You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Good morning, this is your wake up call for Monday, July first. I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King. Don't worry you, guys, You're still in good hands. We've got and here, and we've got Kno here. It's going to be a great morning. We're so excited to kick off July with you guys. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
President Biden was at Camp David on Sunday as he and his advisors continue to deal with the fallout from what many are calling a disappointing debate performance last week. We'll update you on whether or not the President plans to stay in
the race. And Americans are catching COVID again. We'll hear from experts who say, excuse me, you might want to pack some masks with you when you're packing up your Fourth of July luggage before you head out this week, And Wimbledon is happening in London. The best of the best in tennis are battling it out, and we'll tell you who's favored to win it all?
And at six oh five it's handled on the news in Washington. Big case there, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a highly anticipated ruling on presidential immunity. This morning will dive into what that means perform President Trump. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Planning work has begun in LA to get volunteers and to address traffic for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. LA needs tens of thousands of volunteers to help with all kinds of things when the games arrive four years from now. City Councilman Tracy Park, who cheers the city's Olympics committee, says LA needs to be ready a moment when Los Angeles will be hosting the entire world. We want to showcase the very best of what our city has to offer,
and that begins with preparation. The City Council on Friday instructed various departments to develop and present plans on recruiting volunteers and how they'll manage all the traffic on the roads and public transit in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News Nearly two dozen people have had to be rescued from the Increditcoaster at Disney's California Adventure in Anaheim. The ride broke down yesterday, leaving passengers stuck on the track.
They were given umbrellas to help deal with the heat as they waited to be freed. Disneyland employees wore safety harnesses as they helped people get off the ride. More triple digit temperatures are expected this week, with some areas in the high Desert getting as hot as one hundred and ten degrees by next weekend. The National Weather Service says that San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys will see highs
in the nineties all week. The Santa Clarita Valley and Valencia will hit one hundred and two degrees Wednesday and Thursday, and excessive heat warning will be in effect in parts of La County from eleven am Tomorrow to at least five am next Monday. California has been ranked the most eco friendly state in the US a study by the nonprofit organization Smile Hub show's California is the number one place
for environmental protection. In twenty twenty four, business manager Louke Powers says they used several key metrics things such as energy efficiency scores, industrial toxins per square mile, climate change vulnerability, share of state land designated for parts of wildlife, number of conservation programs, green buildings per capita. The states ranked to
the worst are West Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Family members say racing legend John Force is showing signs of improvement after a fiery crash at the National Hot Rot Association Virginia Nationals. His car hit the retaining wall and caught fire last week. Seventy five year old Force has been in the hospital since the crash. Family members he's being treated for traumatic brain injury and that he's been able to respond with slight movements when asked to open his eyes, squeeze the
hand of care providers, and move his extremities. A judge in New Mexico has rejected Alec Baldwin's latest attempt to have the involuntary manslaughter charges against him tossed out. Baldwin's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case because they say the gun that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one was damaged during forensic testing at an FBI lab. Prosecutors argued the damage does not deprive Baldwin of
a fair trial. The judge Friday found Baldwin and his team offered no evidence beyond speculation and conjecture that the unaltered gun could have exonerated the actor. COVID cases are on the rise across the United States, just as people are starting to get ready for the fourth of July. Maybc's Jim Ryan joins us Hi Jim, Hello, good morning. Joins us live from Dallas with details on how this will affect your travel plans. Good morning, Jim, Good morning
Heather. Yeah, you'd better be ready for it, because in forty four states around the country, according to the CDC, there's been an uptick in COVID cases and it's a sort of unusual variant. It's called flirt fl irt capital FL lowercase I capital RT. It's based on the technical names of the two mutations, the FL and the RT mutation. Somebody stuck an eye in the middle and there you have flirt. Well, that's the strain. These are sub variants of omoicron. And the good thing about that, Heather,
