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As I told you yesterday, I have never found good deals on Amazon Prime
Days. But Rich knows how to find him, and he's going to tell
you how to. That's coming up in about twenty minutes. Last night,
day two of the Republican National Convention. As you know, I'm obsessed with
these things. Love watching him, love watching the speeches, and I got
to say that I was switching between the channels and Fox was just bad blah
blah blah blah blah, talk talk talk, talk talk, and I was
like, I want to hear the speakers. It's the convention. So then
I was just I had it on CNN most of the evening because CNN was
actually playing most of them, and I thought it was really interesting. I
think the speakers were really interesting. Last night. The theme was make America
Safe Again, but maybe it should have been Team of Rivals because they had
all these people who had run against Trump, Ted Cruz, the Vake,
Ramaswami, Marco Rubio, Ron de Santis, Nikki Hayley. They were all
on stage throwing their support behind Trump last night. And you know who else
was on stage? Sarah Huckabee Standers. She was his press secretary. I
was so impressed with her. She's the mayor or the mayor, she's the
governor of Arkansas now, but I just think she was amazing. So if
you want to go back and watch any of the speeches, I highly recommend
Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Wouldn't she be a great first woman president? HM?
Anyway, here's what's ahead on wake up Call SpaceX? Oh my gosh,
I just did a Biden. Anyway, here's what the head on wake up
calls. SpaceX is headed to the lone Star state. Elon Musk has announced
that he's going to move SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas. He says the
reason is the law just signed by Governor Newsom that banned school from telling parents
if their child starts using different pronouns in class. Musk set on X that
he warned Newsome that laws like this would force families and companies to leave California
to protect their children. Iran has denied it's been plotting to kill former President
Trump. US officials say they got intel weeks before the attempted assassination of Trump
on Saturday. The warning prompted increased security around the former president as he campaigned
across the country. The Trump team was apparently made aware of the threat.
The La Angels are going to be getting nearly three million dollars in a settlement
with the city of Anaheim. A two year long fight was resolved on Monday.
In exchange for the money, the city can build a fire station on
Angels property. An earlier deal that was canceled would have allowed for construction of
a new stadium with homes, hotels, shops, and restaurants surrounding it.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The temperature is still
up there. A guy with a knife has been shot and killed outside the
RNC. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Some former foes of former President Trump have called for
unity at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Former Ambassador Nikki Hayley told delegates
last night Trump has her strong endorsement. I haven't always agreed with President Trump,
but we agree more often than we disagree. She says America would be
worse off with President Biden and Vice President Harris. Texas Senator Ted Cruz,
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Florida Governor DeSantis also supported Trump. DeSantis said
the US cannot afford four more years of a weekend at Bernie's presidency. I
am alarmed that the current president of the United States lacks the capability to discharge
the duties of his office. Trump's VP pick JD. Vans is said to
speak at the Convention. Tonight. Police in Milwaukee say a twenty one year
old man who was carrying a concealed gun near the perimeter of the Republican National
Convention has been arrested the Department. In US Capitol Police say the man did
not have a legal concealed carry permit and was walking around wearing a ski mask
and a tactical backpack. LA has contracted a private security company to patrol Wilmington.
We have these security services available from basically eight am until midnight or two
am most days, seven days a week. LA City Councilvan Tim McCosker says
security along Avalon Boulevard is crucial to make sure residents, businesses, and visitors
feel safe. The city has contracted peak security for two years using money from
mccosker's office and the state. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
Karen, President Biden was back on the campaign trail yesterday. He said
politics have become too heated, and then he went on the attack. Yeah,
you know, it's an interesting line they're trying to straddle here. He's
back on the campaign trail in battleground Nevada yesterday and again today, Yesterday,
he courting black voters at the NAACP convention. Today he is trying to win
over Latino voters. And the President acknowledged the assassination attempt on former President Donald
Trump, saying he was grateful that he wasn't seriously injured. And he once
again repeated his call for the temperature to come down in this country, but
he did not hold back on the criticism of his political rival. He said,
just because you lower the temperature, that you must lower the temperature,
doesn't mean we should stop telling the truth of who you are, what you've
done, and what you'll do. He was going after him for COVID policies
from four years ago, for his tax cuts. He was talking about the
former president's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act Obamacare, and even was talking
about something that Donald Trump had said last month during their debate when he used
that phrase black jobs. The President to this group the NAACP convention said,
I know what a black job is. It's the vice president of the United
States. While the crowd, of course that lots of cheers for that,
and he really put a spotlight on his vice president Kamala Harris and how great
she has been for him. Interestingly, he later came back to it.
