Camp. I am six forty. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand on the Heart radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everyone, Five on the nose. On a Monday morning, daughter and I went out yesterday to do some LA. It's the summer of LA culture and scenery during her you know, time in between spool semesters. And so we went out yesterday and we're in the car driving to the destination. We went over to Eagle Rock yesterday and she said something
like, seize the day. Let's go out and seize the day kind of thing. For some reason, that rolled into my brain this morning when I was driving in and and I thought, yeah, seize the day. It's a Monday, and we don't want to startle a Monday, right, You don't want to. You don't know how Monday's going to react if you try to seize it too early in the morning. So anyway, I looked at a couple of other things that happened today, which is June to twelfth.
Back in history, a thirteen year old girl was given a diary, and Frank got one. In nineteen forty two, Cleopatra and Liz Taylor changed him lines in nineteen sixty three. I thought that was interesting as well. And it was five years ago on this date that former President Trump met with Kim Jong un in Singapore. That was only five years ago. Only five years ago, it seems like longer. It's got a couple of quick headlines and Tea's up. Who's going to join us later this hour for this morning's news
updates and interviews. Miami is preparing for former President Trump's visit to federal court tomorrow. Our first interview this morning is going to be on the politics of this. Later in the hour, we're going to talk with a different ABC reporter who is in Miami, and we're going to check on the security preparations
that are going on there. Six months, that's how long it may take to repair an interstate overpass in North Philadelphia after a gasoline tanker caught fire and basically melted that overpass, And closer to six o'clock, we're going to get in update on that one with ABC's Karen Traverse. Ninety five is a very busy road. As you know. It goes from Maine to Florida, but right around North Philly to northern Virginia. It's pretty much stacked up all the
time. I think one hundred and sixty thousand vehicles a day go through that one overpass. And Ukraine's military counter offensive is reportedly calling back territory Russia captured earlier this year. Reportedly again, Ukraine just this morning has reclaimed a fourth village from the Russian army. So we have a live update on that one too. Let's start with some of the stories coming out of the kf by
twenty four hour newsroom, because we do lead local. A watch dog group in San Diego says an audit shows widespread fraud in the twenty twenty two California elections. The Transparency Foundation says, out of a set of ten criteria, the state failed nine, including security of election systems, verifying voter identity, and public trust and confidence. Individual ballot tracking and curing was the only passing
grade from a state wide poll of twelve hundred fifty voters. A man in Bakersfield noted he's been trying to remove his son's name from the voter role. His son moved to Texas thirteen years ago. And there's a woman in Orange County who's been trying to remove her father's name. Her father died in twenty sixteen. Steve Gregory kingo I News. A woman in Palmdale has told La County Sheriff's deputies a man hit her with his car and tried to kidnap her.
The woman says she was walking down Tenth Street near Avenue S yesterday when she saw the car parked on the opposite side of the street. She says the man said something, but she kept walking and that's when he hit her from behind. She says the guy tried to pick her up, but she threw herself on the ground and he took off. He's African American in his twenties, about six tall and one hundred and thirty five pounds. He was
driving a silver Nissan Sentra. An American citizen has been detained in Russia on drug charges. Michael Leakey was in court over the weekend. He's accused of engaging in the narcotics business by attracting young people. That's according to Russian media. Leakey says he's innocent. The former paratrooper and musician will remain in custody until at least August. A German shepherd hurt during a rocket attack in northeastern
Ukraine, is now training with police in Hungary. Three year old Rambo lost pieces of his skull while in Ukraine. His jaw was damaged and one ear is severely mangled. He's now in his second life, learning to interact with children, older adults and disabled people at police demonstrations and rehabilitation centers. And UBS says it has completed its takeover of rival credit Suite. This is from a business desk story that happened earlier we had when we had the US scare
of regional banks. The announcement comes nearly three months after the Swiss government hastily arranged a rescue deal to combine the country's two largest banks. The federal indictment was unsealed Friday, and ABC's political analyst Steve Roberts is on the line to talk with us about the GOP nomination and the overall political climate around President Trump's