is that because there are subvariants of that strain we already knew about. The current vaccines are effective against it, so too is pax slovit. If you happen to get COVID, you should be protected. You should the pack sloat is going to help it to get through your system faster, all right. So I read here that the government is not going to be tracking COVID stats as intensely as they have been in the past. So how is that going to affect everything? Well, it's harder to get a firm clear picture of
what's happening out there in the landscape. But yeah, since twenty twenty one twenty two, the hospitals have not been required to report their COVID cases. The hospitalizations, even deaths are not being reported in the same way that they were before. But CDC came up with a pretty ingenious way of figuring out
what's happening out there. They have scientists out there testing the waste water of various communities, including Los Angeles, and looking for traces of the virus, and they're finding it, and that's how they get a decent picture of what's happening in any given community. So even without the hospital reporting or the individual
tracking of COVID cases. We have a pretty good idea of what's happening out there, all right, So are they still saying that masking is effective as it was against these previous viruses, Well, they're not saying it isn't, you know. So, and I still see a lot of people in stores and out there in public who are wearing masks and apparently feeling that it does
help to protect them. And in a place like you know, California, Nevada, Washington state places and Texas where the epidemic status shows that the case number is growing, it's probably a good idea if you're not feeling well to go ahead and put on a mask. At least you're protecting the people around you. And so, yeah, I think that that's still the assumption that, yeah, the was it as effective as people thought it might be.
Maybe maybe not? Does it work at all? Probably? Now, you know, this is something I really wanted to talk about today because I just found out that my daughter went to when she was at summer camp, two of her counselors got COVID. So it's definitely still something that's happening. It's
definitely still present in our communities. Let's talk about you mentioned paxlovid. Should people be visiting their doctors to get a check on their vaccine STATF is like, what can we do other than masking to prepare ourselves here, Well, yeah, yeah, get vaccinated, especially if you're over sixty five, And in fact, if you're over sixty five, you have access to a combination COVID slash flu vaccine. It's effective against both of those things, and people
sixty five and upper are recommended to get that particular vaccine. So yeah, that's still the best way to protect yourself. If you don't have a COVID card and your wallet like a lot of people did to show that they've been vaccinated, Yeah, you can check with your doctor who did the vaccinations, or the pharmacy where you went in and got the shots to see exactly what your shot record looks like. Now, let's talk about some of the effects
of this particular COVID variant. What else do we know about its impact on people who are catching this one. It looks very much like you did previous versions from what I'm reading here that the people you feel like you have a cold, you get some body aches and cough, sniffles, the same sort of thing that you would feel with the COVID before, which, by the way, also looks a lot like the flu, right sore. Getting this dual vaccination against those two is going to help to ensure that one or the
other, whether you have flu or COVID, you should be protected. So yeah, and don't hesitate to get to your doctor if you're feeling like you might be coming down with this coming down with COVID. The only place in the whole country, and there are forty four states according to the CDC, that are seeing increases likely increases in COVID cases based on the wastewater treatment they're
testing. Only Hawaii is showing a likely decline in COVID cases. Most of the rest of the places, California, Florida, up the East coast, they're all showing increases. Oh no, don't say that. You know, everyone's going to be packing their bags and heading to Hawaii now like they wouldn't anyway. Right, that's true, that's true. It is one of my favorite spots to travel. Well, thank you so much, Jim, I appreciate your time. Seeah, all right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man with a bow and arrow has been shot by venture A County Sheriff's deputies in Thousand Oaks. The Sheriff's office says two deputies may contact with the suspicious pedestrian yesterday. They say the man was also holding a knife and approach deputies in a threatening way. They say the man. They say the shooting happened when the man ignored commands to drop the weapon and continue to act in an aggressive way.
