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Middleton. Good morning everybody. Tuesday, July eighteenth, after a Dodger's victory.
I like to listen to the highlights next morning on the drive in the
work. And besides Chris Taylor's switchblay blade like swing and that grand slam,
I heard something else. Pirates pitcher Quinn Priester and catcher Andy Rodriguez took the
field for their major league debuts last night for Pittsburgh Pirates. It's the first
battery in baseball where the pitcher and the catcher were both born in the twenty
first century. I felt older by the time I got to work. This
is your wake up call. We have a lot this hour. We're gonna
talk about some hot sauce. We have to. We have to check on
some other things a little more headline worthy, like the retaliation from Russia and
Ukraine. And also we have the Israeli president's visit and maybe another political development
out of the Biden administration with Israel. But first let's get some headlines coming
out of the kf I twenty four in newsroom. The Rabbit fire burning in
Riverside County has scorched more land. Containment is also up. As of last
night, the fire in Beaumont has burned nearly eighty three acres of land and
is forty five percent contained. Some evacuation orders have been downgraded to warnings.
The first pre trial hearing in former President Trump's classified documents cases scheduled for today
in Florida. The focus how classified materials will be shared between Trump's attorneys and
special counsel Jack Smith. Today is expected to be another day of investigators combing
through the belongings of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Huerman. Detectives were inside
Huerman's home last yeah, well last night, where police say they found nearly
three hundred firearms in a walled off vault behind a metal door in his basement.
It's more headlines coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsrooms. San
Bernardino County has the most criminally used ghost guns per capita in California. That's
according to a state report that analyzed data from two thousand ten to two twenty
two. The county had twenty four ghost guns cease per ten thousand people.
A specialized operation by the San Berdardino County Sheriff's Department is recovered more than one
hundred eighty ghost guns this year. It should be concerning for our citizens,
but it should also give them peace of mind that we're out there looking for
these things and we're being very successful. The departments mar Rodriguez says ghost guns
are also being recovered through other operations and during patrols Blake Trolley k i I
News. The Biden administration will pay millions of dollars to the state of California
as part of a settlement over the construction of border wall portions during the Trump
administration. State Attorney General Rob Bonta says Trump officials illegally used taxpayer of money
to build sections of the wall in California, Texas, New Mexico, and
Arizona. The settlement money will go to environmental groups to help sensitive habitites used
by the Mexican gray wolf, the Bighorn chiep, and the Sonorianate Desert pronghorn.
State and local agencies have partner to promote the anti speeding campaign Better Slow
Than Sorry. HP Assistant Chief Doug Young says speeding is a choice, and
a bad one at that. In twenty twenty two, the California Highway Patrol
investigated approximately seventy four thousand crashes but were directly caused by unsafe speed. Young
says. Of those crashes, seven hundred and fifty four people died, two
hundred and five of whom we're in La County. From a science standpoint,
the fact that we go, the more likelihood that we're going to be involved
in a serious crash that causes injuries and possibly even death. Steve Gregory came
of Fine News. The first topic for today on wake Up Call is with
ABC's Tom Rivers. An attacking yesterday damaged a bridge linking Russia to Moscow's annexed
Crimea. That bridge is a key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war
with Ukraine. Good morning, Tom, Welcome back with you guys. Yeah,
and kind of putting the pieces together after this was the second attack you
think back to October. It was a large truck bomb that did the damage.
This time it was and describe as an underwater drone and a lot of
the papers here in the UK been looking at that today, kind of doing
some research and certainly the US has these kinds of assets. The UK has
these assets as well, and in particular here the British one can go about
seventy miles underwater at about five knots and you can control the thing with a
laptop. So it's interesting putting the pieces together. The Ukrainian Defense Department wouldn't
confirm whether they did it, but they say, well, we'll give you
an answer on the blasts after we win the war. So in essence,
you could have a Western power just setting this thing up, handing it off
to a Ukrainian and Kiv or anywhere else, and in essence pushed the button
in the lower right hand corner of your lap style and there you go.
