June 24, 2024 • 23 mins
Shannon is out today, and Gary hosts the show solo. Gary talks about the deaths because of the ongoing heatwave, the remaining Supreme Court cases, how Trump will approach the debate this Thursday and astronauts stranded in space until further notice.
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This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to kfi AM six forty the Gary
and Shannon Show on demand on theiHeartRadio app. Hey, Gary and Shannon
KFI AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. Shannon's out today,
but she will be back tomorrow.We are going to be seeing high temperatures
again. By the way, it'slate June. That's what happens in southern
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California. The idea that we haveexcessive heat warnings and watches up in a
lot of different areas is not unusual. This is what happens in June.
There are other places where it ismuch much hotter, So we need to
pump the brakes on the whole everythingis falling apart. About forty four million
people around the United States under somesort of heat warning or advisory today,
(00:44):
and we will probably see some moredaily temperature records set in the Back East
area. But right now, thenumber of people affected by flooding is pretty
surprising for this time of the year. National Weather Service did issue heat warnings
to the southeast, the mid South, the central southern plains from South Dakota
down to Texas, but we're talkingabout flooding and flooding is very, very
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weird at this point. Rising floodwatersin the Midwest have caused a bunch of
chaos. At least one person hasbeen killed in South Dakota, forced evacuations,
hundreds of rescues of people who arecut off. States of disaster declared
in twenty one counties across Iowa.Entire towns and cities have been cut off
(01:29):
from surrounding areas. They said.In South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota,
about fifteen inches of rain caused atleast thirteen rivers to flood, so
Clay County Emergency Management In Minnesota,some areas received eight times their normal daily
rainfall. It's not unusual for placesin the Upper Midwest to get rain,
(01:49):
especially in the afternoons. You knowthunderstorms, etc. That roll through in
the early part of summer. Butwhen the flood gauge itself is underwater,
that's sign of the apocalypse. There'smore rain to come. The Weather Service
forecast a new weatherfront is going tomove northward to the Upper Midwest, bringing
more moisture, slight risk of stormsthat could see bring very large hail and
(02:13):
tornadoes in that area. And thenof course that's going to move east towards
the Midwest the Great Lakes regions withstorms and a chance of flooding tomorrow and
Wednesday. The international story about heatis the number of people who have died
making the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj inSaudi Arabia. More than thirteen one hundred
(02:34):
people have died because it's one hundredand ten, one hundred and twenty in
many of those areas, and alot of these people are on foot,
they're walking, they're walking their pilgrimage. Basically part of the reason is they
don't have permits to be there.And I didn't realize that the Saudi Health
Minister and the Saudi Tourism Board andthe Saudi Religion they all require permits for
(02:59):
you to go to Hajj. Now, Hajj is a pilgrimage that you,
if your Muslims, are expected todo at least once in your life,
if it's possible, if it's possiblephysically for you to go, if it's
possible economically for you to go.And they're saying a lot of people this
year are trying to get it inbecause they're concerned about the economies in their
home country, specifically Jordan and Egypt, so the pressure is on them.
(03:23):
They're thinking this may be the lasttime they have enough money to scrape together
to get to Hajj. Now thatmeans they can get there on a visa,
travel visa, visitor visa, somethinglike that, But once they get
into Saudi Arabia, they don't havethe actual permit it takes to go to
(03:43):
the Hajj. So there is thisunderground world of Hajj permitting that exists.
For example, a thirty two yearold woman from Egypt her parents perform the
Hajj without an official permit. Thisyear. They paid about two thousand dollars
for their journey, facilitated by aperson in Egypt and then a broker in
Saudi Arabia, and they felt theyhad to go soon because, like I
(04:05):
said, the economic pressures in Egyptare starting to mount on people. The
president of Tunisia has fired their country'sreligious affairs minister because fifty pilgrims died in
Jordan, which recorded the deaths ofat least one hundred. The public prosecutor
opened an investigation into the illegal hougeroutes. Now again not just in Saudi
(04:29):
Arabia, but those brokers that wouldoffer up people ways to get there illegally
to perform this religious pilgrimage. Oneunregistered pilgrim who died was a grandmother from
the Egyptian city of Luxor. Accordingto her brother, she had not been
able to get a permit, butfound an Egyptian tour company that would take
(04:49):
her for about three thousand dollars.Now, she didn't realize that she was
violating the rules when she traveled toSaudi Arabia, and after she got there,
she told relatives she'd been put inan in at a housing prevented from
going outside, and when the touroperator promised air conditioned buses to take you
around Mecca, she instead found herselfwalking for miles in the heat. This
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also is not unusual. I mentionedheat in southern California is not unusual.
