251 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:27.160 to come into better balance over time, easing upward pressures on inflation. The 252 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:32.759 meeting and unemployment rate projection in the SEP rises to four point one percent at 253 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:36.839 the end of this year and four point five percent at the end of next 254 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:38.160 year. I know it's a little bit of math on the radio. So 255 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:41.880 tomorrow we're probably going to get a point two five percent interest rate hike from 256 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:45.920 the FED. All eyes are going to be on forward guidance. However, 257 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:49.640 the next meeting is in September, and we're expecting to get another rate hike 258 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.920 then. But if FED Chair J. Powell comes out and says, hey, 259 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.079 things are getting a little bit better and closer to supply demand in the 260 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.200 job market, we may be able to skip that September one and maybe start 261 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.440 rolling back rates early next year. Now, let's turn a quick attention to 262 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:12.599 Twitter X and this week in elon musk Okay, let's start with X. 263 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:17.079 First of all, it's a type face. There are two type face companies 264 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:21.799 that own that letter, Monotype and Unicode. Both of them say they are 265 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:26.799 not going to proceed with any branding issues that may may have with Elon Musk 266 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:30.319 and X. Now we have the signings permit that we led this segment with, 267 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.599 so we'll see how long Birder stays up on the side of that brick 268 00:19:33.640 --> 00:19:40.240 wall and south of market. And there's an EDM musician from India who goes 269 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:45.519 by X who thinks that this is going to impact their franchise and their musical 270 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.920 endeavors. So there might be a lawsuit coming out of there that might be 271 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:52.240 a bit of a you know, just notice me kind of pr dig. 272 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.799 But here's where the real trouble comes in for Elon Musks, and that's the 273 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:02.359 trademarks. So X is owned actually as a trademark by two different companies that 274 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.640 you may have heard of. One is called Microsoft you might have heard of 275 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:11.160 the Xbox, and the other one is Meta. Now metas comes in because 276 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:21.079 Meta about fourteen years ago trademarked X for a communications platform that specifically includes an 277 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:26.599 audio feature almost identical to what used to be known as Twitter Spaces is. 278 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.759 We don't know what it's going to be called moving forward. But so when 279 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:36.400 you have Meta, very deep pockets and obviously a pretty high profile beef with 280 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.759 Elon Musk coming out of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta. So you have that trademark 281 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:44.240 fight, and then of course you have Microsoft. Now Microsoft's trademarks go back 282 00:20:44.279 --> 00:20:48.079 to two thousand and three and they just re upped him last year, so 283 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:52.480 that the trademark fight is much much bigger than the branding fight, the popular 284 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.119 culture kind of fighting that's going to come around this. It's interesting to see 285 00:20:56.160 --> 00:21:00.920 that Elon Musk is deciding to do this now. I mean it's I am 286 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:06.279 become Elon destroyer of brands apparently. So we'll see if new CEO at X, 287 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:11.640 Lindy Acarino can navigate out of this. Let's get one more tech story 288 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:18.039 from a creepy tech bro. Sam Altman. Open Aiy's boss has launched world 289 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:22.480 Coin. The cryptocurrency project offers people digital coins in exchange for a scan of 290 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:29.599 their eyeballs, creating a digital passport that verifies that they are human. Such 291 00:21:29.640 --> 00:21:33.440 passports are designed to help to counter fraud facilitated by the rise of generative AI. 292 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:40.160 Open AI specifically, world Coin saw twenty five million dollars of trading volume 293 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:45.519 yesterday, according to Binance. That's a cryptocurrency exchange. The blistering heatwave that's 294 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:49.839 been hitting the Southwest for weeks and this morning in this studio is expanding toward 295 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.079 the middle of the country. It's likely to bring temperatures toward one hundred degrees 296 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.839 to several Midwest states this week and the east coast Europe. Next, President 297 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:02.680 Biden will be designating a new national monument to honor Emmett Till and his mother, 298 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:06.720 Mamie Till Mobley, the fourteen year old black child from Chicago was kidnapped, 299 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:11.519 beaten, and brutally murdered in Mississippi by white supremacists in nineteen fifty five. 300 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:17.200 Talks will resume today between UPS and Teamsters in hopes of agreeing on a 301 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:21.039 new contract. The current agreement expires on July thirty first, and the union 302 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:25.680 is already set to strike. News is brought to you by American Vision Windows. 