He credited this group for putting him and Harris into the White House, and
he said she's not only a great vice president, she could be president in
the United States. That caught our ear, caught a lot of people's ears,
just given all of this still swirling speculation about what he may or may
not do and the calls for him to step aside and put her at the
top of the Was that an offhand comment or was that abrupt? It was
an offhand comment, but just kind of an interesting one. Obviously, he's
talking about her qualifications and touting her and her record and what she's done.
But you know, we're all just kind of looking for all tea leaves and
little clues in everything he's saying these days. Yeah, no kidding. And
so he went to the NAACP and then he's going to a Latino rally today
and specifically probably because his numbers are really taking a dive there in also those
categories softening numbers absolutely in two very critical groups that were so important to him
back in twenty twenty. As I said, you know, he said yesterday
that this was a group black voters that really won him the White House,
and any softening of that support, even if it's still very high in general,
a softening could mean a difference in some critical states. Nevada, of
course, is a battleground state. So the President's out there trying to see
what they can do to close the gap out there. But this is a
critical time for the president when you have the RNC getting such a spotlight right
now, so much attention on the Republican side, and especially in the wake
of the assassination attempt on the president former president over the weekend. Well,
he's got a busy week ahead for him, all right. Karen Travers,
thank you so much for the information, for checking in. We'll talk to
you again soon. Have a great day, all right, you too.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. La Mayor Bass has vetoed and item on police reform. The
move may knock from the November ballot and attempt to allow the LAPD chief to
directly fire officers, along with other reforms to disciplinary action. The city council
approved the ballot measure earlier this month. Bass said the current proposal lacks clear
guidance and could be bogged down in bureaucracy. She wants to work out a
different plan. It's too late to change any language for a ballot measure this
year, so the city Council would have to override the veto with ten votes.
Council members are on a long break this month and don't meet again until
July thirtieth. In Downtown La, Michael Monks KFI News, a man's been
arrested for allegedly shooting at police near the Fashion District in downtown La. The
officers were called in to San Julian in twelfth Streets about ten o'clock last night
about a SHOT's fired call. The LAPD says that's when they were shot at.
The guy who allegedly did it was arrested. Police in Fullerton say a
man who charged officers with a knife and box cutter wanted suicide by cop.
Fullerton police officer Ryan O'Neil says four officers fired when Lorenzo Hills charged. The
cell phone was registered to mister Hills, the same cell phone used to make
the nine to one one call that initiated the police response. That nine to
one one caller last month asked for multiple officers to respond, you know,
I don't want to know how to hurt anybody where he's there here, he's
been like certain people would be married. Police say a fifth officer fired a
less than lethal sponge gun when the armed man charged in fuller ten Corbin Carson
kf I News. A new payroll system in LA has led to inaccurate paychecks
for hundreds of city workers. City council and Tim McCosker says, there have
been some issues, but the new system is better, but that does not
it does not feel like it too. At least four hundred folks in LAPD
who are civilians working their tails off and who for other reasons we've been talking
about being such a critical part of our city. The error has impacted about
four hundred police dispatchers. Mcosker says the kinks should be worked out after a
couple more pay cycles to camp at eleven sites in the Angelus National Forest may
jump by as much as three hundred percent. Critics say many won't be able
to afford to camp if rates jump from five dollars to twenty dollars a day
for a campsite. Forest officials say about eighty percent of camp site fees are
used to maintain and improve facilities. The Forest Service proposed the increased fees earlier
this month. If approved, they take effects sometime next year. The US
is sending more military aid to Ukraine. The latest package is worth around two
hundred twenty five million dollars. Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder says the US
will keep supporting Ukraine's war effort until Ukrainian officials are ready to start peace negotiation,
and right now, our focus continues to be on working with Ukraine to
provide them with what they need to defend their country and defend their sovereignty.