most recent legal concerns. Good morning, Steve, Good morning. Trump's indictment triggered some sound and fury, as expected over the weekend, especially on the Sunday yacht shows. What shadow does it cast on the GOP nomination? Process right now. Look, I think that this is really two stories, short term long term. Okay, in the short term, I don't think there's any question that this helps Donald Trump. He's always Look, he was very
eager to announce that he was being indicted on Thursday night. Why because he wanted the word out there, because he had a huge fundraising operation already set to go. And the message that he is sending is state I told you, the deep state is out to get me. The FBI is corrupt, the Justice Department is corrupt. Tend money and this works. It's worked over and over again. It's working now. If anything, his basis support is
more fervent and more loyal than ever. But long term, our poll out this morning at ABC shows the potential threat because forty eight percent say that the indictment was legitimate. Thirty five percent say it was it was not legitimate. That thirty five percent is maga nation that it's a core basis Donald Trump support. They're unshakable, they're more fervent than ever. They're not a majority, and so when you get past the Republican primary to a general election, I
think these legal problems become a much more serious political threat. To Donald Trump, because there are is a certain number of Americans who like Trump's policies. Maybe they're traditional Republicans, but they simply don't want four more years of the craziness that seems to surround Donald Trump, four more years of the tumult.
And that's what the legal issues. It's not as if people have a sophisticated or complex understanding of the legal issues, but they see it one more element of the tumult that surrounds Trump and and that's the biggest threat to its reelection in the general election. And that's what the legal problems really are. Why these legal problems are a serious threat getting past the primaries. Well, Steve, you mentioned one of the story threads there in your answer was the short
term one, and that was the bumping polls. And well, and the donors, and there's a donor class. There are two different donor classes. It seems like the small and the large. Which ones are leaning into Trump at this at this point, that's a very good question, and I do think there's a difference. I think the small donors clearly are staying with Trump. I mean, his his fundraising operation is um going full throttle, and
it's and it's been it's been very successful for a long time. Donald Trump has a great shrewd gift for touching people's nerves and and uh getting to press that big red donate button on all those emails, right right, but but but but long term, um, the larger donors they want to win, you know, the Trump comp nation. They want to back Donald Trump.
They believe that he's you know, uh second coming. But when you get the the second group of larger donors, donors who sit back and say, well, you know, I believe in Donald Trump's policies, but he can't win, and I want to win. And and that's where you get the larger donors splitting off. Uh okay, I don't know. We well hope to lose you there, Steven. Sorry you were breaking up. I to interrupt if I did. But let's go. Let's go to move to the
nominees or the nomination process. Excuse me. Does this situation with former President Trump give underdog candidates a little more or less oxygen in the competition. It's just a little bit of both. I think we're gonna have to I'm sorry, Steve, I guess we've we've lost our connection with you. Hopefully we can get you back later this hour or maybe later this week. We could talk about it again after former President Trump does appear tomorrow in federal court and
to answer the thirty seven count federal indictment in Miami. But first, let's go back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI had twenty four hour newsroom. Workers in West Hollywood are getting a bump in minimum wage wages. We'll get up to nineteen dollars and eight cents by July first. The current minimum wages seventeen an hour for employers with less than fifty employees and seventeen
fifty an hour for jobs with more than fifty workers. Minimum wage was at fifteen fifty earlier this year, but La Santa Monica and West Hollywood pay a higher minimum wage than the state. Wages will be raised again next summer. Chris Adler, ka FI News Well. The most active volcano in the Philippines has begun spewing lava. The volcano in Albay Province began showing signs of renewed
restlessness last week. Tens of thousands of people have been told to be ready to leave their homes in case of a violent eruption more than twelve thousand villagers closer to the crater they've already left, and the Pasadena Playhouse has received the twenty twenty three Regional Theater Tony Award. It was honored last night for its history of presenting innovative and inspiring productions over the past century. The honor includes
