Morning Run: Iran/Israel Ceasefire? Heat Dome Record Temps, McDonald’s Boycott and Dolly Goes to Vegas!

Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Welcome to Morning Run. I'm Amy Robots and.

I'm TJ Holmes. And on the Run, There's morning. A cease fire is an effect between Israel and Aaran. But now before they got some final blows.

In and we gave up on coming up with some clever ways to describe this current heat wave. Just know it's hot as hell and hundreds of records are expected to be broken today.

Also this morning, police arrest then describe a dad as a human piece of garbage for what he was doing while his child was dying in a hot car. Also fire up the deportation planes Homeland Securities response to the Supreme Court's latest ruling allowing the deportation of undocumented criminals to countries who'll accept them.

And today will be the final day of testimony in the Diddy trial, as the prosecution and the defense are both set to rest their cases. Plus should we be using what if Congress doesn't even trust it?

Also on the Run This Morning, Indiana Pacer superstar Tyrese Halliburn apologizes to the city of Indianapolis from his hospital bed. Also, my McRib is going to have to wait, because apparently we're supposed to be boy hunting McDonald's today, and Dolly Parton says, get your rhyin stones ready. She is returning to sen City to do something she hasn't done there in thirty years. Very exciting news for Donaphis.

A lot of folks are celebrating today with that news. But we begin our morning run with a major announcement. As of this morning, a ceasefire is in effect between Israel and Iran, and this comes after a fast moving and at times confusing turn of events in the Middle East on Monday.

It started with Ron launching retaliatory attacks on a US military base and cutter, which was called a very weak attack by President Trump and resulted in no casualties and had limited impact. That was followed by President Trump later in the day making an out of nowhere announcement that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire.

That was followed by crickets from both Iran and Israel, who did not immediately confirm that there was in fact a ceasefire and actually kept up their missile attacks on one another in the hours after the ceasefire announcement, and in fact they kept up their attacks on each other right up until the time for the deadline to go in effect. Israel and Israelian and Ronnie and officials eventually did acknowledge agreeing to that ceasefire.

President Trump, who was particularly active on social media yesterday, announced the ceasefire in a message that started congratulations to everyone that was in all caps. By the way, he said that before the ceasefire would began, Israel and Iran would wound down. They're already in progress and final mission, so that might account for some of the final blows we saw, and then Iran with cease operations first, followed by Israel doing so twelve hours later.

President Trump wrote, on the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both countries, Israel and Iran, on having the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the Twelve Day War. This is a war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God blessed the Middle East, God blessed the United States of America, and God bless the world.

We all sound like friends again.

Yeah, there's already been a few more missiles fired.

Didn't We just saw that as of this recording, folks, the ceasefire is an effect. And just moments ago we did get a word that missiles were still being lobbed at each other. Do you know who it was? Iran?

Iran fired some missiles into Israel. So we'll see if the ceasefire holds. It is certainly tentative and probably changing by the minute and by the hour, So please day to his updates.

In every ceasefire we cover, somebody described as a shaky ceasefire.

Yes, and someone always violates it. Then the other side points the finger at the side that fired the missiles, and then they retaliate, and hopefully it will die down and eventually dissipate altogether.

All Right, We're going to continue the run now with the more than two hundred and fifty record highs and record lows that could be set by the end of the day today. The record lows are only record lows because they're so high. It's so hot. It's not suppose your low for the day is not supposed to be eighty three. If you get what we're saying, Whether experts say this dangerous heat wave could reach its peak in some cities today through Wednesday, and this could go into Thursday.

Folks, that's right. More than one hundred and fifty million Americans are under heat warnings as this heat dome continues to bear down on the eastern half of the US, with a level four out of four extreme heat risk, giving people zero relief, yes, even in the overnight hours. Here in New York, Central Park reached a record high of ninety six on Monday, tying a record set back

Across the river there from US, more than one hundred and fifty people were evaluated for heat related illnesses and sixteen people ended up in the emergency room during graduation ceremonies in DC. Washington Monument was closed yesterday and remains closed today because of the heat, and the Midwest roads were buckling from the extreme heat, officials warning more streets may crack as the temperatures continues to stay high.

Isn't that crazy to think about that. Asphalt is cracking and buckling. That's how hot it is here in the mid Atlantic. In the Northeast, trains were running slower with wires sagging in the heat. Amtrak travelers were delayed because of temperature related speed restrictions, and one stalled train in Baltimore left passengers trapped in that heat with no AC

It was silly to pick a train that late. For sure enough, I got an alert it was going to be an hour and a half delaid in getting back at midnight. So again I pray you all forgive me. I have not had a wink of sleep this evening.

Your aura score is zero.

It actually is zero. I shouldn't have told people that. Now they're gonna judge me very harsh.

I think they'll forgive you.

Okay, maybe I needed that. We will continue the run here now we are in the middle of this heat dome phenomenon, and unfortunately, it seems every year we do hear stories on the news about kids dying after being left in a hot car. In fact, last year there were thirty nine hot car deaths involving children.