Russia invaded Ukraine in early twenty twenty two. A lot of Republican lawmakers say
they are against giving any more money to Ukraine. The mayor of Paris has
made good on a promise to swim in the Sene River ahead of the twenty
twenty four Olympics. ABC's and As de la Catera says Mayor and Hidalgo took
the plunge this morning to show the river is clean enough to host open swimming
competitions. Swimming in the set has been banned for over one hundred years,
but pairs officials had promised to clean it up in time for the Olympics so
as to hold some events in the river. The games officially start after opening
ceremonies, which will be held next Friday, just nine days away. High
levels of E. Coli in the river recently delayed test events and the Mayor's
Swim. W NBA champion Sue Bird is becoming a Barbie. Mittel says Bird
will be part of the Barbie Sports Role Model doll line Barbie Sports Role Model
Doll line Easy to Say. Bird won two NCAA national titles, four WNBA
championships, and five Olympic gold medals during her playing career. The Sue Bird
Barbie doll is available to order now on Mittel's website thirty Bucks. Former President
Trump's running mate jd Vance is going to headline tonight's speakers on Day three off
the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The theme for the day is make America
Strong once Again. Trump's going to speak tomorrow night on the closing night of
the convention. A lawsuit has already been filed against California's brand new law just
signed by Governor newsom on Monday that bans schools from notifying parents if their kids
start identifying as transgender. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Chino Valley School
District and parents with kids in the public school system. The twenty twenty four
Emmy nominations are being announced this morning. The last Emmys were just held in
January. They were pushed back because of the actors and Writers' strikes. The
seventy six Emmys will be awarded on September fifteenth. A host for the show
hasn't been announced yet at six ZHO five. It's handled on the news.
Six people, including two US citizens, have been killed in a luxury hotel
in Bangkok. Police say it was most likely cyanide poisoning. Weird, right,
let's say good morning now to the host of Rich on Tech Saturdays.
Right here on KFI ktlised tech reporter Rich Demiro. Rich, I need your
help because it's Amazon Prime Day, and as I've told wake Up Call,
I don't think I've ever found a really good deal on Prime. But you
know where they are. Well, yeah, there's a couple places you can
look. First off, you can go to Amazon dot com slash Prime Day
that's going to have specialized deals, kind of personalized for you, mixed in
with some of the stuff that they're promoting. We're seeing pretty decent deals this
year on electronics. Those are the biggest discounts. Clothing, next biggest discounts
home and furniture, computers kind of not the best discounts this year nine percent
versus eight percent last year. Another place you can look amy if you want,
is Amazon dot Com slash Buy Again. So here you're going to see
all of this stuff that you've already purchased on Amazon. You know, these
are like the routine things. You know, maybe you just need them again
and you want them at a better price. So that's going to be a
good place. And the other place I like to look. I don't know
about you, but I save a lot of stuff in my Amazon cart that
I want to buy. It's like aspirational. I want to get it,
but I don't, and so I just leave it lingering in the bottom of
my cart. I check to see if any of those items were on sale,
and sure enough, yesterday I did place in order a pretty decent order
for a lot of stuff, because so many of the things I've been watching
did actually go on sale. And I'm looking again today and I'm seeing even
more stuff on sale than I saw yesterday. So I think the deals are
there this year. Okay. And when you say biggest discounts, when you
were talking about clothes and electronics, what kind of discounts are we talking about?
Is it fifteen percent? Is it forty percent? Electronics? We're looking
at about twenty two percent versus fourteen last year. This is according to Adobe
Analytics, by the way, clothing twenty percent versus twelve percent, and that
is pretty much in line. Let me see if I can see what my
shirt was. I buy this dress that I like here, and let's see
how much of a discount it was. Yeah, twenty percent. There you
go. So it's spot on. The other places to look if you're just
looking to spend money, like if you just want ideas, there's websites like
slick Deals, deal News. Those are two good websites. And then Camel
Camel Camel, which I believe we've talked about before. They keep a list
of popular products and top price drops. So if you're just looking for like
something that's really you know, the price majorly came down, you can check
there as well. So if you don't need anything, just you know,
close up your computer and you just saved a lot of money. I know.
