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Cam. If I am six forty, you're listening to wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Good going everyone, Wake Up Call Monday, July seventeen. Do not adjust your set. I have a killer sinus infection, had a five days. It's just so if it sounds like I'm talking through a tube, it's it's mostly just because that's the way my head feels. So I'll be doing a lot of dumpouts and hitting that cough button. Thank you

for joining us. Hope you're having a better start to your week. It's Barbenheimer week. Oppenheimer and Barbie later this week. If you go see the double Bill, apparently if you see Oppenheimer first and then Barbie, that seems to be the trend. If you see Barbie and then Oppenheimer, then apparently you're quote out of your mind. We'll have more on that this week.

For sure. Saw Mission Impossible over the weekend. If the jittersitegeist around artificial intelligence has your attention, that's your movie, and especially if you like ground level camera angles. Let's get into some of the other more important news coming in this morning. I wake up call. The man accused of fatally shooting four people in Georgia has been killed following a man hunt. Authority you said

yesterday, the monster is dead. Heavy weather, both heat and rain is hovering all over the US, with several deaths on the ground, thousands of flight delays, and several air quality alerts. More on that throughout the hour and all morning. It's unclaimed tax refund deadline day, so checked IRS dot gov to see if you are owed to check from the FEDS. Today is the deadline. If you don't claim it and the average is a nine hundred

dollars refund, then it's gone forever. Let's start with some of the other stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour news room this morning. Firefighters in Riverside County are may progress in battling four wildfires as his heat wave broke records across the state and sent residents, of course, scrambling for relief over the weekend. Passenger rail service through San Clementi is back on track following

months of multiple closures due to landslides. The emergency construction of a temporary two hundred and fifty foot long, twelve foot high barrier is meant to protect the tracks from debris falling down an unstable hillside. Beneath Casse. Romantica Cultural Center

pilings were dugged thirty two feet in the ground to strengthen the wall. OC Transportation Authority says the work is complete just in time for peak summer travel season between Orange and San Diego Counties, which OCTA says includes Comic Con International, which starts Thursday in San Diego in Orange County. Corbin Carson ko Fin News investigators in New York say a new look at an old clue helped lead to the arrest in the so called Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island. It was

a pickup truck tied to a missing woman and architect Rex Huerman. He's charged with killing three women and suspected in the death of another. These women all had things in common. They were all young. They were in their twenties, twenty two to twenty seven years old, they were all petite, and they were all sex workers. Aaron Katurski says the bodies were among at least

ten found on Gilgo Beach in twenty ten. At least five people have been killed in flooding in southeastern Pennsylvania. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says two children, nine months and two years old are missing. Authorities in Bucks County say the family was visiting from South Carolina when their vehicle got swept away by the flood waters. Flash flood warnings have been issued for parts of New York and Connecticut, and significant river flooding is possible along New York's coast, New Jersey, and

Delaware. The severe weather has forced ground stops at airports in the New York area. More than twenty six hundred flights were canceled and more than eighty three hundred were delayed across the US yesterday. Heat advisories and warnings are in place across southern California because of the high temps. San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys

should see temperatures in the upper eighties to around one hundred today. The Santa Clarita Valley should expect highs up to one hundred and four, and the Antelope Valley should see around one hundred degrees maybe a little bit warmer. Highs in Orange County will be in the eighties and nineties. The union president at UPS called on workers to be prepared for a strike as the teamsters pushed for higher part time wages, the last major sticking point for renewing a five year labor

agreement that expires on July thirty first. Shaun O'Brien says he is asking the White House not to intervene in case of a walkout. The teamsters have communicated to the White House on numerous occasions to not get involved if there was a strike, which would begin on August first, if the deal is not reached. First topic today, ABC's Tom Rivers has Wimbledon. Hey Tom, good

morning, Good morning. Did you watch a match? No, I caught the highlights the push notification on my phone, though, said a Wimbledon final for the ages, Why yeah, it was. It was quite a well, it was a very strity with a five center, but it was very spring we had. We had Djokovic coming out like a house on fire, taking the first six to one, and everybody in the radio room thought we're gonna be up in the bar very very quickly, but not the case.