This thing is off an honest way. Okay, well, Tom, this
seems like a fog of war situation too, because assigning blame or who's responsible
for the attack is something of Russia would want to do politically speaking. How
is it responding militarily, Well, all we know is that Putin says we
will respond in time. And I think the last attack, as I say,
in October, there was it was a barrage of missiles that hit the
capital. So we may see something very very similar this time around. So,
as I understand, this bridge leaves only one ground supply line left for
Russia into Crimea or that part of Ukraine, Southern Ukraine. Are they focusing
on that as far as the Ukrainian Security Service response or is the military seeming
to make any movements that way? Not? No, I wouldn't think they
wouldn't have a strength to get near the bridge. But having said that,
you're absolutely right. It it screws up the supply lines for Russia. One
lane is still open now. One section is totally gone, but one lane
is still operational. Hens there's about an hour and a half weight on each
side of this twelve mile bridge because everything's going in one direction for an hour
and then they switch it and say you got to stop now, and the
other direction is coming forward. Estimates from the Russian officials it'll be in until
probably the fall, until that section is completely repaired and you got two lanes
doing it again. But until then they have ferry service as well, and
you can move a lot of munitions that way. But no, it does
it's not good for the for the Russian military, that's for sure. Yeah,
the Ukrainian Security Service that you mentioned at the top. There is being
kind of coy about taking responsibility for this, as we'll tell you after the
you know, the war's over and everything, but that whole division of the
military for the Ukraine seems rather intriguing. What's your take on that? Having
covered war for a while, Um, you know, they're kind of at
the at the bottom of the of the feed chain. You know, you
get your Leopards, you get your all your you know, various military Bradley's
et cetera, et cetera, and you get you get you know, brought
up to speed on it. You go out in the field. Um,
this stuff is not invincible. Looking at some footage last week, um from
Russian sources, and they were definitely Bradley's that had certainly been taken over by
by Russian forces. So this stuff is uh, you know that what percentage
is left? That's the question I can answer. But it is not that
this stuff is not invincible. The Russians are taking it or they're going to
look at it. In some cases they can back engineer some aspects of the
various things like tanks or armored personnel carries, et cetera, et cetera.
So yes, it's it's it's one of the aspects of war that's intriguing one
for the engineers and they'll be working on it, certainly for probably for for
years to come in the future. Tom, I'm looking at defense one,
which covers the obviously the Defense Department and wars abroad. Twenty two Bradley fighting
vehicles that you mentioned have been destroyed recently. Thirty percent of the Leopard tanks
you mentioned have been destroyed as well. Most of that's because of trying to
retake already Ukraine trying to retake ground Russia took, but there are minds left
behind anything else with munitions as far as those developments cluster bombs, etc.
Well, yeah, that's another concern. And there's there's this again you talk
about the fog of war. The West says that Russia has been using cluster
bombs for quite some time in Ukraine. Um but interesting rebuttal from various defense
sources in Russia at the end of last week saying that if you get,
you know, US cluster bombs in theater, we will respond in kind.
So you know, were they using them before, were they not using them
before? Will they use them as well? And again it's something that will
it kills decades later, not only the combatants in the immediate confrontation, but
civilian grown ups, kids, dogs, livestock vulnerable as I say, many
many years down the road. Tom, thanks so much for this broad and
deep catchup for us. We appreciate it. Take care. Maybe sees Tom
rivers joining us again this morning among the war in Ukraine. Let's go back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Excessive heat warnings are in effect for parts of Riverside County until Saturday. Temperatures
in the valleys and Inland Empire are expected to reach between ninety five and one
hundred degrees through tomorrow and one hundred and five from Thursday to Saturday. Temperatures
in the mountains below five thousand feet expected to see upper eighties, with ninety
two one hundred degree temps Thursday through Saturday. Now, temperatures in La County
have dropped enough to cancel the excessive heat warnings, but another dangerous heatwave is
expected to hit southern California by the end of the week. Forecasters say elevated
fire weather conditions will continue through next weekend in the interior valleys, lower mountains,
and in the deserts. Bug experts say viral TikTok videos of people using
gasoline to suffocate wa could be dangerous. The videos show people holding gas filled
jars around the wasp nests and the bugs almost instantly dying from the fumes.