And oftentimes, and most of the times, this happens when well meeting parents or caregivers make a mistake, They forget they have their child in the back seat, they forget to drop off their child where they were supposed to. In fact, the National Highway Safety Administration says that is the case in more than fifty percent of child hot

This is a really tough story here, folks. A dad is now facing aggravated manslaughter charges in the death of his eighteen month old son, and in announcing the charges, the police chief called the dad and I quote, a human piece of garbage. He also called him, and I quote, a lying sack of shit. This is coming from the police chief. Now. Scott Allen Gardner is the man's name.

I have chills from head to toe. That makes me physically ill. Get this, It was ninety degrees outside the window of the car is being described as slightly down And according to police, Gardner went for that haircut at eleven thirty am. This happened on June sixth, left his baby in the car. Then about thirty minutes later, he left the barbershop and went across the street to a lounge and drank for three hours.

They were even specific in saying he drank beer and had shots while he was there. When he eventually left that bar, police say he went to his mom's house and that's where he called nine to one one. But the boy was already dead at that point, and the hospital says his body temperature was above one hundred and seven degrees.

And get this, after the child's death that day earlier this month, Gardner and his mom went back to the same bar for drinks the same night his child died. Gardner is now being held without bond. And who said this quote you have at the bottom of the script.

This is again with from the police chief.

He said, I don't think there's a penalty on this earth that could ever fit for the crime that was committed.

Here just didn't have to happen. I mean to go take him in the bar if you want to, and that's an appropriate It is not good parenting. But thats just it's completely unnested. This did not have to happen. It's eighteen month old. And the pictures, of course little blonde had big smile. They say, oh it's hard, it's just awful. But we think about how could anybody do not this? But like you always think as apparent when we had little ones, I'd never leave my kid. I'll

It's usually when a change of schedule happens. We you and I have both had to have covered it. I certainly have where you normally you never do do the drop off, and then suddenly you're required, you get a phone call that redirects you forget the child in the backseat. I can understand that. But this is inexcusable and disgusting.

All right, We're going to continue on the run here on this Wednesdays. It's Tuesday, on this Tuesday morning, continue on this Tuesday morning. With the Supreme Court, it is now paved the way for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to third countries, meaning countries that they have no connection to.

Yes, the nation's highest court put on hold a federal court's ruling that allowed convicted undocumented immigrants to make the claim they would be at risk of torture, persecution, or death if they were sent to those countries. The court did not explain its reasoning, but one advocacy group said the ramifications of the Supreme Court's order will be horrifying. It strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death.

The Department of Homeland Security had a different view on it, saying it was a victory for the safety and security of the American people, adding that the Department can now execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens there were to a country willing to accept them. Fire up the deportation planes. That is from our department of Homeland Security. Now all three liberal justices dissented in this decision.

Next up on the Run, the prosecution and the defense are both expected to rest today in the Sean Diddycomb's trial. The government's final witness, a Homeland Security agent, will continue under cross examination this morning and when he finishes, prosecutors say that will rest their case.

The defense says it'll rest right after that because they're not putting on any witnesses, not one. Rather, they're going to submit some exhibits and as evidence and that's it. So this is now the tentative schedule. Both sides rest today Tuesday.

Yes, and attorneys and the judge will then hash out jury instructions tomorrow. Then on Thursday, closing arguments both sides are believed to be take. We'll take about four hours and then the jury is expected to get instructions and possibly start deliberating the case on Friday.

This is a very important week and we do these stories day in day out, but something robes We forget dimension is what the charges are. So a refresher here to remind you what's at stake for him. He's facing five counts. One is a racketeering conspiracy count that carries a possible life sentence. He's facing two sex trafficking counts those each have a fifteen year minimum, and then two transportation to engage in prostitution counts those come with a ten year maximum.

Next up on a roan a question for you, do you trust WhatsApp because Congress sure does and the messaging app is being banned on all government issued phones used by staff in the House.

And the staffer has got the memo Monday from the House Chief Administrative Officer who said the app was deemed high risk to users due to the lack of transparency and how to protect user data apbsence of data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use. That is not a ringing endorsement of WhatsApp. And not only did the memo dump on WhatsApp, it also recommended other better, safer, secure apps that are proved for use, like Wicker. I don't know that.

One, Wicker, I don't know Wicker at all.

Signal, Imassage, FaceTime and Teams or some that they recommend it people use.

And you can imagine, Meta, who is the parent company of WhatsApp, was none too pleased with this news and responded by saying this, we disagree with the House Chief Administrative Officer's character in the strongest possible terms. We know members and their staffs regularly use WhatsApp, and we look forward to insuring members of the House can join their

I assume this has to extend those in confusion about whether or not this would apply to House members themselves. It applies to the staffers. I assume we would have to.