Second set went to a tiebreak and Carlos took that. Then it became a slug fest. As match lasted nearly five hours, came down to the fifty cider and Djokovic's serve was broken in the third game. That's only room that the young Spaniard needed, and he then took that six four. So yes, maybe a changing of the guard. You know, for the past twenty years we've looked at the same four four names at Wimbledon, and you know, one by one they're retiring. So yes, Alcarez looked very very good,

very very sharp. As I said, I think we just lost Tom around for a while. Tom. I'm sorry, we're having a little trouble with the line. But I caught you at the end there. Um, it sounds like okay, six to one in the first set, and you were like, okay, well this this looks like a cruise fest for Djokovic. M But sometimes players tend to, you know, after they know they're gonna lose the set, they leave something in the tank. And that seems

to be what happened in the second set. What was your take on that? Yeah, well, you know, well he looked a little bit on, you know, Albert said, look, Elk said that, Look, you know, I was feeling a bit nervous about this, you know, as he said after the match, facing the guy that was his hero. Uh he said, uh, you were winning matches when I was born in the crowd and center cord laughing at that one. Um, but yeah, nerves certainly part of the landscape. But you know he picked it up.

And as I say, then once, once we were at once set a piece, you had to you could write two different stories with two different computers, saying youth was served or the veteran one out because you couldn't write it until the very buried end. No, Djokovic is known it to be a

tad mayor curial. How was he after the match and what happened in anything happened during the match with Djokovic in his temper, Well, yeah, I know if you noticed this, and it's in the highlights, but he got really really frustrated by the end of the match and smashed his racket into the

net post and putting a mark on there. But he was pretty pretty magnanimous in the comments after the after the defeat, he said, you know, in retrospect, some of his majors, he said, you know, maybe I was lucky to win, and maybe some of those wins, you know, flip a coin, it could have been a loss, so he said, look, he put everything into this one. So maybe the fates have said, okay, even Stephen Sam for you to lose one. But again, at thirty six, you might say that's it, he's going to be

checking out. But I think given the way he approaches the game, he's still going to be a contender for the next maybe year or two. So he's gonna be around. He's not He's not being written off yet. So okay with alca Oz, he's twenty years old. Is this a get to know me kind of a situation or a sustainably solid player to keep an eye on moving forward? Yeah, I think it's the ladder. He's part of the new generation coming up, and he looks like the leading figure in that

new generation coming up. You think back all the years that have been covering out at Wimbledon. You had the epochs with maybe at the end of Samprus and uh, you know, we had some of the Australian contingents, et cetera, et cetera. Now it's the turn really of a new generation of youngsters and uh yeah, we got to get reinvigorated and and watch this game and not the same four individuals on the men's side, you know, going to be in the final at Wimbledon. Those days are are gone and diminishing

very very quickly. This could will would have been Andy's Andy Murray could have been his last Wimbledon. We don't know yet. Nadal might be checking out the next year, et cetera, et cetera. Federa has already done that, so yeah, certainly a changing of the times. Hey, tom My, last question. As I mentioned at the top, I did not watch the match. I just saw some highlights. I didn't watch the women's final either. Can you get his caught up on what happened there? Yeah.