The man was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to federal prison in Connecticut to begin serving a four month sentence. Bannon was convicted of a felony in twenty twenty two for failing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Last week, the Supreme Court denied Bannon's request to remain free while he
appeals that conviction. ABC's Mike Tbuski says Bannon considers himself a quote political prisoner and says his sentence will only make his influence grow. Bannon also says he expects a landslide win for Republicans in November. A record breaking number of people are expected to travel for the Fourth of July this year. Triple A predicts nearly seventy one million people will travel about fifty miles or more during the holiday
travel period, which runs June twenty ninth through July seventh. Triple A says more Americans are taking extended Fourth of July trips this summer thanks to the flexibility of remote work. Over sixty million people are expected to travel by car, nearly three million more than last year, and airports could see a record breaking number of travelers as well, with around five point seventy five million people predicted to fly. Triple A says this is the first year the travel period was
extended to include two weekends. The cost of insurance is going up in California. Brian Clark says that's unwelcome news for many California insurance customers. California is dealing with an insurance crisis in State Department of Insurance spokesperson Michael Seller says there are not enough options, particularly if you're in a that has any kind of
wildfire risk, and some options are getting more expensive. State far and insures one in five homes in California had recently raised rates by nearly twenty percent, and now wants to increase rates by another thirty percent. State regulators say the request is raising concerns about State farm's financial health. Brian Clark ABC News a man has been stabbed at another may have broken a bone during a fight involving about twenty men near the Santa Monica Pier. Five men were arrested for the
fight Saturday afternoon. People in the city say they're concerned with all the violence lately in Santa Monica. This woman, who lives near Venice the Venice border, tells Ktlaight she sees attacks all the time. You can have as much enforcement as possible, but you know, the cops can't do anything until something happens, right, But what we'd like I'd like to see happen is to have something preemptively happen, which has help people who are sick. The mayor
has asked for emergency funds, more police and state assistance. He says the city council rejected his proposal last week to take millions from the city's budget to use for emergency security this summer. A San Fernando Valley, man suspected of using hidden internet marketplaces to sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fentanyl laced pills and cocaine to buyers nationwide, is expected to plead guilty today. A sixty one year old man and his three dogs had to be airlifted from a
remote location near Mount Luken's and the San Gabriel Mountains. He apparently became dehydrated and lost his cell phone connection while hiking. Temperatures will continue to rise across southern California this week, reaching as high as one hundred and ten degrees in the High Desert by next weekend, then at six oh five its handle. On the news, Governor Newsom has signed the twenty twenty four state budget, a cut about sixteen billion dollars in spending. We'll talk about why Newsom thinks
this is more fiscally responsible right now. President Biden met with his team of advisor and his family over the weekend to discuss the fallout after his disappointing showing at the presidential debate last week. ABC's Molly Nagel joins us live from the White House with details. Good morning, Hey, good morning, Heather. Yes, the President was spent part of his weekend at Camp David with his
family. This was part of a pre scheduled gathering there. The White House has been trying to really push back on the suggestion that this was an emergency session or something to you know, really assess the fallout of that debate performance. They say that this was something that was pre planned. The family's taking a photo together. So they've really tried to push back and tamp down any
suggestion that this was an emergency huddle after that shaky debate performance. But you know, it remains the fact that that is the story that continues over the weekend, people continuing to talk about what happened on Thursday night. You know, the Biden campaign and the President say that they are staying in this race. His family is also defending him. We saw Joe Biden on the cover
of Vogue this month. She says that they will not let those now twenty minutes to find four years that he of the time that he has been president, and that they will continue to fight. But they have a big challenge ahead of them. They need to now convince voters that, you know, any concerns that they had about his age before the debate that may have been reinforced when they saw him on that debate stage, we're just a bad night, and that he is up to the job and he can effectively execute the
office of the presidency. So what do you think was the biggest question that they had on their minds this weekend when they were meeting. Do you think they really were saying should we continue? Or do you think the conversation was more about how should we continue? Well, even the day after the debate, we saw the president back out in public. We saw him in North Carolina holding a rally in front of a crowd of supporters, and he made
it clear then that he was going to stand this race. He said he may not debate like he used to, may not walk this moves as he used to do, or talkis moves as he used to, but he's always going to stay. When he gets knocked down, you get back up and fight. And we're seeing thesempaign actually run an ad based off of that exact sentiment already, so kind of tells you how quickly they're trying to get ahead of this and try and change the trajectory. So I don't think that the
conversation this weekend necessarily was about what should we do? I think it was probably more forward looking into how do we move forward. They have made it clear that they intend to stay in this race. They point to twenty twenty when he was a candidate and really kind of counted out after some really slow starts at the beginning of the primary process. This is obviously a very different
situation. But their argument is that we've seen Joe Biden get knocked down and be counted out and kind of forgotten about before, and he has come back and won the presidency and he can do it again. But the question remains is can they undo any damage that might have come from this debate performance.