In June. There are plenty ofpeople who die on a regular basis at
the Hajj. With two million peopleshowing up each year and it being in
the desert, Hello, a lotof people die from heat, stress,
or illness or chronic disease. Lastyear, seven hundred and seventy four pilgrims
(05:34):
died. Those are just the onesfrom Indonesia who died. And in nineteen
eighty five, seventeen hundred people diedaround the holy sites in Mecca, most
of them from heat stress. Seventeenhundred. So this is not This has
happened before. It doesn't make itany better, but it has happened.
A pro Palestinian protest outside of asynagogue in La turnfile and activists began gathering
(05:58):
in front of the Odas to asynagogue on West Pico just about eleven o'clock
yesterday and quickly met with counter demonstrators, many of them carrying Israeli flags.
Fistfights broke out at least one personwho was arrested. Sports Wise, the
Oilers have climbed back into the StanleyCup Finals. They have forced tonight's Game
seven. If Edmonton wins against theFlorida Panthers tonight, they would be the
(06:19):
first team since the nineteen forty twoToronto Maple Leaves, led by guys like
Billy Taylor, Sweeney, Shriner andsill Apps to come back from an three
deficit to win the Cup. Angelsat Anaheim, they're hosting the a's tonight
and the Dodgers in Chicago to takeon the White Sox today. First pitch
is at five to ten. Youcan listen to every play of every Dodgers
(06:41):
game on AM five seventy LA Sportslive from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth,
stream all games n HD on thatiHeartRadio app used the keyword AM five to
seventy LA Sports. The Supreme Courttoday has decided to get involved with the
camp I gotta find the right termthe of or care for transgender children.
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Here you go. They will reviewa law specifically out of Tennessee that bans
gender transition care for anybody younger thanthe age of eighteen. This is going
to be the first opportunity the SupremeCourt has to consider the constitutionality of these
kinds of restrictions. Twenty three stateshave passed them since twenty twenty one,
(07:24):
although not all of them are beingenforced right now, or at least not
all of the states that have themhave actually made them into law just yet.
Transgender people, they're young people.Their families medical providers have asked the
Court to review a decision by theCourt of Appeals in the Sixth Circuit in
Cincinnati that upholds the law that barstransgender kids in Tennessee from accessing puberty blockers
(07:46):
and hormones. I understand that Kentuckywas part of that decision as well,
although the Supreme Court is not actingon the separate appeal out of the state
of Kentucky now. At the timethat this went into effect, Tennessee's Attorney
General, Jonathan Scrimmittee, said theSixth Circuit's ruling was a big win for
(08:07):
democracy. The Sixth Circuit is oneof three courts of appeal that has upheld
gender transition bans, and last month, South Carolina became the twenty fifth state
to adopt the law that restricts orbands gender affirming medical care for transgender miners.
Although the treatments have been available inthe US for more than a decade,
(08:28):
but a lot of controversy. They'llhear the arguments in the fall,
and then we will see a decisionsometime about this time next year. Now,
there's a lot for them left interms of the Supreme Court and this
specific session. First of all,and most importantly, the two cases at
the absolute tip top of what theyneed to decide are presidential immunity and obstruction
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charges for those involved with the Januarysixth ride at the Capitol. President Trump
former President Trump is arguing that formerpresidents are immune from prosecution for any official
act they took in office, andthat the indictment that he's facing right now
from the Special Council charges of electioninterference have to be dismissed. Now,
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the Supreme Court previously ruled former presidentscan't be sued for what they did in
office, but they've never actually hadto rule on criminal immunity. Now this
is important. There was some criticismlast week when all of these decisions came
out that did not include presidential immunitythat some legal scholars were suggesting that the
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Supreme Court was dragging its feet onthis one because they are in the bag
for Trump, or they've always keptthe most important decisions for the last decisions
that they release. This also meansthat whatever trial is supposed to take place,
this is not the one in Florida. This would be in DC.
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Whatever trial is supposed to take placefor election interference in DC probably wouldn't take
place before the November election. Evenif even if they rule against him,
and even if they say that apresident doesn't have blanket immunity. The other
one is a former Pennsylvania police officerschallenging what amounts to the validity of an
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obstruction charge that was brought against hundredsof people who took part in the assault
on the Capitol. The issue iswhether a law that's meant to discourage tampering
with documents sought in investigations can beused in capital rioting cases. And that's
less impactful, but still gets sortof the bold headline because of what it
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is. There is a second abortioncase that they still have yet to decide
on whether doctors can provide abortions inemergencies in states that banned abortion after Roe
v. Wade was overturned. Andthen homelessness homeless This one's going to be
watched a lot, specifically on theWest Coast because it seems like policies here
on the West Coast are the onesthat are driving decisions on homelessness. This
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is whether or not people can bebanned from sleeping outdoors when shelter space is
lacking. If you remember, therewas a case out of Boise where basically
you could not shuffle somebody off ofthe sidewalk unless there was an open shelter
bed available for them. So thiscase out of Grant's Pass Oregon is more
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about whether or not you can dothat even if there is no shelter space
available. So all that is stillto compment. By the way, all
of those decisions, that's just youknow, three or four of them.