303 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:29.319 Coming up at five fifty ABC's Karen Traverse. She's the White House correspondent 304 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:33.039 and the news briefing at the White House yesterday generated little Hunter Biden ancillary news. 305 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:37.119 We're also going to talk about why they were there. The expanded access 306 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.680 to mental healthcare in the United States, right now on Wake Up Call, 307 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:45.559 ABC's Jim Ryan is here to help us unpack a macroeconomic and marketing story for 308 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.240 the week, Barbie Mania. Welcome in, Jim. Hey, Jason, 309 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.880 by the way, don't unpack it. Leave it in the box. Leave 310 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.079 it in the box, and we'll keep its value. We're talking about Barbie 311 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:02.000 because the one fifty five million dollars that that movie, the Barbie Movie, 312 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:07.079 scored in its first weekend, it's helping to drive up the value of collectible 313 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.720 barbies, and there never really was the debt market for that. They've also, 314 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:14.480 you know, they've always been popular, and there's always been this kind 315 00:23:14.519 --> 00:23:18.960 of underground economy of people buying, selling, trading barbies. And so it 316 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.759 is a thing. It's only being highlighted and lighted now Jason, by this 317 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.359 movie. Yeah, and rightfully. So you're right though, I'm Barbie collecting 318 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:32.880 is decades old for sure. This seems to have a really long tail on 319 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:36.160 it though, I mean, are we producing new barbies? Are we just 320 00:23:36.240 --> 00:23:38.720 looking at the aftermarket? Well, you know, the ones with the most 321 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:42.039 value, of course, are the ones that are rare, that are in 322 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:47.279 good condition, that are old. The number one year in nineteen fifty nine. 323 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.559 Barbie number one prices started out at about oh gosh, you know, 324 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.759 ten thousand dollars for a good one that now has risen to fifteen or twenty 325 00:23:55.759 --> 00:24:00.799 thanks to this movie. There's one in mint condition online on eBay for about 326 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.519 twenty five thousand dollars. Not bad for a doll that sold for three bucks 327 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:08.839 brand new. Yeah, no kidding right, um now no kind of pulling 328 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:12.839 back a little bit and somewhat more seriously marketing wise, this is huge for 329 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:15.759 MATEL because it kind of pulls them out of an economic ditch in a lot 330 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:21.000 of ways they're Originally I believe it was the Sony studio that was going to 331 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:22.160 make the Barbie movie, but they were going to make fun of Barbie. 332 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:25.559 It was gonna be very tongue in cheek, and then Mattel pulled that back. 333 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:30.240 Do you have you getten any any other management direction from how happy they 334 00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:33.480 are with how Barbie turned out? Well, I think yeah, Mattel to 335 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:37.960 make Whore of Barbie is very happy about how this is all happening, and 336 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:44.519 turning it from this sort of fun summertime movie maybe for kids targeted mainly at 337 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:48.720 kids and taking on this bigger subject of female empowerment. But yeah, Mattel 338 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.759 has to like it if they You look at the results yesterday, Mattel closed 339 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.160 up. It's stock closed up one point eight four percent. That's a big 340 00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:00.920 game for that company. Yeah. I I was just looking at the stock 341 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.079 price for this month, and it's been it's been. It was like just 342 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:07.599 under seventeen dollars at the beginning of this month and now it's well above twenty 343 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:10.720 one and a half. That's a pretty good bump up. Look, I 344 00:25:10.839 --> 00:25:14.160 was, I'm just looking at Mattel right now, corporate dot Mattel dot com. 345 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.720 They have about one hundred brands, and I know the CEO is looking 346 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:22.119 at other movie opportunities to create franchises. They're looking at a Marvel Universe kind 347 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:25.319 of approach, right, Yeah, you know, taking that franchise, the 348 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:29.519 movie franchise, and capitalizing on it as much as they can. And sure 349 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:34.720 you have to expect that the toy company is loving that, seeing that the 350 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.839 moviemakers are willing to take on that risk. And in the meantime, you've 351 00:25:38.839 --> 00:25:41.920 got folks sitting at home and digging through their attic or the garage. That 352 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:45.799 big box out there and saying if maybe they've got something the rate. The 353 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:48.920 first year that barbie was produced, three hundred and fifty thousand of them were 354 00:25:48.920 --> 00:25:55.559 made. Last year, sixty million Barbies were produced. Wow. So yeah, 355 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:59.160 you can see that there was a market for them really early early on. 356 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:00.920 Yeah, no, kid, Well, I'm looking at some of the 357 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.200 other brands too, I mean Hot Wheels, there's one I know that's been 358 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:07.680 mentioned. I think Rockham Sock'em Robots was mentioned. I think Vin Diesel is 359 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.880 actually attached to that project. Um, Betsy, Wetsy, we'll just leave 360 00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.559 that one there. We don't need to we don't need to go into that. 361 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.359 But but like Toy Story Pixars, a Toy Story is one of is 362 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.119 one of the brands that Mattel manages as well. So, um, there's 363 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.480 there's a lot more coming down the pike on this. Well. I think 364 