a twenty five thousand dollar grant. Four Indigenous children found alive in the Colombian jungle more than a month after a plane crash are said to be recovering in the hospital. Officials say the kids survived on cassava, flower and fruit. Abces. Derek Dennis says the kids Reigns range in age from thirteen to about one year old, and they were found Friday, small footprints and half eaten fruit, giving rescuers clues to their path. Then a recording of their grandmother
was used telling them to stay put. Turns out it was the thirteen year old who used her knowledge of the Amazon to keep them all alive and safe. The kid's mother and two other adults were killed in the plane crash. May First, The father of two of the kids say he's thankful for the care they have been receiving. They're expected to stay in hospital for up to a month. Taiwan deployed aircraft and warships after spotting ten at Chinese warplanes crossing
the Taiwan Straits median line. The island's defense ministry also claimed that Chinese naval ships had conducted combat controls. Last week, Taiwan identified thirty seven Chinese aircraft entering its air defense zone. China has previously said such military activities are aimed at preventing collusion between Taiwan and America. A wildfire burning in Joshua Tree National
Park is about thirty percent contained as of yesterday. The fire was first spotted around four o'clock Saturday afternoon near Geology Tour Road, and then it quickly spread. More than a thousand acres had burned as of yesterday afternoon. California is getting seventeen billion dollars to fight the opioid crisis. It's part of a settlement with drug makers Tiva and Allergen, along with CBS and Walgreen pharmacies, and
the second largest reservoir in California is now one hundred percent full. Lake Oroville hit capacity Friday for the first time in six years. With its water elevation reaching a max height of roughly nine hundred feet. This comes nearly two years after the lake hit its lowest level and is all thanks to the winter storms. State officials will continue to release water from the main spill way to allow room for spring runoff as the record snow does keep melting, although these grace
guys may help keep that going too. At five thirty three, ABC's and as Delicatea is going to jump on the line with us to talk about the Ukrainian military's counter offensive. We're going to check progress on the ground and the politics of this as well. Just this morning we got reports that the Ukrainian military had reclaimed a fourth village. A couple of stories from the news room before we do jump into our chat with Aaron Katurski about how Miami and the
Feds are getting ready for Trump's court appearance tomorrow. LA police are trying to find whoever killed a star high school athlete in South LA. Sixteen year old Quincy Rees Junior went to Crenshaw High and had a three point four GPA. He was fatally shot at a party Saturday night in the area of seventy fourth Street and Western avenue. A lot of churches are no longer turning the other
cheek. Nashville based LifeWay Research surveyed around a thousand pastors of Protestant churches in the US, listing seven different security measures, and many used more than one. An intentional plan for an active shooter situation was first with fifty seven percent. Armed congregants was second with fifty four percent. At least twenty percent of pastors said their churches use radio communication among security personnel, a no firearms policy,
or armed private security on site. A small number said they have uniform police officers on site or metal detectors at entrances. Mark Ronner, k FI News twenty one after five on Monday, June twelve. Now a logistics update from ABC's Eric Katurski, who was in Miami, as I understand it. After being indicted last week, former President Trump is expected to surrender at a federal court in South Florida tomorrow. Good morning, erin oh, Good morning.
He's going to be here to formally be placed under arrest. He'll be booked in process as a federal defendant and instantly become the highest profile defendant this court has ever seen. And it seemed some good ones. Nual Noriega, the former Penamanian dictator, Jose Padilla, the kaider recruiter, Loel Wayne, the rapper who Trump actually pardoned, And in a dynamic the country has never really seen before. The former president is going to appear before a judge and
he appointed so the criminal defendant made the career of the judge. And that's just to me, is fascinating. Yeah, fascinating is definitely one word for it. Aaron, What about security outside and around the federal courthouse? What are what are prepped? Blanke? What are prepplink? Yeah, there's a bunch of federal agents. We've seen them sweeping the grounds. You know, the canine dogs are out their vehicle and marked vehicles standing by the entrances.