They've also got decision about environmental it'sa case called Chevron social media and what
can be done about it. PurduePharmas settlement, the air pollution, the
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Securities in Exchange Commission, all ofthose decisions yet to come from the Supreme
Court. Will anybody be watching thedebate on Thursday? Yes, that's my
question. We will be carrying itlive on Thursday night right here on KFI
and of course on the iHeartRadio app. Heather, I have a quick message
for you from someone who appreciates yourtalent. Morning everybody. Steve from Bakersfield.
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Want to wash everybody a good week. And I wanted to say hi
to my favorite weekend anchor, misHeather, who's feeling it for my favorite
weekday anchor, mis Amy. You'reawesome. Everybody's awesome, everybody on KFI.
I love this place. Thanks,have great day, guys, there
you go. That's so nice.Despite whatever you were worried about. People
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criticized no, no, no.I was like, is it bad?
No Oh, what a lovely wayto start my week. Thank you so
much. Granted it's from Bakersfield.Well, so I'll take it. You
might get a case of valley feverjust from the message itself, but that's
a good thing. So listen.We're starved for attention. I'll take a
little positive feedback wherever I can getit. You're doing a great Thank you
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all from Cyprus. A read anarticle this morning in the news about somebody
being attacked and killed by a sharkin Hawaii. I remember you guys talking
about it a couple of weeks ago. Well, sadly, that's fun.
Yeah, that's one of them.This was an actor and a lifeguard.
He was actually in Pirates of theCaribbean movies. He died over the weekend
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in a shark attack while he wassurfing there on the north shore of Wahoo
yesterday. Was forty nine years old. A spokesperson for the Emergency Service Department
says, it's an extremely difficult time. I asked for your kindness your patients
to try to get this through theinto the next weeks and months. They
were able to respond to the attackvia a jet ski before they were able
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to get this guy to shore.But basically, everybody knew him, everybody
loved him his time as a lifeguard, and then eventually died from his injuries
there as a result of that sharkattack. So well, that's great news.
Fantastic again. Thursday is the debateJoe and Donald Trump, hosted by
CNN, but you're going to beable to hear it live here on KFI.
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There's a couple of unique things aboutthis debate. I think the most
significant thing is that, for thefirst time in decades, it's not under
the purview of the Debate Commission.This is all put together by CNN.
The one in September is going tobe all put together by ABC unless something
changes between now and then. Butthis is the first time in decades that
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a single television network is going tohave discretion over the look and the feel
and the cadence and all of that. When it comes to a general election
presidential debate. The important things youknow that there will be no audience there,
that the two candidates will be seatedat a table, all of these
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things are All of these things areimportant because it changes the dynamic for both
of these guys. Starts at sixo'clock our time, could be the single
most watched moment of the presidential campaign, according to The New York Times,
but I would argue the last severalpresidential campaigns because of the consequences of this,
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because of what we're looking for outof these two guys, and it,
you know, it depends. We'vetalked many times about the expectations for
what former President Trump has to doto score points, what President Biden has
to do to score points, andthe debate prep is obvious. I mean,
were there, and it's a verydifferent debate prep depending on which candidate
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you look at. President Biden isis on vacation basically, but it's like,
I guess you could say it's adebate camp. They've talked about how
he has been practicing over and overagain with his advisors with a fake Trump
basically debating him on some of theseissues. And I'm sure that they're going
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to do a lot of the goating, the interrupting, although the mics are
going to be cut off when you'renot speaking, so that won't necesscessarily happen.
Although do you think a cutof microphoneis going to stop former President Trump
from interrupting? I don't. Butthen you've got former President Trump who is
doing a lot of it sounds likekind of spitballing. He's doing a lot
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of, you know, a giveand take argument conversations with some of his
vice presidential potentials and asking them whattheir opinions are on some of these big
issues so that he can take thoseinto Thursday night's debate. He's got a
problem because he's not a big specificguy when it comes to policy. He's
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very he likes generalizations, he likesto say, he likes to paint with
a broad brush, and for alot of his audience, that's great.
But some of those independence that he'ssupposed to reach over and grab from Joe
Biden, whether they're a double hater, they don't like either one of these
guys and they're going to hold theirnose and vote for one of them,
or people who are just undecided betweenthe two. He's got to do better
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at grabbing those people. So howdo you do that? Well. One
of the things that he's been saying. Trump has been saying is Over the
weekend, he was asking the questionin a rally in Pennsylvania, should he
be nice to form or to PresidentBiden? We one just about all of
those suckers, you know, wewant them. How should I handle him?
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Should I be tough and nasty orshould I be Should I be?