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:27.960 it all plays on people's nostalgia, right. They reminisce about being a child 365 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.160 sitting cross legged on the floor playing with their Hot Wheels set with that cool 366 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.160 orange track and making a loop and getting anyway. Yeah, there is that 367 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.039 nostalgia. Since I think Jim yesterday we were talking about Razor Wire right Rio, 368 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.240 Grand River Um, you're a veteran news reporter. Is today kind of 369 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.880 a little bit of a respite for you? Yeah? Actually it is. 370 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:51.200 It's all those some stations. I asked about both things, and they want 371 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:53.920 to know about the lawsuit and and yeah it's important stuff, but sure it's 372 00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:57.720 it's nice to kind of have a break from the mayhem occasionally, right jee, 373 00:26:57.960 --> 00:27:00.079 right on, Jim Oh, pleasure to speak with you. Thank you 374 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:04.440 for your time. Take care. I didn't ask him about that because the 375 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.319 Rio Grande, because we're gonna have Karen Travers on here and a little bit 376 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:10.759 later in the show we're gonna talk about it there too. Let's get back 377 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:12.400 to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 378 00:27:12.559 --> 00:27:18.480 The co conspirator in Mark Ridley Thomas's corruption case has been sentenced to three years 379 00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.480 probation. Marilyn Flynn has also been ordered to eighteen months of in home confinement 380 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:26.119 and a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Flynn pleaded guilty last 381 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.480 September for bribing MRT. She was the dean of USC's School of Social Work 382 00:27:30.519 --> 00:27:33.200 and admitted to using the university as a conduit for a one hundred thousand dollars 383 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:38.039 payment from Ridley Thomas's campaign account to the school. In exchange, Flynn funneled 384 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:42.160 cash into a nonprofit led by Ridley Thomas's son, who had abruptly quit the 385 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:47.599 State Assembly under suspicious circumstances. Steve Gregory King of Fine News. The San 386 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:51.599 Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says it has arrested a man who was pretending to be 387 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.400 a firefighter and pulled people over using illegal lights and sirens mounted on his personal 388 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.000 vehicle. Investigators say on July ninth, Andrew Dubour hold over a driver in 389 00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:03.680 Chino Hills. As he approached the car, Dubor was wearing a duty belt 390 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.759 with pepper spray, handcuffs and a gun. Debor had an ID card that 391 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:12.759 said santemert A Fire Department, which does not exist. Investigators say they believe 392 00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:18.559 Dubor has been pulling over people in La Orange and Riverside Counties. Chick fil 393 00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.759 A is looking to hire more than a hundred people to join its staff at 394 00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.480 a new location opening in Huntington Beach. The restaurant is opening later this summer. 395 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.559 The store's owner says he's looking to hire part time and full time employees, 396 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.880 including cooks, cashiers, and managers. The company says it offers a 397 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:38.759 four oh one K plan, health insurance, tuition assistance, and scholarship opportunities. 398 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:44.880 The chain is holding hiring events through August eighth. LA County supervisors are 399 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:48.839 considering a proposal to offer free phone calls for jail inmates no later than December 400 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.759 first. The motion says easing inmate phone access to family and friends as a 401 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:59.240 factor in reducing rates of recidivism and has been shown to reduce misconduct in jails 402 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:03.720 by lowering anxiety and tension. New research published in the journal JAMMA has found 403 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.519 people who exercise throughout the week and those who exercise only on weekends experience similar 404 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:11.680 reductions in risk of heart attack and other health issues. The study, published 405 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:15.559 last week, analyzed more than one hundred thousand people over the course of a 406 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:21.559 week. You found both active regular patterns of exercise and weekend patterns were associated 407 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:26.039 with reductions in heart failure and stroke. And The Rock has stepped up to 408 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.720 support his fellow actors during the SAG After as strike, the SAG Foundation reached 409 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.440 out to over two thousand of its highest paid members, and says Duane Johnson 410 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:38.559 responded with a seven figure donation to give financial assistance to thousands of actors. 