The Bugman's Brian Olson says, you might be treating one nest without realizing you're
dangerously disturbing others nearby. You really want to do a really thorough assessment and
inspection prior to doing any treatment of any sort. Olson says with California's mild
weather, wasps are breeding year round and some can be very aggressive. He
says, if you need the bugs cleared out, it's best to use a
licensed technician. Chris Adler ka FI News. A syphilis outbreak has been reported
in Houston, Texas. Public health officials say there has been a one hundred
and twenty eight percent increase in cases among women. Data show there were sixteen
reported cases in twenty sixteen, compared to six hundred and seventy four cases in
twenty twenty two. The health department says it's removing all clinical fees for STDs
at its health centers to combat the outbreak. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is traveling
to New Zealand to lead the US delegation at the opening ceremony for the twenty
twenty three Women's World Cup. It's just an honor that the President asked me
to leave this presidential delegation. Emhof says he's looking forward to seeing team USA
bring home a third straight win. While I'm there as well, I'll be
working on this message of gender equity, not only in sports, but in
all of society. Mhoff says he'll work with officials on several events promoting gender
equity. He'll also attend the US women's national team's first World Cup game Friday
against Vietnam. Russia launched a wave of air strikes against Ukraine's sports cities just
hours after the Kremlin pulled out from the agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain
via the Black Sea safely. Climate wise, the UN warned that this global
heat wave could intensify in the coming days. Tens of thousands of people are
being evacuated in southern China and Vietnam to escape a big typhoon that's going to
hit that region, and nobody won last night's Powerball drawing, taking the estimated
jackpot to one billion dollars. The jackpot last night was twenty two million dollars.
Cash payout for that if anybody had scored, it was five hundred and
seventeen million dollars. At five thirty ish, ABC's White House correspondent Karen Traverse
is going to join US Live. Israel's president is visiting Washington, DC,
but just announced is a pending visit or meeting between President Biden and Israeli Prime
Minister Yahoo. And there's plenty of politics and protests around that. Let's get
some more stories come out of the kf I twenty four hour newsroom. And
X doctor from Palmdale has pleaded not guilty to additional charges alleging a conspiracy to
prescribe opioid pills to drug dealers they saw patients across the United States. US
Attorney spokesman Karen macavoy says Raphael Milikeyan allegedly prescribed pills after two minute long telemedicine
calls, and his patient records show nearly half shared common addresses, email addresses,
caregivers, or phone numbers. The updated charges Yesterday also alleged one pretend
patient was caught at Lax with almost twenty thousand dollars in cash and a couple
of thousand pills. He conspired to distribute promethzine with codeine and that's sort of
known on the street as purple drank It's coughs. Trial is set for October
in La Corbin Carson Kofi News, A prosecutor in New York, says investigators
have found more than two hundred guns at the home of alleged serial killer Rex
Huerman. These experts, these forensic experts, they're going inch by inch by
inch through that house. Suffolk County DA Raymond Tierney says Huerman was arrested last
week at his office in Manhattan when DNA from a pizza box linked him to
three of ten bodies found back in twenty ten. The killings were known as
the Gilgo Beach murders. Tierney says police also found a children's doll and burner
phone they believed Huerman was using to communicate with potential victims. A lawyer for
the alleged serial killer claims his client is innocent. The statement released yesterday sites
Huerman's lack of criminal history and role as a dedicated husband and father. But
FBI agent Brad Garrett says serial killers often lead parallel lives, and he would
not be surprised if Huerman committed more murders outside of New York. They can
do horrendous things, kill people, torture people, whatever it might be.
They can go home, they can feed their kids, they can kiss their
wife goodbye. And that's why the term hide and plain in sight is very
relevant. He says, human could have changed locations where he left the bodies
after the others were found in twenty ten. Right now, let's go to
the hot sauce desk, which I think should be a thing. But we'll
see what abces. Jim Ryan thinks, Good morning, Jim. How are
you hotline? Yeah? I like that. Yeah, this is the kind
of heath that I like talking about the kind of hot stuff. Stud of
the weather because it's miserably hot. Everybody knows that. But hot sauce.
How about sparacha? You know people love this stuff, Jason. Yeah,
and you think saracha. I think a lot of people just assume and it
brings an image to mind of this plastic bottle squeeze bottle with the green top.
It has a Chinese writing on the front and the picture of a rooster.
Right. That's to most people are to a lot of people, is
Saracha, Well, that's wait Farm Saracha made out there in California. But
there are other brands of saracha. But it's Wavefung that's been in short supply.
The company at first blamed as a shortage of peppers coming up from Mexico.
A lot of it's peppers come from California anyway, and the other makers
of saracha. I've been able to find new sources of peppers and they're not
in short supply, but they've been willing to capitalize on that. Tabasco,
for example, has a whole website dedicated to finding its own saracha. Putting
your zip code and you'll find a store that sells Tabasco saracha. You know,
but people who are so dedicated, some folks, Jason, Let's say
that you're totally dedicated to Hinz Ketchup. So you're going to the store to
buy Hines Ketchup and they're out for whatever reason. Do you step over and
buy hunts Ketchup? You buy store brand ketchup. Do you buy some other
brand of ketchup? Or do you go without because you love Hines so much.