We expect that this whole ramp up the closer we get to Trump's appearance here on Tuesday, and and you know, the former president itself is probably going to be driven underground. We may never see him, you know, other than through the window of his motorcade. The whole courthouse complex connected by tunnels, and he can come and go from processing up to court on the thirteenth
floor without ever being you know, viewed by the public. No cameras obviously in federal court, so it's only going to be you know, public accounts, you know, from people who get in and maybe a sketch artist, and that will sort of be the only evidence he was really ever here. You know, this may you may not know this one. And I'm wondering, is the security situation there in Miami is that a movable feast later this week whenever he goes to mar Lago, either later tomorrow or on Wednesday.
I mean, it's a secret Service protectee, so you know they've got a plan for this, but it's a federal building. I don't think it's going to be, as you know, any more intent than than anything else. But you know, what makes it, I think more interesting is the rhetoric that the former president has used to describe the Special Council and the indictment itself.
We know that his followers often take up that rhetoric. So Miami police say they've that extra officers on hand if there are going to be any demonstrations, and they're monitoring online for any signs of violence. Yeah, the rhetoric is something I'm really glad you touched on because when I was doing prep to talk with you this morning, I realized or was remembering, that Florida doesn't have a gun permit requirement. Doesn't you know you can have concealed weapons in
some places too. I'm wondering how are the locals working with the Feds when it comes to security. Are you seeing crossover of teams or coordinations? Oh? Sure, Oh sure, And I think that has to be the way it is, and I believe we'll see a lot more security presence around here. But again, there's no specific or credible thread of any you know, any violence or anything like that ahead of the former president's spirits. But but
he has certainly taken aim at the Special Council and the indictment. It's called the charges improper and and weakening the country. And he's really set up this dynamic where the gripes has become a centerpiece of his politics. Um. And I think the the his followers really either you know, respond to that or not. But one of the you know, the interesting parts of the indictment is it suggests it's his own conduct and his own attorneys that that really,
um, you know, provided the evidence. It wasn't Democrats that are doing this if you know his own attorneys are quoted revealing the prosecutors what Trump allegedly did and set h I guess last question you have to be for you anything on your docket for the rest of today and tomorrow as for as any official events you need to cover or are you covering the scene just in Toto, I think, well, here today from the Miami Police of the Mayor of
Miami. Because you know it's obviously going to impact the city. The courthouse is, you know, right in the heart of downtown, just off you know, skin Boulevards, so it's a it's going to be a bit of a traffic thing, and we'll hear from the mayor and all that, but otherwise, no, this is just an ordinary court appearance. And we've seen this scene play out before in New York, and it will probably play out twice more as the former president faces the possibility of crivotal charges in two other
investigations. Eric Katurski, thank you so much for your time. Always a pleasure, Good luck in Miami. Thank you. That was ABC senior reporter Eric Katurski live just outside the courthouse in Miami. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFY twenty four hour newsroom. Long Beach has plans to buy and convert a temporary shelter into a permanent homeless shelter. The city had been leasing the roughly eighty five bed temporary shelter on West Anaheim
Street from the Long Beach Rescue Mission since April. Long Bee says it will cost a bit more than thirteen million dollars to acquire and rehabilitate the property into a year round permanent shelter. Long Beach will pay six point five million dollars in La County will chip in six point seven million dollars. The current temporary shelter offers meals, showers, a spot for pets, and other wrap around
services. The Long Beach City Council will vote on the purchase tomorrow. Corbin Carson k IFY News JP Morgan Chase has reached a settlement with sexual abuse victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Bank representatives and lawyers said that just a few minutes ago, the tentative settlement would resolve allegations made into lawsuit filed last year in Manhattan federal court. The case titled Jane Doe one versus JP Morgan Chase