Marquetta von Rossova, twenty four year old. Check. She was at woman last year, but as a spectator because she had a second surgery on her wrist. But she came in and this is a nice little tidbit. She is the first women's champion to capture the title as an unseeded player, so

that's pretty amazing and she did very very well. Indeed, Uh, it's interesting little note to her husband had been still at home in the Czech Republic and he didn't fly over until the actual final because he was cats sitting, so he finally found somebody there that could take care of the cats. Fluent the most exciting match and maybe the most memorable match he's ever played in your

life. Outstanding, Tom, always a pleasure to speak with you. Thank you for giving us the time and the catching us up on what happened on the grass quarter of the weekend. Thank care I should have asked. I have a sense that Tom rivers from ABC as a killer kick serve. I'm just guessing. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Part of a key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia's mainland has been blown up and what Russian officials say was a Ukrainian attack that killed a married couple and injured their daughter. It's the second major strike on the bridge since October, when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections. Russia's National Anti Terrorist Committee says the latest attack was staged by the Ukrainian

Special Services and involved two sea drones. Russia has stopped a wartime deal that allows grain from Ukraine to go to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Russian spokesman Dmitri Piskov says his country will suspend the Black Sea Grain Initiative until its demands to get its own food and fertilizer to the world are met. Russia has complained that restrictions on shipping and insurance have hampered its agricultural

exports. The FBI is looking at the La County Sheriff's Department over two use of forces cases. Also recently released bodycam video of a deputy in Palmdale presumably punching a woman in the face while she holds her baby. The other case involves the takedown of a woman at a grocery store by deputy in Lancaster. Both cases have generated outrage by activists and politicians, with some calling for the

firing of the deputies involved. Sources with the Sheriff's department confirmed federal agents have visited sheriff's officials. The sources said the FBI is doing a criminal investigation in the department plans to fully cooperate. Steve Gregory Campine News. Four wildfires have burned more than eight thousand acres in western Riverside County. The largest, near the community of Lake View that's close to Mystic Lake, has grown to seventy

six hundred acres since Friday and is twenty five percent contained. Evacuation orders and warnings are in place. Another fire burning over the weekend started in Richie Canyon in Marino Valley and has blackened to four hundred and thirty seven acres. It's eighty percent contained. A wildfire that's burned one hundred and five acres near Beaumont is ninety five percent contained, and a fire in Paris remains at three hundred

and thirty eight acres with fifty percent containment. More than ten thousand Californians are waking up in the dark today. La County has the biggest chunk of power outages, followed by San Bernardino Intolari. State energy regulators, along with PG and E have been urging people to limit their AC usage during the heatwave. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is defending the plan to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine.

Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday, Sullivan dismissed the suggestion the US has lost its moral authority because of President Biden's decision. In the Bay Area, the horse track Golden Gate Fields is going to close its gates and doors at the end of this year, it's not clear if the land is going to become a state park or open green space. Having lived there for a while, I until there's a big, beautiful dog park nearby. Just make

it bigger. That's a way to do it. At five thirty ish, the would be GOP presidential nominees reported their fundraising efforts, among others, and how much money each campaign has on hand and what it's spending. ABC. Steve Roberts is going to join us to get the numbers on campaign financing what they can mean, kind of reading the t without too much math on the

radio. All right, now, we're gonna look at some tech headlines and a little bit of business headlines too, because we had actual tech headlines come in over the weekend, and he's a headline generating machine. Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk said over the weekend that things are still no bueno at Twitter when it comes to revenue. Back in March, Twitter owner Elon Musk said there was

a chance the company would report positive cash flow in the next quarter. A month later, Musk suggested most advertisers who'd fled the site had returned, but June has come gone and Twitter still has cash flow issues. By Musk's own admission on Saturday, Musk said that two major factors are keeping Twitter's cash flow in the red, a nearly fifty percent drop an advertising revenue and a heavy debt load. Now he said there was only two major factors. I guess

he just didn't have a mirror in the office. It's not clear when the ad revenue fell by half, But what is clear is the inefficacy of Musk's moves. So let's review the bidding on his cost cutting measures mass layoffs, cutting four out of every five employees since his takeover. Then there's the refusal to pay Twitter's obligations too from vendors like advertising services that serve the ads to landlords in Denver and other places, and cloud service providers basically Amazon Web Services.