Well that's what I usually do when I go and I look around on
Prime, I'm like, would do I really need any of this? And
like I just did the buy again and I don't. None of the stuff
that I buy is on Well one thing that I don't need is on Prime
deal. So but I you know what, there is actually one deal that
Nick Paul Jochini just sent me this morning. Yeah. I don't know if
you've seen this one, but it's the Gab phone, which is normally which
is a kid phone, so it doesn't have and I think you didn't your
kids use it or something. There's there's a couple of brands. There's Gab,
there's Bark, so these are two competing phones. Okay, so there
it's but it's a phone that doesn't have social media on that kind of stuff.
It's just a phone, so maybe a good starter phone for a kid.
And normally it's one hundred and ninety nine dollars, but on Prime Day
it's thirty nine to ninety nine. Oh wow, there you go. Now,
before I would get that I would check. I would take so that
Camel Camel Camel website. You take the URL, you pop it in there.
So I'm taking the gab phone. And right now it's saying that is
the best price. The cheapest price before that was let's see lowest. Yeah,
it was about one hundred and about one hundred dollars, so this is
still way cheaper than before. So that's definitely the best price they've offered this
phone at okay. And I also saw that there was a pretty good deal
on some Apple AirPods. Have you seen that one? Yeah, the AirPods.
So there's a they're really pushing the air pods quite heavily because you know,
these are like a very simple purchase for people. So let's see what
we've got here. We've got the third generation AirPods, which are sort of
like the newest Those are one hundred and nineteen dollars usually one sixty nine.
And then the standard ones. Ooh, I'm not seeing those anymore. They
might have sold out, but those were a good price too. But if
you want headphones earbuds, like this is definitely the day to get them.
I would say check out the Nothing buds if you're on Android. The Nothing
but Nothing ear are really good and they're on sale. You can get the
basic ones for eighty dollars and you can get the higher end ones that are
typically one fifty for one to twenty and I've been testing those and they are
excellent, excellent, excellent for the price. Yeah, I might have to
check out the Apple iPods because when I got my new phone, I got
those the Beats whatever, and I'm not that impressed with them personal thing company.
So it's all going to the same it's all going to Tim Cook's pocket.
So you're good, Okay, no matter what. That's good to know.
Okay. AT and T just had a big old hack and U can
you tell us a little bit about that and is it something that we need
to worry about, because it didn't seem like it shared your information. It
was just kind of tracking calls, correct, So I don't you know,
it just it just goes to show that there's a lot of information out there
just continuing to, you know, put our information on the web, on
the dark web. This one, thankfully did not get out. So the
hackers got the information, they have not released it. I'm not sure if
that's because they're waiting until they figure out if they can get some money from
AT and T or what. But also the data they got is not that
great. I mean, it does have call and text records for like almost
all AT and T cellular customers, so someone would be able to see,
for instance, like who you called if this information got out, But otherwise
there's no like personal inform, no so security numbers, no dates of birth.
By the way, that was all released a couple of months ago with
the other AT and T hack, so it doesn't even matter. It's all
out there anyway. So the only thing is I think it's interesting if you're
curious if your information is out there with this AT and T if it if
it was breached, you can go to at T dot com slash event,
slash lander and that will tell you if your account was in this compromise,
which I don't think is that bad, but you know, it's just a
matter of time until it is again. Yeah, and does will that track
whether it was compromised the time before? No one No. For that one.
You have to go to have I Been poned dot com? So have
I been pw n ed dot com? You type in your email address and
it will tell you if your information's out there. Yes, mine was,
and uh, thank you AT and T for putting all my information out there
on the dark web. Okay, I need to check that one out.