Bank. Victims accused the bank of enabling the sex trafficking operation by allowing for massive withdrawals of cash over a fifteen year period, including after Epstein's sex crimes were widely known. A different case brought by the US Virgin Islands does remain unresolved. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Six people have been hurt in a shooting outside of a club in Houston, Texas. One was
in critical condition yesterday and needed emergency surgery. Police say the shooting followed a disturbance inside the club that's spilled out into the parking lot. A mountain of credit card debt is piling up as Americans turn to plastic to counter their dwindling purchasing power. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, consumers now
owe a record nine hundred and eighty eight billion dollars on their cards. That's up seventeen percent from a year earlier, or about five thousand, seven hundred dollars per person. While the steadily rising figure does take a break during the pandemic years, if you look at the graph, the number is causing nervousness as it flirts with the fast approaching one trillion dollar milestone. And if you look at why this is happening, high inflation is pushing consumers to put more
non discretionary spending on cards. The essentials are going on cards, Others maybe having a harder time paying back their lifestyles, pairing back their lifestyles. That is, despite these price pressures, interest rates are compounding the issue. Of course, if you think about that, the is looking to pause this month, at least that's the popular opinion. They might raise it later this year
another quarter of a point. We have been on a massive uptick in federal interest rates, which of course drives up cost of credit cards, cost of car loans, cost of mortgages. And it's not looking to cool off anytime soon because the labor market remains hot as well. It's something we cover on Macro on my show on the weekends. A woman is hospitalized in fair condition after a twenty five foot fall in the Hollywood Hills. The twenty six year
old woman was reported injured early yesterday afternoon. Firefighters rescued her with a rope and litter basket system. Pasadena is once again canceling the America Fest fireworks show at the rose Bow. Now, the event was an annual Fourth of July tradition for decades, then the pandemic came in and then revenue losses stay in place. City leaders are promising to one day bring the show back, but they haven't said exactly. When news is brought to you by American Vision Windows
at five fifty, we're gonna talk and close our wake up call. We're gonna talk with ABC's Karen Traversed about the highway overpass that basically melted over the weekend one in North Philly. But right now, let's welcome in ABC Z in as delicate a. Last Monday, we were talking about so many other things, and this Monday we're talking about an offensive that apparently the Ukrainian President Zolenski did admit has begun officially. Is that what your take is too,
Hey, good morning, Yeah, that's right. So it does appear that Ukraine's long awaited spring counter offensive is officially underway, and it does seem like they're off to a decent start. It does seem to be making some decent progress. No major games yet as of this morning, Ukraine's troops have recaptured a forest village in the southeast. This is the village of store Jabay.
And this game comes just a day after ukrate And reported its forces has liberated three villages also in the southeast, set on the edge of the Densk region next to the Zapariga region. And like you mentioned, we saw Ukrainian President Zolenski over the weekend indicating that his forces had being on their counter offensive. He said relevant counter offensive defensive actions are taking place in Ukraine, but he's
obviously remaining rather tight lit about the details here. So there are still lots of questions regarding this offensive. You know, how long it might take, where the counter offensive will focus, how they're going to go about recapturing Russian territory. They're obviously not disclosing that information, but those are all going to
be interesting kind of points to watch here. Some experts do point out that the counter offensive may have been a little bit hyped up in that Ukraine has actually been fighting Russian forces for months, that they have been making slow, quiet progress recapturing Russian territory for months. So some experts are saying that there's not going to be a very significant before and after here, and again interesting to note that Ukraine has been stressing that all their actions should be seen as
defensive. We are calling this a counter offensive, but they're continuing to stress that this is their territory, that they're trying to take back, that they've come under attack, and that they're just defending themselves. Here you mentioned there, and you you slightly answered this question, and you made it be impossible to answer. You said, the Ukrainian government's being tight lived obviously about facts, but what about rhetoric. How's rhetoric playing out on both sides right now?