So you're taking on Amazon with that one. Then there's Twitter's mounting legal bills as it grapples with a suite of lawsuits, not only including copyright violation suits, also a big lawsuit from former employees who claim they are still owed severance to the tune of cumulative five hundred million dollars. And then of course there's threads Mark Zuckerberg's most recent copy paste attempt at gobbling up another social media

platform. It's kind of like he tried to do with Instagram Stories and Snapchat. And there's a little bit more for this week in Elon Musk. That's right, our mercurial billionaire, multi billionaire Elon Musk is in the news again this week. This time it is a little bit about artificial intelligence. Now, just when we thought we thought that Musk couldn't handle any more companies, he's doing so well with Twitter right now, SpaceX that's a win. Tesla

continues to be a market leader. Neurallink, that's one of the healthcare mapping of the brain situations with high tech. Don't hear too much about that these days, which is probably good, honestly. And of course the Boring Company. The boring company was the mining company because Elon moved over to the West LA and decided that the four oh five was just too jammed. He wanted to build a tunnel underneath it, so he started a company called the Boring

Company, and not much progress on that just yet either. Of course, building anything in Los Angeles County is not necessarily easy or encouraged. In a lot of ways, and now Elon Musk is apparently behaving a little bit like an addict when it comes to his serial entrepreneurship, which usually is not a bad thing. This new one is called x AI small X Capital A capital I. It's his latest venture and it's gearing up to challenge open ai.

And if you heard that click right there in my voice, that's because I have a killer sign it's infection. Now. The company that Musk co founded but later accused of being biased and woke was open Ai. Remember he signed a letter with a lot of other tech types who really got caught kind of flat footed. Now they knew open ai was there, but they didn't know that chat GPT, which open Ai fuels, was going to bolt on to

Microsoft's search engine BING. At the beginning of the year, everybody was starting to play catch up in the marketplace at the consumer level, and so a bunch of people came out and some of them used regulations. We need to put our arms around how technology is going to infiltrate our daily lives kind of situation virtue signaling on a lot of fronts. We didn't learn enough from social media companies who Cambridge Analytica This is a little bit of a fallback from that

Facebook fiasco. But he was one of the people. Musk was one of the people who signed the letter and said, hey, let's slow down Open Ai. Well that was a few months ago. Now he's got his own company called x Ai. The goal of the new company is to understand the true nature of the universe, and it's aiming to answer fundamental questions like can

ai become conscious? Now. The team itself is headed up by Elon Musk, and it has members on the team that have worked at other big names like Open Ai, Google Research. We're going to come back to that in a second, Microsoft Research, and Deep Mind. You remember deep Mind was a Jeopardy contestant about ten years ago. I don't know, I don't have Google in front of me. I'll use Bang instead, and then we'll come

back to that one too. In addition to Musk, the website has a whole bunch of people, including a researcher from the Center for Ai Safety. Now that kind of helps separate them from a little more wheat than chaff there, because the Center for Ai Safety is a respected nonprofit that is looking to reduce societal scale risks associated with artificial intelligence. Now, there was a Twitter spaces discussion. It didn't necessarily crash. It wasn't very well attended either,

but it was informative. Now, we first heard about x Ai back in April, when Musk indicated in filings that he founded the company. This was in Nevada and at the time Musk Musk listed himself as its director and Musk's family office as also in there as a secretary, etc. Etter The corporate offices are close to Musk's inner circle. We'll see if they are up and

running fast enough to catch up with open ai. And as the government continues to seek proper regulation and scale of regulation by investigating and looking into other AI companies including chat, GPT and open Ai, XAI will get at least into the stream of that conversation. That's enough to get into the marketplace, get notice, get consumers interested. So we'll have to keep an eye on this. Now, our next angle on AI goes more towards what the Writers Guild

and the Screen Actors Guild and my guild AFTRA is doing. But that's not necessarily this week and Elon Musk. So let's wrap this one Sarah Silverman and two other offers have authors have sued open ai over copyright infringement because their texts from their books was floating around on the darker side of the web and it