Okay, we've got a new Apple IOEA system that's coming out. Yes,
public beta of iOS eighteen is now available. So if you want all the
latest, greatest fun features on your iPhone, you can download this. But
before you do that, I do not recommend it because Okay, this is
beta software. This is not the final software that's coming out in the fall,
usually September. But you would get support for better messaging between iPhone and
Android. That's a big one. But that's coming anyway, right, All
this stuff is coming anyway. It's just if you want to be like me
and on the cutting edge and like try this stuff out. You're literally a
tester, a software tester for Apple, a free software tester. So if
you have a secondary device, or you're just really enthusiastic about trying this stuff
out and you understand the ramifications, which, by the way, if you
install this on your phone, there's no easy way of going back to the
regular software without erasing your phone. Okay, and you're saying maybe hold off
on it, and why are there just too many bugs in it? Or
what? There may be bugs, there may not be. You may have
a fine experience. It's just I don't think for the average person this is
something that you want to put on your phone because you, again, you
are a tester, if you're tech savvy, if you are cutting edge,
if you understand your way around all this stuff, fine, go ahead and
do it. I have friends that do it. Of course, I've installed
it on a test device. I may put it on my regular device.
But I think you it's not for the average person to say, oh,
let me just do a public beta on my phone. I don't think that's
a very good idea. Okay, So basically what you're saying to me is
stay away from that one, Amy. And wait, yeah, I think
the real one's coming out September twentieth around there, So why don't we that's
just a rumor. But I mean, yeah, I think you can.
Wait. You've gone this long, Amy, Well, and I'm not very
tech savvy, so okay, awesome, sas, And you're going to have
lots more to say about all of this stuff plus anything tech. Oh,
but you won't be talking about Prime because it'll be done, but you'll have
new stuff to talk about this weekend because you can listen to kfi's Tech Reporter,
the host of Rich on Tech Saturdays from eleven to two right here on
CAFI. You can also follow Rick on Instagram rich on Tech. His website
is richon Tech dot tv. Rich Thank you so much, thanks for having
me. All Right, I'm gonna go check out a couple of those Prime
deals. All right, talk to you soon. Anaheim has agreed to pay
two point seventy five million dollars to the Angels because of a stadium deal linked
to fraud allegations. This does not impact any essential city services. Anaheim Mayor
Asthley Aiken says settling the Angel's five million dollar claim allows both parties to move
on. This will be a credit against money that normally would go to our
enterprise zone for our convention and Sports and Entertainment department. She says. The
city gets permissioned to build a fire station on land leased by the Angels to
serve the rapidly growing area. The three hundred and twenty million dollar deal collapsed
because of a former mayor who pleaded guilty to fraud charges. That were partly
associated with the deal. In Anaheim, Corbin Carson KFI News a proposed ballot
measure that would allow police chief to fire officers if needed could be pulled from
the November ballot. Mayor Bass vetoed it. She said if it passed,
the proposal could create bureaucratic confusion. Now, if the Council doesn't override the
veto, voters will not be allowed to vote on the issue. In November,
NASA says a big boom in the sky over New York was a small
meteor flying thirty eight thousand miles an hour. You expect to see a meteor
at night, not during the day, so this was a rare daylight fireball.
Bill Cook with NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office said yesterday's meteor passed over the Statue
of Liberty before disintegrating above New Jersey. People say the boom shook buildings throughout
the five boroughs. Bet it was kind of cool to see. Scary too,
though. California is coming up short on chargers. One hundred and twenty
nine thousand new charging stations will need to be built every year between now and
twenty thirty to meet Governor Newsom's mandate that seventy percent of all new cars sold
by that year will need to be zero emissions. A Stanford professor who's written
a brief on California's ev charge policy says that goal is noble but unrealistic.