Yes, I mean it's it's interesting to see Zelenski indicating that the counter offensive has begun, but again he's being you know, very he's insisting that that this is a counter offensive, defensive action, so they're they're really trying to, you know, hit that point home. On the Russian side, we actually heard from the Russian president today as the Russian President of Vladimir Putin spoke at Russia Day today marks Russian Day, which marks the establishment of the
Russian Federation. Tutin delivered a speech and he didn't specifically talk about the counter offensive, but he did congratulate Russians for their devotion to the country. He said this was a difficult clime for Russia. And he also talked about the special military operation in Ukraine. That's what he's called the war in Ukraine for months now, from the beginning of the war. He's still refusing to call it a war. So we'll see if anything out comes out of Putin and
Russia today as they're marketing Russia Day. But it was interesting to hear from him today. Over the weekend, we reported that the administration here in the United States is providing another two billion dollar military aid package. Is there enough bullets in the chamber to borrow a military phrase for Ukraine in this counter offensive? And do you have any idea of how long this is expected to go
on? Yeah, So the foreign aid is really interesting, and I think that's certainly going to give you create an edge here during you know, over the course of these next few months, during this counter offensive, we know the UK has given Ukraine multiple storm shadow cruise missiles. That's going to give Ukraine the capability of carrying out new long range strikes. We know Ukraine has also been given at least two one from the US, one from Germany.
That's really going to help with their defense. We saw just how useful those systems were last month when Ukraine intercepted a Russian hypersonic missile, and like you say, the US announcing you know, another one point two billion dollars in aid to Ukraine. So there is all this help coming in from the outside. I think that's certainly going to help. The big question though, is whether that international international support is going to continue. The clock is ticking there.
You know, the West has certainly rallied behind Ukraine over the last year, year and a half, but there is a feeling that that might come to an end, certainly here in the US as we're talking about, you know, the election coming up. The soft former President Trump during a town hall talking about how the strong US support for Ukraine could come to an end. I think that's going to be a big point of debate during the election,
and so there is a fear that that international support could win. And so Ukraine is under pressure here during this counter offensive to make a guinning as many games as possible, right right, right, for sure, ABC's it is Delicatera joins us right now to talk about this update from Ukraine. Thank you so much for your time this weekend. Helping is gus get our arms
around this story. Thank you. And as you mentioned at the top of that interview, just this morning, Ukrainian media is reporting they have captured or recaptured a fourth village. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Transparency Foundation says an audit of the twenty twenty two California elections shows widespread fraud. The report graded on ten criteria, including verifying voter identity, security of election systems, and public trust
and confidence. Researchers say the state failed in nine of the ten categories. Individual ballot tracking received the only passing grade. The report also shows a major problem in removing people from the voter rolls who have moved out of state or died. A man from Bakersfield told researchers he's been trying to remove his son's name from the voter rolls. His son moved to Texas thirteen years ago.
The governor of Pennsylvania says a lot of daily drivers will be impacted by a collapse along ninety five sement behind us as roughly one hundred and sixty thousand vehicles per day. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro also says that it's going to take months for the major artery that runs right through the city of Philadelphia to be repaired. On Sunday, officials say a tanker truck carrying flammable materials caught fire right
underneath I ninety five. The flames caused a portion of the elevated highway to collapse on the road below. Drivers have been told to avoid the area and expect massive delays. Andrew Caravella ka FI News We will update that story in just a few minutes with ABC's Karen Travers as well. The UCLA women's soccer and men's volleyball teams are being honored at the White House so among other NCAA champions on this College Athlete Day, The Bruins won their second women's soccer championship
in December. The men won their twentieth volleyball championship in May. A mom in Utah accused of killing her husband, is going to court to argue for bail. ABC's Zerene Shaw says prosecutors alleged Corey Richins poisoned her husband Eric last
year. By sneaking fentanyl into his Moscow mule. Investigators say Corey both defensil I'm a drug dealer, But according to court documents that Corey's attorneys filed on Friday, they argue the key witness to the alleged drug deal gave conflicting information about the Fencil purchase. Prosecutors say in court documents that the husband told friends he thought his wife was trying to kill him when he got sick after Valentine's
Day. Prosecutors also said the wife applied for nearly two million dollars in life insurance without her husband's knowledge. The defense says prosecutors do not have substantial evidence to support the charges. The wife and mom wrote a children's book about grief when her husband died. Officials in Colombia say four indigenous children found alive more than a month after a plane crash in the jungle survived on cassava, flower
and fruit. The kids were found Friday by Colombian soldiers after a month in the jungle, and a Delta crew member has been treated for injuries caused by a plane's emergency slide would have accidentally popped open. The plane was headed to La from New York Saturday when it diverted to Utah because of a mechanical issue. Passengers had been allowed back on the plane when the slide opened, and this woman it was startling. We were instructed to say in our seats for
the time being. That left us feeling a little uneasy. Passengers were eventually put on another plane and continued on to Lax. The man accused of killing a homeless man with a chokehold in a New York City subway has released a video statement through his attorneys. Daniel Penny and his team released a series of videos yesterday evening where Penny recounts his thoughts leading up to the encounter that resulted in Jordan Neelie's death. On May the first, almost thirty five hundred Reddit
pages are going dark today. Not dark Webb I know, Reddit dark, I get it, but just Reddit in general. It's in protest of the San Francisco based tech company raising prices for developers of third party apps. As part of this backlash, let's call it, some subreddits will make their communities private for forty eight hours. A top executive says they do respect the decision.