411 00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:45.079 It's the largest single donation the foundation has ever received. Another California drug bust 412 00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.480 is keeping six hundred and twenty pounds of pot from hitting the streets. Police 413 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:53.480 in the Stanislaus County city of Turlock seized more than sixteen hundred marijuana plants from 414 00:29:53.480 --> 00:30:00.039 a home yesterday. Actor and comedian Pete Davidson will avoid jail time and a 415 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.599 county Davidson, whose arraignment was scheduled for Thursday, will be allowed to enter 416 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:10.559 into an eighteen month diversion program instead. A California man is making history as 417 00:30:10.599 --> 00:30:15.720 the oldest person to climb Yosemite's half Dome. The ninety three year old accomplished 418 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.519 the feat with his son and granddaughter, Calling it a great thrill, he 419 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.880 says when they finally got to the top, he cried. He does admit 420 00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:27.960 though he didn't realize just how steep it really was. Now we have on 421 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.559 the line with us for Wake Up Call and our last segment, ABC's White 422 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:36.000 House correspondent Karen Travers. Karen joins us at least a couple times a week 423 00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:37.880 to keep us up to date on what's happening on Capitol Hill, DC and 424 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:44.319 in the sixteen hundred Pennsylvania. Karen, welcome back, Thanks for having me. 425 00:30:44.400 --> 00:30:45.519 How about we start with what do you want to start with? Emmett 426 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:49.160 till Memorial. I think that's on the calendar for today. Yeah. The 427 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:53.519 President today signing a proclamation establishing the Emmett Hill and Maybe Till move Me National 428 00:30:53.559 --> 00:31:00.400 Monument in two states, Illinois and Mississippi. To say, Marshall soays that 429 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.839 this monument will protect places that tell the story of his too short life, 430 00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:10.799 killed the just age fourteen, and his racially motivated murder, the acquittal of 431 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:14.000 his murderers, and the activism of his mother, who brought attention to this 432 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:18.319 case and other racial injustices and sparked the civil rights movement. And I guess 433 00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.319 our other point we could talk about this morning is access to mental healthcare. 434 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.279 That's a new initiative out of the White House, right. Yeah, this 435 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:29.880 is significant. It's kind of living up to a promise the President made in 436 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:33.519 the State of the Union to try and expand mental healthcare access and give it 437 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.640 to more Americans, make it easier for people to get it. Today they're 438 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:42.559 going to announce if they're going to try book services as they do for physical 439 00:31:42.599 --> 00:31:49.279 health services, improving on a and this rule is going to try to enforce 440 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:55.440 compliance for insurers with a two thousand and eight law already. This law requires 441 00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:02.400 equality between the way insurers cover mental and that it was passed to ensure that 442 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:07.039 they were treated equally, that insurers couldn't make you pay more for a visit 443 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:10.759 to a mental health provider than your physical healthcare provider. But as the White 444 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.000 House said yesterday, insurers are invading the mandate of that law. So they're 445 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:20.519 looking for ways to crack down on violations of it by creating more reporting standards 446 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.039 for the insurance companies and to try and get more health professionals mental health professionals 447 00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:29.039 to offer in network care and try to reduce some of the red tape so 448 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:34.240 more people can actually buy upfront for mental health coverage. Thank you for that, 449 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.400 Karen. We have a little trouble in the line, but I think 450 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:39.079 we could get one more Q and A with you real quick. And that 451 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:43.400 was a Hunter Biden came up in yesterday's press briefing. Can you get us 452 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.200 up cont up to date on that. Please, I'd have to pull up 453 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:50.480 my notes from yesterday's briefing, but I think the standard answer usually from the 454 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.400 White Houses that they do not comment on anything related to Hunter Biden, and 455 00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:58.319 that's been pretty consistent from the White House. Very cool. ABC's Karen Travers, 456 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.880 thank you so much for joining us this week. And President by is 457 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:07.240 going to the deliver remarks on expanding access to mental healthcare later. Today's also 458 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:13.880 scheduled to sign that historic proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and maybe Till Mobli National 459 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:17.119 Monument. And it's in two states, Illinois and in Mississippi. Let's get 460 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.680 back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newser 461 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.720 and former President Obama's personal chef has drowned near the family's home on Martha's Vineyard. 462 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:30.839 ABC's Lion Omoyez says the man was paddle boarding Sunday when he went underwater 463 00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:35.559 and never resurfaced. Divers recovered the body of a missing paddle boarder Monday about 464 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.839 one hundred feet from shore on Martha's Vineyard, and he was later identified as 465 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:44.119 forty five year old Tafari Campbell, who was a Sioux chef during the Obama 466 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:49.039 administration. The former president was not in Martha's vineyard when Campbell drowned. They 467 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.599 say he was a beloved part of their family who made everybody's lives a little 468 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:57.759 brighter. China has removed and replaced its outspoken foreign minister, who's been out 469 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:01.359 of sight for almost a month. Twin Gong was last seen in public June 470 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:06.359 twenty fifth, when he met visiting diplomats in Beijing. The Foreign Ministry has 471 00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:09.960 given no information about what happened to him. A former White House drug policy 472 