You know, it's funny I saw trending on x people were saying that Joe Biden's team should use that speech that he made the next day as part of their ad campaign moving forward, and then it looks like maybe they saw that and did you know, right after the debate there was a lot of analysts who are saying that Democrats had come forward, Democratic leaders had come forward in the party and saying he should step aside. Have any of those people changed
their tunes? Are we hearing anybody now who was a detractor then saying now, okay, let's see where this goes. So I think, you know, in the immediate aftermath, you heard a lot of people talking on background, talking, you know, maybe privately, expressing concerns about this. But so far, when it comes to elected officials in the Democratic Party, they
are staying in lockstep with the president. We saw a lot of his supporters out on the Sunday shows this weekend defending him, saying that they are supportive of him and what he chooses to do is so if he's staying in the race. There behind him, we Foundancy Pelosi, James Clyburn, Chris Coons, all of these folks coming out there to really signal their support for the
president and continued support for him. The closest we saw to some acknowledging that, you know, there are discussions ongoing with Congressman Jamie Raskin who said, quote, there are very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our party. So it's clearly not the same thing as saying, yes, we think the president should step down and is not up to the
task here. But it does show that you know, there are conversations that are ongoing, but so far Democrats are staying in lockstep and they are trying to keep the support strong for the presumptive nominee. And what kinds of things do you think we're going to see him doing over the next several weeks and months to win back any voters who maybe you know, we're on the fence,
or maybe change their mind a little bit after that performance. Yeah, well, I think the Buyden campaign has to take a stock of their strategy and how to maybe change it or strengthen it going forward when it comes to trying to accomplish just that. So one thing that this White House has been criticized for that we haven't seen them do as other administrations have is they haven't done as many interviews. They haven't done as many press conferences as us Biden's
predecessors have done at this point in their presidency. So we could see them trying to get him out more in interview settings or in front of the media to try and reinforce that he can take questions, that he is up to the task and can and can you know, work off the coffin off the fly. The other thing that you need for a successful campaign is you need money and you need voter support, and one way to see that is through pulling. So you have to imagine here that the campaign and the president are
keeping a close eye on how those two things are trending. Now in the immediate aftermath of the debate, our big donors pulling back, our polls showing that there's deficit, that it makes it hard for him to make up back ground. You know, time will tell with this, but the buying campaign right now is really working an overdrive to try and stop stem the bleeding from the debate stage and move forward in a way that helps to put the president
on stronger footing. Well, it certainly will be interesting to watch over the coming weeks and months. So thank you so much. Mo Nagel live from the White House. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two women in their fifties are suing the LA school district over alleged sexual abuse that they suffered in the nineteen eighties. The teacher say they did, pardon me,
The teachers they say did. In twenty twelve, Don Moore was profiled on America's Most Wanted while he was a fugitive. He was sentenced in nineteen ninety one to fourteen years in prison for abusing several girls. The News. Lawsuit claims the women were threatened with punishment if they spoke up about the alleged abuses, and that they didn't fully realize until twenty twenty three the psychological damage they suffered. Police in Riverside say an active shooter called an active shooter call at
the Mission inn was a false alarm. They say a TikTok video and a mistaken reservation call led to the report. Yesterday. They say there was no threat at the historic hotel. NASA and Boeing have again extended the first star Liner crew mission, but have not set a new target date for returning the two astronauts to Earth. NASA's commercial crew manager, Steven Stitch says they're not stranded on the International Space Station. Our plan is to continue to return them
on Starliner and return them home when at the right time. NASA and Boeing say the delay for testing is to gather more data about the spacecraft's performance, in particular its thruster systems. The Starliner launch June fifth, and it was supposed to be in space for nine days. Twenty passengers are safe today after being rescued from a roller coaster at the Disneyland California Adventure Park in Anaheim.