Coming up in just a few more minutes. We're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers about the ninety five closure and collapse of that overpass that happened over the weekend. A couple more stories. First, though, Security is being increased in Miami ahead of former President Trump's appearance in federal court over his handling of classified documents when he left office. ABC's Justin Finch says Trump is
due in court tomorrow. The Secret Service already surveilling near the federal courthouse where former President Donald Trump they set to formally faced charges alleging he mishandled classified records and obstructed government efforts to get them back. The Justice Department unsealed a thirty seven count indictment against Trump last week. Republican Senator Lindsay Graham says most Republicans
believe the law is being used as a weapon against Trump. By fifty one on your wake Up Called, ABC's White House correspondent is going to be covering traffic and transportation for US. Karen Travers is on the line to talk I ninety five in North Philly. Good morning, Karen, Yeah, you guys love traffic out there, son, This one will hit home for you guys. You know how bad it is when there is any sort of traffic disruption. Now, imagine a seven mile shutdown of one of your major arteries in
the city. That's what Philadelphia is dealing with right now. And it's not just a draffic story for Philadelphia. That gets something that's going to impact most of the region and like parts of the East Coast, because this is something that's going to have ripple effects up and down the area because of goods and services, you know, all of that. But also it's an infrastructure story.
Yeah, this tanker fire underneath an overpass of Interstate ninety five, massive, massive fire yesterday that essentially melted the highway and caused the collapse of four lanes of the northbound side of ninety five. The northbound portion is completely collapsed. The southbound side, according to the governor, is not structurally sound and
this is going to take several months now to repair. The governor is declaring a disaster today to speed up federal funding and as much assistance as they can possibly get. But they are warning people this is going to be a very difficult summer for commuters, for tourists, travelers, and anybody trying to go up and down the East coast and also for people just trying to get things like stuff is going to probably be delayed. But the administration says that they
are fully supporting Pennsylvania and Philadelphia officials to get what they need. There's gonna be a lot of federal officials on the ground today in Philadelphia to make sure that things are moving and assessing the situation up there. Yeah, you mentioned
all the bureaucracies that are showing up. It's an alphabet soup of bureaus and secretaries of transportation and speaking of which is Pete Buddha Judge and the White House didn't get a great rating last time they had to address a transportation situation. How are things shaping up? And what's the messaging light coming out of the White House? Yeah, to give you kind of an alphabet soup, you've got the NTSD. They're sending a team of specials today to start the investigation.