Some people love Way Fong Saracha so much that they won't bother looking for
front of the brand. That's right, And that's a market dynamic. Isn't
We tend to be brand loyal once we get looked right? So, and
you're right, it's an iconic branding that that happens with this. I was
just looking over the weekend the story, and let's just say I was looking
for some hotsas, okay, and so, because I mean, let's be
honest, for racha is like that's that cool place right between, like it's
not too sweet and it's not too spicy, not too light. It's right
there in the middle. Right now, it was like eighty five bucks a
bottle, it's down to about forty bucks a bottle, which goes back to
your point that competitors are flooding the zone with marketing and branding taking advantage of
this. Sure, absolutely so. While some folks are willing to go on
to eBay and buy one hundred dollars bottle of Wayfong Saracha, you can buy
saracha from other companies for as little as five bucks. Kikoman makes one.
There's one great brand called Weak Knees Go Chujang, which is a saracha,
you know. And so there are other places that to buy it, and
they're willing to keep their prices down low in order to take advantage of what's
happening at Wayfong. Now, for those who don't know, ABC's Jim Ryan
is with us and he's based in Texas. Now, Texas is known for
its hot sauce. I'm gonna go and ask you a personal question on the
air, live and not prompted. Is Sir Racha tops of your list when
it comes to hot sauces? Can you tell us what it is? I
don't even like this stuff? You don't like what? Excuse me? Come
on, I don't have to like it to talk about it. But no,
that's true, all right. I found a full case sealed Sir Racha's
sauce on eBay today for three hundred dollars. Wow, that's so. That's
twelve bottles of seventeen ounce racha for three hundred bucks. Um any I'd rather
just make my own peako. That's what I'll do. Make my own peako
or my own glaucam only not worry about this other stuff. That's the Texan
answer I wish we'd get. Thanks Jim. Thanks ABC's Jim Ryan joining us
there. Usually we have to talk about hot weather. This time we got
to talk about hot sauce and some market dynamics too. I don't know.
I think sir racha is still my favorite. I know when I lived in
Houston from two thousand to two thousand and seven, it got got popular.
It was kind of trendy, but I stuck with it after that. Do
you have one tyler for me? It's it's it's really unique, right.
The flavor of saracha, the the like the spicy profile of it is so
unique. I kind of only really associated with Asian foods, so I'll only
have it with like sushi or if I'm making like a stir fry at home,
I'll maybe sprinkle some on top just to give it that spice. But
typically, like Jim mentioned with the pico and the guacamole, if I'm going
south of the border, I'm typically going with like a cholula or something like
Tabasco style. So I feel like the saracha demand for people that insist on
having it on everything. Maybe I understand, but like I'm okay with a
with a brief stint in my life without it, okay, yeah, oh,
a brief respite and then come back. Maybe I see people. Okay,
when you mentioned Japanese food there would do you mix it with wassabi?
Do you keep it separate? Do you like the different? So I'll typically
do the wasabi in the soy sauce, I'll do like a little mix of
that. I don't. I don't turn it into a paste like some crazy
people do. I just kind of make it like light so I can still
dip the sushi into it. This is exclusively sushi, by the way that
we're talking about, I understand. And then the saracha will be like a
sprinkle on top of the actual role. Nice. Yeah, okay, there's
you know, there's a method to the madness. Serving suggestions from engineer Tyler.
I have a niece who puts saracha on ice cream. That is unspeakable.
She loves it. Let's get back to some more news coming out of
the CAFI twenty four our news room before we get to the bottom of the
hour and pick up our next interview. The daughter of Inglewood Mayor James Butts,
has been convicted of assault and conspiracy charges for a planned attack on her
landlord more than seven years ago. Prosecutors say Ashley Butts directed someone else to
break in and demand cash from the landlord, leaving the door open for the
attacker. She's facing up to five years in state prison. People in the
South Bay have sued a warehouse owner over a chemical spill in Carson City.