She saying no? Should I betough and nasty and just say you're the
worst president in history? Or shouldI be nice and calm and let him
speak? Be tough, be tough? So bad, so bad? But
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anyway, it'll be a good I'msure he'll be prepared. What's interesting I
saw is that the leadership, infiguring out what they're going to do with
this debate, said that they lookedback to the Kennedy Nixon debates in nineteen
sixty because they wanted to return toa very simple, classical format again,
the two candidates seated at a desk, no audience, microphone muted when you're
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not speaking. This will be absolutelycrazy, and it's going for CNN specifically.
This is a marketing masterpiece because CNNhas been taking it in the shorts
lately. They are on track fortheir lowest rated month in prime time in
thirty three years, CNN has lostthat many viewers. They have fewer than
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one hundred thousand average viewers every nightamong adults twenty five to fifty four,
according to Nielson, Again, youdon't have to watch it on CNN.
You can watch it. You couldlisten to it right here on KFI.
Again. That's Thursday night. Yeah, I'm going to be watching the debate.
I'm actually having a debate party atmy house. Lots my friends are
coming over, hoping for a realshow. Oh, I can guarantee that's
what's going to happen. He Gary, regarding the debates on Thursday, I'm
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not going to be watching. There'sreally nothing that's going to change my mind.
But you can listen. I'm sureof that. So I'll just get
the highlights from you guys on Friday. All right, see you bye.
Okay, Well we'll be here again. You can hear the debate Thursday,
six o'clock right here on KFI.Boeing's star Liner is going to stay a
doctor of the International Space Station atleast until next Tuesday. That's about a
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week later than they expected because ofsome serious problems. Now, when this
went up, the star Liner,it was just a crew flight test.
They weren't really getting a whole lotof stuff out of this. They weren't
packing it full of equipment, etcetera for the International Space Station, although
there was some on there. Thebiggest deal was they just were testing it
with two crew members instead of themaximum four crew members. Astronauts Butch Wilmore
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and Sonny Williams took the ride upto the International Space Station. Now the
arrival was it's not smooth. Theirlaunch itself had been delayed because of some
problems, and while it was inorbit chasing down the ISS, the Boeing
Starliner experiencing problems with five of itstwenty eight reaction control system thrusters. Everybody's
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got those right. Four of themwere eventually brought back online, but they
also noticed that they have five smallhelium leaks in their propulsion system. Again,
one of them was actually spotted beforethey took off, but they figured
it's not a big deal. Fourof them cropped up after the capsule deployed
from its rocket to Atlas five.So they were initially scheduled to spend about
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a week on the International Space Station, but on June ninth, they announced
the departure had been pushed back toaccommodate a June thirteenth spacewalk at the ISS
and to allow more time for somecheckouts to make sure that they could get
these problems straightened out. And thenlast Tuesday, the plan departure date again
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was shifted to the twenty sixth,which would have been becoming Wednesday. The
extra time allow more detailed assessment ofthe helium leaks and the thruster issues.
This formerre astronaut, by the way, I saw an interview, he says,
listen, we're just trying to makesure that we do our due diligence
here, I think is just tryingnot to be complacent. You know,
that's what got us in both theChallenger and the Columbia accidents, not to
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mention the Apollo one fire back innineteen sixty seven, So try not to
repeat those mistakes, being extra cautious. I think that's what we're saying.
So NASA is going to do anotherspacewalk on July second, next Tuesday,
and they want that activity to bedone before Starliner comes home. That was
the latest news, although there's somepossibility that they extend that even more.
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That they put off that they putoff that spacewalk from July second, but
they said, listen, it's good, it's going well. They still have
confidence all of this, and theyactually said, if there is an emergency
aboard the International Space Station, theycould comfortably and reliably get back into Starliner
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and come home if they needed to, they said, but at this point
they want to make sure everything isready to go. They said, Starliner
is performing well in orbit. Whoare strategically using the extra time to clear
a path for some critical station activitieswhile completing readiness for Butch and Sunny's return
on Starliner. This has to clearthe certification, by the way, has
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to clear star Liner to fly sixmonth astronut missions to the space station for
NASA. SpaceX already does those withthe crew Dragon capsule, so SpaceX is
well ahead of Boeing when it comesto that. The companies in the middle
of their eighth contracted long duration crewedmission. Speaking of which, you didn't
see it last night. Another starLine, sorry, another Starlink launch from
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Vandenberg lit upy just about eight fortyfive close to nine o'clock last night.
You could see the plume from thefrom the trail as another SpaceX rocket took
off from here in California. Allright, Dodgers in Chicago, they're taking
on the White Sox tonight. Firstpitch is coming up at five ten.
Listen to every play of every Dodgersgame on AM five seventy LA Sports and
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stream all the games in HD onthe iHeart Radio app. Use the keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports powered byLA Care for all of LA Reminder.