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:15.880 advisor says marijuana legalization across the US has been linked to a rise in mental 473 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.880 health issues. Doctor Kevin Sibbett says pot is the most misunderstood drug in the 474 00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.760 country. You know, it's just people, a lot of people pretending to 475 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.360 care about civil rights and social justice when they really just want to smoke weed. 476 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:31.039 They want to legitimize their own lifestyle. And the reality is we're paying 477 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:36.360 a huge, huge price for this. Sibbett says suicide rates have increased because 478 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.840 of the drugs legalization. He says today's pot is genetically bred to be stronger 479 00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:45.199 than it's ever been, and can Quinn tuple the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia. 480 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:50.719 A woman and her parents have been arrested in Japan for allegedly beheading a 481 00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.920 man at a motel in the northern city of Sapporo. The headless man was 482 00:34:53.960 --> 00:34:59.239 found three weeks ago. The family was arrested on suspicion of conspiring in the 483 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.719 beheading and relocating the man's severed head. Police say they found it at the 484 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:07.920 parents home. A woman in Alabama who had a uterus transplant has delivered a 485 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.280 healthy boy. It's the first time that's happened outside a clinical trial. ABC's 486 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.960 Rhiannon Ali says the woman named Mallory was a teen when she learned she was 487 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:21.920 born without a uterus. Mallory and her husband Nick, decided to participate in 488 00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:25.320 a program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. First, Mallory went through 489 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:30.039 a uterus transplant, followed nine months later by an embryo transplant. The baby 490 00:35:30.159 --> 00:35:35.400 was born in May. Mom says she never doubted the transplant would work. 491 00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.920 A boy's site has been restored by eye drops, very special eye drops loaded 492 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:45.559 with a topical gene therapy. Antonio Carba Hall has been legally blind for most 493 00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.960 of his fourteen years. The boy from Miami has a rare genetic condition that 494 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.000 causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes. His skin improved when 495 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.639 he got into a clinical trial to test the world's first topical gene therapy, 496 00:35:55.840 --> 00:36:00.079 but there wasn't anything for eyes, so drug maker Crystal Bio made him eye 497 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:05.000 drops and they worked. Medical experts say this opens the door to similar therapies 498 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:08.800 that could potentially treat millions of people with other eye diseases. Any King KFI 499 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:13.760 News a few more national stories before we get into handle on the news. 500 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.159 Talks will resume today between UPS and teamsters and hopes of agreeing on a new 501 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:22.039 contract. The current agreement expires July thirty. First, the union is ready 502 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:27.079 to strike. Several large companies that utilize UPS have notified customers this week that 503 00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:30.800 there may be shipping delays. UPS officials say they're focused on reaching that agreement, 504 00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:35.960 and this blistering heatwave that's been hitting the Southwest for weeks is now moving 505 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:38.559 into the middle of the country. It's likely to bring temperatures toward one hundred 506 00:36:38.559 --> 00:36:43.920 degrees to several Midwest states this week, while the East coast could see its 507 00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:47.920 hottest weather of the summer. Tens of millions of Americans remain underheat alerts. 508 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:53.280 Meantime, Phoenix's streak of days above one hundred and ten degrees was extended to 509 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:59.000 twenty five yesterday. High temperatures remain in the forecast in states like carried here 510 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.920 in California, Vada, Texas, and Florida. A man is being sentenced 511 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:07.400 to four years in prison for his role in the January sixth riot at the 512 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.559 Capitol. Peter Stager repeatedly beat a police officer with a flagpole as the officer 513 00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.360 was being dragged down the capital steps. In a video taken that day, 514 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:21.239 Stager said death is the remedy for every single one of those capital law enforcement 515 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:24.800 officers. This week, a judge sentenced him to more than four years in 516 00:37:24.840 --> 00:37:31.480 prison after Stager said he took full responsibility for his actions. And Miami Dade 517 00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:36.679 Police Director Freddie Ramirez is in stable condition after he shot himself in the head 518 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.199 on a Florida highway. That's according to authorities who said Sunday's incident happened after 519 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:45.039 an argument with his wife. Tampa police were called to the domestic dispute at 520 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:50.719 a hotel where Ramirez was attending a conference. He remains hospitalized after having surgery 521 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.679 Monday yesterday, and is expected to survive. We lead local live from the 522 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:58.320 KFI twenty four hour in his room. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been 523 00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:00.559 your wake up call. You've been listening to wake up call. You know 524 00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:05.440 you can always listen live on k f I Am six forty weekdays from five 525 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:08.599 to six am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.