It happened on the Incredit coaster and passengers were given umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun. More than one hundred horses are in danger of being displaced, including some that are too old to be moved, and we need to be euthanized. After the city of Lake wid announced it could no longer afford to run their questrian center. The city says it plans to remove the equestrian center
and replace it with pickleball courts. An alleged robber has been killed in a crash while being chased by the man robbed at a gas station in LA's West Adams neighborhood and at six ZHO five its handle on the news. President Biden's family is encouraging him to stay in the race despite a disappointing debate last Thursday. We'll talk about what the president plans to do next. And at five point fifty, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether former President Trump
has broad presidential immunity that would shield him from criminal prosecution. Will tell you how this could have far reaching impact. And the first round of the Wimbledon Championship is happening in London. ABC's Tom Rivers joins US Live from London to talk about how several injuries are causing problems for tennis's biggest stars. Good morning Tom, Good morning Heather. Yeah, you're absolutely right. Everybody wants to have a good send off for Andy Murray, two time winner out here.
He certainly is cre out favorite, the first British winner since on the men's side since Fred Perry. But he says basically he wants to play this tournament, even though he had assist removed from his spine about ten days ago. He says it's feeling better, some problems with nerves in his right leg, but he says he wants to be in the singles tomorrow. We'll have to wait and see. S I think of briefing tonight on that. If not,
he could possibly play doubles with his brother Jamie starting on Thursday. Also, we have a Novak Djokovic, of course, he had a injury to his right knee at the French Open and of course, rehabilitation, and he says it feels painless. He's been practicing, so he's expected to start tomorrow as well. So I understand this is your thirty seventy year covering Wimbledon. Wimbledon. I keep saying with a t, I don't mean to do that Wimbledon. Yeah, I don't know why that comes out. I do that,
I say Wimbledon, Wimbledon. What are some of the changes you've noticed over the years. Well, I guess the big ones would be, you know, we were always looking at the sky and we still do that. It's overcast, but it looks like we're gonna get a pretty good day in today. But in the old days, we didn't have the roof on first of all, Center court and then number one court, but we certainly do these days. So we get to cover some tennis each and every day.
There were some days where just total total rainouts sent Over the years, too, we've seen more signed of the times, more barriers put up just to be able to drive just about up to every gate. Can't do that anymore, So, yeah, life is changed in that regard out here as well. I just read a few moments ago that there were some pro Palestinian protesters
outside Wimbledon. Have you heard anything about that? There? There could be I'm right by fourteen here, right next to center court, and no, I have no knowledge of that, but to think coming on in I certainly saw some protesters with placards as I walked down to a gate eighteen, but they weren't doing anything at that time. So maybe that that was the group getting together just about three four hours ago. So there is a lot.
I guess we're kind of waiting to see with these injuries and whether or not, you know, the biggest players, the biggest stars that we're everyone's kind of looking forward to playing. When will they actually have to decide whether or not they're going to take the court. Well, it looks like yeah, like Novo says he's been feeling good, he's going to be going to be starting his campaign tomorrow. We're expecting a briefing tron this evening here in London
on Andy's status. So we'll get to wait, you know, maybe a few more hours. Fingers crossed. He can do the single, so he can't at least maybe he can do the doubles. And he liked to say goodbye this time and he also wants to play the Olympics in Paris towards the end of this month now and then hang up his racket. He says, he really doesn't want to carry on and do the US Open. Thirty seven years of age and literally a laundry list of injuries and surgeries over the years.