Attorney Sonny Sultoni says this city is also being sued, but Carson does not
have jurisdiction over where the league happened. The cord has preliminary agreed with our
position that the plaintiffs have not alleged sufficient facts to hold this to be responsible
as a matter of law, so that's good news for us. The lawsuit
alleges chemicals that caused a warehouse fire in twenty twenty one seeped into the Dominguez
Channel, causing breathing issues for the people suing. Extreme heat has hit spots
all over the world, and officials are warning against the dangers of global warming.
Author Jeff Goodell focuses on energy and environmental issues. He says it goes
beyond just high temperatures and introduces issues of justice and equity. There are billions
of people on this planet who do not have access to air conditioning and will
not have access to air conditioning anytime soon, and in these kinds of heat
waves, in this kinds of extreme heat, they are the ones who are
at risk. Goodell says climate change disproportionately affects people in disadvantaged communities and groups
who face socioeconomic inequalities, including many people of color. A judge in Iowa
has temporarily blocked the state's newly signed six week abortion band. Groups like Land
Parenthood filed a lawsuit against the state following the band last Friday. The judge
ruled yesterday the law will be on hold until the court issues a final decision,
but gave the green light to Iowa's Board of Medicine to start drafting its
guidelines on how doctors would be punished for violating the law. A three year
old in San Diego County has fatally shot their one year old sister. Police
say the child got a hold of an unsecured handgun yesterday and shot the girl
in the head. Investigators are trying to figure out where the parents were when
the three year old got the gun. Federal records show California Democratic Congressman Adam
Schiff has built a hefty fundraising edge in his fight to replace California Democratic Senator
Diane Feinstein. Schiff has collected eight point one million dollars over the last three
months, which is nearly double the combined total of his Democratic opponents. Schiff's
thirty million dollar campaign stockpile gives him a three to one edge over California Democratic
Congresswoman Katie Porter, who reported raising three point one million dollars since April and
ended the period with just over ten million dollars. Now, higher interest rates
we've been covering I cover on my weekend show too, and they continue to
be a boon for big banks. The Bank of America earnings report today is
a banger, paired with JP Morgan chases strong earnings and high expectations from Morgan,
Stanley, and Goldben Sacks, who report earnings today and tomorrow, respectively,
are likely to show that main street small business and households are doing okay.
As interest rates have climbed the income that main streets commercial banks like b
of A they earn on loans that has gone up as well. Typically higher
rates might also, of course induce a recession, pushing up loan losses,
but there is a little sign of that happening just yet right now. The
most recent economic report that I saw or pull I saw was basically a fifty
fifty chance of a light recession happening in the next six to nine months.
And defaults, by the way, also ticked up only a little bit at
City Bank, JP, Morgan Chase, and well Fargo, which reported on
Friday, And all that points back to main street doing okay so far now
that we have wages caught up with inflation too. The Rabbit fire is nearly
eighty three hundred acres in Riverside County, forty five percent contained. The man
accused of leaking sensitive Pentagon documents on social media is asking to be let out
of jail. Jack Deschera made that argument through his lawyers yesterday. The first
pre trial hearing in the classified documents case against former President Trump is also set
for today in Florida, coming up to five fifty. We're gonna talk about
why it's been so tough to get a passport. But right now, ABC
White House correspondent Karen Travers is on the line. Good morning, Karen,
Hey, good morning, some news from I guess we have two tracks we
can take. Let's start with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin net and Yahoo possibly
meeting with President Biden. What's that take? Yeah. The White House announced
yesterday that they had phone called yesterday the President and the Prime Minister, and
during that phone call they agreed to meet, but the White House could not
confirm that the meeting would take place at the White House, as the Israeli
side said, and their readout of the phone call, John Kirby and National
Security spokesman said that they would probably meet before the end of this year,
but the details of where and when would still be worked out. On that
phone call, though, the President stressed to Net and Yahoo the need to
take measures to maintain the viability of a two state solution and improve the security
situation in the West Bank. The President expressed his concerns about the continued settlement
growth there and also talked about the need for possible consensus in that whole issue
of judicial reform, which is something that you probably remember those Sake headlines a
couple months ago of protest in Israel about some of those judicial reforms that Net
and Yahoo and his allies are trying to push through, take away some power
from the Supreme Court judges there give it to elected officials. There's been some
other political pressures around this Net and Yahoo apparently trying to consolidate levers of power
in Israel. Was that ever addressed. Yeah, this is something that was,
you know, kind of broadly, as they say, in the context
of judicial reform, and also that shared democratic values, as the White House
put it, have always been and must remain a hallmark of the US Israeli
relationship. But today he's going to sit down in the Oval Office the President
with the President of Israel, Isaac Herzag. This is largely a ceremonial position.