was picked up by open ai and other large language models. So that is kind of a tip of the spear lawsuit when it comes to open Ai, which of course is one of the major sticking points between the WGA and SAGAFTRA during these labor and contract negotiations. One more quick note on recession watch. I hate to do it, but we have to. It's earnings season. JP Morgan Chase Citygroup in Wells Fargo, three of America's biggest banks reported bumper

profits in the second quarter. They all benefited from higher interest rates that propped up their lending businesses. JP morgan Chases profits, which rose by sixty seven percent year on year, were also helped by its acquisition of First Republic Bank, of course, that was a regional lender, and Jamie Diamond. JP Morgan's boss warned that competition in the sector would intensify. Now the flip side of high banking profits and high interest rates is a credit crunch. Now,

credit being extended for businesses and households is shrinking fast. At the beginning of the pandemic, banks rolled down the teller shades and stopped lending out money for the most party. It was a black Swan event. Nobody knew what was going to happen with the economy, let alone if we were ever to be

able to take off our masks. As of today, banks are lending money at a rate twenty percent below that pandemic era lending rate, something to keep an eye on as the FED likely kicks up rates again in about ten days. A couple more stories out of the KFI twenty four hour news room before we break. A man traveling with two regional Mexican musicians in Hollywood has been arrested for gun possession. The men were pulled over at about one thirty in

the morning yesterday. The man arrested was identified as a manager for one of the artists. Police say he was also he also had an outstanding warrant. A man in Georgia, wonder for the fatal shootings of four of his neighbors, has been killed during a shootout with police. Clayton County Police Chief Robert Kevin Roberts says the sheriff's deputy and two police officers were hurt in the shootout yesterday. While trying to capture Andre Longmore, he was engaged bo offices at

a residence. Once that engagement happened, there was an exchange of gunfire that calls him. The loss of life and these injuries to the offices. That shootout happened to day after the killings in the town of Hampton. Investigators say

they're trying to figure out why the man targeted his neighbors. Passenger rail service through San Clementi resumes today, adding another travel option between Orange and San Diego County's Metrolink and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner trains have not been able to pass through that area since early June. Southern California, of course, remains under a smoke advisory through at least noon. The South Coast Air Quality Management District extended its

advisory due to the four wildfires that are burning in Riverside County. Russia says it is suspending its participation in a crucial deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain to Africa, the Middle East and other regions, and the grain deal collapsing has fears on the rise about global food supplies. News is brought to you by American Vision Windows. Coming up at five fifty, ABC's Jim Ryan has the latest data and performance metrics around a critical service, the nine eight

eight Suicide hot Line. Hip's going to help us round up what nine eight eight is covering when it comes to the needs of stressed out public. Right now, on wake up Call, we have Steve Roberts with his ABC News political analysts. Good morning, Steve, Good morning. Let's start with Ron de Santis because those are the headlines because he did some cutting of staff and

changing of staff when it comes to his campaign over the weekend. What did you see there, Well, yeah, he cut about ten or twelve staffers and that reflecting of several factors. Jason. One is he's got a money crunch. Now. The latest report show he raised about twenty million dollars in the last quarter. That's that's pretty good, But the problem is he's spending it at a very high rate. And also the large bulk of that money comes from big donors, people who have given the maximum mural all out.

Under the federal rules, an individual can only give thirty three hundred dollars during the primary to directly or candidate, and the large bulk of his money came from those big donors, which means he doesn't have much room to grow and he's not generating support at the grassroots level, and so he's got a cash crunch. But that the cash crunch reflects the polling crunch. I mean,

there's some astounding numbers. Back in January, if you looked at all the Republican voters and averaged all the polls, Jason Trump was ahead forty four to thirty one. Well, that's only thirteen points. De Santis was in good shape. Today the gap is wide to thirty three points. Trump's at fifty three percent among Republican voters and DeSantis has dropped to twenty percent. So he's

headed in the wrong direction. So the money problems are indicative of a much larger inability of De Santis so far, six months before the Armcaucus, is so far to really connect with voters out on the campaign trail. Do you think that reorganizing his campaign staff is going to keep the large your donors coming in, because that doesn't seem to be a play for the smaller donors that Trump seems to have cornered the market on he does seem to accordinate that market.