You know, one thing. The other thing is interesting to me is the amount of celebrities that has taken an interest in Wimbledon and tennis, and specifically over the years. Have you seen any big stars or heard of any big stars that are going to be there in the green stands watching? Gosh? You know every year they pop up you kind of go, oh, I didn't know they were into tennis this year? I think the interesting thing.
The patron for Wimbledon is Princess Kate Middleton, and of course she showed up on the balcony for the trooping of the color, so you know what, if she could do that, maybe, just maybe she'll show up maybe for the finals this year in the Royal box. There's something certainly everybody here is going to be looking. Yeah, that would certainly be a nice surprise. Well, thank you so much. We'll be watching to see if they
decide to play, and who wins. In all the excitement from Wimbledon, Thank you so much, Tom, you got her all right, Let's get back to some of those stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Boeing has announced plans to buy Spirit Aerosystems for four point seven billion dollars in an all stock deal. Spirit manufactures key parts for Boeing planes. Boeing previously owned Spirit, and the aerospace company says bringing the supplier back into the
Boeing fold would improve playing quality and safety. Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, doctor Anthony Fauci, appeared on ABC this week to talk about his nearly four decades as director of the National Institute. Doctor Fauci says he resisted pressure to resign during the COVID pandemic because he felt he
needed to fight disinformation about the virus. I was afraid that despite the pressures in all the somewhat unusual things that were going on, if I did walk away from it, there would be very little opportunity to get the correct, potentially life saving information to the American public. Doctor Fauci has a new book out called On Call a Doctor's Journey in Public Service. A judge in New Mexico has rejected Alec Baldwin's latest attempt to have the involuntary manslaughter charges against him
tossed out. Baldwin's lawyers had asked the judge to dismiss the case because they say the gun that killed cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one was damaged during forensic testing at an FBI lab. Prosecutors argued the damage does not deprive Baldwin of a fair trial. The judge Friday found Baldwin and his team offered no evidence beyond speculation and conjecture that the unaltered gun could have exonerated the actor.
Hurricane Burrell is headed towards the Southeastern Caribbean. The category three storm is expected to make landfall in the Windward islands this morning. Hurricane warnings are in effect for Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Tobago and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Burrell is forecast to have life threatening winds and storm surge. Government officials have pleaded with people to take shelter.
A Palestinian health officials says Israel has released fifty five Palestinians detained in Gaza, including the director of the territory's main hospital. One of the leaders was detained in November when Israeli forces raided Shifa Hospital. He is accused of is He's accused Israeli authorities of mistreating Palestinian detainees. Israel accuses militants of sheltering in hospitals and using them for military purposes. Hospitals can lose their protection under international law
if that's the case. Planning work has begun in LA to give volunteers and to handle traffic for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. LA needs tens of thousands of volunteers to help with all kinds of things when the games arrive four years from now. City Councilman Tracy Park, who cheers the city's Olympics committee, says LA needs to be ready a moment when Los Angeles will be hosting the entire world. We want to showcase the very best of what our city has
to offer, and that begins with preparation. The City Council on Friday instructed various departments to develop and present plans on recruiting volunteers and how they'll manage all the traffic on the roads and public transit in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI news Governor Newsom has signed California's twenty twenty four budget. It includes about sixteen billion dollars in spending cuts to help close the state's forty seven billion dollar deficit.
Newsom signed it Saturday. He says it's a responsible budget that prepares for the future while investing in foundational programs that benefit millions of Californians every day. Part of the budget includes taking billions from this reserve Rainy Day Fund over the next two fiscal years. A study shows California ranked second in the US for
having the least road rage. California was second only behind Rhode Island for courteous driving, with point eight gun related road rage incidents per one hundred thousand people. A judge in New Mexico has rejected al Baldwin's latest attempt to have the involuntary manslaughter charges against him tossed out, and family members say racing legend John Force is showing signs of improvement since a fiery crash at the National hot Rod
Association Virginia Nationals. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that has been piling up off the coast of Gaza. We'll talk about why this is an important step in the war between Israel and Hamas. Right now, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man with a bow and arrow has been shot by Venturre County Sheriff's deputies in
Thousand Oaks. The Sheriff's office says two deputies make contact with a suspicious pedestrian yesterday. They say the man was also holding a knife and approach deputies in a threatening way. They say the shooting happened when the man ignored commands to drop the weapon and continue to act in an aggressive way. The man was
taken to the hospital in critical condition. Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is scheduled to report to federal prison in Connecticut to begin serving a four month sentence. Bannon was convicted of a felony in twenty twenty two for failing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Last week, the Supreme Court denied Bannon's request to remain free while he appeals that conviction.