Our talkback question today is are yougoing to be watching the debate coming up
on Thursday? Watching or listening righthere on KFI. You've been listening to
the Gary and Shannon Show. Youcan always hear us live on KFI AM
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six forty nine am to one pmevery Monday through Friday, and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app
This is Gary and Shannon and you'relistening to kfi AM six forty the Gary
and Shannon Show on demand on theiHeartRadio app. Hey, Gary and Shannon
KFI AM six forty live everywhere onthe iHeartRadio app. Shannon's out today,
but she will be back tomorrow.We are going to be seeing high temperatures
again. By the way, it'slate June. That's what happens in southern
(00:22):
California. The idea that we haveexcessive heat warnings and watches up in a
lot of different areas is not unusual. This is what happens in June.
There are other places where it ismuch much hotter, So we need to
pump the brakes on the whole everythingis falling apart. About forty four million
people around the United States under somesort of heat warning or advisory today,
(00:44):
and we will probably see some moredaily temperature records set in the Back East
area. But right now, thenumber of people affected by flooding is pretty
surprising for this time of the year. National Weather Service did issue heat warnings
to the southeast, the mid South, the central southern plains from South Dakota
down to Texas, but we're talkingabout flooding and flooding is very, very
(01:08):
weird at this point. Rising floodwatersin the Midwest have caused a bunch of
chaos. At least one person hasbeen killed in South Dakota, forced evacuations,
hundreds of rescues of people who arecut off. States of disaster declared
in twenty one counties across Iowa.Entire towns and cities have been cut off
(01:29):
from surrounding areas. They said.In South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota,
about fifteen inches of rain caused atleast thirteen rivers to flood, so
Clay County Emergency Management In Minnesota,some areas received eight times their normal daily
rainfall. It's not unusual for placesin the Upper Midwest to get rain,
(01:49):
especially in the afternoons. You knowthunderstorms, etc. That roll through in
the early part of summer. Butwhen the flood gauge itself is underwater,
that's sign of the apocalypse. There'smore rain to come. The Weather Service
forecast a new weatherfront is going tomove northward to the Upper Midwest, bringing
more moisture, slight risk of stormsthat could see bring very large hail and
(02:13):
tornadoes in that area. And thenof course that's going to move east towards
the Midwest the Great Lakes regions withstorms and a chance of flooding tomorrow and
Wednesday. The international story about heatis the number of people who have died
making the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj inSaudi Arabia. More than thirteen one hundred
(02:34):
people have died because it's one hundredand ten, one hundred and twenty in
many of those areas, and alot of these people are on foot,
they're walking, they're walking their pilgrimage. Basically part of the reason is they
don't have permits to be there.And I didn't realize that the Saudi Health
Minister and the Saudi Tourism Board andthe Saudi Religion they all require permits for
(02:59):
you to go to Hajj. Now, Hajj is a pilgrimage that you,
if your Muslims, are expected todo at least once in your life,
if it's possible, if it's possiblephysically for you to go, if it's
possible economically for you to go.And they're saying a lot of people this
year are trying to get it inbecause they're concerned about the economies in their
home country, specifically Jordan and Egypt, so the pressure is on them.
(03:23):
They're thinking this may be the lasttime they have enough money to scrape together
to get to Hajj. Now thatmeans they can get there on a visa,
travel visa, visitor visa, somethinglike that, But once they get
into Saudi Arabia, they don't havethe actual permit it takes to go to
(03:43):
the Hajj. So there is thisunderground world of Hajj permitting that exists.
For example, a thirty two yearold woman from Egypt her parents perform the
Hajj without an official permit. Thisyear. They paid about two thousand dollars
for their journey, facilitated by aperson in Egypt and then a broker in
Saudi Arabia, and they felt theyhad to go soon because, like I
(04:05):
said, the economic pressures in Egyptare starting to mount on people. The
president of Tunisia has fired their country'sreligious affairs minister because fifty pilgrims died in
Jordan, which recorded the deaths ofat least one hundred. The public prosecutor
opened an investigation into the illegal hougeroutes. Now again not just in Saudi
(04:29):
Arabia, but those brokers that wouldoffer up people ways to get there illegally
to perform this religious pilgrimage. Oneunregistered pilgrim who died was a grandmother from
the Egyptian city of Luxor. Accordingto her brother, she had not been
able to get a permit, butfound an Egyptian tour company that would take
(04:49):
her for about three thousand dollars.Now, she didn't realize that she was
violating the rules when she traveled toSaudi Arabia, and after she got there,
she told relatives she'd been put inan in at a housing prevented from
going outside, and when the touroperator promised air conditioned buses to take you
around Mecca, she instead found herselfwalking for miles in the heat. This
(05:12):
also is not unusual. I mentionedheat in southern California is not unusual.
In June. There are plenty ofpeople who die on a regular basis at
the Hajj. With two million peopleshowing up each year and it being in
the desert, Hello, a lotof people die from heat, stress,
or illness or chronic disease. Lastyear, seven hundred and seventy four pilgrims
(05:34):
died. Those are just the onesfrom Indonesia who died. And in nineteen
eighty five, seventeen hundred people diedaround the holy sites in Mecca, most
of them from heat stress. Seventeenhundred. So this is not This has
happened before. It doesn't make itany better, but it has happened.