President Biden is looking to make changes to the Supreme Court. He wants legislation
to establish term limits for justices and a code of ethics. The Congress currently
has no control or authority over the High Court, and justices are appointed for
life. The President would need Congressional approval to make the changes. The Washington
Post says Biden's also considering pushing for a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for
presidents. Shohei Otani has become the first Dodger in nearly three decades to hit
a home run in the All Star Game. The Dodgers star hit a three
run dinger in the third last night in Arlington, Texas, but the American
leaguer still went on to beat the National League five to three. Mike Piazza
was the last Dodger to hit a home runner home run in the All Star
Game. That was in nineteen ninety six at six Zho five, It's handle
on the news. Low income renders renters in LA are getting a helping hand
to stay in their homes. We're gonna head to Milwaukee for the latest on
the RNC convention, What happened last night and what's on tap for tonight with
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Amy's on it, Aami's on it, AMI's on Itami's
on it. What am I on? I'm on the stream, I'm on
movies, TV shows, documentaries. I'm really enjoying documentaries these days, sometimes
in books, sometimes going to the movie theater. But there's so much content
out there, how do you know what to choose? So I take recommendations
from my friends and family, and then I also like to share my recommendations
with you, so hopefully save you some time, keep you away from the
bad stuff, and maybe tune you into the good stuff. So on Monday,
of course, the former President Trump announced that jd Vance was going to
be as vice presidential running mate, and I was like, okay, so
I kind of know who that is, but not really And I like to
find out about as much as you can about who these politicians are. And
Jade Vance actually has a pretty interesting story he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, which is
kind of how he grew to fame, and so I thought, oh,
I should probably read the book, because you know, he started with nothing
and then kind of was is a self made guy, and they're saying,
you know, he's really he embodies the American dream because he came from nothing
and really made something great of himself. So I thought, well, I
should go and read the book, and so I googled it and I went,
a, ha, even better, it's on Netflix, which I didn't
even remember. But Ron Howard did the movie called Hillbilly Elegy and it stars
Amy Adams and Glenn Close, and it's about JD. Vance's life in Littletown,
Ohio. He had a mother who was a drug addict, the woman
he called Mamma, who ended up really shaping his life and being the person
who gave him kind of the drive to do better and be better was also
obviously a big part of the movie. At first, the movie feels a
little bit contrived. I don't know, it was just weird. It like
I didn't dive in right away and go, oh, this is going to
be a good movie, but stick with it because it's very interesting. The
story is solid, and it's mostly heartbreaking, and it makes me so sad
to know that anyone has to grow up in this kind of environment. But
again, because I will tell you it was awful the way that JD.
Vance, even if it's half true, it was awful how he grew up.
But it's also hopeful and it shows you that if you do have a
good role model or a parental model, or maybe it's going to be a
teacher for you or your kid or something, maybe you just need that one
person to help get you back on track so you can move on and live
the American dream as it looks like JD Vance is doing now. Amy Adams
is awful in this movie, but in a really good way. I mean,
like you hate her because you're just like, what this woman is.
She's just tortured. She's because she plays his mom. So she's a drug
addict and she's mean and she's nasty, and she does such a good job
with this. Glenn Close is almost unrecognizable again, which is really good because
you're not thinking, oh, there's Glenn Close, who's playing mamma in this
In this movie, you think it's Jad's mamma. I mean, she just
did an amazing job. So you know how the story ends. But the
journey is what I think you're going to watch, whether you're Republican or Democrat,
or think that this was a good pick for Trump or not a good
pick for Trump, which you know, there's a lot of information coming in
on both sides. But the movie itself and the story itself really really interesting.
If you want to know what shape the man who's running for a vice
president of the United States, this is a great movie to watch. It's
called Hillbilly Elegy. It's on Netflix. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom speaking of presidential campaigns.
For the sake of our nation, we have to go with Donald Trump.
Nikki Haley has made an appearance at the Republican National Convention to endorse former President
Trump. She was met with some cheers and some booze last night. She
told the convention her message is simple, you don't have to agree with Trump
one hundred percent of the time to vote for Haley acknowledged the challenges of another
Trump presidency, but argue that the alternative would be really bad for the country.
She says, no president can fix all are of problems alone, and
says it's up to the people to put a side differences and focus on what
unites us. Five Ohio police officers in Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention have
shot and killed a man who had a knife and was in a fight near
the convention. The Columbus Police Department and officials in Milwaukee say the fight was
unrelated to the convention. Thousands of officers from all over the US are in
Milwaukee to offer extra security this week, including more than sixty from California.