I think one of the variables here, Jason, is that Trump has proven to be far more resilient, and then people imagined after the twenty twenty two election a lot of his chosen Kennedy's lost key races. People were writing Trump Boss. That turned out to be wildly premature. He still commands enormous loyalty among the base of Republican voters, and when you look at the two indictments, in some ways you could argue that they've actually helped him because they've

sort of energized and solidified the base. But the other variable here is that the Santis has just not proven to be as good a candidate out on the trail as people expected. You know, I've seen this, I've covered fourteen presidential elections. I've seen this happened many times before. Someone like the Santis does very well on the state level, but when they get to the national level, they have no idea, Jason, how bright the spotlight is.

They have no idea how every single word, everything instillable they utter is suddenly subjected to much greater scrutiny. When there was an offhand remark that the Santis made months ago describing the war in Ukraine as a territorial dispute. Well, when you're governor of Florida and Tallahassee, no one gives a darn what you think about Ukraine. But when you're running for president, people care a lot because it reflects it reflected on his judgment, and a lot of people started

raising eyebrows and saying, is this guy ready for prime time? But the other factor is that, you know, he just hasn't found the narrative, the story, the theme to connect with voters on a personal level. One writer put it very well, said that you know that the Santis has portrayed himself as Trump without the chaos. It turns out, she wrote, he's Trump without the charisma, and he just has not found that that ability to connect. On paper, he's a great candidate. He's forty four years old,

he's thirty two years younger than Donald Trump. He has a beautiful wife, wife who used to be a TV star. He's got telegenic children, he's got Ivy League degrees, he was a naval officer, he won floor twice. On paper, the perfect candidate, but it's like anything else, you don't play the game on paper, you play it on the field, right, And on the field he turns out he can't hit a major league curveball, that's right, not even a flat one over the corner. Okay,

so we're speaking with ABC Steve Roberts. Okay, Steve, you've been covering this a while. I know I have to let you go in ninety seconds. The GOP nomination process has its own media ecosystem as well, and I saw some headlines over the weekend about Fox News is coverage and things. Are you seeing any shift in that that might play out with alongside the campaign finance that we got over the weekend. Yeah, Well, look, Rubert

Murdoch, the head of Fox goes with winners. Right in the beginning, he didn't like Donald Trump, and then he went he saw it with Trump when he saw that Trump was winning. And it's the same with DeSantis. He was disillusioned with Trump and he had a romance, sort of a fling

with DeSantis. But now that the Santa is not doing very well, you're starting to see stories that the Murdoch and Foxes losing their affection for dasantis the other media dimension of this that was DeSantis this week announced that he was going to sit down for an interview with CNN and Jake Tapper meant a real change because he's been trying to maximize his exposure and conservative media outlets. He really is not risked being grilled by someone like Tapper, who is not going to

be Sean Hannity. He's not going to be just friendly and easy on. But it shows that he's he's got to take some risks here because what he's been doing so far has not been working well. Do you have a dark horse candidate? Last question? Somebody that you're keeping an eye eye on. Personally, I'm watching Glen yonkin Well, Glen Youngan, the governor of Virginia. That's a very good idea. He of course has not gotten into the race, but he proved himself to be a very depth campaigner when he won

in a purple state or even a blue state. The other person to watch is Tim Scott. He's the only black Republican senator. He's from South Carolina and he has a very compelling personal story. I've covered politics a long time, and I can tell you someone who can relate to people on a personal level. This is what Barack Obama did so brilliantly. It's what Bill Clinton did so brilliantly. Keep your eye on Tim Scott. He can start generating

some enthusiasm with his personal narrative. I will keep eyes on him, Steve. If you say it, I do it. Steve Roberts from ABC's thanks a lot, Steve. Always appreciate your contact and expertise theya. Let's get a few more headlines coming out of the caf at twenty four hour in his room where we always do lead local. A woman has been killed in a shooting in Boiled Heights. Another woman is in the hospital, please say though.