A pro Palestinian protest outside of asynagogue in La turnfile and activists began gathering
(05:58):
in front of the Odas to asynagogue on West Pico just about eleven o'clock
yesterday and quickly met with counter demonstrators, many of them carrying Israeli flags.
Fistfights broke out at least one personwho was arrested. Sports Wise, the
Oilers have climbed back into the StanleyCup Finals. They have forced tonight's Game
seven. If Edmonton wins against theFlorida Panthers tonight, they would be the
(06:19):
first team since the nineteen forty twoToronto Maple Leaves, led by guys like
Billy Taylor, Sweeney, Shriner andsill Apps to come back from an three
deficit to win the Cup. Angelsat Anaheim, they're hosting the a's tonight
and the Dodgers in Chicago to takeon the White Sox today. First pitch
is at five to ten. Youcan listen to every play of every Dodgers
(06:41):
game on AM five seventy LA Sportslive from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth,
stream all games n HD on thatiHeartRadio app used the keyword AM five to
seventy LA Sports. The Supreme Courttoday has decided to get involved with the
camp I gotta find the right termthe of or care for transgender children.
(07:01):
Here you go. They will reviewa law specifically out of Tennessee that bans
gender transition care for anybody younger thanthe age of eighteen. This is going
to be the first opportunity the SupremeCourt has to consider the constitutionality of these
kinds of restrictions. Twenty three stateshave passed them since twenty twenty one,
(07:24):
although not all of them are beingenforced right now, or at least not
all of the states that have themhave actually made them into law just yet.
Transgender people, they're young people.Their families medical providers have asked the
Court to review a decision by theCourt of Appeals in the Sixth Circuit in
Cincinnati that upholds the law that barstransgender kids in Tennessee from accessing puberty blockers
(07:46):
and hormones. I understand that Kentuckywas part of that decision as well,
although the Supreme Court is not actingon the separate appeal out of the state
of Kentucky now. At the timethat this went into effect, Tennessee's Attorney
General, Jonathan Scrimmittee, said theSixth Circuit's ruling was a big win for
(08:07):
democracy. The Sixth Circuit is oneof three courts of appeal that has upheld
gender transition bans, and last month, South Carolina became the twenty fifth state
to adopt the law that restricts orbands gender affirming medical care for transgender miners.
Although the treatments have been available inthe US for more than a decade,
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but a lot of controversy. They'llhear the arguments in the fall,
and then we will see a decisionsometime about this time next year. Now,
there's a lot for them left interms of the Supreme Court and this
specific session. First of all,and most importantly, the two cases at
the absolute tip top of what theyneed to decide are presidential immunity and obstruction
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charges for those involved with the Januarysixth ride at the Capitol. President Trump
former President Trump is arguing that formerpresidents are immune from prosecution for any official
act they took in office, andthat the indictment that he's facing right now
from the Special Council charges of electioninterference have to be dismissed. Now,
(09:15):
the Supreme Court previously ruled former presidentscan't be sued for what they did in
office, but they've never actually hadto rule on criminal immunity. Now this
is important. There was some criticismlast week when all of these decisions came
out that did not include presidential immunitythat some legal scholars were suggesting that the
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Supreme Court was dragging its feet onthis one because they are in the bag
for Trump, or they've always keptthe most important decisions for the last decisions
that they release. This also meansthat whatever trial is supposed to take place,
this is not the one in Florida. This would be in DC.
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Whatever trial is supposed to take placefor election interference in DC probably wouldn't take
place before the November election. Evenif even if they rule against him,
and even if they say that apresident doesn't have blanket immunity. The other
one is a former Pennsylvania police officerschallenging what amounts to the validity of an
(10:20):
obstruction charge that was brought against hundredsof people who took part in the assault
on the Capitol. The issue iswhether a law that's meant to discourage tampering
with documents sought in investigations can beused in capital rioting cases. And that's
less impactful, but still gets sortof the bold headline because of what it
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is. There is a second abortioncase that they still have yet to decide
on whether doctors can provide abortions inemergencies in states that banned abortion after Roe
v. Wade was overturned. Andthen homelessness homeless This one's going to be
watched a lot, specifically on theWest Coast because it seems like policies here
on the West Coast are the onesthat are driving decisions on homelessness. This
(11:07):
is whether or not people can bebanned from sleeping outdoors when shelter space is
lacking. If you remember, therewas a case out of Boise where basically
you could not shuffle somebody off ofthe sidewalk unless there was an open shelter
bed available for them. So thiscase out of Grant's Pass Oregon is more
(11:30):
about whether or not you can dothat even if there is no shelter space
available. So all that is stillto compment. By the way, all
of those decisions, that's just youknow, three or four of them.