The power rests and the Prime Minister of Benjamin Net Yahoo, but it
is notable that he gets the Oval Office photo op with President Biden, something
that Net and Yahoo of course and his team would very much like to see
before the end of the year. Well, I'm sorry, I know we
have to let you go, but it's always a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you for the update, Karen, have a great day. Maybe
he's White House correspondent Karen travers it is a ceremonial position the Israeli president and
the visit, but he is intending to address a joint session of Congress which
is being protested by some members of Congress. He's also known to be it's
supposed to be an a political role. Israeli's president is a lot different than
the American presidential but he also has a pretty good relationship with Mahmuda boss on
the Palestinian side, so sometimes that relationship has leveraged in these situations. We'll
see how that plays out. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. People in the South Bay have
sued a warehouse owner and others over a chemical spill in Carson in twenty twenty
one. The lawsuit claims the plaintiffs have suffered eye irritation, trouble breathing,
and congestion because of toxic air quality. Carson City attorney Sunny Sultani says the
city is also being sued, but says it has no liability because it doesn't
have jurisdiction over the channel. The city actually put its own general fun money
to come up with relocation benefits for its residence. An investigation shows chemicals illegally
stored in the warehouse caused a fire in twenty twenty one, sending tainted debris
into the water. The warehouse owners have denied any wrongdoing. Chris Adler KFI
News, California has settled with the Biden administration over border wall construction. Attorney
General Rob Banta says the Trump administration illegally used taxpayer funds to construct a wall
in California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. Banta says the money
was earmarked for other projects but was diverted to the border. The settlement requires
the US government to restore some sensitive habitat areas along the border used by endangered
species like the Mexican gray wolf, the big horn sheep, and the Sonorian
desert pronghorn. The Department of Homeland Security will also install small and large wildlife
passages along the border wall. Steve Gregory King of FI News, A twelve
year old girl in Detroit has been charged in what officials have called an acid
attack on a playground. The girl is doing court this afternoon for allegedly throwing
the caustic chemical on an eleven year old girl. A prosecutor says there's no
excuse for what happened. A go fund of Me page says the eleven year
old suffered second and third degree burns on her back, arms, and legs.
July is UV Safety Month. Health officials in La County are urging people
to protect their skin by wearing sunscreen, hats, and sunglasses when they're outside.
They say people should get emergency care if they have blisters, of fever,
chills, or nausea from being out in the sun for too long.
A judge in Minnesota has approved a reform agreement between the States Human Rights Department
and the city police. It comes three years after the death of George Floyd
and a month after federal investigators found racial discrimination by Minneapolis police officers. The
reform agreement restricts officers officers from searching pedestrians or vehicles, and any other searches
based on the smell of pot. It also limits officers use of tasers and
pepper spray. City and police officials in Minneapolis have sixty days to put together
teams to implement the new rules. The Palm Springs Art Museum has announced its
upcoming Ask Me Anything. Illuminaire event to give art enthusiasts a chance to learn
more about its new exhibit. Museum officials say Aluminaire House, which was originally
built in nineteen thirty one as the first all aluminum house in the US,
is being permanently installed this summer. Thursday's event is free to attend and will
be live stream as well. Some bunnies got to raise some money to save
rabbits running rampant in Florida. A neighborhood in Florida is dealing with a growing
number of domestic rabbits running wild. A breeder illegally let her lionhead rabbits loose,
and they're doing what rabbits do. There are now up to one hundred
rabbits taking up residence in yards around Wilton Manors near Fort Lauderdale. Lionheads have
thick fur and are pretty fearless, so they're not well suited for the heat
or the predators. The city had planned to exterminate the rabbits, but now
has given residence time to raise up to forty thousand dollars needed to rescue them
and get them into homes. Apparently, residents need to hop to it,
Amy King KFI News. The House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing this week
on UFOs. ABC's Ejochi says the committee has updated the name of the objects
to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The hearing comes after several Republican lawmakers promised to look
deeper into the flying objects following unproven whistleblower allegations at the US military recently recovered
a crashed alien spacecraft. Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett says he's done with the cover
ups. The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. Israeli President Isaac Herzog is headed
to Washington for a meeting today with President Biden. He's also going to address
a joint meeting of Congress. Former President Obama is applauding librarians for standing on
the front lines against book bands. In a letter to American librarians, Obama
slammed recent censorship attempts on books that discussed topics like gender, sexuality, or
race. The House Judiciary Committee is looking into Threads. The Republican led panel
is asking Mark Zuckerberg to hand over documents about content moderation on the platform.
