also, as crowds hit the beach to try to find relief from the oppressive heat, california officials are warning about toxic algae that s apparently leaving marine animals sick and aggressive. . and fallout from the supreme court s controversial and consequential rulings on discrimination, student loans, and affirmative action. will the decisions energize voters in 2024? we will not go back. i will be dead in my grave before i ll be a slave again. we are going to keep on marching. okay, let s begin this hour with more on former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the washington post reports trump spoke with then arizona governor doug ducey and tried to pressure that governor to overturn his narrow loss in that state according to three people familiar with the call. two of those people say trump repeatedly asked vice president mike pence to call governor ducey and prod him to find evidence to substantiate trump s fr
not ones to write home about. 11.3% is the jump in wholesale prices from a year ago and came in lot steamier than economists predicted coming off the you know what it feels like when you buy things. consumer prices are up substantially. fastest pace we ve seen since 1981 back in reagan years. you have to go to art laffer to find that out. white house points out wages are up. here is the deal. wages aren t rising at the pace of inflation. you look at a pay cut of 3.6%. if you crunch the numbers inflation is costing the average american household $500 a month. setting on fire every single month because you aren t getting anything for that $500. bill: questions now including this how did we get here? many economists blame out of control government spending along the way. democrats are passed more than $3 trillion in new spending under president biden and they aren t taking their foot off the gas as they look to revamp build back better. let s go to mark meredith live f
politician up ahead of reelection this monday. now the nation will be holding his funeral. president biden paid a visit to the japanese embassy yesterday saying he was stunned, outraged and saddened by the former prime minister s killing. and he had this to say about the assassination on japan s security. we re going to learn more about, as time goes on, about motive, about the whole japanese, prime minister is a stable ally and we, do not believe it s likely to have i don t know yet likely to have any profound destabilizing impact on japanese security or japanese solidarity. when we look at this, japan one of our key allies, particularly in this region and particularly militarily with all that goes on with chinese efforts to expand. and a lot to talk about on a global scale. absolutely, and i think that hearing the outpouring from so many world leaders about the legacy of abe, japan s youngest prime minister when he took over and the longest serving when he was don
frolicking at the beaches over july fourth, families are still keeping an eye out for unlikely holiday visitors. sharks. i really like going to the beach. especially with my family and it s kind of scary, the fact that sharks attacks have been happening. kind of staying in a group and don t go as far. despite the highly unlikely scenario, there were only 40 last year. florida s had three incidents in a little over a week. that includes a 12-year-old girl who ducked a wave in cocoa beach and found a shark latched to her leg. it hurts incredibly bad. it was really, really painful. i wasn t expecting it and was like because they re so scary. come to the side. whose 80 mile paddle boarding trip to raise money for cystic fibrosis was briefly interrupted by a hammer head shark.
on wrong island. two people in one day yesterday and several sightings happening. five shark attacks in less than two weeks on long island. this is the latest attack happened around 6:00 last night. sufficient yok county police an arizona man was standing in waist deep water bitten two times. earlier yesterday at another beach a surfer was bit in his leg when he fell off the paddle board. that man has a 4 inch gash and treated. the surfer said it was a 4 foot long sand tiger shark that clamped its jaws onto its leg. the number of sharks attacks worldwide tells us the bites are not always life threatening. what we see is people will say it s a shark attack. you will get your legs eaten, you will die. that s not the truth. it is really normally a small bite like you guys are seeing in new york. just last week a shark bite