They've also got decision about environmental it'sa case called Chevron social media and what
can be done about it. PurduePharmas settlement, the air pollution, the
(11:52):
Securities in Exchange Commission, all ofthose decisions yet to come from the Supreme
Court. Will anybody be watching thedebate on Thursday? Yes, that's my
question. We will be carrying itlive on Thursday night right here on KFI
and of course on the iHeartRadio app. Heather, I have a quick message
for you from someone who appreciates yourtalent. Morning everybody. Steve from Bakersfield.
(12:16):
Want to wash everybody a good week. And I wanted to say hi
to my favorite weekend anchor, misHeather, who's feeling it for my favorite
weekday anchor, mis Amy. You'reawesome. Everybody's awesome, everybody on KFI.
I love this place. Thanks,have great day, guys, there
you go. That's so nice.Despite whatever you were worried about. People
(12:39):
criticized no, no, no.I was like, is it bad?
No Oh, what a lovely wayto start my week. Thank you so
much. Granted it's from Bakersfield.Well, so I'll take it. You
might get a case of valley feverjust from the message itself, but that's
a good thing. So listen.We're starved for attention. I'll take a
little positive feedback wherever I can getit. You're doing a great Thank you
(13:00):
all from Cyprus. A read anarticle this morning in the news about somebody
being attacked and killed by a sharkin Hawaii. I remember you guys talking
about it a couple of weeks ago. Well, sadly, that's fun.
Yeah, that's one of them.This was an actor and a lifeguard.
He was actually in Pirates of theCaribbean movies. He died over the weekend
(13:20):
in a shark attack while he wassurfing there on the north shore of Wahoo
yesterday. Was forty nine years old. A spokesperson for the Emergency Service Department
says, it's an extremely difficult time. I asked for your kindness your patients
to try to get this through theinto the next weeks and months. They
were able to respond to the attackvia a jet ski before they were able
(13:41):
to get this guy to shore.But basically, everybody knew him, everybody
loved him his time as a lifeguard, and then eventually died from his injuries
there as a result of that sharkattack. So well, that's great news.
Fantastic again. Thursday is the debateJoe and Donald Trump, hosted by
CNN, but you're going to beable to hear it live here on KFI.
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There's a couple of unique things aboutthis debate. I think the most
significant thing is that, for thefirst time in decades, it's not under
the purview of the Debate Commission.This is all put together by CNN.
The one in September is going tobe all put together by ABC unless something
changes between now and then. Butthis is the first time in decades that
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a single television network is going tohave discretion over the look and the feel
and the cadence and all of that. When it comes to a general election
presidential debate. The important things youknow that there will be no audience there,
that the two candidates will be seatedat a table, all of these
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things are All of these things areimportant because it changes the dynamic for both
of these guys. Starts at sixo'clock our time, could be the single
most watched moment of the presidential campaign, according to The New York Times,
but I would argue the last severalpresidential campaigns because of the consequences of this,
(15:11):
because of what we're looking for outof these two guys, and it,
you know, it depends. We'vetalked many times about the expectations for
what former President Trump has to doto score points, what President Biden has
to do to score points, andthe debate prep is obvious. I mean,
were there, and it's a verydifferent debate prep depending on which candidate
(15:33):
you look at. President Biden isis on vacation basically, but it's like,
I guess you could say it's adebate camp. They've talked about how
he has been practicing over and overagain with his advisors with a fake Trump
basically debating him on some of theseissues. And I'm sure that they're going
(15:54):
to do a lot of the goating, the interrupting, although the mics are
going to be cut off when you'renot speaking, so that won't necesscessarily happen.
Although do you think a cutof microphoneis going to stop former President Trump
from interrupting? I don't. Butthen you've got former President Trump who is
doing a lot of it sounds likekind of spitballing. He's doing a lot
(16:15):
of, you know, a giveand take argument conversations with some of his
vice presidential potentials and asking them whattheir opinions are on some of these big
issues so that he can take thoseinto Thursday night's debate. He's got a
problem because he's not a big specificguy when it comes to policy. He's
(16:36):
very he likes generalizations, he likesto say, he likes to paint with
a broad brush, and for alot of his audience, that's great.
But some of those independence that he'ssupposed to reach over and grab from Joe
Biden, whether they're a double hater, they don't like either one of these
guys and they're going to hold theirnose and vote for one of them,
or people who are just undecided betweenthe two. He's got to do better
(16:57):
at grabbing those people. So howdo you do that? Well. One
of the things that he's been saying. Trump has been saying is Over the
weekend, he was asking the questionin a rally in Pennsylvania, should he
be nice to form or to PresidentBiden? We one just about all of
those suckers, you know, wewant them. How should I handle him?
(17:18):
Should I be tough and nasty orshould I be Should I be?