Threads was launched of course to one hundred and ten million users within a week
Twitter competitor, and there's been a lot of focus on that. We have
a little bit more later and before we get to the top of the hour,
for sure, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Though, a drug dealer has been sentenced
to fifteen years in prison for selling the fence an old laced pills that killed
a woman in Tustin. The young woman whilst her life was only eighteen.
Assistant US Attorney Melissa Robanni says Sie Hernandez knew the pills were counterfeits. She
was having a tough time. She had gotten addicted to painkillers following a car
accident, but she really had no idea that she was taking something, you
know, that could take her life. She took half a pill and that
was it. That was the end of her life. She didn't wake up
the next day. The sentencing yesterday is part of a DA crackdown on seven
drug dealers in Orange County tied to ten unrelated fatal fentnel overdoses in Orange County.
Corbin Carson KFI News. A state report has found San Bernardino County has
the most ghost guns used in crimes per capita. San Bernardino County sheriff spokeswoman
Maria Mara Rodriguez says from twenty to twenty twenty two, more than one hundred
and eighty ghost guns were recovered per ten thousand people. Were fortunate that we
have a relationship with our Board of Supervisors that allows us to have these types
of operations. Rodriguez says. Ghost guns are also turning up in other operations
and during traffic stops. A typo has reportedly caused millions of Defense Department emails
with sensitive information to mistakenly be sent to the African country Molly. The Financial
Times says for years, the military's dot mil and email addresses has been misspelled
as dot mL, which is the country domain for Molly. The Defense Department
says it's aware of the issue and takes all unauthorized disclosures seriously. George's Supreme
Court has dismissed former President Trump's attempt toss a grand jury's report recommending criminal charges
related to the twenty twenty election. The ruling comes weeks before the Fulton County
Deyang is expected to seek indictments. The justices ruled Trump's attorneys failed to show
the case presents extremely rare circumstances that requires bypassing lower courts. Now by fifty
one on your wake up call, and we have Shannon Crawford with us ABC
News State Department correspondent, and we're gonna talk about passports and the delays and
passports. Good morning, Shannon, Good morning. So what is what does
Secretary of State Blanken saying on this First, then we'll get into the details
as to why he has to say it. Well, he's acknowledging that this
is a big problem, and he's saying the State Department is throwing everything they
can at the issue, basically saying that passport processing really bottomed out during the
pandemic. They're dealing with a massive backlog and that's just a equating to a
big headache for travelers who are hoping to leave the country. Maybe for the
first time, the sense of pandemics began. So it seems like the revenge
travel for lack of a better term, or maybe an overused term, seems
to be continuing. Is there any beacon on the hill when it comes to
State Department being able to catch up on this backlog well when he talks to
that about that revenge travel. Absolutely, the demand is unprecedented. The State
Department says there seeing about four hundred thousand applications for passports or renewals come in
each and every week. Now that's actually an improvement from the half a million
they were seeing weekly at the beginning of this year. So the demand is
certainly there, and you can add that into the backlog that existed the year
prior, so all together, that is just a massive demand they're coping with.
Looking ahead, and really what we're seeing is this problem getting worse.
The state termament has actually raised the expected weight time kind of steadily through this
year, and officials here are very sober. They know that it's going to
be twenty twenty four before they get to know a scenario that looks anything like
pre pandemic processing, where if you paid the expedited fee, you might have
your passport in your hand within two weeks. Shannon Crawford, ABC's News State
Department correspondent, thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thank you.
We did not have a great clean line there, so I'll give you
some of the details that come out of it all told, the expected weight
time for applicants is thirteen to fifteen weeks for normal processing and nine to eleven
weeks for expedited processing that includes mailing times. It's no surprise there are these
delays. State department is receiving four hundred thousand applications every week, following higher
than normal volumes in January, February, and March that exceeded five hundred thousand
applications a week. So yeah, the backlog is there and it's going to
be there for a minute. A woman from Arizona has been attacked by a
bison at Yellowstone National Park. The Park Service says the woman and her friends
spotted two bison and tried to walk the other way yesterday, but one of
the bison charged and gored her. She suffered significant injuries to her chest and
abdomen. The NPS says the attack is the first this year, but there
were several last year. Officials say mid July through mid August is mating season,
so bison can get aggressive during that time. Phoenix is set to break
a record with nineteen straight days of temperatures of one hundred and ten degrees or
higher. ABC Samola Lenky says even at night, the city is hot.