ABC's Mike Debuski says Bannon considers himself a political prisoner and says his sentence will only make his influence grow. Bannon also says he expects a landslide win four Republicans in November. Right now, the Supreme Court is expected to you issue a highly anticipated ruling on presidential immunity. ABC's Stephen Portnoy joins US Life from Washington with more. Good morning, Stephen, Hey, good morning to you. All Right, So, what exactly is the Supreme Court ruling on today?
Well, the question that was asked is whether a president enjoys official an absolute immunity for official acts he undertakes as president. Now, exactly how the Court's going to rule? Well, if we knew that, we wouldn't have to wait. But we don't know, and we don't know whether the Court, for example, is going to draw a line at official acts and say that all official acts are a move from prosecution, or whether there is a test, some sort of line in the middle where the lower courts are going
to have to weigh certain equities and certain factors in certain circumstances. We don't know. We'll have a better sense of it, we hope in less than an hour and a half. We understand that this case is tied to January six election interference case involving President Trump, where he faces four criminal charges. What can you tell us about that? What can I tell you about the
January sixth case? Yes, well, the January sixth case involves the allegation that Donald Trump conspired with aids and allies to try to overturn the election results, ending in the riot at the Capitol. Now he denies that. But the question is how many of those acts he undertook as president were official,
how many were private? And could the court draw a dividing line and say that there's a way for the January sixth case against Trump to go forward focused squarely on the private acts things he did to advance his own personal interests rather than the powers he had as president to advance the interests of the country. Now, if the court order issues a complicated ruling today, that could result and protracted back and forth further appeals, kicking out the start of this trial.
Certainly past the election. We'll have to see. Now, I understand that this is a really pivotal moment here in our nation's history in terms of you know whatever they come out and say, what is this going to mean then for future presidents moving forward, or you know, the highest leader in our land, what will this mean for that role? Well, you're exactly right to note it that way. I mean, look, Neil Gorsich, the Conservative justice, said it at the oral argument. They're writing a rule
for the ages. This isn't just about Donald Trump. It's about all future men and women who will be president of the United States and all future prosecutions into their official acts. Let's see what the court rules now. For his part, Trump's team is arguing that without immunity, the presidents won't be free to make the right decisions. But what is the Justice Department saying on their side? Well, the Justice Department argues that there is no such thing,
that the founders never envisioned such a thing. Trump's attorneys also say that they acknowledge that there might be some circumstances where a president might commit a crime and should be prosecuted, but it has to happen after the Congress impeaches and removes convicts him at a Senate trial. That's one of the things they stipulate, by the way, because if you read the text of the Constitution, it says that a former president can be prosecuted. But the way they read it
is it only can happen after impeachment and conviction at a senate trial. I think too much has been made to the simplicity of their argument when you get into the nuance of the details. They actually say that there is no such thing as absolute immunity if Congress first acts to impeach and convict remove a president. So if they rule that he has immunity, do you think this will have an impact on his campaign moving forward? Well, that's hard to know.