It seems like it should. Yes, it seems like that would be a blanket statement. If you're saying it's not trustworthy, then it would apply to everyone.

Right, Well, folks, stay with us here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back an apology from a hospital bed. Also, you might want to put down those McDonald's fries just for a couple of days. We'll explain why you're not supposed to be eating them this week. And Dolly is back. If you want to see her, you gotta go to vas all right, folks, let's continue on this Tuesday morning run. Next leg takes us to Indianapolis, where the Indiana Pacers confirmed what was suspected. They're superstar.

It hurts me just to hear that. Oh. It happened in the first quarter of the deciding game, which Oklahoma City went on to win handily. He had already been nursing a leg injury, but was determined to play Game seven. He released a lengthy statement that was full of raw emotion. Here's part of what he said. I've worked my whole life to get to this moment, and this is how it ends. Makes no sense now that I've gotten surgery. I wish I could count the number of times people

You can see where that could come from. People just used to say saying certain things to you when you have moments and I look, I this might seem silly. I was writing this story and the one about the little boy in the car. I was in tears writing those two stories. This morning again, I having slept a little punchy and emotional, I suppose, but this really some of his words really got to me. Halliburton here he went on to say that honestly, right now, torn Achilles

That's devastating. But you know, hopefully there have been other success stories of people turning it around. So she knows there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But it's going to be a long road, all right. Next up on our run, it's McDonald's turn to be boycotted. Today is the beginning of a so called McDonald's blackout that's supposed to last through the end of the month.

And advocacy group behind this has targeted a number of companies by four abandoning DEI programs. They call it their economic Blackout Tour, which has included previous boycotts of Target and Walmart. They claim economic resistance works and just as Target.

Yes, Target experienced a hefty drop in sales this year, which was attributed to a number of factors, and Target itself admitted that one of those factors was the backlash from changing their DEI policies. This is a tough spot for companies because the Trump administration is ordering one thing and then consumers are demanding another. So we shall see the impact this may have, possibly on McDonald's.

We don't leave McDonald's almost ever.

No, but I do love it maybe twice a year.

What isn't that the slogan did you do that on purpose? Bah? Bah? Bah bah? He said, I love it? Did you do it on purpose?

No? I just was speaking from the HEARTDJ from the Heart, all.

Right, volks, And for the final leg of our run, we are headed to Vegas. Not figuratively this time. Really, me and Robes are going to Vegas because Dolly is going to be there. Dolly Parton, who retired from touring a decade ago, says she is coming back to the stage for a mini residency.

She's going to do six concerts at Caesar's Palace later this year, and in making the announcement, she started with this, she's so cute. Grab your rhinestones. Vegas is calling and she is no stranger to Vegas. It's just been a while, like as in thirty years plus. Tickets for Dolly Live in Las Vegas go on sale on Wednesday. There's a specific time, is it ten am on Wednesday? I believe the people who are going to be on their computers

She gave up she was she retired from touring, but that didn't mean she retired from performing. She just didn't want to be out in the road anymore. You know, husband will hanging out. I'm too old for this and I got too much other stuff going on, But yeah, this is really cool. There's going to be a demand for them to add more shows.

I think, you know, and I think this is so cool because we all know her longtime love of sixty years, her husband of sixty years, Carl Deane, passed away in March, and so you know, I know she's talked about battling depression and dealing with the loss of the love of her life, and so this is pot you know, I think this is a beautiful way to do it, to go back to do what she's great at, to do with fans love, and just to feel all of that love on stage.

I was worried, you know, that was a thing. They called that heartbreaking. Yeah, I was. It's good to see her active. This is probably very good for her to stay active in doing what she loves after she lost her love. So, Dolly, we will see you in Vegas. Before we go, though, something we'd like to leave you with. Something we'd like for you to consider as you go about your day. Our quote of the day.

That's right, Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime, you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it. If you can but train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. That is from Ernest Hemingway, and it's the.

Key to happiness if you can actually do that. You and I have done this, and you've we've seen each other evolve in this way over the years. When something happens, isn't nothing is going to change the situation by me worrying.

About it, nothing at all. In fact, it's only going to bring you down and bring your energy down, and bringing your energy down changes your vibrations, which changes everything in your life. So that's right, and this is something we can all do. Just all you do is catch yourself when you're doing it. Some people call it future casting, some call it future tripping, but this really is just fature.

Tripping time right over your future.

Right and you're freaking out. You're spiraling over what could happen, what might happen, And most often when you look back and reflect, it never happened. It's what you didn't even worry about or think about. It comes your way and slams you up against the wall. So one more time for you, courtesy of Ernest Hemingway, worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime. You will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can, but train yourself not to worry. Worry never

I'm Amy Robots and I'm DJ Holmes. Remember we will be posting a Diddy Daily update as we have been doing throughout the trial. You can look for that around what noon Eastern time, but it will be there for you as well. Appreciate you all listening as always, Talk to you soon.