Six men are accused of stealing more than three hundred guns from stores across southern
California. Federal prosecutors say the guns are being sold on the black market and
turning up during unrelated criminal investigations. The guys are accused of stealing the guns
from nine stores since October. Denise Gertz, who owned Chaparl Coin and gut
and Marietta, says the forty three guns stolen from her store were uninsured.
I'm going to take all our gun sales profits for the next year to recover
from what they took from us. The guys were charged yesterday. They're most
recently accused of stealing more than eighty guns from a store in Orange Blake Trolly
ky if I News. The search is underway for a humpback whale entangled in
a net. A photographer captured footage of the thirty to thirty five foot whale
with a thick rope wrapped around its tail over the weekend off Palasberty's estates.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration team is now trying to locate the whale.
Captain Christian Bats of Harbor Breeze Cruises says the whale could die if they can't
find it and get the rope off its tail. Okay, yesterday we told
you about what is being called the worst national anthem ever, Oh the of
the that's Ingrid Andres And she sang that before the Major League Baseball home run
derby derby earlier this week. So she's just been skewered for this performance,
rightfully so. And she put out a post on social media to own up
to it. She said, I'm not going to be Eschue. She said
I was drunk last night. She says, I'm checking myself into a facility
to get the help I need. That was not me. She apologizes to
Major League Baseball, all the fans, and the country that she loves so
much for that rendition. She says, I'll let you know how rehab is.
I hear it's super fun. That's the definite pr spin what that she's
going into rehab. Yes, everybody has a soft spot for addiction, and
you know, well but maybe, I mean maybe, but I just feel
like I have friends who went to rehab from Nashville. They did say it
was fun. But I'm glad she's going to do it, so good for
her. We'll see. She was obviously not in her right mind when she
sang that song. More illegal immigrants are crossing into the US in San Diego
than anywhere else in the US. The numbers have dropped more than twenty percent
in the last month, but twenty five thousand people still cross the border in
San Diego in June. Illegal immigrants are now being dropped off directly at nonprofits
like Catholic charities. A mom and dad in Apple Valley have been arrested for
allegedly posing their one year old to fentanel. The baby was taken to the
hospital on Monday after the exposure but has since been released. The parents are
facing charges of child cruelty. Gen z is using TikTok for health advice.
A Zing Coach poll shows fifty six percent of gen z ars look to TikTok
for wellness, diet and fitness advice. Over a third say they used the
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to TikTok because it's free. Twenty two percent say it's because it's quick.
We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, it's not
all koumba Yat the RNC, Matt Gates and Kevin McCarthy apparently got into it
a bit yesterday. Bill's going to tell you all about that. Speaking of
the RNC, let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy's. Stephen, last
night was make America Safe Again themed. Lots of speakers, What was the
message, how'd they do well? Look? I think the key takeaway is
that it was basically rival tonight. Certainly make America Safe Again was the theme,
and you heard the powerful and painful testimony of people who have lost their
loved ones to crime, drug addiction. But setting that on the table,
You also had the speeches from people who ran against Donald Trump in twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty four who came to this convention to hail their party's nominee Ted
Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis, and the headline grabbing Nicki Haley's speech
months ago on the stump, Nicki Haley called Donald Trump unhinged, toxic,
said chaos follows him wherever he goes, but here in Milwaukee last night,
Haley said that another term of Biden and Harris would be worse. So she
said, for the sake of our nation, we have to go with Donald
Trump. She argued to fellow Republicans who voted for her, you don't have
to agree with Trump one hundred percent of the time to vote for him.
And she said she's here because, quote, we have a country to save.