Women were standing outside at South Glass and East First Streets last night when two men walked up and shot them. Police say the shooting is believed to be gang related. Some police departments struggling to recruit and retain officers are turning to Dhaka recipients. Those are people who were brought to the US illegally as children. The interim police chief in Aurora, Colorado, says it's a smart

policy. His department has seventy one open positions. A Las Vegas police officer could get life in prison for stealing nearly one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars from three casinos. Caleb Rodgers was convicted Friday by a federal jury. His younger brother testified about how they planned one robbery in twenty twenty one. If anyone who saw Mission Impossible, Dead Reckoning Part one can't wait for part two, it's become one of the many casualties of the Hollywood Actors Strike. Part

two was scheduled to come out next June. Other productions affected by the Actor's striker Gladiator two, Deadpool three, Venom three, a new version of Lelo

and Stitch, and an untitled Brad Pitt movie. The Writer's Guild of America strike that started in May first affected late night talk shows and Saturday Night Live, but now it's first several shows to pause production, including Stranger Things nineteen twenty three, Severance American horror story, Yellow Jackets, and Abbott Elementary Mark Ronner CAFI News National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says Congress needs to keep politics out

of the National Defense Authorization Act. Speaking on CNN's State of the Union yesterday, Sullivan said he expects the Senate to strike down the version of the NDAA that was passed by the Republican controlled House on Friday. Air quality alerts were issued for several US states yesterday due to thick smoke from Canadian wildfires. More

than nine hundred are burning north of the United States. The National Weather Service says those included much of Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Indiana. Also yesterday afternoon, officials labeled the air quality in cities like Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Des Moines as unhealthy. A former movie studio head predicts disaster if the actors and writers strike is not settled soon.

Are are not settled soon? Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation yesterday, IAC and Expedia chair Barry Diller suggests a September first settlement deadline, similar to a strike deadline. Diller says the biggest obstacle is there's no trust between the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, which represents the studios and the actors and writers unions. It's about five fifty two on your wake up call.

ABC's Jim Ryan is on the line with us. Here's the topic. One year after the launch of the nine eight eight suicide and crisis lifeline, nearly five million calls, texts and chats have been answered. Welcome back, Jim. Does that number surprise you, Yeah, it does. Yeah, it's almost twice what they were receiving before. But of course, the year before that you had this ten digit national Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which you had been

in place for almost twenty years. What's more chasing. Yeah, as you point out there, it's not just telephone calls anymore. It is text messages,

it's chats, and it is telephone calls. The name has been expanded Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, So it's just suicide there, it's also any mental health crisis that people might be having you can call nine one on the hope of federal officials, health officials, mental health experts and advocates is that that number nine eight eight will become as common and as familiar to people as nine one one is and the other kinds of crises. Your houses on fire,

somebody's breaking into your car, you call nine on one. If you're having a mental health issue, a crisis of some kind, you could call nine eight eight. So it seems like in the business world, when there's demand, funding seems to follow, an investment seems to follow. What about future funding for nine to eight eight? Is that an issue? Well, it's an issue. I mean, any kind of funding for any sort of program

is going to be in an issue. But I think this is a fairly easy sell among Congress if you look at the results, five million contacts in the first year that the nine eight eight service has been up and running,