Temperatures haven't dipped below ninety degrees overnight in nine days. Last night's low of
ninety five was the city's highest overnight low ever, toppling the previous record of
ninety three that was set back in two thousand and nine. The estimated jackpot
for the next powerball drawing has grown to one billion dollars. No tickets sold
for last night's draw had all six numbers. There were eight tickets sold with
five numbers, which are worth twenty thousand bucks each. The next drawing is
tomorrow night. Pest control experts say viral TikTok videos of people using gasoline to
kill wasps should not be repeated. The Bugman's Brian Olsen says wasps can be
aggressive and precaution should be taken before homeowners decide to remove a nest. I've
seen a lot of the tiktoks just as I've seen some of the tiktoks of
wasps. This type of eradication going wrong and people getting stung, and you
know, if you're allergic to them, it becomes even a bigger issue.
Olson says also that people might not be able to properly dispose of the gasoline,
creating safety concerns for the environment. A CSX freight train operating on Norfolk
Southern tracks has derailed in southern southeast Pennsylvanias says at least sixteen of the trains
forty cars went off the tracks yesterday. Police Chief Christopher Ward says the cause
is unknown. Norfolk Southern Police are still investigating that, and they are once
they secure the trains, they'll have better information on that. He says the
train did have recording equipment on board. Let's go back to the Mega Million
story, because I was going to put these together and I got jumbled up.
But let me tell you this. Two Mega Millions lottery tickets sold in
southern California are each worth two hundred thousand dollars. The tickets for Friday night's
drawing matched five of the winning numbers and were only missing the Mega number.
They were sold at a mini market in La and at a seven to eleven
in Monroebia. The jackpot for Tonight's Mega Million drawing is back up to six
hundred and forty million dollars. The American led un Command says an American has
crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea into North Korea. Officials say on
social media that the US citizen was on a tour to a Korean border village
and crossed into North Korea without authorization. Officials say he is currently in North
Korean custody and that the UN Command is working with its North Korean counterparts to
resolve the incident. And a couple of tech stories And I didn't do this
on purpose. I know we did this weekend elon musk yesterday, but back
in the news again today, But this one's more about Meta and the Threads.
Meta owned Threads is implementing rate limits to combat bots on the platform,
just weeks after Twitter imposed very similar limits. Instagram CEO Adamissary announced the change
by a Threads post yesterday. Here's the quote. Spam attacks have picked up,
so we're going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits,
which is going to mean more unintentionally limiting active people quote unquote false positives.
The change means that some Threads users may face a cap on how many posts
they can view each day as well. Also yesterday, the tweet deck that
a lot of enterprises, small companies use to track their social media the free
version that's gone. So that happened too. This is just this is just
a show of sorts. Instagram's Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful you know,
one hundred million sign ups within five days. But there's another one.
It's a slack alternative also called Threads. It was out first and it launched
out of Stealth all let's see one to three three years ago with backing from
Sequoia Capital. So people are downloading Threads, which is a slack alternative,
which is a workplace app and communication tool in addition to getting Threads from Meta.
So everybody, this rising tide is rising, all boats except for Twitters.
Now back to elon Musk one more time. This one's about Tesla and
a lawsuit. Tesla directors, the board of directors are going to return seven
hundred and thirty five million dollars to the company to settle a lawsuit that alleged
they paid themselves too much. As part of the settlement, the twelve directors
agreed to four foot all compensation from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three and
change the way they are being compensated the twenty tw lawsuit brought by Tesla stockholder,
pension Fund, Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit accused
of directors including Elon Musk and his brother Kimball, Oracle founder Larry Ellison,
and media mogul Rupert Murdoch's son James Murdoch, among others, of unrelenting avarice.
The directors allegedly granted themselves excessive and unfair compensation of around eleven million stock
options from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. The value of seven hundred and thirty
five million dollars is equivalent to about three million Tesla stock options as well.
You'll see those kind of settlements terribly often when it comes to board of directors.
Very friendly situation. We lead local live from the KFY twenty four our
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