I mean, we really it's hard to judge. There so many variables in the campaign. I mean, you could argue that I might that the cake is practically baked. Americans have a fixed view of Donald Trump one way or the other. They either really like him or they really don't. Well, this is certainly, as we've talked about, going to be a very important decision, and all eyes will be watching the Supreme Court today. So,
Steven, thank you. So much for your time. You back, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. More triple digit temperatures are expected this week, with some areas in the high Desert getting as hot as one hundred and ten degrees by next weekend. The National Weather Service says the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys
will see highs in the nineties all week. The Santa Flarina Valley and Valencia will hit one hundred and two degrees Wednesday and Thursday, and excessive heat warning will be in effect in parts of La County from eleven am tomorrow to at least five am next Monday. They are well trained, they're hardworking, and
they're disciplined. But ABC's Jim Ryan says, be the glamorous face of the most valuable sports team in the world is not getting anyone rich first and goal Prescott back, the lowest paid Dallas Cowboys player makes it over a million dollars a year. It's a different story on the sideline. Since I was little Dallas Coywis Shielders, That's what I want to do. A new Netflix documentary says the team's cheerleaders learned about as much as fast food workers, around twenty
two five hundred on average annually. In the series Cowboys, chief brand officer Charlotte Jones defends the low salary, saying the women get to be part of something bigger than themselves. Jim rillon ABC News Dallas, family members say racing legend John Force is showing signs of improvement after a fiery crash at the National hot Rod Association Virginia Nationals. Is car hit the retaining wall and caught fire last week. Seventy five year old Force has been in the hospital since the
crash. Family members say he's being treated for a traumatic brain injury and that he's been able to respond with light movements when asked to open his eyes, squeeze the hands of his care providers, and move his extremities. Lily Gladstone stars in the new film Fancy Dance. She plays Jack's Goodron, a member of Oklahoma's Seneca Cayuga tribe who is searching for her missing sister. Gladstone says her character is struggling to maintain hope while dealing with the harsh reality that her
sister may never turn up. As much for herself in now, my year started before my year started. There's a perception that started when Killers of the Flower Moon premiered. It can it started when Fancy Dance premiered at Sun Dance in January. So it's been a really lovely bookend to start this wild journey that led into Killers of the Flower Moon and is now kind of beautifully wrapping up for a minute anyways, with Fancy Dance. Fancy Dance is in theaters
now. Protests have been held in Upstate New York in response to the fatal police shooting of a thirteen year old boy. Body camera footage shows an officer shooting it time teen on Friday. Officials in Utica says say the boy pointed what looked like a gun at officers. Video shows the teen in what looks like a shooting stance. The weapon turned out to be a replica of a glock pistol with a detachable magazine. Hundreds of asylum seekers in Washington State want
officials in the Seattle area to let them move into a vacant hotel. About three hundred people have been shuffled from hotels to tents and back since they arrived in the US. They held a rally at a Christian church over the weekend to try to get into an Econo lodge bought by King County in twenty twenty as a COVID shelter. It's not easy to sleep outside. We have children. If you love the kids, you know we're gonna love every kid.
Please. The migrants have complained that conditions living outside are inhumane. California has been ranked the most eco friendly state in the US. A study by the nonprofit organization smile Hub shows California is the number one place for environmental protection in
twenty twenty four. Business manager Luke Powers says they used several key metrics things such as energy efficiency scores, industrial toxins per square mile, climate change vulnerability, share of state land designated for parts of wildlife, number of conservation programs, green buildings per capita. The state ranked the worst are for West Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. A study shows California ranks the second in the
US for having the least road rage. A study by personal injury law firm in Vegas analyzed data from all fifty states on six key factors, including shootings and aggressive driving crashes. California was second only behind Rhode Island for courteous driving, with a point eight gun related road range incidents per one thousand excuse me,
one hundred thousand people. A separate study ranks California fourth worst for road quality, despite the state's spending one hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars per mile on improving highways. NASA and Boeing have again extended excuse me, whoof it's still early in the morning, guys. NASA and Boeing have extended their first Diyelinder crewed mission, but have not set a new target date for returning the two astronauts to Earth. NASA and Boeing say the delay for testing is to
gather more data about the spacecraft's performance, in particular its thruster systems. This is KFI and kosd HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Heather Brooker. This has been your wake up call. If you missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. Make sure you subscribe to wake Up Call and leave us a comment. We'd love to hear from you you've
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