I think that makes it a fairly easy sell. But other states, some states, six states all together, have taken a different approach and not just relying on federal funding but imposing cell phone taxes, so a line item will be on your cell phone bill showing that some portion of the funding of your payment is going to fund these crisis hotlines. And yes, California is one

of those six states. I've written and read and heard nine eight eight being used as a disclaimers beginning at a news story, just in case the content would be associated with something along the suicide and crisis lifeline. It seems like that kind of awareness is pretty high. Are you seeing other examples of that? I mean, is that what's helping helping five million people feel like they can reach out and seek help? Sure? Yeah, I mean the awareness

is up there. But also consider Jason, that only and I say, only eighty three eighty three percent of people know about nine eight eight, so it's not one hundred percent saturation. I think that the federal health officials are hoping to make it one hundred percent awareness out there, So that's kind of the goal, and I think that's why they're so pleased to see these numbers

where they are on the first year. The goal the obviously, is to get more calls, more contacts in next year, but also ensure that all of those calls and contacts, text messages and chats are answered. The goal is right now to have ninety percent of those contacts responded to and to have them responded too quickly. But so far only eighteen states have met that goal.

Jim, this is an important topic, and I think that I appreciate you bringing us the numbers and helping us flash it out a little bit too. But while I have you on the line and knowing that you're probably still in Texas and I'm about to do a bunch of weather stories, how are things looking there when it comes to the heat gnome, Well, it's still rough. Especially I don't know el Pass, so I think there would be

twenty seven days, twenty seven straight dates above one hundred degrees. Things finally moderated here in Dallas for worth Over the weekend, it cooled down a little sprinkles here and there, but today it'll be back up of one hundred and the forecast for the next ten days or so it's for temperatures topping triple digits. So still an issue all across the states, and it's there are casualties now, something like two dozen people have died in the heat here in Texas.

Jim, thanks a lot for that too, appreciation. ABC's news correspondent Jim Ryan, just joining us there for a couple of different stories. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of our own KFY twenty four hour newsroom. Death Valley has gotten closer to some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded. The National Weather Service said yesterday temperatures were expected to reach a high of one hundred and twenty eight degrees. The hottest in the area was one

hundred and thirty four degrees back in nineteen thirteen. The temperature in Death Valley at four this morning was already one hundred and two. A man who allegedly shot into an apartment in Marino Valley has been arrested. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says the man was booked Saturday on suspicion of shooting at an inhabited building and attempted murder. No one in the home was hit. Writers in the

Tour de France are asking fans to behave themselves following another mass crash. Jonah's finger guard telling spectators lining the route but don't stand on the road or pour beers on the cyclists. ABC's Chuck Silverston says the crash yesterday forced several writers out of the race. He says video suggests the crash may have been caused by a spectator taking a selfie. Later, a spectator inadvertently touched an American

writer and sent him to the ground. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in India for G twenty finance meetings. She says the US and India are working together to further the Group of twenty agenda and talked about the growing ties between the two countries. Our collaboration spans a range of economic issues, including commercial and technological collaboration, strengthening supply chains, and catalyzing the clean energy transition. The

trip is Yellen's third to India in nine months. Microsoft and Sony have signed a ten year binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the xboxmaker's

acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The announcement, tweeted yesterday by Xbox chief Phil Spencer, indicates the Japanese company is no longer fighting the sixty nine billion dollar takeover the first person shooter franchise, which is considered Activision Blizzards Crown Jewel, and rightfully so, has been the biggest point of contention for gaming companies like Sony

and regulatory bodies in the US, the UK and the EU. Microsoft, for its part, has time and again tried to downplay the deals significance to the gaming industry to help push it through those regulations. And right now on Wall Street markets are mixed, Nazdak futures are up well, it's basically it's just flat, and the sp is pretty much flat, just a little bit

down, the Dallas down about eighty six points. The FED is going into its quiet period ahead of next week's meeting, where it's expected that they will raise interest rates by another quarter of a point, and then everybody turns eyes to September, when they may raise another quarter point. Seeing rates come down this year is likely not going to happen. Finally, some lottery jackpots are about as hot as the weather. The Mega Millions prize is about six hundred

and forty million dollars. The Powerball jackpot is up to nine hundred million dollars. We lead local live for the KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to wake up call? You know you can always listen live on kf I Am six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app