It reminded me the lineup for last night of Doris current Goodwin's book Team
of Rivals about Abraham Lincoln and how he brought all people who ran against him
and put him on his cabinet. And that's been also sort of a you
know, I remember from the earliest days of the Trump presidency. That's kind
of sort of how he wanted it. He liked the idea of people working
for him engaging in amongst themselves a battle of you know, debates, and
it was leaks and recriminations and it was a bit messy, but Trump liked
presiding over it. This is a bit different, I think, in the
sense that you know, what he's done is he's brought to this convention those
who are willing to demonstrate their loyalty, fealty, allegiance to him. There
are plenty of Republicans who were not in the hall. Think of it,
Chris Christie, met Romney, the bushes. I mean, these are people
who are of the Republican Party, of I would say of old, but
it was really just a few years ago. And what's the most striking observation
to me I've covered several of these is you probably would have guessed so much
of these things are staged in a way that is formulaic. There are the
speeches, they are the videos, there's the music for the house band.
There are the delegates on the floor with the tags around their necks. I
mean, this quadrennial event has been going on in this country for one hundred
and seventy years, something like that. But what's different here is the fact
that the party itself has so rapidly changed and unremarkable encapsulation of this was on
Monday in the role Call of the States. The Republican leader in the United
States Senate is a man named Mitch McConnell, and he represented the Commonwealth of
Kentucky. As he said that his state's votes would go to Donald Trump.
As soon as that visage of McConnell flashed up on the screen, enormous booze
filled the hall. The delegates of the Republican Party to their national convention booing
their party's leader in the United Slime State Senate. What a demonstration of how
much this party has changed. Yeah, well it has changed, for sure,
and who knows for the better for the worse. I guess we'll find
out. But the other thing I thought was really interesting earlier this week was
that they was on the first night that they had the head of the Teamsters.
Well that's also true. I mean, look, and it was really
that was a very interesting diyamic. Donald Trump has his own electoral ambition,
you know, reasons for rationale for putting a labor leader on the stage,
I don't know. To what extent the Republican Party leadership or Trump himself reviewed
the text of that speech, because it wound up being a fierce defense of
organized labor and collective bargaining rights, a slam at corporatism and particular companies Amazon
lift Uber were specifically invoked. It was an incredible speech to hear at a
Republican convention, and you have to wonder whether it'll there's any kind of through
line to the polses that this present would put forward. And not with respect
to you how he speaks and what he says, but what about the National
Labor Relations Board under Donald Trump? Is it really going to issue favorable rulings
towards organized labor? Or would a Trump NLRB seek to undermine the rights of
organized labor. That is something that Democrats are going to talk about, surely
at their convention in a month. But between now and then, you have
this really interesting programming here where it's not what you'd expect, and that makes
it very interesting. I think it's been fascinating and I can't wait to watch
the Democratic National Convention, but I do think it's been very interesting so far.
So what are we going to see tonight? Tonight, James Dave Advance,
who turns forty two weeks from Friday, still unknown to most of America,
makes something of a national debut. Now, if you've read Hillbilly Elogy,
or you maybe have seen the movie we just talked about jd Vance Hunt,
Well, if you've seen jd. Vance on cable news, then you
know who he is. But most Americans haven't done any of those things.
And so this is a debut for him. He'll make his case for Donald
Trump's reelection and for his own ascension to the second highest office in the land.
So is there any indication that his message might be a kinder, gentler
kind of thing, like because Trump said after what happened over the weekend of
the assassination attempt, he ripped up his speech and wrote a different one that's
more about unity. Do we know if Advance is leaning toward following that or
do we have any indication? I have no idea. Okay, and there'll
be really look, Democrat said that, I'm beyond perfectly honest because few days
ago, not even he knew he was going to be the nominee. So
let's see what he has to offer. Yeah, I will say this the
Democrats are already trying to paint a JD Van with a certain bush by point
what he said in an Evyes's interview you in februarm On this week, George
Stephanopolo, this was asked, what if you were vice president on January sixth
of twenty twenty one, would you have done what wanted you to do by
setting aside the electoral votes from Pennsylvania? And he said yes vand said,
if I had been vice president, I would have told the states like Pennsylvania,
Georgia and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors.
That idea of multiple slates of electors has resulted in criminal charges in some
of these states, and so Democrats are pointing that out. Yes, okay,
well it's gonna like like we've been talking about it. It's interesting to
watch, and I'll be watching tonight. And I appreciate your comments and your
thoughts on this today. You bet all right, Thanks Steven. It is
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