They say the preliminary report will be available in two to three weeks. The Federal Highway Administrator is going to be on the ground today to start offering a federal support and assistance. Pete Budda Judge has an event in Washington this morning. He's going to be speaking probably within the hour. Would not be surprised if we see him on the team pretty quickly. The prominent is actually going to philadel on Saturday for a previously scheduled big campaign style rally with Union
members. You know, remember when there was that bridge collapse in Pittsburgh back in twenty twenty one, I think it was, and he very quickly went on the scene to talk to some of the responders who were there and get a sense of it. Different situation. But I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't make an appearance on Saturday, because you know he's going to do this
event with Union guys. Anyway, these are going to be some of the people rebuilding this bridge once it gets started, and that gets on your way, right, and it's right next to you know, his backyard in Delaware. It's right there too. I mean, just close enough, I guess. But of course it is his first reelection appearance on Saturday in Philadelphia as I understand it too, So yeah, it does kind of line up anything
else coming out of the White House today that you expect. Any any like you said, I think you mentioned Pete Bodhagg might be on the ground today. Anything else, yeah, related to this, you know, they're kind of throwing a lot of people at this. We'll see what comes out of the press briefing today. In terms of other federal ref forces. President also has the NATO Secretary General coming to the White House today, significant meeting ahead
of a big Native summit next month in Lithuania. And it also comes as the NATO Secretary General is sent to leave this position after many bottles close to a decade serving as the head of NATO and the big scramblers who will replace him, So that is something they will be talking about today in their meeting. All right, well, Karen, thank you so much for the update. Appreciate it. At a great day you too. As ABC's Karen Travers, We're gonna get a couple more stories in before we get to the top
of the hour and handle on the news. An American citizen living in Moscow has been arrested in Russia. Fifty one year old Michael Leakey appeared in court over the weekend. Video was posted on social media. I have not admitted to any guild. I do not believe that I have done what I have been accused because I don't know what I've been accused of. State media says Leaky is accused of dealing drugs. A judge ordered him held until at least
August. Leaky is facing up to twelve years in prison. The UN agency UNESCO has announced the US plans to rejoin the Cultural and Scientific organization and pay more than six hundred million dollars in back news. US officials say the decision was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap in UNESCO policymaking. The US was once the agency's largest funder. A bus driver in Australia has been
arrested following a crash that killed ten people and injured dozens more. He's facing multiple charges of dangerous and negligent driving, though police say the cause of the crash is not yet known. The passengers had attended a wedding in Australia's Wine Country before the nighttime crash yesterday on a roundabout. England's publicly funded Health service says it will not routinely offer puberty blocking drugs to children at gender identity clinics.
Officials say more evidence is needed about the potential benefits and harms. The wall Street Journal says billionaire George Soros is seeding control of his twenty five billion dollar empire to his son, Alex. The younger Soros says he's more political than his ninety two year old father, but that they think alike. Alex Soros says he plans to broaden his father's liberal aims and embrace different causes, including voting in a board, rights in gender equality. Also, we're going
to go We're all going to go to electric vehicles. So I want to do a quick Tesla story because Tesla has those sexy cars. They've been jacking up the prices up and down. There's some inconsistent leadership coming out of Elon Musk overall within his portfolio, but Tesla might have the shrewdest product on the
market when it comes to evs, and that's the charging network. It's known for those sleek cars, but the companies ubiquitous superchargers that are all over North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East right now are very strategic and its magic doc is what they call it. It allows other evs to use
the network without needing to carry an adapter. And last week, partnerships with Ford and GM are going to allow customers to buy a Tesla made adapter to access more than those twelve thousand superchargers that starts in twenty twenty four, and the deals that these include are about three billion dollars by twenty thirty four Tesla. That's according to Piper Sandler. She Piper is a is an analyst studies revenue in the EV market. Also, I'm gonna have a little bit later
this morning. Tesla reports of fatalities within cars using self driving technologies may be higher than first previously and previously reported, so we'll have to get back to that too. I'm going to have that a little later this morning. And now let's check some traffic and then we're gonna get to Nick for one more before we get to the top of the hour. Southern California weather from kf I mostly cloudy again today, with a twenty percent chance of showers throughout the
morning for La and oc hys around seventy later today inland. The inland valleys may not queach quite reach seventy degrees at the beaches. Highs are going to hover in the mid sixties range and tonight partly cloudy in the evening and then mostly cloudy, overnight lows in the mid fifties. Tomorrow is looking like a rinse repeat for today. Right now, Steel Beaches at sixty two degrees, Anaheim Hills is at sixty one, so is Torrance, and Hollywood is at
sixty two degrees. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake Up Called. You've been listening to wake Up Call? You know you can always listen live on kup by Am six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.