Four time may soon be running out for tiktok. The federal legislation to ban the app now headed to the senate after passing the house. President biden reaffirming his intent to sign the bill into law as soon as it hits his desk unless theuapps parent company, based in china, sells off tiktok. Welcome, everyone to the four this afternoon. Im alexusavage and im National Security consequences for the 5 million businesses in the u. S. That use the app to reach customers. Ktvu is now live from San Francisco, with more on decision congress. Yeah, many lawmakers say, as you said, this is a matter of National Security, but theres also a very real cost to Small Businesses that use that platform to reach their for its short video format, may soontsf representatives voted to force the social Media Company to be company within five months, ornt be forced out of us app stores. Theuapp reportedly reaches some 170 million of whom use it to market themselves or these content creators rely on tiktok. A
Several spots around the bay area, packed with holiday travelers. This includes sfo, the east shore freeway, the san mateo bridge, and the Golden Gate Bridge, and analysts are predicting this will be the busiest memorial day for travel in 20 years. Today and tomorrow are expected to be the busiest days. If you are driving somewhere for the weekend, welcome everyone to the four this afternoon. Im alex savage and im greg lee. Nationwide, triple a estimates nearly 44 Million People will travel 50 miles or more this holiday, a 5 jump compared to last year. Of those, some 44 million, 30 million are opting for a road trip, saying they prefer the flexibility of being on the road and here in california, 5. 65 Million People are expected to travel for the long weekend. That is up from 5. 4 million statewide last year. All right. For more on the travel rush and some tips and tricks, were joined by john trainer from triple a. John, thanks for being here. You are predicting some staggering numbers
From around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, fraud and scams, theyre nothing new. But with each technological change, the fraudsters, they are quick to pounce on new possibilities. Weve all had emails, phone calls and Text Messages trying to scam us out of cash by people pretending to be someone we know or with a Time Limited Offer thats just too good to miss. Or maybe theyre pretending to be a tax official or a utility which asks us to transfer money urgently to them. Well, now, as Artificial Intelligence promises to speed up the world of business, the fraudsters, theyre already taking advantage of these new possibilities. In april, jennifer distefano, a mum in arizona in the United States, received a phone call from an unknown number. She thought it might be her doctor. Instead, she heard the voice of a 15 year old daughter, briana. She told the rest of the story to the United States senate. It was brianna sobbing and crying, saying, mom. A
Shutdown. So we are keeping a close eye on everything that is happening there. Lets take a look now at what House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy had to sayjust after the bill was passed. Just moments ago on the house floor, we passed by overwhelming numbers the ability to keep government open for the next six weeks. Youve got to understand why we are here. The senate has produced not one Appropriation Bill through the floor. The house . More than 70 . Discretionary spending has now passed. I do not believe our troops need to be punished for us not getting the work done. So i ask congress will stay in session the next two weeks, continue to work to get this done. The bill keeps the governments funding at 2023 levels, but only for now, it also freezes the us s aid to ukraine. Democrats had originally tried to plug this gap with a 6 Billion Dollar aid package, but that measure was removed from the resolution in order to secure the votes needed to pass it all of this only lasts for 45 days, so the
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