She saying no? Should I betough and nasty and just say you're the
worst president in history? Or shouldI be nice and calm and let him
speak? Be tough, be tough? So bad, so bad? But
(17:52):
anyway, it'll be a good I'msure he'll be prepared. What's interesting I
saw is that the leadership, infiguring out what they're going to do with
this debate, said that they lookedback to the Kennedy Nixon debates in nineteen
sixty because they wanted to return toa very simple, classical format again,
the two candidates seated at a desk, no audience, microphone muted when you're
(18:18):
not speaking. This will be absolutelycrazy, and it's going for CNN specifically.
This is a marketing masterpiece because CNNhas been taking it in the shorts
lately. They are on track fortheir lowest rated month in prime time in
thirty three years, CNN has lostthat many viewers. They have fewer than
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one hundred thousand average viewers every nightamong adults twenty five to fifty four,
according to Nielson, Again, youdon't have to watch it on CNN.
You can watch it. You couldlisten to it right here on KFI.
Again. That's Thursday night. Yeah, I'm going to be watching the debate.
I'm actually having a debate party atmy house. Lots my friends are
coming over, hoping for a realshow. Oh, I can guarantee that's
what's going to happen. He Gary, regarding the debates on Thursday, I'm
(19:04):
not going to be watching. There'sreally nothing that's going to change my mind.
But you can listen. I'm sureof that. So I'll just get
the highlights from you guys on Friday. All right, see you bye.
Okay, Well we'll be here again. You can hear the debate Thursday,
six o'clock right here on KFI.Boeing's star Liner is going to stay a
doctor of the International Space Station atleast until next Tuesday. That's about a
(19:29):
week later than they expected because ofsome serious problems. Now, when this
went up, the star Liner,it was just a crew flight test.
They weren't really getting a whole lotof stuff out of this. They weren't
packing it full of equipment, etcetera for the International Space Station, although
there was some on there. Thebiggest deal was they just were testing it
with two crew members instead of themaximum four crew members. Astronauts Butch Wilmore
(19:52):
and Sonny Williams took the ride upto the International Space Station. Now the
arrival was it's not smooth. Theirlaunch itself had been delayed because of some
problems, and while it was inorbit chasing down the ISS, the Boeing
Starliner experiencing problems with five of itstwenty eight reaction control system thrusters. Everybody's
(20:15):
got those right. Four of themwere eventually brought back online, but they
also noticed that they have five smallhelium leaks in their propulsion system. Again,
one of them was actually spotted beforethey took off, but they figured
it's not a big deal. Fourof them cropped up after the capsule deployed
from its rocket to Atlas five.So they were initially scheduled to spend about
(20:40):
a week on the International Space Station, but on June ninth, they announced
the departure had been pushed back toaccommodate a June thirteenth spacewalk at the ISS
and to allow more time for somecheckouts to make sure that they could get
these problems straightened out. And thenlast Tuesday, the plan departure date again
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was shifted to the twenty sixth,which would have been becoming Wednesday. The
extra time allow more detailed assessment ofthe helium leaks and the thruster issues.
This formerre astronaut, by the way, I saw an interview, he says,
listen, we're just trying to makesure that we do our due diligence
here, I think is just tryingnot to be complacent. You know,
that's what got us in both theChallenger and the Columbia accidents, not to
(21:26):
mention the Apollo one fire back innineteen sixty seven, So try not to
repeat those mistakes, being extra cautious. I think that's what we're saying.
So NASA is going to do anotherspacewalk on July second, next Tuesday,
and they want that activity to bedone before Starliner comes home. That was
the latest news, although there's somepossibility that they extend that even more.
(21:49):
That they put off that they putoff that spacewalk from July second, but
they said, listen, it's good, it's going well. They still have
confidence all of this, and theyactually said, if there is an emergency
aboard the International Space Station, theycould comfortably and reliably get back into Starliner
(22:10):
and come home if they needed to, they said, but at this point
they want to make sure everything isready to go. They said, Starliner
is performing well in orbit. Whoare strategically using the extra time to clear
a path for some critical station activitieswhile completing readiness for Butch and Sunny's return
on Starliner. This has to clearthe certification, by the way, has
(22:33):
to clear star Liner to fly sixmonth astronut missions to the space station for
NASA. SpaceX already does those withthe crew Dragon capsule, so SpaceX is
well ahead of Boeing when it comesto that. The companies in the middle
of their eighth contracted long duration crewedmission. Speaking of which, you didn't
see it last night. Another starLine, sorry, another Starlink launch from
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Vandenberg lit upy just about eight fortyfive close to nine o'clock last night.
You could see the plume from thefrom the trail as another SpaceX rocket took
off from here in California. Allright, Dodgers in Chicago, they're taking
on the White Sox tonight. Firstpitch is coming up at five ten.
Listen to every play of every Dodgersgame on AM five seventy LA Sports and
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Our talkback question today is are yougoing to be watching the debate coming up
on Thursday? Watching or listening righthere on KFI. You've been listening to
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